I built a system. It teaches AI how to build visual identities. It doesn't drift. Here's the story: I used to hand-build every visual identity myself. Client work. My own channel. Same routine every time. I explained the colors again. I explained the mood again. Nothing carried forward. Then I tried AI. Same brief, ten times. Ten different looks. One shot came out "noir". The next looked like a postcard. Same words in. Different result out. The model forgets. So I changed the approach. I stopped writing better prompts. I started building in stages. 3 stages. Each one builds on the last. Stage one locks the idenity. Color. Material. Type. The rules for how they combine. Stage two runs that identity through real scenes. A person. An object. A place. An idea. Same rules. New subjects. Stage three puts it in motion. It reveals. It connects. It transforms. Same materials. Same colors. Now it moves. Nothing gets re-explained. Each stage hands its work straight to the next. Drop them in Higgsfield. Prompt each scene. Full animation - no style drift. I tested it on a style I'd never planned to use. "Archival Investigative Montage." Ran it cold. It came out the same quality as everything else. That's the test that mattered. Not the polished demo. The one I didn't prepare for. Are you building multi-step AI systems yet? Or still prompting one shot at a time?

I'm seeing three different formats for builds, but I'm not very experienced, so correct me if I am wrong. - Standard product: Everyone uses essentially the same software—like Canva or Trello. Customers may adjust settings, templates, colors, or permissions, but the underlying product remains the same. - Configurable product: The core software is standardized, while each business selects its workflows, roles, terminology, templates, branding, and integrations. - Custom software: The tool is built or substantially modified for one client’s processes, systems, or regulatory requirements. So, what do you build? And, what are you listing on Ledger? I promise, I'm nobody's competition. I'm just trying to understand what works, why it works and where you show your work.

Many years as a mainframe administrator of an Application called ViewDirect, flat files, pointer indexes, report layouts. Started Cliff's Notes course a couple of months back. When he talked about structure over tools, it clicked immediately. I was heading down in our project and busted up my back and my elbow, so I was kind of immobilised for the last couple of weeks. I watched a half dozen of Jake's videos and was really excited. I started building it out like I was building that report warehouse again. Not the right way. Now that I've gone back and read some of the course, it's a start. Here's a quick 12-minute (the Creative side background in tech, but what came out of it) fly-through of my vault operating as generative infrastructure. This view just showed that I'm very happy to be in the group. I really brought my mainframe experience up to date with the current technology. I felt I was lagging a month ago, two months ago, even after investing a pretty couple of years into it. The vault isn't just storage; the agents kind of came out of it, building it (Merlin & Sarah from building the vault). Stock Obsidian. No plugins. Just folders and markdown, working like flat files always did. Last, this weekend I should say, a friend and I created a quick story in an hour. We have other AI rapper programs from other groups that we use. They have a lot of genre outlines in them, just for brainstorming a story, and we sat down and did this. Then, after my friend left, added the creative content to the Vault. What happen for me was an incredible workflow. Something I'd been wanting to do for a couple of years emerged from the Vault, and here's what it is. I left a little bit at the end of this. You can just quit after a couple of minutes to see it evolve, but I left the creative process that came out this weekend in the video in there just as an example. Current constraints for me are that I see why we need a vault and what they can do. The limiting aspect seems to be the input. This is the same as we had in the old days of mainframes. You have to be able to manage your queues. I just wanted to simply update files and move things around quickly.

Hi! I'm new here and wanted to ask a genuine question — not sure if this is already solved somehow or if it's something I'd need to build from scratch. I'm exploring an idea for Dad Labs (a community for dads learning to use AI) — inspired by a video I watched about a footage crawler: reducing hours of video into searchable text descriptions using extracted frames plus a local vision model, all organized through folders/markdown. The application I have in mind is different from the one in the video (which was a 9TB professional archive) — I'm thinking something much smaller: helping families organize the years of video they've accumulated (weddings, first steps, etc.) that they never have time to sort through. I don't know if this is something the community already has as a template, or if it's more of an end-to-end project I'd need to research and build myself. I'd rather ask than assume — is there something similar already documented here, or any reference you'd recommend to start understanding the actual technical structure (folder organization, the markdown file format, etc.)? Any guidance is welcome, and if this is an obvious question for anyone who's been here longer, apologies — I'm just getting started.

Hi, I’m a VIP member, but I recently noticed that I no longer have access to the VIP Skool community and its locked classroom sections. I also joined the Lyceum training program, which includes VIP access, so I’m wondering whether the change may have affected my existing membership. Could you please help restore my VIP access? I’d especially like to review the results from the most recent competition, along with the other content in the locked classroom areas. Thank you for your help.