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What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  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. 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
  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. 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
  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. 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
  24. 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)

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