Hi everyone, It's time to review and renew emails, decide if you want to continue on based on where you are with testing, and settle up on costs. Here is a listing of all the emails I have on file for SSAI. Most of you purchased a 3 month runway and some are now over that timeline. Review the two yellow columns for expiration dates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LeetUXEzLiQH63ck940bi65SXCcLjjwnhOsM7qvkYZo/edit?usp=sharing Here's what you need to decide by October 15th - do you want to continue on with the SSAI email address? This should be based on: - Have you passed the CCAF?  If so, do you want to continue on as part of Shift Smart AI (see below)? - If not, do you intend to take or retake?  And what is your timeline for this? - GOOD NEWS! We are now part of the CPN (they created a new tier which we instantly qualified for with 3 tested and we are inches away from getting the original tier of 10, which opens more benefits, resources, money). Attached are the CPN benefits, which include being listed on the Anthropic CPN website for referrals, support, early access to product and actual money to us based on client engagements. THIS is the reason to stay engaged with SSAI. Together, we get more, but it is an individual decision. I will be putting together the framework of what "Staying on with SSAI" means in the next month, but you will have some responsibilities, below. Review your email status and let me know by October 15th if you will be staying on or not. If we do not hear from you, your email will expire at the end of October and you will be removed from the system - whether you have tested or not. IF YOU CHOOSE TO STAY ON WITH SSAI, here are your responsibilities: 1. 1 - Must participate by supplying at a minimum 1 client engagement and testimonial annually, registered appropriately under SSAI to get us credit.  You still own your business and your pricing, but SSAI must be built into your agreement with your client in some way, even if just in name/as an affiliate so we get credit under the CPN.  These details are still being worked out and you can opt out at any time. 2. 2 - There will be a small revenue share back to SSAI for any business that comes from SSAI as a referral. We will be listed on the Anthropic CPN as an approved vendor.  If that referral leads to you, a revenue share in the 15-20% range will be required to be paid to SSAI.   3. 3 - The more you participate, the more we all benefit.  Those who participate and register client engagements that lead to money from Anthropic will share in that pool of funds. 4. 4. We will be extending emails quarterly for easier administrative path, so you will have a payment due for 3 months and for anything that is currently overdue.  I have been remiss in keeping up with this and have been charged extra.

Whew, this was scary. First 3 questions, I had no clues what they were talking about. Started panicking. By question 30, I had given up convinced I'll not pass. Then I stopped, prayed and reminded myself that I studied and I know the concepts. I started following the methodology I had outlined for myself: Read the question first, think about it to evaluate the solution, read the scenario and check if the solution I have in mind still matches. After that look at the answer and choose one then weigh it against the others. First round, 50 minutes left I had more than 20 questions flagged for review out of the 60. Went back and checked the flagged questions. 5 minutes left, I just submitted. One thing I can say is the practice tests help but not quite because the language and the formulation are very different. You really need to understand the concepts to filter out the noise. Thank you for all the wonderful support and help. 😊😊😊

I found the exam to be much harder than the Matthew Purcell one and closer in difficulty to the ones in claudestudycards.com although still a tad more difficult (or maybe just the nerves!) I used the recordings in the group and the repo from Abi Odedeyi to help me learn the content and then claudestudycards.com to practice. Thank you to the group for providing so many useful resources and to @Anita Ortiz who let me join!

As the legendary Texan, Matthew McConaughey, often says… all right, all right all right! The pressure was on me to pass this time, it is done, and I couldn’t wait to share with you guys. That’s 5 of us. Who is next??

Good one to watch. Thanks @Pam Sagarnaga https://www.skool.com/the-ccaf-cohort-8589/classroom/005ac1b7?md=8cb0b02e1d4f46c9840308295918277f