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Glad you made it in. Before you go anywhere else, work through the steps below. They will get you set up and ready to start. ✅ Introduce yourself in the comments. Tell us what you do and why you are here. ✅ Watch the Getting Started overview 📚Navigating The Course - Getting Started · Clief Notes ✅ Start with the Foundation course 0.1: Where All Of This Leads - The Foundation · Clief Notes ✅ Fill out your profile so people know who you are ✅ Join the next competition ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread - Getting Started · Clief Notes ⭐ On Competitions (and why I love them) We host a competition every two weeks. These are some of the most powerful places to learn and build here. Also Cash prices (often over $200) for the winners. Learning how to do something is one part of it. The real learning starts when you put it to work. That is what the competitions and the build sessions are for. On top of this they act as a portfolio a place to not just show us but show others (clients, bosses, your best friend) what you have been building and that you really CAN build. In order to win a competition you must be a paying member (It takes me hours to review submissions sometimes days. But if you win ONCE you can pay for a whole year of membership so I think that's only fair!) Watch the videos, then go make something.
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🎆 THE LAST SALE EVER — HELP US GET TO VEGAS 🎆
🎯 WE READ ALL OF YOUR RESPONSES. HERE'S WHAT'S NEXT (AND A BIG ASK) A couple weeks ago we asked you what you wanted Clief Notes to become. You showed up. You wrote real, thoughtful answers, some of you wrote essays. We read every single one. Twice. So before anything else: thank you. This post is us answering you. 💬 YOU TOLD US. HERE'S WHAT WE'RE BUILDING. You said you want a clearer path from learning ICM to actually getting paid for it. → It's coming. A real learning-to-earning track, plus a talent platform we're building to connect you with people who want to hire what you can do. Heads up: the talent platform will be Premium and VIP only, one more reason to lock in below. You said competitions without feedback don't help you grow. → Fixed. Going forward, every single entrant gets tailored feedback on their build, not just the winner. We're moving to two competitions a month so we can do it right. And both monthly winners get a 30-minute call with me. You said the best builds get buried in the feed. → We're building a tagged library so you can actually find "ICM setups for solo operators" or "small team, non-coder" instead of scrolling for an hour. You said you couldn't map all the pieces, Skool, Discord, the Lyceum, ICM, what each tier unlocks. → A single orientation page is on the way. One place that breaks all of it down so nobody's lost. You said you want to connect with each other. → We hear you. Meetups, pairing, and a recorded "After Tea" hangout are on the table. South Florida alone has over 1,000 of you. Let's use that. You said we've felt spread thin. → The most honest one. You're right. We're bringing on real help to run the day-to-day so the community gets consistency, and so Matt and I can keep building the things above instead of dropping balls. You called it, and we're fixing it. 📍 QUICK NOTE ON ICM: a few of you asked for "ICM with Copilot" or "ICM with n8n, Sheets, GoHighLevel." Good news, ICM already works with any model and feeds straight into the tools you're using. It's the structure underneath all of them, not a separate thing you have to relearn per tool. If that's not landing for you, that's on us to make clearer, and we will.
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This is a devlog from David! A lot of people are saying they want the ability to scale and deploy their ICM and their workflows. We looked at all the possible problems security issues and we have been spending a lot of time building something for all of you! It's almost ready for release, but here's a little developers log to kind of check out some things that David has been doing to build it up. It's far from perfect, but for those technical folks out there you may enjoy it!
It will take months to build! So...?
This post is something that developed from my win post last week and something @Jake Van Clief has mentioned a couple times in his last teas were he is talking about a project he is doing for a customer. What started as a one month website rebuild is turning into a 4-6 month project. And its the best thing that could have happened. Original job was simple. Build a new site for work using ICM to pull it together. But when I started gathering product info to display to customers in a structured way, I realized I had 2/3rds of our product data sitting in one place instead of 23 different locations for the first time in the company's history. So instead of grabbing what I needed and moving on, I stopped. Why not build a real source of truth while I'm in here? Two files per product. One with the hard data, specs, features, the stuff that doesn't change much. The second with images and videos linked, copywriting notes, all the context that makes things actually useful. Once those existed, everything else opened up. Manuals, datasheets, social posts, internal training docs. All of it buildable from the same foundation of knowledge/information/truth. The ICM grew from there. More data in, more use cases out. A month long project is now 4-6 months. And I'm completely fine with that. The best part, when we make a new product? Fill out the 2 templates, drop it in to the SoT directory, tell the AI there is new files, it updates the structure and we're ready to go. Here's the thing I keep coming back to. There's a pull with AI to rush. You can build a folder-based agent in 30 minutes, so the feeling is: why aren't you done? That feeling is a trap. Fast to build does not mean it works. Or that its good. Or that it does what a customer actually needs when they're sitting in front of it for real. Jake's 60/30/10 rule for designing a folder based agent is 60% infrastructure, 30% orchestration, 10% AI. That ratio doesn't stop at the agent design. It applies to the whole project.
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