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I'm dumb. Here's proof.
I was today years old when I realized I did not have some of the most important files that you need in the folder structure that Jake teaches. During today's video call with the VIP group, he went on a deep-dive rabbit trail about the ICM folder methodology that he teaches in his foundations course (free). As he was discussing it, I went to check what my root folder looked like and I did not have a Claude.md or context.md file!!! My productivity skyrocketed ever since I implemented his folder strategy over a month ago, but little did I know that I hadn't even implemented it correctly. 🤯 🤯 🤯 This goes to show that massive action beats over planning every time!
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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3: THE SPECIALIST 🏆
💰 $325 CASH PRIZE 💰 That's a full year of Premium. Win this and your membership pays for itself. 📋 THE CHALLENGE You just got hired again. Different client this time. Meet Sarah, a freelance copywriter who's drowning in context-switching. 📎 Download the full client brief attached to this post. Short version: She works with three types of clients (SaaS founders, ecommerce brands, local service businesses) and starts from scratch every project. She doesn't need another tool. She needs a system. Your job is to build her a folder-based AI specialist she can drop into any Claude project. The folder IS the deliverable. 🗂️ THIS WEEK YOU LEARN ICM Up until now, comps have been "build a thing." This week you utilize the methodology taught throughout the community. 🧠 Folders as architecture. That's it. That's the whole concept this week. Your specialist is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who they are) - 📐 rules.md (how they respond) - 💬 examples.md (what good looks like) - 📚 reference/ (source material) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the specialist. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🎯 PICK YOUR SPECIALIST Don't pick copywriting. That's Sarah's example. Pick something YOU would actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - A salary negotiation coach - A meal planner that knows your dietary restrictions - A code reviewer for your stack - A real estate market analyst for your city - A technical recruiter screener - A grant writer for nonprofits in your space The more specific, the better. "Marketing expert" is not a specialist. "B2B email expert for enterprise SaaS targeting CFOs" is. 💼 WHY THIS ONE LANDS ON YOUR RESUME Real talk. Winning a comp in a Skool community doesn't get you a job by itself. But shipping a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and a public repo? That's a portfolio piece.
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The Asgardian Council
🔥 16 saves. 1 day. 3 AI voices cooking together. I'm a retired NYPD detective. Zero coding background. Yesterday I caught something nasty in my empire: one of my businesses had been silently bleeding revenue for 11 days. Pipeline running, files getting written, but the daily summary email to my partner — gone. Dark. Eleven days. I didn't catch it. My Council did. What's the Council? Three AI voices I run in parallel using Jake's file method: ⚔️ Odin — the architect. Strategy, debate, big decisions. 🗡️ Tyr — the surgeon. Line-by-line, finds bugs others miss. 🛡️ Heimdall — the watchman. Cross-tree audits, sees what's drifting. They don't agree. That's the whole point. Yesterday Heimdall flagged something off in a system I thought was healthy. Tyr cut it down to the exact file. Odin built the recovery plan. I executed in shell. Total time from "wait, what's wrong" to "fixed and verified": 4 hours. Without them? I'd have found out when my partner asked "where's my email" and I'd have spent a week figuring out why. The wild part — none of this is some custom agentic framework. No fancy orchestration layer. It's just folders and SKILL.md files. Jake's method. A folder. A markdown file telling each voice what to do. They read the same file. They argue. They ship. By the end of the session: 16 distinct catches the Council made that I would've missed alone. One catch alone saved me from losing thousands of dollars of leads and a partner relationship. Right now as I type this, the same 3 voices are autonomously building a new state scraper for me — folder method, SKILL.md driving, Codex cooking overnight. I'm going to wake up to a finished Phase 1 report. I built none of this with code I wrote. I orchestrated it with files. If a cop with no tech background can run 3 AI models like a symphony using nothing but folders and markdown — what's your excuse? Jake's method works. Receipts above. 🥷 七転び八起き
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Unable to Purchase VIP Subscription
Hey has anyone else had trouble purchasing the subscription? I tried both google pay and the card option. Both were blocked on my end. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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