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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.
- AI-product-specific MSA terms (training data, model outputs, regulatory shift clauses). njbusiness-attorney.com Article · How Founders Use AI SaaS MSA for AI Companies: What Founders Must Know Andrew S. Bosin, SaaS attorney
- The near future: agent-to-agent negotiation is already live at Maersk and NTT Data. spectrum.ieee.org Article · How Founders Use AI AI Agents Are Taking Over Contract Negotiations IEEE Spectrum
- Summarizes a three-episode podcast series on renewal traps and AI-era pricing shifts. emerj.com Article · How Founders Use AI The New Playbook for Enterprise AI Contracts Emerj AI Research
- A global firm's checklist for the AI clauses now hiding in every vendor agreement. dentons.com Article · How Founders Use AI Key Considerations for Evaluating Vendor Contracts Involving AI Dentons
- What to demand from AI vendors on data use, IP, and liability before you sign. jdsupra.com Article · How Founders Use AI Negotiating AI Agreements with Vendors Womble Bond Dickinson
- The academic evidence on where AI negotiation actually improves outcomes. ctl.mit.edu Article · How Founders Use AI How AI Is Reshaping Supplier Negotiations MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
- A structured session on the terms in-house lawyers fight hardest over, so you know where the bodies are buried. inhouseconnect.org Course · How Founders Use AI Negotiating Vendor Agreements in the Age of AI: Deep Dive Into Key Terms In-House Connect
- Reference-grade coverage of every SaaS contract type you'll negotiate. sirion.ai Guide · How Founders Use AI SaaS Agreements: A Definitive Guide Sirion
- A real founder documents delegating ~80% of his admin, invoice entry, daily bank reconciliation, order invoicing, to Claude,... dannorris.me Article · How Founders Use AI How to replace your bookkeeper with AI Dan Norris (7-time founder, East Coast Roast)
- A practicing CPA gives six copy-able workflows (categorization checks, reconciliation research, AR collection emails) and is... growthy.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Use Claude for Bookkeeping: 6 Workflows + Prompts Bobby Huang, CPA (SDO CPA / Growthy)
- The guardrails piece: what AI genuinely handles well (data entry, categorization, reconciliation) and why messy books in means... forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI Using Claude for Bookkeeping? Here's What Small Business Owners Should Know Forbes Advisor (with CPA sources)
- A VC operating partner's exact 4-step workflow using a Claude skill, gather data, prompt, verify the TL;DR answers five... gtm.stage2.capital Article · How Founders Use AI Use AI to Write a Monthly Investor Update Mandy Cole (Stage 2 Capital)
- Includes a full copy-paste prompt that interviews you section by section (vision, highlights, challenges, asks) and drafts the... ottopohl.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI For Investor Updates: A Concrete AI Use Case Otto Pohl (startup communications consultant)
- Copy-paste prompts for every hiring stage, JDs, screening criteria, behavioral interview questions, with clear warnings on what... aihr.com Guide · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT for Recruiting: 20 Practical Prompts To Use Right Away AIHR (Neelie Verlinden & Andrea Boatman)
- A concrete founder playbook (calibration briefs, panels, signal capture) showing where AI note-taking and scoring actually fit... metaview.ai Article · How Founders Use AI How to hire for a startup: the founder's operating model for the first 50 hires Metaview
- A simple five-step scorecard framework built for startups with no recruiting team, the structure that makes AI-assisted... dover.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Create an Interview Scorecard: Step-by-Step Guide Dover
- First-person, 20-minute-setup account of connecting Claude to company docs via MCP so new hires converse with the knowledge... medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI onboarding buddy: stop reading the docs, talk to them Almonzer Eskandar (Senior PM, Manychat)
- A founder-to-founder set of prompts for turning tribal knowledge into SOPs and onboarding docs, written for owners who hate... forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI 5 ChatGPT Prompts To Create Essential Business Documentation Jodie Cook (founder, Forbes contributor)
- Explains the landmark AI age-discrimination case in plain language and what employers should do now, the legal risk every... forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI What The Workday Lawsuit Reveals About AI Bias, And How To Prevent It Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes
- The other side of the coin: how candidates use AI to ace your interviews, and practical ways to redesign your process (work... hiretruffle.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI interview cheating: The alarming rise of machine-aided job seekers Rachel Hubbard, Truffle
- India-specific view: adoption is exploding across IT, finance and BPO hiring, but tools miss regional-language resumes and... forbesindia.com Article · How Founders Use AI When AI decides whom to hire Forbes India
- First-person walkthrough of a full pre-meeting / during / follow-up workflow that treats transcripts as raw input for Claude,... techysurgeon.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI I Built a Meeting OS with Claude and Granola. Here's How. Christian Pean, MD (Techy Surgeon)
- Step-by-step practitioner build connecting Granola to Claude via MCP, with ready-to-copy prompts for turning meeting notes into... the-ai-corner.com Guide · How Founders Use AI I built a second brain in 10 minutes with Granola + Claude ($38/month) Ruben Dominguez (The AI Corner)
- A working VC compares the notetakers founders actually meet across the table, including etiquette on bots in fundraising calls. valueaddvc.com Article · How Founders Use AI Top 6 AI Notetaking Tools for Investor Meetings: Granola, Otter, Fireflies and More Ranked Trace Cohen (GP, Six Point Ventures)
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.
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