Your own Nouns and Verbs
When a business tracks something no inherited Noun covers, it adds a Noun and its Verbs, and each gets the API, Events and states an inherited one has.
Every Startup inherits the Nouns a business runs on, from Customers to Invoices. When it tracks something none of them covers, such as a lease, it adds its own.
Guides
A founder describes the thing and what happens to it. The agent turns each sentence into a Noun, a property or a Verb.
| You say | You get |
|---|---|
| "Track leases: the unit, the resident, the rent and when it ends" | A Lease Noun with unit, resident, rent and endsOn |
| "A lease is active, renewing, renewed or ended" | A status with those four values, which becomes its lifecycle |
| "Let a property manager renew a lease" | A renew Verb, its Event Lease.renewed, and a form for it in the App |
| "Customers also have a unit count" | A unitCount property on the inherited Customer, not a new Noun |
Add or refine
Look for an inherited Noun first. A Noun named like an inherited one refines it: its properties add to the inherited ones, and every Verb, Event and page stays.
A lease is new, so the business adds Lease. A unit count describes a Customer, so it refines Customer. A new Noun names one kind of record, singular and capitalized, and names and ids gives how each part of it is written.
What one Noun gets
Adding Lease gives the business all of this, with no other file:
create,get,listandupdate, on the API, the SDK, the CLI and the MCP server- each Verb it declares, such as
Lease.renew, under the same Verb id everywhere - an Event for every Verb and every write, which Workflows can wake on
- a lifecycle from its
statusvalues, as on every record with states - a screen per record and a form per Verb in every App that shows it
- its own page in the Startup's docs, read by people and agents alike
When to add a Verb
update covers plain edits. Add a Verb when the act has rules, moves money, changes a state or matters to someone listening. Renewing a lease does all four: it checks the dates, sets the new rent, moves the lease to renewed and emits Lease.renewed for whatever listens.
A Verb runs through an Action like any inherited one, under the same Permissions, Limits and Approvals. Its code lives beside the Noun, and Nouns shows both files.