| Andrej Karpathy | @karpathy | 3.2M | Gold-standard LLM/systems voice; no promo, ever. One organic mention beats any campaign. Earned only. |
| Simon Willison | @simonw | 194K | LLM-tooling authority; the definitive dev-facing AI blog. Would scrutinize and could amplify or debunk. Earned only. |
| Swyx | @swyx | 110K | Latent Space founder, coined 'AI engineer'. Refuses podcast sponsors, but the AI Engineer conf/community IS sponsorable. Sponsor the ecosystem, not a tweet. |
| Jeremy Howard | @jeremyphoward | 180K | fast.ai founder; enormous credibility with practitioner ML/AI devs. |
| Chip Huyen | @chipro | 150K | 'Designing ML Systems' author; trusted by production-ML engineers. |
| Ethan Mollick | @emollick | 364K | Wharton, AI-in-practice; most-read voice on real-world AI use. Applied/educator more than systems-dev. Earned only. |
| Hamel Husain | @HamelHusain | 42K | LLM evals / fine-tuning authority; trusted by the build-and-measure crowd. |
| Anton | @abacaj | 90K | LLM/ML engineer; hands-on model + tooling takes for a core-dev audience. |
| Logan Kilpatrick | @OfficialLoganK | 338K | Google AI lead; lab staff, not for sale. Relationship / co-marketing only. |
| Alex Albert | @alexalbert__ | 146K | Anthropic (Claude Relations); relationship / co-marketing only. |
| Boris Power | @BorisMPower | 50K | OpenAI; relationship only, not for sale. |
| Matt Shumer | @mattshumer_ | 220K | AI founder (HyperWrite / OthersideAI); builder audience, product-leaning. |
| Eric Zakariasson | @ericzakariasson | 12K | Cursor DevRel/eng; sits inside the AI-coding-agent workflow ARCA captures. Bullseye. |
| Robert Scoble | @Scobleizer | 420K | Veteran tech evangelist, now all-in on AI; big reach, hype-leaning. |
| Brian Roemmele | @BrianRoemmele | 450K | Voice-AI / prompt commentator with a devoted following; eccentric, high reach. |
| Sam Sheffer | @samsheffer | 140K | Tech/AI creator, strong demo instincts; consumer-tech skew. |
| Andrew Ambrosino | @ajambrosino | 40K | AI builder/founder. |
| Kieran Klaassen | @kieranklaassen | 10K | Builds AI dev tools (Every / Cora); AI-coding practitioner. |
| Andrew Curran | @andrewcurran_ | 10K | Credible frontier-AI news commentator. |
| Ole Lehmann | @itsolelehmann | 35K | AI-solopreneur / builder content. |
| Alvaro (dr_cintas) | @dr_cintas | 45K | AI tutorials and tooling content. |
| AngryTom | @AngryTomtweets | 25K | AI-tools aggregator; big reach, low editorial credibility. |
| Austin Lau | @helloitsaustin | 15K | AI builder/creator. |
| Anatoli Kopadze | @AnatoliKopadze | 30K | AI content creator; verify focus. |
| Gina Acosta | @ginacostag_ | 20K | AI/tech content creator. |
| Shann | @shannholmberg | 20K | AI builder/creator. |
| Sharbel | @sharbel | 25K | AI/tech builder; verify focus. |
| Shirish | @shiri_shh | 15K | AI/tech builder; small, verify focus. |
| Dan McAteer | @daniel_mac8 | 2K | AI/design builder; small but on-topic. |
| Aron | @aronhouyu | 5K | AI/tech builder; verify focus. |
| Hayden Field | @haydenfield | 8K | Tech journalist on the AI beat (CNBC/Verge). A press contact, not a KOL buy. |
| The Pragmatic Engineer | @GergelyOrosz | 1M+ | Biggest software-eng newsletter (Gergely Orosz); no ads, podcast sponsors only. Earned/relationship. |
| Import AI | - | 116K | Jack Clark's (Anthropic co-founder) ML policy/research newsletter. Not for sale; earned only. |
| Interconnects | - | 70K | Nathan Lambert's post-training/RL newsletter; high researcher credibility. Earned only. |
| Ahead of AI | @rasbt | 190K | Sebastian Raschka's LLM newsletter (his YouTube is in the payable tab). Earned only. |
| The Gradient | - | 62K | ML-research publication + podcast. Earned only. |
| Davis Summarizes Papers | - | 20K | Davis Blalock's high-signal research-paper summaries. Earned only. |
