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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. Video · How Founders Use AI Will AI Replace Data Analysts in 2025? The TRUTH About Your Career Learning With Gaurav
  2. The macro evidence that AI is deferring early specialist hires, including data. fi.co Article · How Founders Use AI How Solo Founders Are Building Unicorns With AI Tools Founder Institute
  3. Why analysis tooling keeps collapsing into the same job, and what that means for hiring. benn.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI No, really, everything becomes BI Benn Stancil
  4. The post that started the debate, still the strongest steelman for delaying the hire. linkedin.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Ethan Mollick: Code Interpreter can do basically anything a data analyst does Ethan Mollick
  5. An Indian edtech's view of how the analyst role is being redefined, not removed. pwskills.com Article · How Founders Use AI Will AI Replace Data Analysts? A Deep Dive Into the Future of Data Careers PW Skills
  6. The advanced sequel for when a term sheet makes DCF suddenly relevant. sidsaladi.substack.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The Complete AI Financial Modeling Playbook: DCF, M&A, and 60 Claude Prompts Sid Saladi
  7. Video · How Founders Use AI How to Use ChatGPT 5 to Build INSANE Financial Models Nicolas Boucher
  8. Video · How Founders Use AI Claude vs ChatGPT for Financial Modeling GAI Insights
  9. Video · How Founders Use AI Claude in Excel: The 5-Minute Setup Run the Numbers with CJ Gustafson
  10. The investor view on how AI changes finance functions, useful before your next raise. open.spotify.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI a16z's Alex Immerman on How AI Is Redefining the Modern CFO Run the Numbers (CJ Gustafson)
  11. The modeling-training institution benchmarks AI tools on real modeling tasks. wallstreetprep.com Article · How Founders Use AI Ranking the Best AI Tools for Financial Modeling Wall Street Prep
  12. Compares the big three specifically on forecasting, with accuracy caveats. corporatefinanceinstitute.com Article · How Founders Use AI Sales Forecasting with AI: How ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Compare Corporate Finance Institute
  13. A business-planning company's step-by-step for first-time forecasters. liveplan.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Use ChatGPT to Create a Financial Forecast for Your Business LivePlan
  14. A documented case of Claude Projects halving three-statement model build time. albusi.com Article · How Founders Use AI Our Claude Test: How AI Financial Modeling Shocked Us Albusi
  15. A packaged Claude skill purpose-built for startup financial planning. mcpmarket.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Startup Financial Modeling Claude Code Skill MCP Market
  16. An India-based finance training firm's honest capability assessment. thewallstreetschool.com Article · How Founders Use AI Can ChatGPT Do Financial Modeling? The WallStreet School
  17. The pre-Series A stack: Causal or Sheets for the model, AI for stress-testing the thinking. startupfortune.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI Financial Modeling for Startups Is the CFO Alternative That Actually Works Startup Fortune
  18. Video · How Founders Use AI Master Claude for Excel in Just 10 Minutes Kenji Explains
  19. A worked example with the actual prompts and outputs shown. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to Use ChatGPT to Create a Financial Forecast: Example & Guide Selma Khayal
  20. Break the model into revenue build, schedules, and working capital, one prompt each. thebricks.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Build a Financial Model with ChatGPT Bricks
  21. A pro SaaS writer names the exact AI tells and how to edit them out. kaleighmoore.com Article · How Founders Use AI Why Your AI Content Sounds Like AI (+ How to Fix That) Kaleigh Moore
  22. The canonical argument for why founders who still write will out-think everyone else. paulgraham.com Article · How Founders Use AI Writes and Write-Nots Paul Graham
  23. Real data showing AI-assisted posts got 22% more engagement, with honest caveats. buffer.com Article · How Founders Use AI Data: Engagement Rate of 1.2 Million AI-Assisted Posts vs. Human-Only Buffer
  24. HubSpot's CMO duo on escaping the red ocean of same-sounding AI ideas. podcasts.apple.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI The Real Reason Your AI Content Is Average (It's Not What You Think) Kipp Bodnar & Kieran Flanagan (HubSpot)

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