Follow Builders is an open-source AI digest tool that tracks leading AI builders — the engineers, founders and researchers actually shipping products — on X and in podcasts, and remixes what they post and say into concise, readable summaries. Its motto: follow builders, not influencers. The project has about 6,900 stars on GitHub and is actively developed in 2026.
Keeping up with AI means drowning in hot takes. Follow Builders takes a different approach: it monitors a curated set of high-signal builders on X (Twitter) and AI podcasts on YouTube, collects their posts, threads and episode content, and uses AI to distill them into a digest of what was actually built, learned or released. Instead of engagement-bait summaries, you get the substance — new tools, engineering lessons, product decisions — in a fraction of the reading time. The project is designed to run as a scheduled agent workflow, so the digest can be produced automatically on a cadence you choose and delivered wherever you read it. Because it is an open repository, you can adapt the source list to the builders you care about and tune the summarization prompts to your interests, whether that is agents, infrastructure or product strategy.
Follow Builders is free and public on GitHub. Any AI API usage for summarization runs on your own keys.
Follow Builders is for founders, engineers and investors who want to keep up with what the best AI builders are actually doing — in minutes a day instead of hours of scrolling.