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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Go check out 📚Navigating The Course to see how to get around and what's here. 2. Start with The Foundation. Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things join in on our Biweekly competitions and win some real cash. ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread 5. If you are wanting to dive into the masterminds, grab all the past templates, artifacts and resources. Upgrade and head into the The Vault for Premium and The Drawing Room (VIP) for VIP 6. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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Go comment and like the video on YouTube as well ! Lots of cool ideas in this one.
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #10: THE DIAGNOSTICIAN 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 📋 THE CHALLENGE Build a folder-based AI diagnostician that reads something broken and tells you WHY it's broken. Not how to fix it. Why it failed. This week's deliverable is one diagnostician folder that someone could drop into a Claude project and use to figure out why something in their world isn't working. 🎯PICK YOUR DOMAIN The domain is yours. Pick something specific. Pick a failure you've actually seen happen. A few sparks to get you thinking: - 📉 Why a landing page isn't converting - 📧 Why cold emails to a specific buyer aren't getting replies - 📋 Why a product spec keeps getting pushed back by engineering - 📄 Why a resume isn't getting callbacks in a specific industry - 🚪 Why users drop off at one step of an onboarding flow - 💸 Why a pricing page isn't converting trials - 🎥 Why a YouTube video underperformed the channel average - 🤝 Why a sales deal stalled after the demo - 📱 Why an app's retention craters in week two The more specific, the better. "Diagnoses marketing problems" is too broad. "Diagnoses why cold emails to enterprise IT buyers get opened but never answered" 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 interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well. Your diagnostician is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who the diagnostician is, what they diagnose) - 📐 rules.md (how they diagnose: what they look at, how they separate cause from symptom) - 💬 examples.md (2-3 example diagnoses showing the reasoning) - 📚 reference/ (common failure modes, diagnostic frameworks, benchmarks) - 📖 README.md (how to use it, what to feed it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the diagnostician. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK A diagnostician is NOT an editor. Last comp was The Editor. That one critiques craft. It looks at a draft and says "this part is weak, go fix it."
Army Vet, AI beginner and currently lost somewhere between Claude Code and Discord 🤣
Hey y’all! I’m a former Army guy who spent 10 years in the military, and ever since getting out, I’ve wanted to get serious about learning AI. The problem is that there’s so much noise out there that it’s easy to spend all day learning about AI without ever becoming good at actually building anything. To make matters worse, I’m still not entirely sure what I want to build yet 😂 I guess thats why I ultimately joined this community. I’m currently working through the Foundations course in the classroom, and I’m also a VIP member. Full disclosure, though lol I still don’t really know how to navigate Discord or the Skool community so I will definitely be attending the onboarding call this week. I joined the community about a month ago or so. But I’ve been inactive recently because life decided to life for a little while, but things have settled down and I’m ready to start showing up, learning and putting in the work. That brings me to the 12-week cohort… Has it already started? Can I still join the waitlist? And how do I decide which track is right for me? Right now, I’m leaning toward the Technical cohort because I want to become genuinely skilled with Claude Code and coding—not just learn how to prompt an AI and hope for the best. I guess my long-term goal is to understand how these systems actually work, use ICM as an engineering methodology, and eventually become capable of building durable AI systems and products myself. Ideally, that leads to employment, my own business, or both. My only hesitation is that I’m still very much a beginner, so I’m not sure whether the Technical track is the smartest place to start or whether I’d be jumping into the deep end wearing combat boots. My wife also owns a med spa, and I’d love to eventually use what I learn to help improve and grow her business. I don’t know exactly what that looks like yet (ie marketing systems, automations, internal tools, lead generation, or something I haven’t thought of) but I’m hoping the process will help me figure that out.
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