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Clief Notes is free to join, with paid tiers inside and published 54,340 members on Skool.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined Clief Notes, and nothing below is a verdict.

Clief Notes is a Skool group that is free to join, with paid tiers inside, created in October 2023, that teaches members to build durable AI systems.[1] Its premise is that people relearn AI every time a model updates, so the group teaches the structure underneath the tools, which it says lasts a decade.[1] The instructor is a University of Edinburgh researcher and the founder of Eduba, and writes a Substack newsletter under the Clief Notes byline.[2]

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Members
54,340
Published price
Free to join, paid tiers inside
Members, last 30 days
+4,605
1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
Rank by members
#28
of 6,073 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche
#2
of 340 sellers listed in software and tech, by published members
Check the Course score
99
A+, exceptional
Niche
Software and tech
353 listed here
Created
11 Oct 2023
Skool publishes this date
Readings
20
since 24 Aug 2026

About Clief Notes

The classroom holds more than 40 free lessons and adds more each month.[1] The lessons cover folder architecture that turns a member's files into the system, reusable prompt frameworks, computing fundamentals, and running AI systems on real work.[1] The listing says the instructor has trained more than 1,000 people at Fortune 500 companies and universities.[1]

Eduba helps organizations decide which problems belong to AI, which to traditional software, which to people, and which should not be built at all.[3] An interview described Eduba as the flagship product of Van Clief Media, an AI education and software company offering AI literacy workshops and consultations to professors and professionals.[4] At that stage Eduba was a group chat platform connecting multiple AI models for branching discussions.[4] Van Clief Media was started in 2022.[5] The instructor's YouTube channel carries the tagline "In a world where everyone is teaching you left and right, I teach up and down."[6]

Sources

  1. Skool listing: skool.com/cliefnotes, as collected 24 Sept 2026
  2. Other: jakevanclief.substack.com, retrieved 25 Sept 2026
  3. Official website: eduba.io, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
  4. Press: dailynewsnetwork.com, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
  5. Press: flagler.edu, retrieved 25 Sept 2026
  6. YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCPR4DV8qMQVs_YBa-CQZQBQ, retrieved 27 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

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NicheSoftware and techFormatCourse

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What is inside

Course modules
170
Courses
18
Posts, all time
3,556
People running it
12

Counts published by Clief Notes on its own page, read on 5 Sept 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by jake-van-clief-2217.

How we knowSourced & dated
Observed on 31 Oct 2026 from Skool source page archived copy 58a8bcb5edb3.
Observable monthly ceiling
Not calculated

This community is free to join, with paid tiers inside. The readings record the free join price, not the prices of the paid tiers, so no ceiling is calculated.

Against the software and tech niche

Percentile among the other 352 software and tech listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size100th
smallestlargest
Check the Course Score
99A+Exceptional

Ahead of 99% of the 13,589 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure Clief Notes published itself.

  • Size 53% of the scoreahead of 99%
  • Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 78%
  • Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 96%

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  • Top 1% by size in software and tech. Measured by Check the Course.Top 1% by size in software and tech. Measured by Check the Course.
  • Members up 17% since August 2026. Measured by Check the Course.Members up 17% since August 2026. Measured by Check the Course.

    Net member count up 17% between our first reading, on 24 Aug 2026, and our latest, on 31 Oct 2026.

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 54,340 members.

Evidence: measured.

First recorded
24 August 2026our first reading, not its launch

Tracked over time

Member change
+435+0.8%over 4 days+4,605+9.3%over 30 days
Price change
Unchanged at every reading

20 observations over 68 days.

Member count
47K48K49K50K51K52K53K54K54,34024 Aug 202631 Oct 2026change

Observation log

Observation log
ObservedMembersChangePriceCeiling / month
31 Oct 202654,340+435Free + paid tiersNot calculated
27 Oct 202653,905+436Free + paid tiersNot calculated
23 Oct 202653,469+490Free + paid tiersNot calculated
19 Oct 202652,979+73Free + paid tiersNot calculated
18 Oct 202652,906+477Free + paid tiersNot calculated
15 Oct 202652,429+122Free + paid tiersNot calculated
14 Oct 202652,307+588Free + paid tiersNot calculated
11 Oct 202651,719+517Free + paid tiersNot calculated
8 Oct 202651,202+232Free + paid tiersNot calculated
7 Oct 202650,970+333Free + paid tiersNot calculated
5 Oct 202650,637+192Free + paid tiersNot calculated
3 Oct 202650,445+710Free + paid tiersNot calculated
1 Oct 202649,735+469Free + paid tiersNot calculated
28 Sept 202649,266+403Free + paid tiersNot calculated
23 Sept 202648,863+1,270Free + paid tiersNot calculated
7 Sept 202647,593+11Free + paid tiersNot calculated
7 Sept 202647,582+125Free + paid tiersNot calculated
4 Sept 202647,457+362Free + paid tiersNot calculated
31 Aug 202647,095+663Free + paid tiersNot calculated
24 Aug 202646,432Free + paid tiersNot calculated
Average per week, last 30 days1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026+1,075
Average per week, since first reading24 Aug 2026 to 31 Oct 2026+814

Milestones observed

Milestones observed
MembersCrossingBetween readings
50,000Passed1 Oct 2026 and 3 Oct 2026

Common questions about Clief Notes

What is Clief Notes?
Clief Notes is a Skool group that is free to join, with paid tiers inside, created in October 2023, that teaches members to build durable AI systems.
How much does Clief Notes cost?
Clief Notes is free to join on Skool, with paid tiers inside, read 31 Oct 2026.
How many members does Clief Notes have?
Clief Notes lists 54,340 members, read 31 Oct 2026.
How has Clief Notes' membership changed?
From 46,432 members on 24 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 54,340 on 31 Oct 2026: up 7,908, or 17%.
How does Clief Notes compare with other software and tech communities?
The niche median is 595 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside Clief Notes?
Clief Notes publishes 170 course modules, 18 courses, 3,556 posts, 12 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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