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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. Includes 'the competitor spy', a prompt that has an agent sign up for your top three competitors and report every new feature... x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI 9 cool GPT 6 Astra prompts worth trying Greg Isenberg
  2. What Work is (an agent for longer jobs that end in a spreadsheet, report or presentation), which plans include it and how its... help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT Work and Codex OpenAI
  3. The launch of Claude in a Sheets sidebar: formulas, pivot tables, native charts, and Python for joins and cleanup written back... claude.com Article · How Founders Use AI Claude now works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Anthropic
  4. OpenAI's own guide to its spreadsheet sidebar: who gets it, how to install it, and the review steps it asks you to follow. help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets OpenAI
  5. The launch of Claude Dashboards: connect BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks or Salesforce, ask in plain words, and get a dashboard... claude.com Article · How Founders Use AI Build live dashboards and animate explainers with Claude Anthropic
  6. A BI founder on why cheaper answers create more follow-up questions for someone with data in their title, and why agents may do... benn.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to find insights Benn Stancil
  7. A rep's four-agent research system, from domain to drafted sequence in under five minutes, shown step by step. clay.com Article · How Founders Use AI How Clay Runs Cold Outbound to Enterprise Accounts Clay
  8. From 231,818 cold emails: frame the value to the reader's seniority and match the tone of their department. lavender.ai Article · How Founders Use AI 5 Takeaways from Our Latest Cold Email Benchmark Report Will Allred (Lavender)
  9. Brex's growth lead on aiming for relevance rather than personalization, and why targeting comes before messaging. clay.com Article · How Founders Use AI Top 1%: How Brex Scaled Its Outbound Engine and Made Operations More Efficient Clay (with Michael Tai, Brex)
  10. Briefs before each call, notes during it, and follow-ups and CRM updates drafted after it, as one team actually runs it. granola.ai Article · How Founders Use AI How sales teams use Granola Granola
  11. A job-change play from detection to same-day drafted outreach, with the exact rules, also published as an installable skill. clay.com Article · How Founders Use AI How We Turn a Champion's Departure Into a Buying Signal Fadeke Adegbuyi and Andrew Morris (Clay)
  12. Microsoft's own rules for domains sending over 5,000 emails a day: SPF, DKIM and DMARC required, with non-compliant mail now... techcommunity.microsoft.com Article · How Founders Use AI Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook's New Requirements for High-Volume Senders Microsoft
  13. Eight email providers tested against 4,238 known-valid emails, and why no single one covers everyone. clay.com Article · How Founders Use AI Best B2B Email List Providers: Tested and Ranked (2026) Eric Nowoslawski and Mishti Sharma (Clay)
  14. Granola's pre-meeting brief, built overnight from past notes, email and web research, so call prep takes no work. granola.ai Article · How Founders Use AI New: Briefs prepare you for your next meeting as you join Granola
  15. Agents filled in 6,346 demo forms: two-thirds of companies never replied and human replies took 26 to 40 hours on average. clay.com Article · How Founders Use AI We asked 6,346 companies for a demo. Most never wrote back. Clay (Alex Lindahl)
  16. The open standard Meta and Sierra are building for how customers' own AI agents sign in and act with a business, with partners... sierra.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Personal Agent Protocol Sierra (Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
  17. Decagon's October launches: Voice 3, a gateway that detects and serves customers' personal agents, and modules that take the... decagon.ai Article · How Founders Use AI The AI concierge for every customer [and their agent] Decagon
  18. Ready-made Industry Agents and a no-code Custom Agent builder inside the helpdesk. zendesk.com Article · How Founders Use AI Zendesk introduces specialized AI agents Zendesk
  19. Replit's CEO on why companies will build their own software with agents, introducing Replit for Business. replit.com Article · How Founders Use AI The Rise of the Self-Driving Company Amjad Masad (Replit)
  20. Hex's launch post: ask data questions from Hex or from Claude, Codex or Cursor, and review the analytics code agents write... hex.tech Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Hex 4.0 Olivia Koshy (Hex)
  21. Instagram's own post: the AI creator label is now 'AI-generated profile', unlabelled profiles featuring an AI-generated person... creators.instagram.com Article · How Founders Use AI Bringing More Transparency to AI-Generated Profiles on Instagram Instagram
  22. Reddit's own account of how it now uses LLMs to catch coordinated fake behaviour and artificial hype, and asks suspicious... redditinc.com Article · How Founders Use AI How We're Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era Reddit
  23. Where the enterprise end of the market is going: agents that triage and route a company's legal requests. legora.com Article · How Founders Use AI Legora launches Intake: an agentic front door for in-house legal teams Legora
  24. LinkedIn's own announcement of the agent inside Recruiter that sources candidates and reviews applicants; existing English... news.linkedin.com Article · How Founders Use AI LinkedIn Announces Hiring Assistant 2, its Next Generation Hiring Agent, to Help Recruiters Deliver Stronger Hiring Outcomes LinkedIn

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