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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.

  1. The India-specific map of agentic startups, funding and open gaps. inc42.com Article · How Founders Use AI How India's Tech Landscape Got an Agentic AI Makeover in 2025 Inc42
  2. The company that popularized charging per resolution explains its own model. sierra.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Outcome-based pricing for AI agents Sierra (Bret Taylor's team)
  3. The listenable version: AI products can capture 25-50% of value created. open.spotify.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Pricing your AI product (audio) Lenny's Podcast
  4. The quick summary thread before you commit 90 minutes. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Lenny on Madhavan's pricing playbooks Lenny Rachitsky
  5. An India-founded billing leader's data on outcome and value models. chargebee.com Article · How Founders Use AI Pricing AI for Distribution: How AI Companies Use Pricing to Grow Chargebee
  6. The structural argument: agents don't log in, so seats can't price them. mindstudio.ai Article · How Founders Use AI SaaS Pricing Is Breaking: Why Per-Seat Models Don't Survive the AI Agent Era MindStudio
  7. How enterprise buyers expect to budget for agents, useful in negotiations. deloitte.com Article · How Founders Use AI SaaS meets AI agents: transforming budgets and customer experience Deloitte
  8. What incumbents are doing to their pricing, so you can position against it. rsmus.com Article · How Founders Use AI SaaS vendors must adjust pricing models as agentic AI transforms the industry RSM US
  9. Includes the practical bit others skip: define 'resolved' in the contract. softwareseni.com Article · How Founders Use AI SaaS pricing is shifting from per-seat to usage and outcome SoftwareSeni
  10. The stat everyone quotes, with the integration story behind it. fortune.com Article · How Founders Use AI MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing Fortune
  11. Names the 'prompt doom loop' that kills adoption inside companies. salesforce.com Article · How Founders Use AI Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail, and What the Other 5% Do Differently Salesforce
  12. An agent-builder's readthrough of the MIT NANDA findings. beam.ai Article · How Founders Use AI 95% of Enterprise AI Pilots Are Failing: MIT Report Reveals Why Beam AI
  13. The testing-company view: winners treat agents as software, with rigor. tricentis.com Article · How Founders Use AI Why 95% of AI pilots fail, and what it takes to scale in the agentic era Tricentis
  14. A concrete path from pilot purgatory to production. dataiku.com Article · How Founders Use AI MIT Says 95% of GenAI Pilots Fail: How to Beat the Odds Dataiku
  15. Pattern-matches the survivors: workflow integration and adaptability. multimodal.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Why AI Pilots Fail and How to Succeed Like the 5% Multimodal
  16. 1,340 practitioners on what blocks agents: quality first, latency second. langchain.com Article · How Founders Use AI State of Agent Engineering LangChain
  17. The baseline survey to compare how fast the field is maturing. langchain.com Article · How Founders Use AI LangChain State of AI Agents Report LangChain
  18. Top use cases and blockers in one thread. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI State of AI Agents: we surveyed 1300+ professionals LangChain
  19. The full downloadable data if you want to cite it to your board. langchain.com Guide · How Founders Use AI State of AI Agents Survey & Report LangChain
  20. Stitches the three big failure studies into one narrative. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI MIT Says 95% Fail. McKinsey Explains Why. Agentic Engineering Shows the Fix. Yi Zhou
  21. Independent analysis of the adoption data, minus vendor spin. infoq.com Article · How Founders Use AI New LangChain Report Reveals Growing Adoption of AI Agents InfoQ
  22. A blunt pre-mortem checklist to run before you start. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Why Your AI Agent Pilot Will Join the 95% That Fail Ali El-Shayeb
  23. A useful antidote to demo-day expectations of agent competence. theconversation.com Article · How Founders Use AI OpenAI's deep research agent is still just a fallible tool The Conversation
  24. Video · How Founders Use AI Simon Willison and swyx: The State of AI Simon Willison & swyx

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The hubs

Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1327 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 379 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 512 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 165 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 360 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 425 terms