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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.