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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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🌶️ CINCO DE MAYO FIRESALE — STARTS NOW 🌶️
Locked in for the next 5 days only. Ends May 5th at 10:00 AM EST. No exceptions. 🎉 Premium: $27 → $14/mo 🎉 VIP: $97 → $67/mo The closest you'll get to our original launch pricing. We're doing this because the community has shown up for us, and we want to show up back. 🤝 🔥 Already a member? Read this carefully. To lock in the new rate, you need to: 1. Cancel your current plan 2. Resign under the new price That's the only way the system can apply the new rate. We have way too many members for manual refunds, so we can't refund anyone who just signed up at current pricing. But the savings stack month over month, so if you plan to stick around (and you should 😁), the math works out fast. 🚫 A few ground rules: Please do not DM myself or Jake about pricing, exceptions, or extensions. We love you, but we're a small team and we need to stay focused on building. Everyone gets the same window. Everyone gets the same deal. If you miss it, you miss it. We'll do more things for the community down the road. ⏰ The clock: 🟢 LIVE NOW 🔴 Locks May 5th, 10:00 AM EST - Premium gets you The Vault and Afternoon Tea calls. - VIP gets you The Drawing Room, High Tea, and bespoke folder builds from Jake himself. If you've been on the fence, this is the moment. 🚀 Tag a friend who needs to be in here. Let's make Cinco a movement. 🎊 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🏁 Foundations 3.1 Check-In
You just watched the full 23-minute folder architecture walkthrough. Vote below, then drop your use case in the comments. What are you building this system around?
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[FREE GUIDE] Built AI versions of 15 of my favorite creators over the last 3 months.
Built AI versions of 15 of my favorite creators over the last 3 months. Mostly for myself. Yesterday someone asked me how. Today a few more people did. So here's the entire blueprint, free. Pick any YouTube channel. Run Claude Code. Paste one message. Wait 30 minutes. You now have an AI tutor that's read every video on that channel and can answer questions like the creator would. Hormozi-bot for pricing. VanClief-bot for whatever you've been meaning to ask Jake at 2am(Spoiler Alert: this happens a LOT). Your favorite teacher, on tap. Repo: https://github.com/aaronb458/youtube-tutor-template Free version runs on your laptop. Paid version (~$5-10/mo, with $200 in free Deepgram credits to start) lives in the cloud and plugs into Claude.ai as a permanent tool. Both versions are walked through end-to-end by Claude itself — you don't need to know what an API key is, what a database is, or what "deploy" means. You click links. You paste things back. That's it. Posting it here because @Jake Van Clief's content rewired how I think about creative + business + software being one unified system. The only way I know how to repay that is to make sure people in this community can mainline it the same way. Try it. Break it. Tell me what's confusing. I'll fix it.
[FREE GUIDE] Built AI versions of 15 of my favorite creators over the last 3 months.
Every session is an audition
Most AI sessions complete a task and die. The system doesn't get smarter, it gets used. I'd been noticing this for months. Every new chat starts cold. Same context re-explained. Same one-off scripts rebuilt by hand. Strong reasoning lost. Repeated failure modes rediscovered. The fix isn't a better memory system. It's a mindset shift, encoded into how every session runs. The shift Don't do the task. Build the workflow that does this task and every future one like it. That's it. Two jobs per session, not one. Job one is the thing I asked for. Task, content, feature, fix. Job two is inheritance. Did the session spot a repeatable pattern? Did it ship the permanent fix, or at least flag the opportunity? Did it leave the system in a better state than it found it? Two trigger surfaces 1. Repeated tasks. Same operation done three or more times. Stop doing it manually. Ship the workflow. 2. Recurring failure modes. Patterns I keep re-correcting belong in a guardrail, not a re-prompt. The session that finds a new failure mode is the one that encodes it. The session doesn't have to act on every signal. But it should notice and ask whether it's worth formalizing. The reversibility floor Auto-promotion only works if undo is clean. Anything shipped this way lands as one isolated artifact. One commit. If it goes wrong, undoing it is a single operation, and the artifact moves to a trash folder rather than being deleted. Record stays. Reversibility is what makes aggressive shipping safe. Without it every proposed upgrade needs manual review, which defeats the point. The success moment One line back in chat: I noticed X, found a better way. The system just got an upgrade. Not a transcript. Not a report. One line. Green-light or kill. The takeaway Sessions don't get re-summoned. But they can leave inheritance. Every session is an audition. Not for the model's job security. For the infrastructure that the next hundred sessions will inherit. Full breakdown. The mindset shift, the trigger surfaces, the reversibility floor, and what it changes about how I run AI workflows, all live here:
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