We just crossed 50,000 members 🎉. Today. Not a projection. Not a “coming soon” slide. That number broke because Jake showed up with ICM and actually shipped it into a room that doesn’t treat people like leads. The welcome here isn’t a drip sequence. It’s people answering questions, sharing the folder, and sticking around after the first win. Most communities rent attention. This one compounds it. Jake’s ICM didn’t land in a vacuum - it landed in a stack that already preferred transparent workflows over vendor theater. Members didn’t just buy. They stayed, tested, and pulled the next person in. From empty chairs to a milestone that pays people back. Stop chasing the next shiny cohort. Start owning the room that keeps grinding after the launch email dies. If you’re in, say what you got out of it. If you’re watching, the door’s still open.

Thank you Jake Van Clief and David McDermott for having me, and David Vogel for the Hermes assist. This one is ICM in practice. I open my own Hermes and walk every layer of its memory, live: the built-in memory files, session history, skills and the curator, the memory provider I host myself, and the ICM workspace that holds the job itself. The part I think this room will care about: in my workspace, every folder carries a small AGENTS.md router that points to a CONTEXT.md contract. Hermes loads AGENTS.md on its own. It doesn't load CONTEXT.md, so the router is what makes sure the contract gets read. Small router, real instructions 1 step away. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtROa4PfvY8 ICM is why this system holds together, and Hermes is what walks it. Jordan The read through https://agentsasfolders.ai/blog/ai-agent-memory-hermes/

I searched through the community to see if anyone posted about the foundation layer of every business: accounting. If I missed a thread on this, please point me toward it! If it hasn't been covered yet, here is what I’m thinking. I'd love to get some ideas on how to design a basic folder setup that every member here could use to kickstart their own accounting department—essentially an ICM Accounting System. I follow a guy on TikTok who leverage trades crypto, which is an absolute accounting nightmare. A member asked him how he handles his taxes, and his answer stuck with me. He said wealthy people rely on three key professionals to minimize their tax burden and preserve long-term wealth: a bookkeeper, an accountant, and a tax attorney, in that exact order. I prompted Gemini for a structure using the ICM methodology framework and got a solid blueprint. Before I take it further: Has anyone else in the group tackled this yet? If not, do you think it would be valuable to build out a basic starter folder structure to share with the group? Just thinking out loud, so I’d really appreciate your input!

After 5 months of being in this community, I finally caught the ICM flu... I didn't catch it the first month--we were just having a good time back then. I didn't catch it the second month, either. Those were the "lego" days, and still long before it would really click. I didn't even catch it when I started a second company 6 weeks ago, that I built after being inspired right here in this community. For 5 months, I was vibe coding. Up late, up early, like a middle schooler with a new video game, like the internet just became a thing for the first time... I thought that was the thick of it. No. Oh no.. No, no, no, no, no, no. There are levels, boys, there are levels... I caught the ICM flu once I made a widget that an actual client used. And then it finally clicked. Software. Agents. Human. You can just build a whole foundation for any company using this method. Which, sure, yes, we know that. But, realizing that once you got it... once you've built that first widget, that first workflow tied to a piece of software you coded and an agent you made, you realize... that's the whole thing. Do it once, do it a thousand times. Recycle, reuse. We're all software developers now, baby! About 2 weeks after it finally clicked, I joined the Lyceum because I understood the value of this finally. It does not matter what you plan to do--these skills transfer to ALL SORTS of things. Software, Agents, Human... just apply it to.... anything! As a side note, I have already received value after the first Lyceum session. I finally can see how I can transform my little house cleaning company into a mega machine and create the dream vision I have for this company. FOR ANYONE THAT SAW MY ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT STARTING A COMPANY... This is going to sound nuts, I know, but Im shutting down the company I just made despite the fact that it's working. I can now see that the greatest play, and most value I can create, is going to come from the company that I have so much experience in already, and not the one that I have limited experience with. My judgements and tastes are strong where I've spent a ton of time already. Really, I have 3 lanes I've spent the majority of my life in, and I've decided I need to see those through at this point because I have way too much specialized knowledge to not do something with it. *And that's the secret sauce.*

In yesterday's high tea, we discussed using a Claude skill MD FIle in another AI so that the agent can perform that skill itself, which it otherwise cannot do. In my case, I have a legal AI (not naming it to protect the identity of the guilty) that doesn't allow for much customization to get tasks done; everything is baked into its harness, or at least that is how it used to be. It recently allowed for matter folders to be created. So I had a crazy Idea, what if I took a skill i use in Claude for legal work and pull the MD Files and resources and create a specific skill/instruction folder to house these files and subfolders and use them in this Legal Ai. I gave it a shot and, in the chat, asked it to review the Skill/Instructions first and then take the other matter documents and execute the instruction file to create a specific analysis and document for an asset purchase I am working on for a client. For the first time, this AI analyzed the matter files and drafted a specific type of document that was almost the perfect format I wanted, with minimal editing. This one test has now opened the floodgates on what I can do to improve the outputs of this legal AI platform. I never even thought of trying this until yesterday's discussion over high tea. That one little gold nugget was a big win for me because it makes decent legal ai something more. Thanks @Jake Van Clief