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OverviewStartup

Startup.create

POST /{namespace}/startups

Creates a Startup.

Noun: Startup
Mode: do
Event: Startup.created

You, to your agent

Add a startup to PatentPad.

curl -X POST https://api.sb/patentpad.com/startups \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"PatentPad"}'

import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const startup = await $.Startup.create({ name: 'PatentPad' })

npx startup-builder do Startup.create --json '{"name":"PatentPad"}'

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Startup.create({ name: 'PatentPad' })"
  }
}

Create makes a new Startup from the inputs below. It is inherited: every Noun has get, list, create, update and delete.

Inputs

Input	Type	Required	Description
`name`	`string`	required	The name the Startup trades under.
`domain`	`url`		The canonical hostname of the Startup.
`launchedAt`	`datetime`		When the Startup went live.
`template`	`string`		The slug of the template it extends; the root one when none is named.
`idea`	`text`		The Idea it starts from, in a sentence, recorded as its Idea.
`spendState`	`string`		How freely money Limits allow spend: `free`, `tight` (discretionary Limits halved) or `hold` (one-way spend stops).
`studio`	Studio		A Studio founds and builds its Startups and runs Plays across them.
`company`	Company		The holding Company is the Startup’s owner of record: it signs its Agreements and owns its profit rights.

Outputs

Output	Type	Required	Description
`startup`	Startup	required	The Startup.

Effects

Emits Startup.created.
Two-way: try, send, do.

Refuses when

Check	Error	Fix	Then call
The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation.	`forbidden`	Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them.	Startup.create

When it waits

Gate	Default
Decision class	Low: two-way, nothing at stake
Delay window	None: it runs once review passes.
Limit	The call Limit of the Permission it runs under.
Over the Limit	It waits `pending` for an Approval from the Founder. Approved, it runs; refused, it ends `refused` with `limit-exceeded`; unanswered by its deadline, it ends `canceled`.