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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.

  1. A competitor's surprisingly fair review, good for calibrated expectations. looppanel.com Article · How Founders Use AI Dovetail AI Review: Is It Worth The Hype? Looppanel
  2. The method behind good AI theming, so you can direct the tool instead of accepting defaults. insight7.io Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Apply Thematic Analysis to Open-Ended Survey Responses Insight7
  3. A current step-by-step you can follow with any LLM. blix.ai Guide · How Founders Use AI Thematic Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Questions: A Step-by-Step Guide Blix
  4. Tackles the real risk of AI summarization: averaging away your most important outliers. qualz.ai Article · How Founders Use AI How to Analyze Open-Ended Survey Responses at Scale Without Losing the Nuance Qualz.ai
  5. A 15-minute workflow from thousands of raw reviews to formatted analysis. resources.opencraftai.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to Analyze Customer Reviews with ChatGPT OpenCraft AI
  6. Covers combining review, survey, and support data into one AI pass. ravecapture.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to Analyze Customer Feedback with AI RaveCapture
  7. Video · How Founders Use AI Use ChatGPT to Analyze Customer Feedback Content Sparks
  8. When to trust AI theming and when a human needs to review the codebook. getthematic.com Article · How Founders Use AI Analyze Open-Ended Survey Responses with AI Thematic
  9. The academic gold standard, useful for making your AI-assisted analysis defensible. atlasti.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Thematic Analysis in Surveys: Guide & Examples ATLAS.ti
  10. Video · How Founders Use AI B2B Startup Metrics (Startup School) Y Combinator
  11. The short written version to revisit each planning cycle. ycombinator.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to choose a metric and set your KPI Y Combinator
  12. Fresh retention benchmarks including the AI-era 'smiling curve' phenomenon. a16z.com Article · How Founders Use AI Retention Is All You Need Andreessen Horowitz
  13. Still the best cohort-analysis explainer written for first-time SaaS founders. medium.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The P9 Guide to Cohort Analysis in SaaS Christoph Janz (Point Nine)
  14. Shows AI building your cohort table when spreadsheets intimidate you. saas.wtf Article · How Founders Use AI SaaS Cohort Analysis using AI SaaS.wtf
  15. A worked churn analysis with ChatGPT you can replicate on your own export. saas.wtf Article · How Founders Use AI Churn Analysis using ChatGPT SaaS.wtf
  16. Warns how AI-driven signup waves distort early retention data. userpilot.com Article · How Founders Use AI Cohort Retention Analysis: How to Separate Real Users From AI Tourists Userpilot
  17. An India-based product studio's metric list mapped to SaaS vs e-commerce. f22labs.com Article · How Founders Use AI 15 Essential Startup Growth Metrics & KPIs to Track F22 Labs
  18. Jargon-free cohort mechanics aimed at founders, not analysts. blog.mean.ceo Guide · How Founders Use AI Cohort Analysis for Retention: A Founder's Guide MEAN CEO
  19. Argues for fewer numbers, better defined, matched to your stage. blog.mean.ceo Guide · How Founders Use AI Analytics Stack for Different Startup Stages: Pre-Seed to Series MEAN CEO
  20. Turns cohort tables into concrete churn-reduction actions. baremetrics.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to Cut Churn Using Cohort Analysis (No Jargon) Baremetrics
  21. A practitioner's guide to letting AI agents monitor your metrics for you. adasight.com Article · How Founders Use AI Amplitude AI Agents: Smarter Product Decisions Adasight
  22. What to measure and build at each stage so you never over-invest early. definite.app Guide · How Founders Use AI Data Analytics for Startups: A Stage-by-Stage Framework Definite
  23. How to set up metrics infrastructure that AI tools can actually reason over. tasman.ai Guide · How Founders Use AI The Founder's Guide to an AI-Native Data Stack in 2025 Tasman Analytics
  24. OpenAI's own recipe, including keeping the original file untouched while writing a cleaned copy. learn.chatgpt.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Clean and prepare messy data (official use case) OpenAI

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Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1046 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 352 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 482 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 154 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 278 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 390 terms
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