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This module breaks open three real engagements. A compliance platform that cut 160 hours down to 5 minutes. A partnership that projects $300K a year from 20 hours a month. And the training funnel that turns exercises into build specs and build specs into contracts. Real clients. Real numbers. Real money. If you've gone through it, drop where you're at in the poll below. 👇 If you haven't started yet, this is your sign.
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It is so fun to go through these now that my Claude project is set up. What is really interesting is how well the foundation, implementation and vault helped refine, enhance and now my Claude asses everything against our ICM architecture, and returns with "we have it, and at a higher level." SO grateful to be here.
🏆 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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@Daniel Neuhaus cool! Is this universal? or just for Australia?
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@Daniel Neuhaus super cool! I will share it with friends who have coffee companies :)
See behind the veil - full architecture
This took a few weeks. Not building. Training. Tweaking. Breaking. Locking. Running the same flows over and over until the architecture stopped bending. Everyone here knows ICM. What this is… is what happens when you actually live inside it long enough. Not theory. Not clean diagrams. Real load. A few things only showed up under pressure: - The moment where orchestrator wants to execute… and you don’t let it - The cost of letting workers “figure things out” vs forcing briefs to be exact - How fast token bloat creeps in when you don’t treat load surface as a constraint - The difference between a rule you wrote… and a rule you had to write three times At some point, things flipped. The system stopped feeling like something I was managing… and started feeling like something that was holding shape on its own. That’s when the real work began. What’s in here is not “a good setup”. It’s what survived: - multiple passes of weekly audits - repeated cold starts - real production friction - and a lot of “this felt right but didn’t hold” A few things I’d pay attention to if you explore it: - Where boundaries are enforced (not suggested) - What got locked into rules vs left flexible - How briefs are treated as contracts, not prompts - How little the orchestrator actually does Also interesting: The extraction itself. That process alone shows you what was structural… and what was just personal preference. → https://github.com/NFTYoginis/creator-orchestrator-template If you’re deep into ICM already, you’ll see where this goes. Curious what breaks for you — or what holds better than expected.
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@Joann B. Campo I just finished a repo for real-estate agents (for the weekly competition). I am also tweaking my funnels on my website. my live VA is good, but claude sure is faster. I am hosted on Kajabi, so some build had to be with human force.
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@Mary Sheilag also. but i love in Khao Lak, Thailand :)
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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Exactly:)
The Vault will make your Claude efficient
It’s not: “we cleaned files” It’s: “we built a system that keeps itself clean.” The first month I was just trying to get my head around the Foundation, Implementation and understand what is happening. Foundation already gave me a Content Provider style architecture, along with the animation and website builder, i intuitively and with both ChatGPT and Claude I started by implementing Jake's structure. I watched YouTube videos as well that gave me other insights (and validated that Jake's course is the only place that i see that talks about ICM and Architecture and such). Either way, I signed up for premium yesterday, and found that there was much more to complement the Foundation. As Jake suggested, I slowly took each on of the Vault items, and explored with Claude - how is our architecture compared to GitHub repos (which I tapped into some of the members GitHub repos and made Claude check itself against those insights - super thank you Community!!). It pointed out a few times that our architecture is more mature, though it always found 1 or 2 items that could improve its flow. We had a glitch this morning when I prompted the execution of today's schedule with all the items to post, create and monitor, which the Orchestrator and Operator (me) had to dissect what it did and ensure it won't follow that course again, and whether such a flow is efficient both Token costs and Workflow. It found ways to optimize - extracted what it found useful from the Vault, informed that skills that mention in Vault are skills we already captured (among others). My very first project with Jake - text to video animation has been improving on its own outside my Brand Sandbox. And as I closed my Claude after uploading the content it had structured neatly for me in an HTML file with EVERYTHING that i needed for the content posting, I had it summarize its work - which I hope this help if you read this far (thank you for reading my stuff:)) - Three-day architecture delta (Apr 30 → May 3)
The Vault will make your Claude efficient
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@Christopher Jeppson super appreciate your comments! Have a great moment :)
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@Nathan Smith I do. And I set up other "workers" to do tasks that are unrelated to the brand at times. Though I do intend for sales tracking, and accounting ease, to make a "worker" for that as well. Just have to let the system run and get those leads :)
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