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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.
- Primary source on the consistency features that make Runway usable for real brand work. runway.com Article · How Founders Use AI Runway Gen-4: AI video generation with world consistency Runway In 2 answers
- The strongest counter-argument: her data shows AI ads underperforming real creators. runneth.com Article · How Founders Use AI Savannah Sanchez, The Social Savannah (Motion expert profile) Motion In 2 answers
- OpenAI's own prompting guidance for its current models, at an address that moves with each new one. developers.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Using GPT-6: prompt guidance OpenAI In 2 answers
- The same idea in Claude: a workspace with its own knowledge base that a team can share. support.claude.com Guide · How Founders Use AI What are projects? Claude Help Center In 2 answers
- Lovable's own post on planning an app, or working on a launched one, in chat before spending any build credits. lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI You can now chat with Lovable for free Lovable In 2 answers
- An agent that reads your live app's logs, finds the cause of a failure, tests a fix and tells you what changed. blog.replit.com Article · How Founders Use AI Replit Monitoring Agent: Your very own software engineering team Replit In 2 answers
- Lovable's growth tools, which write a growth plan and carry it out across Google Search, YouTube, Maps, Ads, Facebook and... lovable.dev Article · How Founders Use AI From building your app to growing it: Lovable now helps you find customers Lovable In 2 answers
- OpenAI's docs for the managed route: it runs sessions, orchestration, context compaction and a sandbox while you supply the tools. developers.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Agents API overview OpenAI In 2 answers
- Fresh numbers on what developers actually use for orchestration and automation: LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, Make and n8n. survey.stackoverflow.co Article · How Founders Use AI Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: AI Stack Overflow In 2 answers
- OpenAI's endpoint for probability, choice and score answers on GPT-6 Luna, about 10x faster than the Responses API, for routing... developers.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Decisions API guide OpenAI In 2 answers
- A clear, sceptical explainer of decision models: why answering with a choice instead of text is fast and cheap, and where... seangoedecke.com Article · How Founders Use AI Jev means structured output is interesting again Sean Goedecke In 2 answers
- Survey data on how many people now use ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to find information, and how far their trust in those... reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk Article · How Founders Use AI Digital News Report 2026: Overview and key findings Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism In 2 answers
- OpenAI's own explanation of Work, the agent in ChatGPT for longer, multi-step research that ends in a finished deliverable. help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT Work and Codex OpenAI Help Center In 2 answers
- Google's own note on the rename: the same product, notebooks synced with the Gemini app, and code that runs over your sources... blog.google Article · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook Google In 2 answers
- HeyGen's own write-up of cloning your voice so it fits the scene a digital twin is placed in, with listening samples. heygen.com Article · How Founders Use AI HeyGen Voice: Scene-Aware Voice Cloning for Talking Videos HeyGen Research In 2 answers
- The maker's launch post: describe a screen, get a clickable prototype on your brand, then hand it to Claude Code or Canva. anthropic.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs Anthropic In 2 answers
- Google's own guide to Build mode: describe an app, get a web or native Android app, deploy to Cloud Run or sync to GitHub. ai.google.dev Guide · How Founders Use AI Build apps in Google AI Studio Google In 2 answers
- Google's own report of how often your pages appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode, by page, country and date. Free, and open to... developers.google.com Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console Google Search Central In 2 answers
- Google's own post on AI Max leaving beta and legacy Search features upgrading to it, updated June 2026 with the revised timeline. blog.google Article · How Founders Use AI We're upgrading Dynamic Search Ads to AI Max Google (Brandon Ervin) In 2 answers
- OpenAI's own post: $1 billion run rate, self-serve Ads Manager opening across India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa,... openai.com Article · How Founders Use AI A milestone in expanding access to AI OpenAI In 2 answers
- ChatGPT ads arriving in India on the Free and Go tiers, with a ₹725 daily minimum for self-serve campaigns. techcrunch.com Article · How Founders Use AI OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India TechCrunch (Ivan Mehta) In 2 answers
- The 27 Oct rebuild for analysts and AI agents together: ask from Claude, Codex or Cursor, then trace any number back to the... hex.tech Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Hex 4.0 Hex In 2 answers
- Anthropic's data team on automating its own business questions with Claude: why accuracy is a context and definitions problem,... claude.com Article · How Founders Use AI How Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude Anthropic In 2 answers
- Clay's launch post for free, community-built GTM skills (list building, account scoring, signals) that run in Claude Code,... clay.com Article · How Founders Use AI The Clay Skills Marketplace Is Open Clay In 2 answers
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
The partnership →