# Content

URL: /business/nouns/content · Id: `noun:content`

> Content is authored material with a draft and a published state, such as a post, an article, or a changelog entry.

Content is authored material with a draft and a published state, such as a post, an article, or a changelog entry.

## Properties
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `title` | `string` | Yes | The headline. |
| `publishedAt` | `datetime` | No | When it went live. |
| `kind` | `string` | No | What the Content is, so each System reads its own kind. |

## Object
```json
{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/ledgerlark.com/content/content_1",
  "$type": "Content",
  "title": "Monthly close",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z",
  "kind": "article"
}
```

## Relationships
- <a id="rel-displayed-on"></a>A Content **is displayed on** many [Pages](/business/nouns/page): [Pages](/business/nouns/page) display published Content; one piece appears on many Pages. `displayedOn`, inverse [`displays`](/business/nouns/page#rel-displays).

## Verbs
| Verb | Description | Subject | Event | Class |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Content.draft](/business/nouns/content/draft) | Draft writes Content of one kind from a brief, such as an article for a question the help center could not answer. | [Content Lead](/agents/marketing/content-lead) | [`Content.drafted`](/business/events/Content.drafted) | Two-way: `try`, `send`, `do` |
| [Content.publish](/business/nouns/content/publish) | Publish puts a Content draft live on its Site and every Interface, once it passes the Evals for its kind. | [Content Lead](/agents/marketing/content-lead) | [`Content.published`](/business/events/Content.published) | One-way (brand): `send`, `do` |
| <a id="create"></a>[Content.create](/business/nouns/content/create) | Creates a Content. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | `Content.created` | Two-way: `try`, `send`, `do` |
| <a id="get"></a>[Content.get](/business/nouns/content/get) | Returns one Content by id. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | None. | Read: `try`, `do` |
| <a id="list"></a>[Content.list](/business/nouns/content/list) | Returns Content, newest first, one page at a time. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | None. | Read: `try`, `do` |
| <a id="update"></a>[Content.update](/business/nouns/content/update) | Changes the given properties of a Content. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | `Content.updated` | Two-way: `try`, `send`, `do` |
| <a id="delete"></a>[Content.delete](/business/nouns/content/delete) | Deletes a Content; its history is kept. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | `Content.deleted` | One-way: `send`, `do` |

## Permissions
Which Access level may call each Verb. One-way Verbs wait their delay window.

| Operation | `owner` | `admin` | `member` | `viewer` |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Content.create` | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| `Content.get` | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| `Content.list` | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| `Content.update` | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| `Content.delete` | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| `Content.draft` | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| `Content.publish` | Yes | No | No | No |

## Call it

**Ask**

```text
Draft the latest content.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/quietcopy.com/content/draft \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"kind":"article","brief":"Example brief"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/quietcopy.com",
  "content": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/quietcopy.com/content/content_1",
    "$type": "Content",
    "title": "Résumé review"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/quietcopy.com/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Content.draft",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/quietcopy.com/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

```ts
import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const content = await $.Content.draft({ kind: 'article', brief: 'Example brief' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Content.draft --json '{"kind":"article","brief":"Example brief"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Content.draft({ kind: 'article', brief: 'Example brief' })"
  }
}
```

## Example
A release note for the bulk-export button of a bookkeeping [SaaS](/products/templates/saas) is Content: drafted by the [Product Lead](/agents/product/product-lead), reviewed, then published to the changelog [Page](/business/nouns/page).