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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.
- The journalist who tested these tools firsthand, she scored 73% on an English-language screening by answering in German, a... npr.org Podcast · How Founders Use AI Are AI hiring tools any good? This journalist found widespread bias and bugs (Hilke Schellmann) NPR TED Radio Hour with Hilke Schellmann
- Explains the landmark AI age-discrimination case in plain language and what employers should do now, the legal risk every... forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI What The Workday Lawsuit Reveals About AI Bias, And How To Prevent It Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes
- The other side of the coin: how candidates use AI to ace your interviews, and practical ways to redesign your process (work... hiretruffle.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI interview cheating: The alarming rise of machine-aided job seekers Rachel Hubbard, Truffle
- India-specific view: adoption is exploding across IT, finance and BPO hiring, but tools miss regional-language resumes and... forbesindia.com Article · How Founders Use AI When AI decides whom to hire Forbes India
- First-person walkthrough of a full pre-meeting / during / follow-up workflow that treats transcripts as raw input for Claude,... techysurgeon.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI I Built a Meeting OS with Claude and Granola. Here's How. Christian Pean, MD (Techy Surgeon)
- Step-by-step practitioner build connecting Granola to Claude via MCP, with ready-to-copy prompts for turning meeting notes into... the-ai-corner.com Guide · How Founders Use AI I built a second brain in 10 minutes with Granola + Claude ($38/month) Ruben Dominguez (The AI Corner)
- Honest hands-on review with an embedded 'watch me try it' video, showing three real workflows: partner calls, interviews, and... feisworld.com Video · How Founders Use AI I Spent 10 Years Taking Bad Notes. This AI Changed Everything (Granola review + video) Fei Wu (Feisworld Media)
- A working VC compares the notetakers founders actually meet across the table, including etiquette on bots in fundraising calls. valueaddvc.com Article · How Founders Use AI Top 6 AI Notetaking Tools for Investor Meetings: Granola, Otter, Fireflies and More Ranked Trace Cohen (GP, Six Point Ventures)
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AI Email Tools 2026: I Tested 4 Apps to Hit Inbox Zero (Honest Results)
Independent YouTube reviewer
- First-person test running 80-120 daily emails through Superhuman's AI drafting and sorting for weeks, with a clear verdict on... techpoint.africa Article · How Founders Use AI I tested Superhuman AI, my full, honest review Fredrick Eghosa (Techpoint Africa)
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The Shortwave Method (video)
Shortwave
- The no-cost starting point, practical steps for thread summaries, inbox Q&A, and AI-drafted replies inside the Gmail most... blog.google Guide · How Founders Use AI How to use Gemini in Gmail to manage your inbox like a pro Google (official Gmail blog)
- A working founder's complete tool-by-tool stack, Claude, Granola, Wispr Flow, Attio and more, with honest notes on what saves... andrew.today Article · How Founders Use AI My AI Productivity Stack (2026) Andrew Yeung (founder, Fibe)
- Shows the minimal version of an AI operating system: a weekly planning skill plus a daily morning brief, with the reasoning to... knowledgework.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI My whole productivity system is two Claude AI skills Ev Chapman (Knowledge Work)
- Each 30-minute episode is a real operator screen-sharing one AI workflow live, the best ongoing feed for upgrading your daily... lennysnewsletter.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Introducing How I AI (podcast, hosted by Claire Vo) Lenny Rachitsky & Claire Vo
- A plain-English primer from the company behind the automation tool most founders already know, useful for grounding the... zapier.com Article · How Founders Use AI Automation vs. AI: What's the difference? Zapier
- A practitioner who built a six-figure automation business compares the actual tools named in this question, including how each... nicksaraev.com Article · How Founders Use AI Make.com vs n8n in 2025 (AI Agents, Key Features, & More) Nick Saraev
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The exact AI playbook (MCPs, custom GPTs, Granola) that saved ElevenLabs $100k+ and helps them ship daily, Luke Harries
How I AI (Claire Vo, Lenny's network)
- A first-person founder write-up of the exact n8n + AI workflows running a small startup, not a hypothetical tutorial. sliplane.io Article · How Founders Use AI How I use n8n and AI agents to scale my startup Jonas Scholz (co-founder, Sliplane)
- A widely-shared operator thread breaking a whole business into agent-and-workflow building blocks you can copy piece by piece. linkedin.com Thread · How Founders Use AI I built a 20 AI agent team that automates my business Ben van Sprundel
- Survey data from thousands of operators on where AI is actually saving time, evidence for prioritizing your first automations... lennysnewsletter.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI tools are overdelivering: results from our large-scale AI productivity survey Lenny Rachitsky
- A free investor database that AI-personalizes each email and routes you to the channel each investor actually reads. openvc.app Tool · How Founders Use AI OpenVC OpenVC
- A layered outreach strategy showing where AI-found mutual connections beat even the best cold email. openvc.app Article · How Founders Use AI Investor Outreach Strategy: Start Warm, End Cold OpenVC
- A real founder-investor walks a $2M seed raise through Claude end to end, from deck scoring to investor matching to cold emails. climateinsiders.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI I ran a $2M raise through Claude. Here is what happened. Yoann Berno (Climate Insiders)
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.
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