# Go dormant

URL: /workflows/processes/go-dormant · Id: `process:go-dormant`

> Go dormant stops every running Workflow, ends Offers on their own terms, and keeps the records, Site, and domain until the Startup resumes.

Go dormant stops every running [Workflow](/business/nouns/workflow), ends [Offers](/business/nouns/offer) on their own terms, and keeps the records, [Site](/business/nouns/site), and domain until the [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) resumes.

## Outcome
| Part | This Process |
| --- | --- |
| Outcome | Every Workflow has stopped, Offers end on their own terms, and the records, Site and domain stay until the Startup resumes. |
| Reads | [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) |

## Accountable
[Founder](/agents/founding/founder), [Founding Team](/agents/founding).

Responsible: [Operations Lead](/agents/operations/operations-lead), [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead).

Consulted: [Product Lead](/agents/product/product-lead), [Engineering Lead](/agents/engineering/engineering-lead), [Marketing Lead](/agents/marketing/marketing-lead), [Sales Lead](/agents/sales/sales-lead), [Customer Lead](/agents/customer/customer-lead), [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead), [People Lead](/agents/people/people-lead), [Quality Lead](/agents/quality/quality-lead).

Informed: [Strategist](/agents/founding/strategist).

## Workflows
No Workflow automates this Process: the Roles above run it.

## Who does each step
None.

## Events
None.

## Plays
No Play names this Process.

## Controls
No Control names this Process or a Workflow of it.

## Settings
None.

## Failure
A failed step retries; when retries run out, the Action goes to the [Founder](/agents/founding/founder).

## Loop
| Step | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Hypothesis | A dormant Startup costs no more than its domain and storage. |
| Measure | [Fully loaded Cost](/agents/finance#fully-loaded-cost) over 1q, at least 1 observations |
| Learn | The learn step reads the Readout, records Evidence and a Decision, and drafts the next Variant. |

## Code

**Ask**

```text
Turn on go dormant
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/processes/process_1/enable \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

**SDK**

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

await $.Process.enable({ process: 'process_1' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Process.enable --json '{"process":"process_1"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Process.enable({ process: 'process_1' })"
  }
}
```

## Enable
Off until someone calls [Process.enable](/business/nouns/process/enable). [Process.pause](/business/nouns/process/pause) stops new Actions; Actions in progress finish.

## Example
A [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) with no paying [Customers](/business/nouns/customer) after two quarters goes dormant. Its Workflows stop, its [Offers](/business/nouns/offer) end on their own terms, and its Site and domain stay up for $3 a month.