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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 head-to-head framing that clarifies what you'd actually be hiring for. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI Data Analyst vs AI Agent: Who Wins the Job in 2026? Analyst Uttam
  2. A neutral academic-career view on how the role is shifting, not vanishing. career.uml.edu Article · How Founders Use AI Will data analysts be replaced by AI? UMass Lowell Career Center
  3. Video · How Founders Use AI Will AI Replace Data Analysts in the Next 10 Years? Matt Mike
  4. Video · How Founders Use AI Will AI Replace Data Analysts in 2025? The TRUTH About Your Career Learning With Gaurav
  5. The macro evidence that AI is deferring early specialist hires, including data. fi.co Article · How Founders Use AI How Solo Founders Are Building Unicorns With AI Tools Founder Institute
  6. Why analysis tooling keeps collapsing into the same job, and what that means for hiring. benn.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI No, really, everything becomes BI Benn Stancil
  7. The post that started the debate, still the strongest steelman for delaying the hire. linkedin.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Ethan Mollick: Code Interpreter can do basically anything a data analyst does Ethan Mollick
  8. An Indian edtech's view of how the analyst role is being redefined, not removed. pwskills.com Article · How Founders Use AI Will AI Replace Data Analysts? A Deep Dive Into the Future of Data Careers PW Skills
  9. The advanced sequel for when a term sheet makes DCF suddenly relevant. sidsaladi.substack.com Guide · How Founders Use AI The Complete AI Financial Modeling Playbook: DCF, M&A, and 60 Claude Prompts Sid Saladi
  10. Video · How Founders Use AI How to Use ChatGPT 5 to Build INSANE Financial Models Nicolas Boucher
  11. Video · How Founders Use AI Claude vs ChatGPT for Financial Modeling GAI Insights
  12. Video · How Founders Use AI Claude in Excel: The 5-Minute Setup Run the Numbers with CJ Gustafson
  13. The investor view on how AI changes finance functions, useful before your next raise. open.spotify.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI a16z's Alex Immerman on How AI Is Redefining the Modern CFO Run the Numbers (CJ Gustafson)
  14. The modeling-training institution benchmarks AI tools on real modeling tasks. wallstreetprep.com Article · How Founders Use AI Ranking the Best AI Tools for Financial Modeling Wall Street Prep
  15. Compares the big three specifically on forecasting, with accuracy caveats. corporatefinanceinstitute.com Article · How Founders Use AI Sales Forecasting with AI: How ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Compare Corporate Finance Institute
  16. A business-planning company's step-by-step for first-time forecasters. liveplan.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Use ChatGPT to Create a Financial Forecast for Your Business LivePlan
  17. A documented case of Claude Projects halving three-statement model build time. albusi.com Article · How Founders Use AI Our Claude Test: How AI Financial Modeling Shocked Us Albusi
  18. A packaged Claude skill purpose-built for startup financial planning. mcpmarket.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Startup Financial Modeling Claude Code Skill MCP Market
  19. An India-based finance training firm's honest capability assessment. thewallstreetschool.com Article · How Founders Use AI Can ChatGPT Do Financial Modeling? The WallStreet School
  20. The pre-Series A stack: Causal or Sheets for the model, AI for stress-testing the thinking. startupfortune.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI Financial Modeling for Startups Is the CFO Alternative That Actually Works Startup Fortune
  21. Video · How Founders Use AI Master Claude for Excel in Just 10 Minutes Kenji Explains
  22. A worked example with the actual prompts and outputs shown. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to Use ChatGPT to Create a Financial Forecast: Example & Guide Selma Khayal
  23. Break the model into revenue build, schedules, and working capital, one prompt each. thebricks.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Build a Financial Model with ChatGPT Bricks
  24. A pro SaaS writer names the exact AI tells and how to edit them out. kaleighmoore.com Article · How Founders Use AI Why Your AI Content Sounds Like AI (+ How to Fix That) Kaleigh Moore

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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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