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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€
If I was looking for a lead engineer...
If i was looking for a lead engineer to help strategize and use Claude code to develop an enterprise level suite product in an industry i have the downline and active clients for. How would I go about that here? I have created the business model and all components needed. asked claude to code it however i realized the issue in upgrading due to memory and other limitations. i needed to create a file system or a master spec sheet before any code. hence when i saw jake on IG i was like shit hes right. Id like to find someone who can apply this and other knowledge to make this a reality.
I've been using Hermes to orchestrate Opencode instead of running Claude Code for entire builds.
Hermes handles orchestration. it writes the PRD and spec, breaks the work into phases, generates the subtask list, then invokes Opencode via terminal to do the actual build. Opencode finishes, Hermes reviews the output, issues the next task. I show up at the end for QA. The reason is context hygiene. When a single agent holds the full build history, it starts drawing relationships between components that don't exist. By phase 4 of anything non-trivial, you're chasing hallucinated dependencies. Rotating Opencode in fresh for each phase means it only sees what it needs for that task. Worth being honest: When it comes to development, I'm a hobbyist building personal tools. My main domain is Desktop Support and Network Administration. I don't know how this holds up under real deadlines or at a larger scale. That's a gap. If anyone is curious let me know and I'll post how I did the setup. Has anyone here run a setup where the orchestrator and builder are different tools? Curious if the spec quality becomes the real bottleneck at higher complexity.
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