We just broke 40k Members, in less then 4 months... To say I am honored and blown away is an understatement. I feel like yesterday @Matthew Creamer quit his job to sleep on my floor and bust out 15 hour days to build out content, structure and anything else I thought you all would need to make this community worth it. But at the end of the day there is only one thing for me to say. THANKYOU None of this, and I mean NONE of this would be remotely worth it if it wasn't for you all. To list and tag everyone that have contributed so much valuable not just to this community but to me would be nearly impossible. Thank you to every single one of you. Thank you for commenting and helping out on posts Thank you for sharing the wins you have gotten both at home and professionally. Thank you for believing in me and what I am building septically those of you who have been around since the beginning (you know who you are). I cannot tell you how happy my heart is to get in front of you all and teach, talk, ask questions and even learn a lot myself. It is a dream come true to become someone that people can learn from; to share my thoughts and have those very thoughts change the way people live their lives and do their work. It's only the beginning too, I can't wait to see what the rest of the year has in store, and I promise to keep building, working and recording for you all. From the very very very bottom of my heart.....Thankyou! Thankyou to every single one of you reading this and for being part of such an amazing community.

Edited: 100+ have voted Results to follow Thank You Please take ten seconds to respond to this poll — it helps everyone see the real meta! I’ll like every comment. BONUS: If I can twist @Jake Van Clief ’s arm, we’ll pick one random commenter for 1 month of premium access — for free once we hit 100+ votes! Vote and reply! Main method you use for interacting with AI agents right now? WHAT"S IN YOUR TOOLBOX RIGHT NOW?

I made a small personal operational summary of Jake’s ICM paper while studying it. It helped me clarify the core structure in a more practical way: layers, stages, workspace structure, how outputs move from one stage to the next, and how the “factory vs product” idea works in practice. I also included a simple hypothetical “video to study PDF” workspace, which is the kind of workflow I’m using to understand how ICM can help turn technical videos into structured study notes. The summary explains how one stage produces an output, how the next stage reads that output as working material, and how the stage’s CONTEXT.md defines which files and references should be used. It’s not official material, just my own study notes, but I’m sharing it here in case it can help someone else who is trying to understand ICM more operationally. Happy to improve it if anything is unclear or inaccurate. stay curious 🫡

Eight months ago, I started building what I thought orchestration required — N8N, Postgres, LibreChat, consulting and hosting fees. Tens of thousands of dollars. That was the right bet at the time. Nobody I saw was doing this with Claude yet. Three or four months ago, the game changed. And I didn't know it until I stumbled onto Jake's content on YouTube. Two weeks after watching "Stop Building AI Agents. Use This Folder System Instead", I have a working MCP. Client demo-ready. The whole system I was killing myself over? Markdown files and orchestration prompts. That's it. I want to give credit where it's due. Jake put something out that reoriented how I thought about AI. The investment wasn't wasted — it built the foundation. But Jake and this community pointed me toward what was actually possible now. If you're still building the complex version because you think you have to — it's worth a second look.

📣 Update (6/23): Competition 8 rules announced! What this thread is: I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get to them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. See the current challenge as well as all past challenges below! Weekly leaderboard competition: Alongside the biweekly challenges, there is a weekly leaderboard challenge where the member at the top of the 7 day rolling leaderboard wins a free upgrade to their membership. This winner is announced on Mondays typically. Update (6/3): @Joshua Hubbard has gone another step further and created a thread linking to all competition entries. Link here: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/the-competition-archive-every-entry-every-week-every-link?p=bd752987 --- Current Challenge: Competition 8 The Challenge 💪 - Build a full folder-based system entirely of your choice! Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-8-the-wildcard?p=8e651454 Good luck everyone! --- Past Challenges Competition 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e Competition 2 The Challenge 💪 - Build an artifact of a financial advisor client intake system Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-the-artifact-sprint?p=15145a68