# What you can ask for

URL: /start/what-you-can-ask-for · Id: `page: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.

Your agent offers what these docs document, and nothing else. A task with a [guide](/start/guides) runs fixed [Verbs](/business/nouns/verb); every other ask reaches a [System](/business/nouns/system) by the words below.

## Three kinds of ask
Name a task, and the agent runs its guide. "Charge $29 a month" runs the [charge monthly](/systems/finance/charge-monthly) guide, the same calls every time.

Name a job, and the agent asks the System that owns it. The [Work queue](/agents/work-queue) answers "what needs my approval", and [Monitoring](/code/systems/monitoring) answers "is the site up".

Name a change, and the agent edits what exists. "Make the headline shorter" changes one [Page](/business/nouns/page) as a [Change](/business/nouns/change) you can revert.

## Every System, by job
**Finance**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Charge customers monthly` | [Billing](/systems/billing) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Pay my suppliers` | [Earnings](/systems/payouts) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Close the books for last month` | [Ledger](/systems/ledger) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Show me my numbers` | [Reports](/systems/reports) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Pay this bill` | [Spend management](/systems/spend) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Handle sales tax` | [Tax](/systems/tax) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `How much cash do we have` | [Treasury](/systems/treasury) | First 90 days | `beta` |

**Sales**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Who are my best leads` | [CRM](/systems/crm) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Find 200 property managers in Ohio` | [Prospecting](/systems/prospecting) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Book a call with this lead` | [Scheduling](/systems/scheduling) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Send this customer a quote` | [Quotes](/systems/quotes) | When you ask | `beta` |

**Marketing**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Spend $200 on ads this week` | [Ads](/systems/ads) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Publish this post on the blog` | [CMS](/systems/cms) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Add a contact form to the site` | [Forms](/systems/forms) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `What should we rank for` | [SEO](/systems/seo) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Post this on LinkedIn and X` | [Social](/systems/social) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Start a waitlist for the launch` | [Waitlists](/systems/waitlists) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Host a webinar next Thursday` | [Webinars](/systems/webinars) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Pay partners 20% of what they bring in` | [Referrals](/systems/referrals) | The first [`Customer.activated`](/business/events/Customer.activated), when the Startup reaches ten active Customers | `beta` |
| `Email every new signup a welcome series` | [Sequences](/systems/sequences) | The first [`Lead.qualified`](/business/events/Lead.qualified) | `beta` |
| `Make a product demo video` | [Media production](/systems/media) | When you ask | `beta` |
| `Ask happy customers for a review` | [Reviews](/systems/reviews) | When you ask | `beta` |

**Support**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Answer my customers within an hour` | [Support](/systems/support) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Write a help article on resetting a password` | [Knowledge base](/systems/knowledge-base) | The first [`Conversation.answered`](/business/events/Conversation.answered), when the same question has come in five times | `beta` |
| `Put up a status page` | [Status pages](/systems/status-pages) | The first [`Incident.opened`](/business/events/Incident.opened) | `beta` |
| `Which customers might cancel` | [Success](/systems/success) | The first [`Customer.activated`](/business/events/Customer.activated) | `beta` |

**Communications**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Give me dana@leaseline.app` | [Mailboxes](/systems/mailboxes) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Text customers when their order ships` | [Notices](/systems/notices) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Get a phone number for support` | [Phone](/systems/phone) | When you ask | `beta` |

**Customers and identity**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Let a customer invite their team` | [Customer access](/systems/customer-access) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Delete everything we hold about this person` | [Privacy](/systems/privacy) | The first [`Visitor.identified`](/business/events/Visitor.identified), when the Startup records its first known person | `beta` |

**Commerce and fulfillment**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Check this nurse’s license` | [Credentialing](/systems/credentialing) | The first [`Human.onboarded`](/business/events/Human.onboarded), when the Human supplies work on a marketplace | `beta` |
| `Onboard a new supplier` | [Supplier onboarding](/systems/supplier-onboarding) | The first [`Human.remitted`](/business/events/Human.remitted), when the payout goes to a supplying Human | `beta` |
| `Sell physical products` | [Commerce](/systems/commerce) | When you ask | `beta` |
| `Send each job to an available supplier` | [Dispatch](/systems/dispatch) | When you ask | `beta` |
| `List every bookkeeper in Denver` | [Listings](/systems/listings) | When you ask | `beta` |
| `Match this buyer with a supplier` | [Matchmaking](/systems/matching) | When you ask | `beta` |
| `Deliver this job to the contract` | [Service delivery](/systems/service-delivery) | When you ask | `beta` |

