Week 4 of 5 · Class 7 of 10 · Tue 6/9

First citation check

Demo your Week 3 builds, meet a new Claude model, then run your first citation check: ask an LLM for recommendations and watch who it names, and why.

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Today's schedule

4:00–4:05	Open
4:05–4:30	Week 3 demos: 4 teams
4:30–5:00	Class survey
5:00–5:10	Crawl: first citation check: on your own
5:10–5:25	Shareback
5:25–5:30	Week 4 starts

A new Claude model just dropped. Read the press release, then test whether it changes how it recommends.

15 min

Pick a real question, then watch who gets named. Try one of these:

5 min · on your own

"Best dentist near me"

"Best coding IDE for making enterprise apps"

"Best way to test your product sense"

Ask the question.
Notice the pattern.The same 3–4 names every time. Thousands of options, why these? Does the updated Claude reason from your history and preferences?
Ask it back."What are you basing 'best' on?" Surface the sources behind the answer.

Bring one finding to the shareback. Three things to look for:

🏆 LLMS.TXT WINNERS: did anyone with an llms.txt file get cited? What did their file say?

📉 LLMS.TXT LOSERS: did anyone with an llms.txt file still get passed over? Why?

🔍 THE PATTERN: what do the cited sources have in common: format, authority, recency?

4 teams, 4 newsletters, each a competitor-scraping site built on Firecrawl's "/monitor". 2 minutes to demo, 1 minute of Q&A.

1	State of Data Centers: Nikoo Beyzaei + Chris Thorne + Daliso + Daniela Perilla
2	State of OpenClaw Competitors: Jeff Lash + Michael Krafft + Aviral Gupta + Jocelyn Baun
3	State of Coding Agents (IDEs, etc.): Patricia + Sabrina Abhyankar + Kevin Ko + Elizabeth
4	State of Agentic Security: John Dufresne + Ramin Talaie + Dorincy Shen + Arpit