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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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๐Ÿ“š Big drop this week โ€” 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 ยท Clief Notes VIP session recording and documents are here: Session 4 - 4/25/2026 - The Drawing Room (VIP) ยท 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. ๐ŸŽฉ VIP Session 4 โ€” Replacement, Governance, and the Emerge Methodology ๐Ÿ“ฆ @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. โš–๏ธ @Tiffany Coyle flagged a real consent gap on how AI platforms handle reporting. We walked through three actual 2026 cases: Italy fined OpenAI โ‚ฌ15M, 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. ๐Ÿ‘คAustin 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 โ€” the move that lands authority faster than any pitch. ๐ŸŒ 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. ๐Ÿ”’ VIP members โ€” 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.
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๐Ÿ† Weekly Comp #2: The Artifact Sprint ๐Ÿ†
๐Ÿ’ฐ Week 1 winner @Ian Barriopedro took home $200 cash. ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ This week the prize gets bigger. โœจ Winner gets a FREE seat in The Lyceum. โœจ https://www.skool.com/quantum-quill-lyceum-1116/12-weeks-real-projects-250k-in-prizes-lets-talk?p=e850567b ๐ŸŽฏ Pick your cohort: Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. ๐Ÿ“‹ THE CHALLENGE: "The Returning Client" You just got hired again. Different client this time. Meet Marcus. ๐Ÿ‘‹ ๐Ÿ“Ž Download the full client brief attached to this post. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ YOUR DELIVERABLE An interactive artifact built in Claude that does what Marcus asked for. โœ๏ธ Plus a 100 word writeup covering: - ๐Ÿ‘ค Who it's for - โš™๏ธ What it does - ๐ŸŽจ One design choice you made and why ๐Ÿ“ THE RULES โœ… It has to work โœ… It has to sound like Marcus, not a bank โœ… The writeup matters โš–๏ธ Judging: Myself, Jake, and the mods. ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Who can enter: Premium and VIP members only. Free members, this is your sign. Upgrade and you're in the running for a Lyceum seat. ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ“จ How to submit: Drop a screen recording or screenshot of your artifact, the link if you've got one, and your writeup in the comments below. ๐Ÿ“… Deadline: Saturday, May 2nd at 12:00 PM EST ๐ŸŽ‰ Winner announced: Monday, May 4th at 12:00 PM EST ๐Ÿ’ก A note before you start. This isn't a finance challenge. It's a design and voice challenge. You don't need to be a CFP to win this. Read the brief. Marcus tells you exactly what he wants and how he thinks. Your job is to build something that solves his problem and sounds like him. ๐Ÿ†• If you've never built an artifact in Claude before, this is a great first one. The brief is clear, the scope is reasonable, and the bar is "would Marcus actually send this to a prospect?" ๐Ÿ”ฅ @Ian Barriopedro set the standard last week. Your turn. LFG ๐Ÿš€
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I handle pipeline and partnerships at Eduba, and I'm asking the room for help on this one. We've got a shot at federal funding to run an AI capability-building pilot inside a public sector agency. Same playbook we've used with Pacific Life, Colgate, and KPMG UK, now pointed at the government workforce. The piece we're missing is the partner. State, county, or federal. An agency with legacy pain, a workforce ready to actually use AI the right way, and a leader willing to try something real. This is grant-funded. No procurement cycle, no sales pitch. The agency gets trained, equipped, and supported. We get to prove the model in public with the people who need it most. Timeline is tight. We need a partner locked in over the next few weeks. If you know someone in a state CIO office, a county agency, a federal program, or anywhere a civil servant is losing sleep over their tech stack, DM me. I'll personally work with you to figure out the best way in, whether that's a three-way intro, a short brief I can send you to forward, or a call with all of us on the line. And if the intro you make is the one that lands the partnership, you get lifetime VIP in the community on us. No cost, ever.
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Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.
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