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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. 🎊 🌶️🌶️🌶️
[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.
Anyone else hit a wall after the ICM build?
Hey, ran into something and curious if others have felt this too. I used the ICM method to build a tool. Staged pipeline, each step fed the next, worked great for getting the thing built. But now I'm realizing ICM feels designed for building fresh. If I want to build the same app for a different user, running the pipeline again makes sense. But if I want to edit the existing app, the pipeline docs are useless. They're stale and the agent has no efficient way to navigate the actual codebase. You need a completely different approach for editing. Less staged pipeline, more routing the agent around the live code so it knows where everything is. Has anyone figured out how to handle this transition? From ICM build mode to edit/iteration mode? Do you build an ICM around the edit/iteration mode as well ?
Cinematic prompt methodology, as an installable Claude workspace
Most AI image work fails at the brief, not the model. Three lines in. Generic out. People blame the tool. I shipped a fix. Pushing-creation installs into Claude. Drop reference images into refs/. Run /frames-brainstorm. Claude reads your refs, runs a DP-style interview, and writes the style pack live as you answer. /frames-shotlist drafts the full storyboard. /frames-shot polishes individual frames. Output is markdown. Drop it into PUSHING FRAMES, Midjourney, Sora, or any tool. → github.com/PUSHINGSQUARES/pushing-creation To install, paste this into Claude: "Set me up with pushing-creation from github.com/PUSHINGSQUARES/pushing-creation. Read INSTALL_WITH_CLAUDE.md and walk me through it." You don't get better output by prompting harder. You get better briefs by treating the model like a director of photography. Specificity transfers craft. Stop prompting. Start defining outcomes. Read the deep-dive: https://aris-space.com/documents/workspaces/pushing-creation
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