**Legal and corporate**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Record the board’s approval` | [Corporate records](/systems/corporate-records) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Show me the cap table` | [Equity](/systems/equity) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Register my trademark` | [Intellectual property](/systems/intellectual-property) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Send the customer contract for signature` | [Agreements](/systems/agreements) | When you ask | `beta` |

**People**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Run payroll this Friday` | [Pay runs](/systems/payroll) | The first [`Agreement.signed`](/business/events/Agreement.signed), when you sign your first employee | `beta` |
| `Who fills each role` | [Workforce](/systems/workforce) | The first [`Human.invited`](/business/events/Human.invited), when the Startup invites its first person | `live` |
| `Hire a part-time bookkeeper` | [Hiring](/systems/hiring) | When you ask | `beta` |

**Data and insights**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Test a $39 price against $29` | [Experiments](/systems/experiments) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Ask customers how disappointed they would be without us` | [Surveys](/systems/surveys) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Where do visitors drop off` | [Product analytics](/systems/product-analytics) | Runs on its own | `live` |
| `Sell this data as an API` | [Datasets](/systems/datasets) | When you ask | `beta` |
| `Turn this feature on for 10% of users` | [Flags](/systems/flags) | When you ask | `beta` |

**Trust and governance**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Block fraudulent orders` | [Trust and safety](/systems/trust-safety) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Show me our SOC 2 status` | [Compliance](/systems/compliance) | The first [`Deal.advanced`](/business/events/Deal.advanced), when the buyer asks for a SOC 2 report or a security questionnaire | `beta` |

**Agents**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Send approvals to our Slack` | [Discussions](/agents/discussions) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `How good are the support agent’s answers` | [Evals](/agents/evals-system) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `What needs my approval` | [Work queue](/agents/work-queue) | First 90 days | `live` |

**Business**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `What are people asking for` | [Discovery](/business/discovery) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Set a goal of 10 paying customers by June` | [Goals](/business/goals) | First 90 days | `beta` |

**Code**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Publish what shipped this week` | [Changelog](/code/systems/changelog) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Show me every customer in a table` | [Data editor](/code/systems/data-editor) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Is the site up` | [Monitoring](/code/systems/monitoring) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `What should we build next` | [Product planning](/code/systems/product-planning) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `What is the team working on this week` | [Projects](/code/systems/projects) | First 90 days | `beta` |
| `Ship my changes` | [Repositories](/code/systems/repositories) | First 90 days | `live` |
| `Make an investor update from this month’s numbers` | [Documents](/code/systems/documents) | Runs on its own | `beta` |
| `Store this contract` | [Files](/code/systems/files) | Runs on its own | `live` |

**Products**

| You say | System | Offered | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Put up a landing page` | [Sites](/products/site/sites) | First 90 days | `live` |

**Offered** says when the agent brings a System up unasked. A row for the first 90 days comes up for an idea-stage [Startup](/business/nouns/startup), and a row that runs on its own needs no ask.

A row that names an [Event](/business/nouns/event) waits until that Event happens in your own records. The rest wait for you to ask, and [the status table](/systems/how-to-read) defines each status.

## What your agent hands to you
- **Owning the business.** The claim link sends your identity and bank account to Stripe, never to the agent. [With your agent](/start/with-your-agent#what-needs-you) walks through it.
- **Spending over a [Limit](/business/nouns/limit).** Anything above it waits for your [Approval](/business/nouns/approval).
- **Acts the law reserves.** A [Reserved Act](/business/nouns/reserved-act), such as a lawyer's sign-off, goes to a person who holds the license.

Raising money, finding a cofounder and joining a studio happen on startups.studio. These docs cover building and running the business.

## Read it as data
[/asks.json](/asks.json) holds every guide with its Verbs, and each System with the sentences above. The docs MCP server's `guides` and `search` tools answer from the same file, as [the agent's reading list](/start/docs-for-agents) explains.