📚 Big drop this week — both Tea sessions are out

Jake Van Clief

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📚 Big drop this week — both Tea sessions are out

The full hour-long session of afternoon tea is live on my YouTube. Anyone can watch it.

Premium documents and prompts from session: Session 2 - 4/25/26 - The Vault · Clief Notes

VIP session recording and documents are here: Session 4 - 4/25/2026 - The Drawing Room (VIP) · Clief Notes

Two sessions this week and the artifact packages just landed for paid members. Here's what got covered so the whole community can see what's in each one.

🎩 VIP Session 4 — Replacement, Governance, and the Emerge Methodology

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@Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez

asked if his language-learning app gets cloned in two months. We pulled in the Liquid Paper story (kitchen blender, sold to Gillette for $47.5M) and landed on the real question: are you building an AI company, or a company that uses AI? Different game, different moat.

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@Tiffany Coyle

flagged a real consent gap on how AI platforms handle reporting. We walked through three actual 2026 cases: Italy fined OpenAI €15M, the EU Parliament banned Claude and Copilot internally, Microsoft confirmed a Copilot bug that exposed confidential email summaries for six weeks. Then the open-source escape hatch (Ollama, AnythingLLM, Open WebUI, Jan, OpenLLM, Spellbook ZDR) for anyone who needs privacy across every market.

👤Austin asked whether to build his name at his company or build his own. Answer: both. They're concentric circles. We worked through the Second-Order Problems Framework live — the move that lands authority faster than any pitch.

🌐 Plus the Emerge Conference build I covered for Matt (he was sick). 300+ branded websites in two days, 7M tokens burned, hosted free on GitHub Pages. Full methodology in the artifact package.

🔒 VIP members — the full Decision Map deck plus five companion MDs (Replacement and Framing Thesis, AI Governance Field Guide, Personal Brand and Second-Order Problems, Emerge Methodology, Term Sheet) are in the Drawing Room now. Recording's in there too.

📓 Afternoon Tea #2 — Skills, Plugins, and the Niche-Down Trap

🛠️ What a Claude Skill actually is (it's just a folder with a YAML header)

🗂️ How skills map onto ICM and the 60/30/10 rule

📍 Where skills live in claude.ai vs Claude Code

🧠 Three valid ways to organize multiple workspaces (Karpathy way, informal way, GitHub way)

🎯 The niche-down framework that came out of the conversation with Carlos

Carlos was building a personal AI assistant and tried to scale before he'd solved for one client. We worked through it live. The order matters: solve for one, then ten, then scale. Most builders skip the first two and wonder why production never feels finished.

🔓 Premium members — artifact package is in the Vault now. Decision Map deck plus four companion MDs (Skills and ICM, Workspace Organization, Niche Down, Term Sheet). Each MD ends with the exact Claude prompt to run for your own setup. That's the part you can't get from the YouTube version.

🏆 Weekly competition is live for both tiers. $200 cash, voted on by the community, every week for a year. First one is dog washing client branding. Drop submissions in the Discord.

💸 Affiliate program is live. 20% recurring on every Premium ($5.40/mo) and VIP ($19.40/mo) referral. Grab your link via the Invite button at the top of the community. If you've been sending people our way already, you're now paid for it.

Tiers if you're considering an upgrade:

Premium $27/mo — Vault, Afternoon Teas, Discord, weekly competitions

VIP $97/mo — Premium plus three High Teas a month, full artifact packages, Drawing Room access

Lifetime VIP $5K — exists, but honestly wait for the Lyceum where it's included at a better deal

Much love.

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