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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.
- 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
- Google's note that each cell Gemini fills from the web now shows its source, so you can check the values before using them. workspaceupdates.googleblog.com Article · How Founders Use AI Fill with Gemini now provides cell-level citations for web sources and supports larger requests Google Workspace Updates
- 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
- Zendesk's launch of ready-made Industry Agents (commerce first) and Custom Agents built without code, which can also run inside... zendesk.com Article · How Founders Use AI Zendesk Introduces Specialized AI Agents Purpose-built for Your Business 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)
- Notion's release notes for 3.8 (agents connected to 150+ tools through MCP) and the rebuilt Notion Agents with their own... notion.com Article · How Founders Use AI What's New: Notion releases Notion
- 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
- The maker's own launch post for Intake, which turns employees' legal requests in Slack into tracked work its agent drafts for a... legora.com Article · How Founders Use AI Legora launches Intake: an agentic front door for in-house legal teams Legora
- Anthropic's own guide to the add-in: ask about a workbook with cell-level citations, change assumptions without breaking... claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Use Claude for Excel Anthropic (Claude docs)
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.
eChai Partner Brands
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