# Start

URL: /start · Id: `page:start`

> StartupBuilder builds the whole business around your product, from one sentence to your agent or one command, one task at a time.

[StartupBuilder](/code/builders/startup) builds a whole business, not an app alone: the product plus its site, domain, payments, sales, support, legal, books and agents. Start from one sentence to [your agent](/start/with-your-agent), or from [one command](/start/with-code).

```bash
npm create startups
```

**Your first 90 days.** Ask for any of these in plain words; each guide shows its calls.

## Find out if anyone wants it

- [Start a business](/business/start-a-business): "Start a business that tracks lease renewals for small property managers, $29 a month"
- [Find out if anyone wants this](/start/guides/find-out-if-anyone-wants-this): "Find out if anyone wants this"
- [What are people asking for](/start/guides/what-are-people-asking-for): "What are people asking for"
- [Which integrations do people want](/start/guides/which-integrations-do-people-want): "Which integrations do people want"
- [Spend $200 to test faster](/start/guides/spend-200-to-test-faster): "Spend $200 to test faster"

## Put it up

- [Buy a domain](/products/site/domains/buy-a-domain): "Buy leaseline.app"
- [Connect my domain](/products/site/domains/connect-my-domain): "Connect leaseline.com. I bought it somewhere else"
- [Get email at my domain](/products/site/domains/get-email-at-my-domain): "Give me dana@leaseline.app"
- [Launch my business](/business/launch-my-business): "Launch Leaseline"
- [Put up a page](/start/guides/put-up-a-page): "Put up a page"
- [Start a waitlist](/start/guides/start-a-waitlist): "Start a waitlist"
- [Sell a service](/products/service/sell-a-service): "Sell renewal outreach as a service at $199 a month"
- [Sell my data](/products/data/sell-my-data): "Sell renewal dates by county as data"
- [Turn my app into a business](/start/guides/turn-my-app-into-a-business): "Turn my app into a business"

## Get paid

- [Take a payment](/systems/finance/take-a-payment): "Take a $29 payment for setup"
- [Charge monthly](/systems/finance/charge-monthly): "Charge $29 a month"
- [Handle sales tax](/systems/finance/handle-sales-tax): "Take care of sales tax"
- [Charge per use](/start/guides/charge-per-use): "Charge per use"
- [Add a yearly plan](/products/offers/add-a-yearly-plan): "Add a yearly plan at $290"
- [Lock a feature to a plan](/products/offers/lock-a-feature-to-a-plan): "Lock export to Pro"
- [Cap usage on a plan](/products/offers/cap-usage-on-a-plan): "Give Starter 10 exports a day, then ask them to upgrade"
- [Give a launch discount](/products/offers/give-a-launch-discount): "Give the first 100 customers 20% off for three months"
- [Give a customer a free trial](/products/offers/give-a-free-trial): "Give Riverside Property a 14-day free trial"
- [Charge per seat](/products/app/charge-per-seat): "Charge $15 a month for each person on the team"
- [Add a free trial to a plan](/products/offers/add-a-free-trial-to-a-plan): "Give every new Pro customer 14 days free"
- [Ask me before big refunds](/workflows/guides/ask-me-before-big-refunds): "Ask me before big refunds"
- [Take a deposit](/start/guides/take-a-deposit): "Take a deposit"

## Ship

- [Ship my changes](/code/ship-my-changes): "Ship my changes"
- [Let customers sign in](/products/app/let-customers-sign-in): "Let my customers sign in"
- [Build my app](/products/app/build-my-app): "Build the app my property managers sign in to"
- [Ship an API](/products/api/ship-an-api): "Sell renewal dates as an API, a cent per call"
- [Store my customers' data](/products/app/store-my-customers-data): "Keep each customer's leases, units and tenants"
- [Send email from my domain](/start/guides/send-email-from-my-domain): "Send email from our domain"

## See how it's going

- [See what the support agent did yesterday](/agents/see-what-an-agent-did): "Show me everything the support agent did yesterday"
- [How is it going](/start/guides/how-is-it-going): "How is it going"

## Work with your agent

- [Approve what agents spend](/agents/approve-what-agents-spend): "Ask me before any agent spends more than $500 a month"
- [Issue a card with a limit](/systems/finance/issue-a-card-with-a-limit): "Give my ads agent a card with a $500 monthly limit"
- [Hire an agent for a role](/agents/hire-an-agent-for-a-role): "Hire an agent to answer my customers"
- [Automate a workflow](/workflows/automate-a-workflow): "When a customer reaches one year with us, email them a thank-you from me and give them a free month"
- [Pause every agent that talks to customers](/agents/pause-customer-facing-agents): "Pause every agent that talks to customers"
- [Let the support agent refund up to $50](/agents/let-an-agent-refund): "Let the support agent refund up to $50 without asking"
- [Review the support agent](/agents/review-a-role): "Review the support agent"
- [Invite my cofounder as CTO](/agents/invite-a-person-to-a-role): "Invite my cofounder as CTO"
- [Give a teammate access](/agents/give-a-teammate-access): "Give my cofounder access"
- [Run sales myself](/agents/run-a-seat-yourself): "Let me run sales myself"
- [Answer an approval](/agents/answer-an-approval): "What is waiting on me"

**Launch.** Clear the [launch checklist](/start/launch-checklist).

**When it matters.** Single sign-on, selling abroad and chargebacks wait for an [Event](/business/nouns/event) in your own records. [Guides](/start/guides) lists each beside its trigger.

