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Every resource founders actually use, in one library.
The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.
What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.
- The open standard Meta and Sierra are building for how customers' own AI agents sign in and act with a business, with partners... sierra.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Personal Agent Protocol Sierra (Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
- Decagon's October launches: Voice 3, a gateway that detects and serves customers' personal agents, and modules that take the... decagon.ai Article · How Founders Use AI The AI concierge for every customer [and their agent] Decagon
- Ready-made Industry Agents and a no-code Custom Agent builder inside the helpdesk. zendesk.com Article · How Founders Use AI Zendesk introduces specialized AI agents Zendesk
- Replit's CEO on why companies will build their own software with agents, introducing Replit for Business. replit.com Article · How Founders Use AI The Rise of the Self-Driving Company Amjad Masad (Replit)
- Hex's launch post: ask data questions from Hex or from Claude, Codex or Cursor, and review the analytics code agents write... hex.tech Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Hex 4.0 Olivia Koshy (Hex)
- Instagram's own post: the AI creator label is now 'AI-generated profile', unlabelled profiles featuring an AI-generated person... creators.instagram.com Article · How Founders Use AI Bringing More Transparency to AI-Generated Profiles on Instagram Instagram
- Reddit's own account of how it now uses LLMs to catch coordinated fake behaviour and artificial hype, and asks suspicious... redditinc.com Article · How Founders Use AI How We're Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era Reddit
- Where the enterprise end of the market is going: agents that triage and route a company's legal requests. legora.com Article · How Founders Use AI Legora launches Intake: an agentic front door for in-house legal teams Legora
- LinkedIn's own announcement of the agent inside Recruiter that sources candidates and reviews applicants; existing English... news.linkedin.com Article · How Founders Use AI LinkedIn Announces Hiring Assistant 2, its Next Generation Hiring Agent, to Help Recruiters Deliver Stronger Hiring Outcomes LinkedIn
- A startup trainer on using AI as a sparring partner before investor meetings, with a prompt that answers your eight hardest... venturelab.swiss Article · How Founders Use AI AI for Founders: Great Pitches Are Tested, Not Written Venturelab (Noemi Bethmann, with Innosuisse trainer Jonas Baer)
- Anthropic's post on Claude's memory, on Pro and Max since 23 Oct 2025: a separate memory per project, a summary you can view... claude.com Article · How Founders Use AI Bringing memory to Claude Anthropic
- Lists the currencies ChatGPT bills in on the web, Indian rupees among them. help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Multi-currency billing OpenAI Help Center
- Google's announcement of Google AI Pro at no extra cost for 18 months for Jio Unlimited 5G users, activated in the MyJio app. blog.google Article · How Founders Use AI Partnering with Reliance to bring the best of Google AI to more people across India Google India
- Step-by-step import of what another assistant remembers about you, and how to export Claude's memory as a backup. support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Import and export your memory from Claude Anthropic (Claude Help Center)
- How the Thinking slider works (Instant, Medium, High, Extra High, Pro), which plans get each level and what Free and Go users... help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI GPT-6 and other models in ChatGPT OpenAI Help Center
- OpenAI's announcement of the GPT-6 model now behind everyday ChatGPT answers, with examples of the visual answers it gives. openai.com Article · How Founders Use AI GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone OpenAI
- Plain examples of which questions want a quick search, which want more thinking and which want a full research run. support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI When should I use web search, extended thinking, and research? Anthropic (Claude Help Center)
- The difference between account-wide instructions, project instructions and skills, and where to set each. support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Understanding Claude's personalization features Anthropic (Claude Help Center)
- How Claude's memory works, how to review and edit it, and how incognito chats keep a conversation out of it. support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Use Claude's chat search and memory to build on previous context Anthropic (Claude Help Center)
- The three ways Gemini learns about you: memory of past chats, connected Google apps and your own instructions. support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Get personalization in Gemini Apps Google (Gemini Apps Help)
- Google's explanation of personalised answers from past chats and of temporary chats that stay out of them. blog.google Article · How Founders Use AI Gemini adds Temporary Chats and new personalization features Google
- The Live, Advanced and Standard voice options, how many hours each plan gets and how to start a voice chat on a phone. help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT Voice OpenAI Help Center
- Why ChatGPT's newer voice can listen and talk at once, so you can interrupt it the way you would a person. openai.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing GPT-Live OpenAI
- What you need to use Gemini Live on a phone, what it is good for and its current limits. support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Talk naturally with Gemini Live Google (Gemini Apps Help)
The hubs
Starting Up
Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers.
GTM
Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it.
D2C
Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first.
Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
Glossary
Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit.
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