If you’ve been quietly struggling with learning how to build or what to build, you’re not alone. I’ve seen the posts, and I know how frustrating it can feel when things don’t click. I wanted to try to do something about it. I built a custom AI Tutor that has the complete knowledge and teaching style of @Jake Van Clief and @Matthew Creamer’s Foundations courses. Think of Jake as the professor. This agent is your dedicated Teacher’s Assistant who sits with you one-on-one. See the new V2 Foundations Tutor here! https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/new-v2-foundations-tutor?p=979dbf61 Here’s why it’s different: • It walks you through every concept step by step, exactly as Jake outlines them • You’re not just chatting or watching videos. You’re actually building files and folders together in Claude • It checks your work in real time and won’t let you move forward until you truly understand • It speaks in their voice and follows their exact methodology This is the hands-on practice and patient guidance a lot of us have been missing. How to try it: 1. Grab the repo 2. Follow the README 3. Open the folder in Claude and let the tutor take over I’m very proud of how it turned out and I want this to help as many people as possible. We just crossed 30,000 members! Let’s make sure every single one of us has the support they need to actually master this stuff. If you try it, please drop a comment and let me know: • Did it help you understand a concept that was confusing before? • What worked well? • What could be better? I want your honest feedback so we can keep improving it together. I’d love it if this could turn into a proper community teaching tool we all build and evolve. Link in comments 👇

An excerpt from last week's VIP that I felt was important to share with everyone! How to get your first check/increase customers and bring in cash from the FOUNDATION of business.

I work as a Digital Transformation consultant, but ever since I showed ICM to one of my clients, it naturally became the center of my activity - now everything turns arrowd it, someway or another. Jake and this community have REALLY changed my live. This means I pitch this stuff a lot. So I asked my ICM_Incubator folder to create a presentation, and then shared that in a chatGPT sites. That's it, just a sales pitch. way less cool than browser extentions or cool tools, but money's got come from somewhere😅... https://icm-operating-system.pedrorc-wt.chatgpt.site/

You built an agentic OS. So did the person three seats over. And when you put your architecture next to theirs, the shapes rhyme. Folders for clients. A governing layer up top. Named agents doing scoped work. An orchestrator routing it all. That's not a coincidence and it's not theft. It's convergence. Builders with no access to my internal architecture keep arriving at doctrine I already wrote down. One builder reasons their way to belief over prompting. Another builder names an agent and discovers that's the hook for giving it a soul. And another builds a routing gate to protect the signal. Different vantages, same destination. None of them copied me. They solved the same problem in their own org and ended up in the same place. I used to find that mildly surprising. Not anymore. Because if a stranger reinvents the doctrine without ever seeing it, the doctrine isn't clever positioning I invented. It's just how this actually works. Convergence is the proof that it's true. Which tells me the map was never the moat. If people can rebuild a system from a screenshot of a folder tree, then handing over the clean version costs me nothing and proves the point. So here it is. An outline of the AgencyOS map is attached to this post. Layers, agent roster, sample folder structure, and tool integrations. Take the shape. Start at Layer 1, not Layer 3. The agents are the fun part, so that's where everyone wants to start. The leverage is upstream. The belief layer governs everything the agents produce. Mine didn't come from a build sprint. It started forming in late 2023, with these ideas spoken aloud on a podcast, before any AI was in the picture. Then I spent over a year encoding that conviction into a system. Then I found ICM and ported it over. I'm still refining it. An agent I can spin up in 15 minutes. The belief layer took years because it had to exist before the machine did. Build the workforce on top of nothing and you get a fast machine with no conviction. And the belief layer is the one thing on that map you can't take from me. I can't take yours from you. You can copy the folders. You can copy the agent names. But you cannot copy what I believe into your system. I can go into my AI and ask it "what do I believe?" and it returns my truth. If you load my doctrine and ask the same question, you get what I believe. Not what YOU believe.

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!