I want to start off that I may not be using the right terminology here, so bear with me... The more I interact with claude and other LLMs and then interacting with the people/users that are pretty far away from anything on this community (I do share the youtube channel all the time), the more I see an opportunity to find a way to use these open source models to create a 'co-work' that can be used inside a closed environment (offline) for two reasons: no real issue with token usage/cost (other than the set up and build and you can swap out models) and then most ppl that I connect with that want to learn how to use AI they are not able to use claude or some other model bc of IT and security reasons. I guess my question is, does this make sense or what am I missing? I am in the process of building this for myself to see whats possible but would be interested to get others input and thoughts, because I am not from the developer world, but i like it here, ppl are nice :)

First, thank you to everyone. Three weeks ago this community had 1,600 people. Today we're at 11,700. That kind of growth only happens when people show up, engage, and tell others about what we're building here. So before I get into the details: thank you for being here. Thank you for the questions in the comments, the builds you're sharing, the conversations in Discord. This community is what it is because of who's in it. Now, the news. Premium is going from $7 to $27. VIP is going from $49 to $97. Free stays free and it always will! Ready to join? Head to Classrooms and click "The Vault" for Premium or "The Drawing Room" for VIP. It'll walk you through the rest. Why the price is going up: The content scales. The courses, the templates, the frameworks. All of that can reach 10,000 people as easily as 100. What doesn't scale is Jake. The live sessions, the critique queue, the bespoke builds. That's Jakes time, and there's only so much of it. The price increase reflects that. Grandfathering If you sign up for Premium or VIP before April 4th at 11:45 pm EST, you lock in the current price. $7 for Premium. $49 for VIP. That rate stays yours as long as you stay subscribed. This applies to new signups and upgrades. If you're already in a paid tier, you're already locked in. April 4th, new prices take effect for everyone who joins after. The free tier is still free and always will be!! And here's the thing: the paid tiers are what keep the free tier free. When Premium and VIP members invest in direct access, it means Jakes doesn't have to paywall the fundamentals. The Foundation can stay open. The courses can stay free. The community keeps growing without anyone getting locked out of the basics. Everything in The Foundation stays open. The courses, the community, the conversation. The free tier remains a full learning environment with more content than most paid communities offer. We'll also keep sending out community questionnaires like the one I sent last week. When Jake goes live to talk through the results, those recordings get posted for everyone. Expect these every month or two.

Anyone in here using the folder structure to help with data analysis and gathering data for reporting purposes? I spend a ton of time gathering information from a lot of my company’s sources and mainly excel sheets to then analyze and create monthly business reviews. My company has downloaded Claud on my desktop and I’m going to start building the folder structure but a bit lost on how to start.

Sitting at a coffee shop here in Ohio preparing for a two week blitz helping people lower their electric bills from these data centers and power companys Im really big on sovereignty and ownership and I feel AI will empower some to enter that world very quickly. Its just evolving so fast and marketing will make you feel like you're so behind and missing the boat...so with that... How do we position ourselves to create the most value in the marketplace over the next 6-12 months? I know thats part of why Jake created the group and I am so thankful Genuinely curious how you are all planning to navigate this boom, or are navigating Ive got my ear to the ground but have personally stepped back slightly from media and the constant updates. I am learning and playing, but want to see where things are in 6 months or so before offering any services or consulting I would like to learn and position myself intentionally to serve and profit greatly in the coming months I know infrastructure and implementation are valuable, but at what depth would I need to understand is where my head is at I have limited knowledge of software engineering, coding and these things. But I understand systems, business, structure, and flow well. Thoughts?

I woke up this morning to 10 fresh podcast episodes. Fully researched. Scripted. Narrated. Visuals timed to every beat. Published to YouTube, RSS, and my own website. I didn't make any of them. A machine on my desk did. While I slept. I launched these channels at the end of February. It hasn't been a month yet. A channel is even pulling 1,000+ views and gaining subscribers - with zero ads, zero promotion, zero outreach. But here's what I need you to understand: this is not a prompt. When people hear "automated content," they picture someone typing a topic into a chatbox and hitting publish. That's not what this is. That's not even close. What I built is a multi-stage production pipeline. Not a single generation step - a sequence of independent systems, each with its own job, its own rules, and its own quality bar. Every stage has to pass before the next one starts. If something isn't good enough, it gets caught, flagged, and redone automatically. Here's what that actually means in practice: Every episode starts with real research. Not "summarise this topic." Actual source-finding, fact-checking, angle evaluation. The kind of editorial groundwork a good producer would do before writing a single word. Most automated content skips this entirely. Mine can't - the pipeline won't let it move forward without it. Then there's the writing. And this is where I spent most of my 45 days. I didn't just generate scripts - I built an entire set of rules around how spoken language works differently from written language. How rhythm changes when someone is listening instead of reading. How a pause lands. How a transition should feel. Early versions sounded like a textbook. Now they sound like someone talking to you. After the writing comes the part most people don't think about: quality control. Every script gets evaluated across multiple dimensions before it moves on. There's a hard pass/fail threshold. I've watched the system reject its own output dozens of times and come back with something genuinely better. Nothing mediocre gets through. That's not a nice-to-have - it's the reason the content performs.