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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). 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, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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WEEKLY COMPETITION MEGATHREAD 🏆
I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. Current Challenge* Week 5 Due Sunday 5/24 12 PM EST The Challenge 💪 - Build an AI coach in the domain of your choosing Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-5-the-coach?p=77754fed Results 🏆 - could be you! Week 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e Week 2 The Challenge 💪 - Build an artifact of a financial advisor client intake system Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-the-artifact-sprint?p=15145a68 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-winner-virgilio-robinson Week 3 The Challenge 💪 - Build an AI specialist of your choice using the ICM method Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-the-specialist Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-winner Week 4 The Challenge 💪 - Build a team of specialists using the ICM method Rules 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-4-the-agency?p=838a6d5b Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-4-results-the-agency-corrected?p=7c89f8e7
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I come asking for help! (NEW ROUND! VOTE ONCE A DAY PLS)
Because of the Amazing support you all gave for the first Round Wylder (my step daughter) made it into the second round! You can vote once a day and some days are 2x votes ! I would love love love if any of you support her going to work with some of the best animal rescues in the world to just cast at least one free vote if you can! You can vote here! Not Ai related so sorry for that ! Wylder | Junior Ranger
🏆 WEEKLY COMP #4 RESULTS: THE AGENCY (CORRECTED) 🏆
I need to walk back this morning's announcement before anything else. @Ariel Ortiz is not a Premium or VIP member. The competition was Premium and VIP only, stated in bold in the original brief. That eligibility check should have happened before judging and it didn't. That's on me. The $325 and the Week 4 title go to @Ruby Sparks. The rest of the writeup stands. Repeating it here so the corrected results live in one place. ➖➖➖ 🏆 WINNER: @Ruby Sparks 🏆 🔗 Repo: https://github.com/sparkles-inc/agency-os 🌐 Live site: https://agency-os-tan-five.vercel.app/ Ruby was within an inch of taking it on the original call. The judging call between her build and Ariel's was the longest I've sat with on any comp. She earned this on the work alone. The Loom video she recorded for this submission is the cleanest voice work I've heard on any community submission. Full-on infomercial quality. Voice acting level. If you haven't watched it yet, go watch it. It's a master class in how to present a build. Beyond the voice: an animated handoff explainer on the companion site, a WRITEUP.md that compresses the entire submission into three paragraphs of clean argument, and a design philosophy made explicit. She refused typed schemas in favor of human-readable Handoff Cards with seven sections including a required Gaps field ("if Gaps is empty, you're not looking hard enough"). One continuous narrative thread runs through all 27 files of her repo. Ruby takes the $325. @Sonija Quinn will reach out to Ruby directly for payment details. Remember: in a world where AI is making it easier to build, it's the unique opinions and styles that become valuable. ➖➖➖ I thought last week was hard to judge. This was the hardest comp to judge so far. Not even close.
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