**How it works.** [Six chapters](/start/with-your-agent#how-it-works-in-six-chapters) explain what your agent builds.

**For agents.** Read [llms.txt](/llms.txt), [asks.json](/asks.json) and any page as Markdown, or connect the docs MCP server. [Docs for agents](/start/docs-for-agents) explains each.

**Guides written here.** The calls behind each guide on this tab.

| You say | Guide | Calls | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Charge per use` | [Charge per use](/start/guides/charge-per-use) | [Meter.create](/business/nouns/meter/create), [Offer.create](/business/nouns/offer/create), [Offer.publish](/business/nouns/offer/publish) | `beta` |
| `Find out if anyone wants this` | [Find out if anyone wants this](/start/guides/find-out-if-anyone-wants-this) | [Hypothesis.create](/business/nouns/hypothesis/create), [Offer.create](/business/nouns/offer/create), [Offer.publish](/business/nouns/offer/publish), [Survey.create](/business/nouns/survey/create), [Site.publish](/business/nouns/site/publish) | `live` |
| `How is it going` | [How is it going](/start/guides/how-is-it-going) | [Dashboard.create](/business/nouns/dashboard/create), [Dashboard.ask](/business/nouns/dashboard/ask), [Dashboard.schedule](/business/nouns/dashboard/schedule) | `live` |
| `Put up a page` | [Put up a page](/start/guides/put-up-a-page) | [Domain.claim](/business/nouns/domain/claim), [Site.publish](/business/nouns/site/publish) | `live` |
| `Send email from our domain` | [Send email from my domain](/start/guides/send-email-from-my-domain) | [Domain.authenticate](/business/nouns/domain/authenticate) | `live` |
| `Spend $200 to test faster` | [Spend $200 to test faster](/start/guides/spend-200-to-test-faster) | [DemandBudget.create](/business/nouns/demand-budget/create), [Hypothesis.create](/business/nouns/hypothesis/create), [Experiment.create](/business/nouns/experiment/create), [Hypothesis.test](/business/nouns/hypothesis/test), [Experiment.start](/business/nouns/experiment/start) | `beta` |
| `Start a waitlist` | [Start a waitlist](/start/guides/start-a-waitlist) | [Waitlist.create](/business/nouns/waitlist/create), [Waitlist.admit](/business/nouns/waitlist/admit) | `live` |
| `Take a deposit` | [Take a deposit](/start/guides/take-a-deposit) | [Offer.create](/business/nouns/offer/create), [Offer.publish](/business/nouns/offer/publish) | `live` |
| `Turn my app into a business` | [Turn my app into a business](/start/guides/turn-my-app-into-a-business) | [Startup.import](/business/nouns/startup/import), [Startup.build](/business/nouns/startup/build) | `beta` |
| `What are people asking for` | [What are people asking for](/start/guides/what-are-people-asking-for) | [Problem.rank](/business/nouns/problem/rank) | `live` |
| `Which integrations do people want` | [Which integrations do people want](/start/guides/which-integrations-do-people-want) | [Collection.query](/business/nouns/collection/query) | `beta` |

- [Where StartupBuilder sits](/start/where-startupbuilder-sits): App builders make the product, and StartupBuilder makes the business around it, with checkout, books, terms and agents.
- [Accounts and keys](/start/accounts): One sign-in owns every Startup you start, and each Startup gets its own Stripe account, its own test and live records, and keys scoped to one job.
- [Founding playbook](/start/founding-playbook): How the Founding Team runs a Startup on four Roles and one weekly loop, with every other department waking on its trigger.
- [Help](/start/help): What to say when a first run goes wrong, from a pending Stripe check to an agent you need to stop, and how to reach the Startups.Studio team.
- [How to ask](/start/how-to-ask): Name the customer, the price and the number, change what exists instead of starting over, and see a preview before anything runs.
- [startups.new](/start/startups-new): startups.new creates a Startup from one sentence and opens it in startups.studio.
- [What you can ask for](/start/what-you-can-ask-for): Every System your agent reaches, by the sentence a founder says, with when the agent offers it and its status.
- [Agent context](/start/agents/agent-context): Every agent wakes with its Role's view as a Markdown block of at most 150 tokens, each line a handle it can expand and a number it can cite.
- [Templates](/start/templates): Every Startup starts from a Startup Template that combines an operating model, Product Templates, and the Motions it sells through.
- [Earning first revenue](/start/tutorials/first-revenue): A dated 30-day calendar from one sentence to the first outside paid Order, every step a command with its output and the gate it passes.