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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.
- Distils the conference's eval takeaways, including hunting implicit user feedback signals. vellum.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Big Ideas from the AI Engineer World's Fair Vellum
- How to make your AI coding tools carry the eval workload for you. hamelhusain.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI Evals Skills for Coding Agents Hamel Husain
- Turning evals into a deploy gate so a bad prompt change never reaches users. braintrust.dev Article · How Founders Use AI Best AI Eval Tools for CI/CD Pipelines Braintrust
- A vendor-neutral ranking to cross-check the tool vendors' own comparisons. techsy.io Article · How Founders Use AI 8 LLM Eval Tools Ranked: No Product to Sell TECHSY
- A trusted independent voice explaining why iteration speed is the whole game. simonwillison.net Article · How Founders Use AI Simon Willison on "Your AI Product Needs Evals" Simon Willison
- How to use one model to grade another without inheriting its biases. deepeval.com Article · How Founders Use AI LLM-as-a-Judge: Top evaluation techniques and best practices Confident AI (DeepEval)
- A practical setup guide for automated judging, the technique that makes evals scale. agenta.ai Guide · How Founders Use AI LLM as a Judge: Guide to LLM Evaluation Best Practices Agenta
- The clearest end-to-end explainer of why hallucinations happen and the layered defences that work. lakera.ai Guide · How Founders Use AI LLM Hallucinations: Understand and Tackle AI's Most Persistent Quirk Lakera
- Separates factuality from faithfulness errors and matches each to its fix. getzep.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to Reduce LLM Hallucinations Zep
- A prioritized playbook: grounding and abstention first, verification where errors are expensive. futureagi.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to Reduce LLM Hallucinations: 7 Proven Strategies Future AGI
- Production-focused checklist including the stat that layered guardrails cut hallucination rates 71-89%. airbyte.com Article · How Founders Use AI 8 Ways to Prevent LLM Hallucinations in Production Airbyte
- Validate and auto-retry model outputs against a schema; 6M downloads a month for a reason. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Instructor: structured outputs for LLMs Jason Liu (567 Labs)
- The Instructor creator on why validation beats vibes for reliability. latent.space Podcast · How Founders Use AI High Agency Pydantic > VC Backed Frameworks, with Jason Liu Latent Space
- Schema-guaranteed responses kill an entire category of made-up fields and invalid values. developers.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Structured model outputs (OpenAI docs) OpenAI
- Connects structured output techniques across providers in one practical reference. agenta.ai Article · How Founders Use AI The guide to structured outputs and function calling with LLMs Agenta
- Open-source programmable rails: topic control, fact-checking, and jailbreak detection. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI NeMo Guardrails NVIDIA
- A hub of pre-built validators that intercept bad inputs and outputs before users see them. github.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Guardrails AI Guardrails AI
- How the two main open-source guardrail approaches compose into one defence stack. guardrailsai.com Article · How Founders Use AI Guardrails AI and NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails: A Comprehensive Approach to AI Safety Guardrails AI
- The legal analysis of the ruling, in plain enough language for a founder. mccarthy.ca Article · How Founders Use AI Moffatt v. Air Canada: A Misrepresentation by an AI Chatbot McCarthy Tetrault
- Breaks the failure into design decisions you can audit your own bot against. envive.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Case Study of Air Canada's Chatbot Misleading on Bereavement Fares Envive
- Short, shareable summary for convincing your team that reliability is a legal issue too. aibusiness.com Article · How Founders Use AI Air Canada Held Responsible for Chatbot's Hallucinations AI Business
- A PM-friendly decision guide with real cost and time estimates for each rung of the ladder. news.aakashg.com Article · How Founders Use AI RAG vs Fine-tuning vs Prompt Engineering: The Complete Guide Aakash Gupta (Product Growth)
- A neutral, definition-first explainer you can hand to any teammate. ibm.com Article · How Founders Use AI RAG vs fine-tuning vs prompt engineering IBM
- Runnable code for the context techniques the essays describe. platform.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Context engineering: memory, compaction, and tool clearing (Claude Cookbook) Anthropic
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.