It’s live. Starting today, everyone in Clief Notes has access to the new Clief Notes AI. The easiest way to use it? Don’t overthink it. Ask it the question you would normally ask me. “Where should I start?” “What should I focus on next?” “Where did you talk about [topic]?” It’ll use what’s already inside Clief Notes to help answer you and point you toward the right lesson or resource when there’s something worth going deeper on. The goal isn’t to give you another AI tool to play with. It’s to make everything already inside this community easier to actually use. If you want Access to it Comment "READY" and we'll send you access to it!

(Been here about 4 months...just going thru the Decster AI process 😁) 🙋 A little about me: By Day - Mechanical designer making systems that turn waste heat 🔥 into electricity ⚡🔌 By Night - Building my AI Consultancy 🎯 My current goal: Work withsmall businesses to develop AI solutions and workflows so the owner stops doing $15-an-hour work at 9pm. 💪 What I'm currently building/working on: AI workshops and hands-on help for Houston small businesses. The rule is: decrease the workload, not the workforce. 🤔 My biggest struggle or question right now: Getting people to find and hire me. Let's get it! 🚀

📣 Update (8/15/26): Comp 11 Rules Added --- What this thread is: 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 to them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. See the current challenge as well as all past challenges below! Format for community challenges: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/how-competitions-work-from-now-on?p=84912d60 Weekly leaderboard competition: Alongside the biweekly challenges, there is a weekly leaderboard challenge where the member at the top of the 7 day rolling leaderboard wins a free upgrade to their membership. This winner is announced on Mondays typically. @Joshua Hubbard has gone another step further and created a thread linking to all competition entries. Link here: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/the-competition-archive-every-entry-every-week-every-link?p=bd752987 --- Current Challenge: Competition 11 The Challenge 💪 - Build a workflow that walks a system and leaves behind a map for those that follow. Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-11-the-cartographer?p=48566e59 Good luck everyone! --- Past Challenges Competition 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules & submissions 🗒️ - 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 Competition 2

This community is large and it moves fast. That's the good part and it's also the problem: valuable posts get buried, the same questions get re-asked instead of found, and spammers show up wherever there's an audience. These guidelines are what keeps the room worth showing up to. Read them once. You won't need them again, because most of this is what you'd do anyway. New here? Start with Jake's welcome post and the Foundation course. This post is about how we behave, not where to begin. 1. Build in public. Post the thing while it's half working. A half-finished build is more useful to everyone else than the polished writeup you'll never get around to, and you'll get corrected before you've spent a week going the wrong way. 2. Teach what you learn. The day you figure something out is the day you're best at explaining it, because you still remember exactly what confused you. A month later you've forgotten the hard part and your explanation gets worse. If you cracked something this week, that's a post. Nobody has to earn the right to ask a question here, but this place only works because people come back and answer them once they can. 3. Ask good questions. Specific beats polite. "How should I structure this?" gets three vague answers. "I have a 40 file client folder, the model keeps loading the wrong context file, here's my CLAUDE.md" gets a real one. Say what you tried, what happened, and what you expected instead. A more in depth guide: https://dontasktoask.com The flip side of this: "Anyone here?", "Help please", and one line questions with no context may get removed. Not to be harsh, but because nobody can answer them. 4. Give credit. If you built on someone's skill, template, folder structure or comment, tag them. It costs you nothing and it's the reason people keep publishing their work here instead of keeping it. A lot of the best material in this community started as somebody's reply on somebody else's post.

TLDR: I offered a 1 hour AI for Seniors workshop to a few local Senior Living centers and one of them booked! It's not a huge pay day by any means, but it IS a foot in the door of the retirement community niche. -------------- I've been working with friends and chasing warm leads for what feels like forever. Last week when Fable first launched I was frustrated because as much as I feel like I'm trying, in reality I'm spinning my wheels. So I engaged Fable and told it to look through all my chats and tell me what I'm doing that's preventing me from moving the needle. Then make a step by step action plan for me to get things going. It did. Very astutely I might add, lol. And 24 hrs later I had one of those warm leads turned into a hot lead, which today became my first booked engagement. It's only $200 but in the VIP call over the weekend that was so generously shared with everyone Jake said something that spoke to that -- "if someone pays you—even something small—that’s proof there’s value in your time and a way to start learning through real work." (If you haven't watched it, go watch it, there are some really great bits in there!) This small booking will be something I can stand on to tell myself and anyone else that I can do this, because, in the words of Stewart Smalley, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog gonnit, people like me." 😁 Seriously though, this is so exciting for me. For those who are still struggling to move the needle, don't allow distractions to keep you from putting yourself out there. If you're not comfortable with a $3500 AI Readiness Audit as a first engagement, do something small and build up from there...but DO SOMETHING.