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.
- The independent standard for comparing intelligence, speed, and price on one chart. artificialanalysis.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI LLM Leaderboard: Comparison of over 100 AI models Artificial Analysis
- Continuously updated rankings pulled straight from provider APIs; good second opinion. llm-stats.com Tool · How Founders Use AI LLM Stats: Compare 300+ models by intelligence, speed, price LLM Stats
- Product-builder-oriented leaderboard that maps benchmark scores to practical use cases. vellum.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Vellum LLM Leaderboard Vellum
- Fastest way to sanity-check what any model actually costs before you wire it in. pricepertoken.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Price Per Token leaderboards Price Per Token
- A structured comparison across reasoning, coding, context, and compliance rather than hype. intuitionlabs.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Claude vs ChatGPT vs Copilot vs Gemini: Enterprise Guide IntuitionLabs
- Side-by-side output quality on real writing tasks, the kind of eval founders should copy. blog.type.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Who Wrote it Better? Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini Type.ai
- Explains what each benchmark measures so you stop choosing models on a single headline number. futureagi.com Article · How Founders Use AI LLM Benchmarks: GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok compared Future AGI
- A serving-infrastructure company's practical map of the open-weight landscape. bentoml.com Article · How Founders Use AI The Best Open-Source LLMs BentoML
- A decision framework for the open-vs-closed call, written for teams shipping to customers. techcommunity.microsoft.com Article · How Founders Use AI Comparing Open-Source vs Closed LLMs for Enterprise Apps Microsoft
- Covers the hybrid pattern most teams actually land on: closed for frontier tasks, open for private or high-volume ones. hakia.com Article · How Founders Use AI Open Source vs Closed LLMs: Technical Comparison Hakia
- From an India-founded ML platform: how gateways make model choice reversible. truefoundry.com Article · How Founders Use AI Helicone vs OpenRouter: Key Differences TrueFoundry
- The lock-in insurance layer compared hands-on, including India-built Portkey. klymentiev.com Guide · How Founders Use AI LLM Gateway guide: OpenRouter vs LiteLLM vs Portkey vs Helicone Dmytro Klymentiev
- A second, eval-minded view on routing layers so you can switch providers in an afternoon. braintrust.dev Article · How Founders Use AI 6 best LLM gateways for developers Braintrust
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Video · How Founders Use AI
How I use LLMs
Andrej Karpathy
- A regularly refreshed plain-English rundown of the current frontier models and their sweet spots. codingscape.com Article · How Founders Use AI Most powerful LLMs (Large Language Models) Codingscape
- YC partners on how model progress should shape what founders build now versus wait on. creators.spotify.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ (Lightcone) Y Combinator (Lightcone Podcast)
- The essay that made evals a founder-level topic; failed LLM products almost always skipped this. hamel.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Your AI Product Needs Evals Hamel Husain
- A free written masterclass version if you want the method without the course fee. aakashg.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Master AI Evals: Step-by-Step with Hamel and Shreya Aakash Gupta (Product Growth)
- Open-source, config-file evals that run in CI; used by OpenAI and Anthropic themselves. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Promptfoo Promptfoo
- Gets your first automated eval running in under an hour. datacamp.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Promptfoo Tutorial: A Hands-On Guide to LLM Evaluation DataCamp
- A current map of the eval tooling landscape so you pick once, correctly. braintrust.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Best Prompt Evaluation Tools (Tested and Compared) Braintrust
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Video · How Founders Use AI
AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: Evals track
AI Engineer conference
- A conversational companion to Hamel's essay with concrete team workflows. humanloop.com Article · How Founders Use AI Why Your AI Product Needs Evals, with Hamel Husain Humanloop
- A live-demo episode: watch error analysis actually being done on screen. podcasts.apple.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Evals, error analysis, and better prompts | Hamel Husain How I AI (Claire Vo)
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.