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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #4: THE AGENCY 🏆
💰 $325 CASH 💰 That's a full year of Premium. Win this and your membership pays for itself. But the real prize this week isn't the cash. Keep reading. 📋 THE CHALLENGE You just got hired again. Meet Diana, owner of a 4-person boutique real estate team in Austin. 60-80 transactions a year, mostly residential, mix of buyers and sellers. 📎 Download the full client brief attached to this post. Short version: She doesn't want software. She wants a system she can teach her team to use in a week. Your job is to build the AI operating system for her team. This isn't one specialist. This is a small team of AI specialists organized into a multi-folder ICM architecture, with a clear handoff protocol between them. 🗂️ WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING Last week was one specialist. This week is a team of them. Required folders: 📍 00_orchestrator/ — The router. Where every request starts. Decides which specialist gets the job. 📍 01_lead_qualifier/ — First contact with new prospects. Captures intent, budget, timeline. 📍 02_property_research/ — Deep research on specific properties or neighborhoods. 📍 03_client_communication/ — Drafts emails, texts, follow-ups in the voice of the agent. 📍 04_transaction_coordinator/ — Handles the deal once it's live. Checklists, deadlines, document tracking. Each folder must include: - 📄 identity.md - 📐 rules.md - 💬 examples.md - 🔗 handoff.md (NEW for Week 4 — how does this folder pass work to another folder?) - Plus a root-level README.md explaining the architecture, the typical flow, and how to onboard a new team member. 🔥 WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT Weeks 1, 2, and 3 were warmups. This is the comp where the work you ship genuinely starts to look like the real thing. The handoff protocol is the test. Anyone can build five folders. The hard part is defining what each one needs from the previous one and what it passes to the next one. That's where multi-agent systems actually live or die.
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@Matt Paine I had the same thought when I first read the brief (maybe this one’s out of my league). It’s only the second time I’ve tried applying ICM (first time was last week’s comp). So glad I tried anyway. Great way to learn. Really helping the concepts from the Foundations modules click.
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@Kevin Carrasco thank you! A lot I didn’t get to do or clean up but I learned a ton so it’s all good, I’ll come back to it. Excited to dig into the other submissions and learn some more as time allows. This community is awesome.
Anyone using Gemini (when you out of tokens)
Are you using desktop or browser? both? Free or a paid version? What have you used it for? I’ll go first….
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@Arian Kashir that’s awesome you’re running a successful business! I appreciate the offer but I am at full capacity. Have a toddler and newborn + full time job. My limited spare time is learning from this community. A side business sounds awful right now haha. Thank you though, I wish you continued success!
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@Arian Kashir thank you! Appreciate it :)
🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3 WINNER ....
Before I get to the who and why, I want to say this plainly. Picking a winner this round was genuinely hard. I went through every submission. Pulled repos. Read identity files. Compared rules.md sections. Every entry did real work. A lot of you shipped something I would happily use, sell, or hand a client tomorrow. I can NOT explain to you how proud I am of everyone participating in these, you make this community worth and it and there is SO much potential for the future from just ONE competition let alone future ones. 💼 That part matters more than the prize. The $325 covers a year of Premium and that's great but... The portfolio piece is the real value here. A public repo of a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and receipts is a resume line that hiring managers can clone and test cold in five minutes. It is also something you can charge for. If you built a specialist that solves a real problem in a real domain, you already have most of what you need to license it to a peer in your industry, sell it as a service, or package it as a Done-with-You engagement. A few quick notes on that, because most of you did not realize what you actually built and I want to Highlight a few of you: 💸 @Nicolas Patron Uriburu USD Routing Coach AR could be sold to every Argentine indie consultor I know. Same playbook works for any country with FX restrictions. Subscription service, recalibrated annually, audit-pack included. It is a product. 🔗 https://github.com/Nicopatron/usd-routing-coach-ar 🔧 @Jannetje van Leeuwen RAMS specialist is a service business in waiting. Irish signage contractors will pay for this. Same model works for any trade with a regulatory documentation burden. Plumbing, electrical, fit-out, demolition. Each one needs its own folder. 🔗 https://github.com/JannetjeIQ/rams-irish-signage-installer
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Congrats all! I learned a lot through this (first time applying this approach) and grateful to learn from all of you.
🏆 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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@Jay-J Hernandez thank you for taking the time to explain! Yes that makes perfect sense. I think I was just taking the competition instructions too literally thinking it needed to work “cold” as in no need to point to it. I was thinking there was something I was missing that would get Claude to orient itself just by prompting the specialist once in the folder (like in VS Code), but I understand now you need to point to it otherwise Claude doesn’t read the rules, etc. to behave properly.
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@Ben Mccahill oof sorry for the pain but definitely better to catch it now!
Jake didn't do me any favors! Please Help🙏
Quick note about Skool’s bot protection: If your comment is just a few short words, you’re better off hitting the like button instead. What you probably don’t know is that the admins are getting absolutely blasted with anti-bot warnings — and Jake didn’t do me any favors by blowing up my notifications. We’re growing extremely fast (25,855+ and climbing), so we’ve got a massive target on our backs. Short, low-effort comments are triggering the system hard right now.Help us keep this community high-quality: Only comment when you have real value to add — sharp insights, innovative ideas, or meaningful experiences. Likes 👍 are there for quick appreciation. Save the comments for stuff that actually moves the conversation forward. Do your part. Let’s protect the space we’re building together. Thanks, legends. *** @Jake Van Clief has not approved this message, he's swamped ***
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Thank you! It’s been getting harder to find the good comments having to scroll through a lot of shallow adds. There’s already so much value here it’s hard enough to process it all. Reducing the noise will help. It’s a little tricky when the levels system encourages you to post comments. I know the system is also built to reward only the good ones, but the incentive design isn’t perfect. The one in place now is probably the best. There a lots of social platforms out there - I haven’t seen one solve this completely… there’s always the Reddit route though: add a downvote option?
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