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Startup.pivot

POST /{namespace}/startups/{startup}/pivot

Pivot records a Decision that moves a Live Startup back to Building under a new Founding Hypothesis version.

Noun: Startup
Mode: do
Event: Startup.pivoted

You, to your agent

Pivot PatentPad with a decision.

curl -X POST https://api.sb/patentpad.com/startups/startup_1/pivot \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"decision":"decision_1"}'

import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const startup = await $.Startup.pivot({ startup: 'startup_1', decision: 'decision_1' })

npx startup-builder do Startup.pivot --json '{"startup":"startup_1","decision":"decision_1"}'

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Startup.pivot({ startup: 'startup_1', decision: 'decision_1' })"
  }
}

Inputs

Input	Type	Required	Description
`startup`	Startup	required	The Live Startup.
`decision`	Decision	required	The pivot Decision, citing the Evidence behind it.

Outputs

Output	Type	Required	Description
`startup`	Startup	required	The Startup, now Building.

Effects

Emits Startup.pivoted.
Performed by the Founder.
One-way (customer): it waits out its delay window, and runs in the send and do modes.
Bumps the Founding Hypothesis version; the pivot is the diff between the two versions.
Recompiles Site copy, Offers, Prices, and Plays from the new version.
Keeps serving existing Customers until each Offer they hold ends on its own terms.

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.pivot

When it waits

Gate	Default
Decision class	High: one-way, broad (customer)
Delay window	1 business day, in which a watcher can pause, redirect or cancel it; then it runs.
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`.