🏆 WEEKLY COMP #5: THE COACH 🏆

💰 $500 CASH 💰

Win this and you've covered a year of Premium with $175 left over.

📋 THE CHALLENGE

Build a folder-based AI coach for a specific domain. You pick the domain.

This week's deliverable is one coach folder that someone could drop into a Claude project and use as their personal coach for whatever you've built it for.

🎯 PICK YOUR DOMAIN

The domain is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use.

A few sparks to get you thinking:

🎤 Public speaking coach for new managers giving their first big presentations
💼 Salary negotiation coach for tech workers at Series A startups
📞 Cold call coach for first-year SDRs in B2B software
🎯 Interview prep coach for product manager roles
✍️ Writing coach for one specific genre (sci-fi short stories, college essays, op-eds)
🏋️ Fitness form coach for one movement (squat, deadlift, golf swing)
🌍 Language learning coach for one use case (medical Spanish, business Mandarin)
♟️ Chess coach for one specific opening or endgame pattern
⚽ Youth athletics coach for one sport and age group

The more specific, the better. "Life coach" is too broad. "Salary negotiation coach for tech workers at Series A startups" is right.

🗂️ THE METHODOLOGY

If this is your first comp, welcome. Here's what you need to know:

This week (and every week) you're learning the foundation of interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well.

Your coach is a folder with five things:

📄 identity.md (who the coach is)
📐 rules.md (how they coach)
💬 examples.md (what good looks like)
📚 reference/ (frameworks, drills, source material)
📖 README.md (how to use it)

Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the coach. Reusable. Shareable. Portable.

🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK

A coach is NOT a knowledge base.

A coach gives feedback. Pushes back. Asks better questions. Holds people accountable.

When someone says "I had a rough day," a knowledge base says "here are 5 strategies to bounce back."

A coach says "tell me what happened" and actually listens before responding.

That distinction is the whole assignment this week. Your rules.md is where you teach the AI to coach instead of inform. 💪

💼 WHY THIS LANDS ON YOUR RESUME

"I built a folder-based AI coach using interpretable context methodology" is a real line on a resume.

The skill you're learning this week is writing rules for feedback-style interactions. Almost no one teaches this. That makes it more valuable, not less. 🚀

Hiring managers can clone your repo, drop it in their own Claude, and feel the difference between a tool that informs and a tool that coaches.

Win or lose, you walk out with something you'd be proud to link from your LinkedIn.

📐 THE BAR

Someone with no context should use your folder and feel coached, not lectured.

If your output sounds like a Wikipedia article on the domain, you've missed the assignment.

📝 HOW TO SUBMIT

Drop a public GitHub repo link in the comments. Plus 2-3 sentences on who your coach is and what athlete, learner, or professional they coach.

⚖️ JUDGING

Jake, Matt, and the mods. Four things we're looking at:

✅ Does the coach actually coach? Or does it just answer questions?

✅ Is the domain specific enough to be useful?

✅ Is the methodology clean? Each file does one job well.

✅ README quality. Can a stranger figure this out?

🎟️ WHO CAN ENTER

Premium and VIP members only. No exceptions.

🆓 Free members watching this thinking "I could win that"? You're probably right. Upgrade and you're in. Premium is $325/year. The prize is $500. The math works in your favor on day one of being a paying member.

📅 DATES

⏰ Submit by: Sunday, May 24th, 12:00 PM EST

🎉 Winner announced: Monday, May 25th

🚀 One last thing.

Month 1 was the foundation. Month 2 is where you build range.

Four weeks. Four different specialists. Four different portfolio pieces.

By the end of June, anyone who enters all four walks out with a portfolio of variety. That's not a Skool flex. That's a real body of work.

LFG 🚀

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