So i build an email automation than runs based on some files and folders and the whole system runs all the time even if my PC is off. Used JEV as a decision layer. Used connectors(google drive, gmail and calendar) and Routines. Even this video was created through icm.

Hey everyone, first update since my intro. In that post I said learning and building can quietly become a substitute for selling. 12 days later, I'm the proof. Here are my benchmarks as of today: 0 sales conversations with buyers, 0 paid clients, and 64 days until my deadline for a signed, paid client. That's on me. One thing I've taken from @Jake Van Clief is to ask yourself the hardest, most detailed questions you can about your own business and build toward the answers. When I do that, the hardest ones aren't about building. I built a pipeline dashboard on top of Karbon for an accounting firm with Claude Code. The hardest question I currently have is one a prospect could ask me on the first call: "Why you? What experience do you have that shows you can do what you claim?" Right behind it: "What is this costing me right now, in dollars?" I can't answer either one well yet, and until I can, getting people on a call and actually selling to them is going to stay hard. What I'm doing about it this week: sending my first 3 personalized Looms to small accounting firms that has the sole objective of getting a reply. No selling in the video. 3 this week to small accounting firms, then more once I see what lands. Fuck it, I'm not going to learn anything if I don't do anything about it. I'll post how it goes, even if nobody replies. What I'm asking for: if you've had real sales conversations for an AI consultancy or AI implementation business, I want to learn from you. I'm putting together a small peer-to-peer group that meets once a week. Everyone brings what they did that week, what they learned, and one thing they're stuck on, and we hold each other to it. Especially looking for people a step or two ahead of me, but same stage is fine too, as long as it's the same kind of business. Comment or DM me with what your business sells, who it sells to, and how many sales conversations you've had so far. Thanks. Khalil, of Norvain

I’m following the New Member template (somewhat), with more about me below in case anyone is interested. 😊 I'm currently using AI for brainstorming and organization. I’m at the beginning stages of AI right now. I have used ChatGPT, Claude, and Claude Cowork, but want to transition over to Claude Code & Codex. I LITERALLY found Jake on YouTube just as I was about to purchase an AI Agent package for $1000!!! I have been stressing about how to set up my AI OS and especially the folder structure. I have watched and saved soooo many YouTube videos that my ADHD brain has shut down from the overwhelm. I’m hoping Jake’s ICM will help. I'm excited to learn how ICM works! I haven’t done anything with AI other than chats and organizing stuff. But D*** IT, I want to do some fun things!! I want to create something! I want to lay out and design systems for my clients! I want to have fun with AI, not just do admin crap! Ok…a little more about me, lol. I’m a husband, father, animal lover, and adrenaline junkie! I love everything outdoors, including hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, skydiving, scuba diving, and Jeepin’ with my wife and Service Dog Ginger! I'm a USAF veteran, a Director of Business Development (career), and Founder & CEO of Empowerment Legacy Group, Forged In Fire Business Coaching & Consulting, and Forged In Fire Life Coaching (startup stage). I am also thinking about starting some sort of AI Agency, but not sure which direction to go. Did I mention I have severe ADHD? 😄 I am currently transitioning Forged In Fire Business Coaching & Consulting into something a little different. I want to use my last years (I’m 55 now) helping others who want to help others! 😊 Forged In Fire Life Coaching is my passion project. I am building a community for Veterans who have been out of the military for a bit and are struggling with everyday life. This comes from years of not feeling like I fit in with anybody or anywhere after my military service. It ended with a suicide attempt about 4.5 years ago. Since then, I have been on a massive healing journey and have dedicated my life to becoming a better husband, friend, entrepreneur, mentor, and overall decent human being.

Hi community, I've been building an ICM for my job as a Solution Consultant. One workflow I have is about status updates on customers that require referencing the latest in MS Teams chats/channels and Sharepoint files in a few folders (word, pptx, excel, mp4), among many other tools. In this post I will focus on those two. Workflow descriptions: 1. Workflow that runs the first time I ask about a customer, which searches everything and build the first 'log' for that customer. This one I'm happy with. 2. Workflow that runs on any subsequent request that searches the latest 2 weeks of content, or the latest since the last 'log' on the customer. This one I need help with. ICM structure: - CLAUDE.md: Routes the request to the customer folder context file - /customer/CONTEXT.md: Describes the two workflows and selects which ones to run and steps on how to create the 'log' files in new subfolders. Each workflow references the reference context file to know how to connect to tools like cloud storage to pull content. - /references/CONTEX.md: Has all the descriptions on how to connect to all cloud tools and where to look for info, like hyperlinks to customer notes folders Question: - The problem I'm running into is that sometimes a key fact is missing from the response because of the way the information got parsed by the LLM. I'm not expecting it to read everything, but I do expect it to prioritize certain things when I'm updating how I want the status to look like.Are there some tips you can share with me? I was looking into knowledge graph, but the examples I saw were using files locally. Maybe I need to markdown-ify my content? I want to hear from the community if you have ran into something similar. Thank you!

Something I read in The Age of AI made me rethink how I use ICM. My natural tendency is to approach ICM through business process orchestration. I define the stages, describe the steps, and try to make the whole workflow explicit. But sometimes I take this too far and turn the stages into strict rules. The result becomes over-engineered, uses more tokens, and often works less naturally with AI. I recently had the opposite experience. We replaced a detailed process with a simple skill that described the essential pattern, and the results were much better. That made something click for me. Maybe stages should act as an interpretable scaffold, rather than a fixed algorithm. They can clarify the purpose, context, constraints, handoffs, and expected outcome, while still allowing the AI to work out the best path. AI may free us from having to define an entire process in advance. But if we specify less, evaluating the outcome becomes even more important. We need to check the quality of the result, capture what we learn, and use that learning to improve the scaffold over time. Does anyone else start with ICM and then gradually slip back into rigid, rule-based process design? How do you decide what needs to be specified and what should be left for the AI to infer?