| Nick Saraev | @nicksaraev | 380K | Brian's list, confirmed-payable. Audience is aspiring AI-automation-agency builders (Make/n8n), not pro devs writing real code. Watchlist, not a core buy. |
| Nate Herk | @nateherk | 800K | Brian's list, confirmed-payable (Hostinger/glaido codes). Audience is aspiring no-code automation builders, not professional devs. Watchlist. |
| Liam Ottley | @liamottley_ | 400K | Brian's list. 'AI agency' audience (Voiceflow/Vapi); aspiring solopreneurs more than pro devs. Watchlist. |
| Mark Kashef | @promptadvisers | 50K | Brian's list, confirmed (Pinecone Pioneer). More technical (Stripe/Bolt/Pinecone) but automation-agency lean. Watchlist. |
| AlexK1919 | - | Micro | Brian's list, n8n official Verified Creator. Personal X TBC; automation audience. Watchlist. |
| AI Foundations | - | 300K | Brian's list. AI tools/automation education; broad, not core-dev. Watchlist. |
| Sabrina Ramonov | @Sabrina_Ramonov | Mid | Brian's list, confirmed. Builds with Supabase/Lovable (some dev) but solopreneur/automation lean. Watchlist. |
| Jono Catliff | @jonocatliff | 100K | Brian's list, confirmed (affiliate stack vapi/elevenlabs/apify/n8n). n8n/Make agents; automation audience. Watchlist. |
| Jannis Moore | @jannismooreai | Micro-Mid | Brian's list, confirmed (Vapi featured). Voice-AI / n8n agents; automation audience. Watchlist. |
| Chris Laub | @ChrisLaubAI | Micro | Brian's list, X-first n8n agents; verify a paid post. Automation audience. Watchlist. |
| Brendan Jowett | @jowettbrendan | Micro | Brian's list. AI automation (Voiceflow/n8n); verify a sponsored post. Watchlist. |
| Income Stream Surfers | @IncomeSurfers | Mid | Brian's list. AI SEO / vibe coding (Replit/Cline); some dev crossover, SEO-hustler lean. Watchlist. |
| Elewachi | @elewachii | Micro | Brian's list, X-first n8n automation; verify a paid post. Watchlist. |
| HALA | @TheHalaah | Micro | Brian's list, X-first (n8n + OpenAI Telegram agent); verify. Watchlist. |
| Lian Lim | @dashboardlim | Micro | Brian's list, X-first n8n automation; verify. Watchlist. |
| ForrestKnight | @ForrestPKnight | Mid | Brian's list. Dev / OSS / AI-coding; does 'AI tools I use' placements but verify a paid one. Watchlist. |
| Tom Crawshaw | @tomcrawshaw01 | Micro | Brian's list, X-first n8n dev; verify a paid post. Watchlist. |
| Catalin Pit | @catalinmpit | Micro | Brian's list, X-first; promotes Warp. Verify a paid post. Watchlist. |
| Sam Witteveen | @Sam_Witteveen | Mid | Brian's list. LangChain/CrewAI agents, Google Dev Expert; credible, verify a paid video. Watchlist. |
| AI Coffee Break (Letitia) | @AICoffeeBreak | Micro-Mid | Brian's list. ML-research explainers (PhD); good research fit, verify a sponsor. Watchlist. |
| Umar Jamil | @hkproj | Micro-Mid | Brian's list. LLM-from-scratch, deep-technical; verify a sponsor. Watchlist. |
| The AI Advantage | @IgorPogany | 260K | Brian's list. AI-tools tutorials/news; prosumer-leaning, some tool crossover. Watchlist. |
| WorldofAI | @intheworldofai | Mid | Brian's list. AI tools/agents reviewer (promo codes); broad AI audience, verify. Watchlist. |
| Greg Isenberg | @gregisenberg | 400K | Brian's list. Startups + AI agents / 'vibe coding'; builder/founder audience, some crossover. Watchlist. |
| MattVidPro AI | @MattVidPro | 500K | Brian's list. AI-tools / video-gen reviews; consumer-leaning, off core dev-supply. Watchlist. |
| Jordan Wilson (Everyday AI) | @EverydayAI_ | Micro-Mid | Brian's list. AI-tools media/podcast (320K+ audience); business/prosumer. Watchlist. |
| Allie K. Miller | @alliekmiller | Mid | Brian's list. AI business/enterprise education; influential but enterprise/prosumer, not dev-supply. Watchlist. |
| theAIsearch | - | Mid | Brian's list. Open-source AI-tool reviews; some dev crossover, X TBC. Watchlist. |