# Story

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

> A Story is the customer narrative for one ICP, compiled from its Founding Hypothesis and Interview quotes, never written by hand.

A Story is the customer narrative for one [ICP](/business/nouns/icp), compiled from its Founding Hypothesis and [Interview](/business/nouns/interview) quotes, never written by hand.

## Properties
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `icp` | [ICP](/business/nouns/icp) | Yes | The ICP it speaks to: one Story per ICP. |
| `hero` | `text` | Yes | Who the customer is and what they want. |
| `problem` | [Problem](/business/nouns/problem) | Yes | The Problem: external, internal, and the villain behind it. |
| `guide` | `text` | No | The Startup’s empathy and authority, the authority read from Metrics and Evidence. |
| `plan` | `text` | No | Three steps, each naming a declared Event. |
| `success` | `text` | No | What the customer gains. |
| `failure` | `text` | No | What the customer risks without it. |
| `oneLiner` | `string` | No | The Story in one sentence. |
| `direct` | [Offer](/business/nouns/offer) | No | The direct call to action: an Offer that makes a Customer. |
| `transitional` | [Funnel](/business/nouns/funnel) | No | The transitional call to action: a Funnel opt-in that makes a Lead. |
| `from` | `string` | Yes | Lineage: the slot it compiles from, as `Hypothesis#<slot>@v<version>`. |
| `stance` | `string` | No | The positioning the Positioning tournament chose, graded Behavior; every compiled asset recompiles when it changes. |
| `category` | `string` | No | The market category name the Story claims, as answer engines repeat it. |

## Object
```json
{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/ledgerlark.com/stories/story_1",
  "$type": "Story",
  "icp": "icp_1",
  "hero": "Example hero",
  "problem": "problem_1",
  "guide": "Example guide",
  "plan": "Example plan",
  "success": "Example success",
  "failure": "Example failure",
  "oneLiner": "Example one liner",
  "direct": "offer_1",
  "transitional": "funnel_1",
  "from": "Hypothesis#approach@v1",
  "stance": "headToHead",
  "category": "Example category"
}
```

## Relationships
- <a id="rel-compiled-from"></a>A Story **is compiled from** one [Hypothesis](/business/nouns/hypothesis): the Founding Hypothesis whose slots the Story compiles from; a pivot recompiles it. `compiledFrom`, inverse [`stories`](/business/nouns/hypothesis#rel-stories).
- <a id="rel-quotes"></a>A Story **quotes** many [Interviews](/business/nouns/interview): the [Interviews](/business/nouns/interview) whose words the Story reuses. `quotes`, inverse [`quotedIn`](/business/nouns/interview#rel-quoted-in).

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

## Call it

**Ask**

```text
Add a story to PatentPad with an ICP and a problem.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/patentpad.com/stories \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"icp":"icp_1","hero":"Example hero","problem":"problem_1","from":"Hypothesis#approach@v1"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/patentpad.com",
  "story": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/patentpad.com/stories/story_1",
    "$type": "Story",
    "icp": "icp_1",
    "hero": "Example hero",
    "problem": "problem_1",
    "from": "Hypothesis#approach@v1"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/patentpad.com/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Story.create",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/patentpad.com/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

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

const story = await $.Story.create({ icp: 'icp_1', hero: 'Example hero', problem: 'problem_1', from: 'Hypothesis#approach@v1' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Story.create --json '{"icp":"icp_1","hero":"Example hero","problem":"problem_1","from":"Hypothesis#approach@v1"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Story.create({ icp: 'icp_1', hero: 'Example hero', problem: 'problem_1', from: 'Hypothesis#approach@v1' })"
  }
}
```

## Example
A patent-drafting [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) compiles one Story for solo inventors. The hero wants a filed patent, the villain is a $15,000 attorney bill, and the call to action is a $499 draft [Offer](/business/nouns/offer).