Explore · The library
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.
- Turnitin's own figures: under 1% false positives for documents with 20% or more AI writing, about 4% at the sentence level. turnitin.com Article · How Founders Use AI Understanding the false positive rate for sentences of our AI writing detection capability Turnitin
- Apple's steps to copy, translate or look up text the iPhone camera sees. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Use Live Text with your iPhone camera Apple Support
- How to copy, translate or look up text in an image opened in Preview. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Interact with text in a photo using Live Text in Preview on Mac Apple Support
- Apple's steps to set a password to open a PDF and an owner password for printing or copying, and File > Edit Permissions to... support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Password-protect a PDF in Preview on Mac Apple Support
- What a paraphrase is, and the rule that information taken from a source still needs that source named. owl.purdue.edu Article · How Founders Use AI Paraphrasing Purdue Online Writing Lab
- Apple's steps for the Reduce File Size Quartz filter, the options for optimising images, and the warning that quality may drop. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Reduce the size of a PDF in Preview on Mac Apple Support
- India's rules for theses and research papers: similarity up to 10% is Level 0 with no penalty, and penalties rise at 10-40%,... ugc.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2018 University Grants Commission
- Apple's steps for scanning a document into a note, with automatic capture when the page edges are detected. support.apple.com Article · How Founders Use AI Scan text and documents in Notes using the iPhone camera Apple Support
- Google's steps for scanning receipts, letters and statements in the Drive app and saving them as searchable PDFs. support.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Scan documents with Google Drive (Android) Google Drive Help
- The 29 June 2020 order under section 69A of the IT Act blocking 59 apps; Cam Scanner is number 14 on the list. pib.gov.in Article · How Founders Use AI Government bans 59 mobile apps Ministry of Electronics and IT (PIB)
- Free CV templates many engineering and research students use, edited in the browser. overleaf.com Template · How Founders Use AI LaTeX templates for CVs and resumes Overleaf
- The plain rules of a good resume, action verbs and all, which no tool replaces. careerservices.fas.harvard.edu Guide · How Founders Use AI Harvard College guide to creating a strong resume Harvard Office of Career Services
- Google's course on using Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Career Dreamer to plan a search, tailor applications and practise... grow.google Course · How Founders Use AI Accelerate Your Job Search with AI Google
- Where to enrol in the course for free; a four-course beginner series of about 8 hours at your own pace. coursera.org Course · How Founders Use AI Accelerate Your Job Search with AI (Coursera) Google Career Certificates
- A summary of Upwork's Future Workforce Index 2026: AI work paid 34% more on average, generative and creative work fell 13% per... staffingindustry.com Article · How Founders Use AI Skilled AI freelancing becomes more abundant, lucrative Staffing Industry Analysts
- The thresholds before YouTube shares ad revenue: 1,000 subscribers with 4,000 public watch hours in a year, or 10 million... support.google.com Guide · How Founders Use AI YouTube Partner Program overview and eligibility YouTube Help
- Operation AI Comply: cases against Ascend Ecom, Ecommerce Empire Builders and FBA Machine, which sold 'AI-powered' online... ftc.gov Article · How Founders Use AI FTC announces crackdown on deceptive AI claims and schemes US Federal Trade Commission
- A self-paced course built for teachers on using Gemini and Gemini Notebook for lesson planning and admin, including the limits... grow.google Course · How Founders Use AI Generative AI for Educators Google
- Amazon's rule that AI-generated text, images and translations must be declared when you publish, and how that differs from... kdp.amazon.com Guide · How Founders Use AI KDP content guidelines: AI-generated content Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
- The official guide to Playwright's planner, generator and healer agents, free and open source, run from your AI coding tool of... playwright.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Playwright Test Agents Microsoft (Playwright)
- Roblox Studio's built-in AI helper: answers questions, generates and explains code, makes materials, 3D meshes and procedural... create.roblox.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Assistant for Studio Roblox
- Claude runs code to analyse uploaded data and build spreadsheets with working formulas, on every plan from Free up, so a... support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Create and edit files with Claude Anthropic
- WHO's guidance on where general AI models help in clinical care and where the risks lie, the frame for using any assistant with... who.int Guide · How Founders Use AI Ethics and governance of AI for health: guidance on large multi-modal models World Health Organization
- Sajith Pai's India1/India2/India3 framework and the Indus Valley report are the sharpest public analysis of who in India... sajithpai.com Article · essays + annual report · Starting Up Sajith Pai on the Indus Valley Report & the Indian market (India1/2/3) Sajith Pai (Blume Ventures)
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
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