# Person

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

> A Person is a human with one identity across every Startup; each Startup’s Contact is its own view of that Person.

A Person is a human with one identity across every [Startup](/business/nouns/startup); each Startup’s [Contact](/business/nouns/contact) is its own view of that Person.

## Properties
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `verified` | `boolean` | No | True once the identity is verified. |

<details>
<summary>Inherited from [Party](/business/nouns/party): 1 property</summary>

| Property | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | Yes | The legal or personal name. |

</details>

## Object
```json
{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/patentpad.com/people/person_1",
  "$type": "Person",
  "name": "PatentPad",
  "verified": true
}
```

## Relationships
- <a id="rel-candidacies"></a>A Person’s **candidacies** are many [Candidates](/business/nouns/candidate): a [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate) is one Person’s candidacy; the Person’s record crosses [Startups](/business/nouns/startup) only with [Consent](/business/nouns/consent). `candidacies`, inverse [`presents`](/business/nouns/candidate#rel-presents).
- <a id="rel-contacts"></a>A Person **has** many [Contacts](/business/nouns/contact): each [Contact](/business/nouns/contact) is one [Startup](/business/nouns/startup)’s view of a Person shared across every Startup that knows them. `contacts`, inverse [`resolvesTo`](/business/nouns/contact#rel-resolves-to).
- <a id="rel-joins"></a>A Person **joins** many [Tenants](/business/nouns/tenant): a Person joins a [Customer](/business/nouns/customer)’s [Tenant](/business/nouns/tenant) as a member, and one Person can join many Tenants. `joins`, inverse [`admits`](/business/nouns/tenant#rel-admits).
- <a id="rel-voices"></a>A Person **has** many [Voices](/business/nouns/voice): a cloned [Voice](/business/nouns/voice) sounds like one real person, and exists only while that person’s [Consent](/business/nouns/consent) holds. `voices`, inverse [`soundsLike`](/business/nouns/voice#rel-sounds-like).

## Verbs
| Verb | Description | Subject | Event | Class |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| <a id="create"></a>[Person.create](/business/nouns/person/create) | Creates a Person. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | `Person.created` | Two-way: `try`, `send`, `do` |
| <a id="get"></a>[Person.get](/business/nouns/person/get) | Returns one Person by id. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | None. | Read: `try`, `do` |
| <a id="list"></a>[Person.list](/business/nouns/person/list) | Returns People, newest first, one page at a time. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | None. | Read: `try`, `do` |
| <a id="update"></a>[Person.update](/business/nouns/person/update) | Changes the given properties of a Person. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | `Person.updated` | Two-way: `try`, `send`, `do` |
| <a id="delete"></a>[Person.delete](/business/nouns/person/delete) | Deletes a Person; its history is kept. Inherited from [Noun](/business/nouns/noun). | None. | `Person.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` |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Person.create` | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| `Person.get` | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| `Person.list` | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| `Person.update` | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| `Person.delete` | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |

## Call it

**Ask**

```text
Add a person to ShiftNote.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/people \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"ShiftNote"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app",
  "person": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/people/person_1",
    "$type": "Person",
    "name": "Daniel Okafor"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Person.create",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

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

const person = await $.Person.create({ name: 'ShiftNote' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Person.create --json '{"name":"ShiftNote"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Person.create({ name: 'ShiftNote' })"
  }
}
```

## Example
A wedding photographer is one Person. To a client-gallery [App](/business/nouns/app) she is a [Customer](/business/nouns/customer)'s Contact, and to a sibling that sells contract templates she is a [Lead](/business/nouns/lead).