# Create shares

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/captable/post-captable-shares

> Issues a share certificate to a stakeholder.

`POST /v1/captable/shares`

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|               |                                           |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/captable/shares` |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                    |
| **Operation** | `post_captable_shares`                    |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`    |

Issues a share certificate to a stakeholder.

The certificate id must be UNIQUE within the company — a duplicate is refused
409, not silently merged — and both the stakeholder and the share class must
belong to this company, so an id from another tenant is a 400 rather than a
cross-company issuance.

## Request

17 fields, body `application/json` (required).

| Field                 | In   | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                          |
| --------------------- | ---- | ------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `boardApprovalDate`   | body | any    | —        | BoardApprovalDate is when the board approved the issuance, YYYY-MM-DD.                               |
| `capitalContribution` | body | any    | —        | CapitalContribution is cash paid for the shares.                                                     |
| `certificateId`       | body | any    | —        | CertificateID is the certificate number.                                                             |
| `cliffYears`          | body | any    | —        | CliffYears is how long before ANY of the grant vests.                                                |
| `companyLegends`      | body | any\[] | —        | CompanyLegends are the restrictive legends printed on the certificate.                               |
| `debtCancelled`       | body | any    | —        | DebtCancelled is debt forgiven as consideration.                                                     |
| `ipContribution`      | body | any    | —        | IPContribution is intellectual property assigned as consideration, valued in the company's currency. |
| `issueDate`           | body | any    | —        | IssueDate is when the shares were issued, YYYY-MM-DD.                                                |
| `otherContributions`  | body | any    | —        | OtherContributions is any other consideration, valued in the company's currency.                     |
| `pricePerShare`       | body | any    | —        | PricePerShare is what was paid per share.                                                            |
| `quantity`            | body | any    | —        | Quantity is how many shares to issue.                                                                |
| `rule144Date`         | body | any    | —        | Rule144Date is when the Rule 144 holding period starts, YYYY-MM-DD.                                  |
| `shareClassId`        | body | any    | —        | ShareClassID is the class being issued.                                                              |
| `stakeholderId`       | body | any    | —        | StakeholderID is who receives the shares.                                                            |
| `status`              | body | any    | —        | Status is ACTIVE, DRAFT, SIGNED or PENDING.                                                          |
| `vestingStartDate`    | body | any    | —        | VestingStartDate is when vesting begins, YYYY-MM-DD.                                                 |
| `vestingYears`        | body | any    | —        | VestingYears is the total vesting period.                                                            |

## Response

| Status    | Body                     | Meaning |
| --------- | ------------------------ | ------- |
| `201`     | captable.captableCreated | created |
| `default` | problem-details          | refused |

`201` body — 3 fields.

| Field     | In   | Type    | Always | Description                                                             |
| --------- | ---- | ------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `id`      | body | string  | —      | ID is the created row's id.                                             |
| `message` | body | string  | —      | Message is the human sentence the cap table wrote, e.g. "Share issued". |
| `success` | body | boolean | —      | Success is true when the row was written.                               |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo captable shares create
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, CaptableApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new CaptableApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postCaptableShares({ boardApprovalDate: "<boardApprovalDate>", capitalContribution: "<capitalContribution>" });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import CaptableApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = CaptableApi(client).post_captable_shares(board_approval_date="<boardApprovalDate>", capital_contribution="<capitalContribution>")
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.CaptableAPI.PostCaptableShares(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, captable_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = captable_api::post_captable_shares(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.CaptableApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new CaptableApi(client).postCaptableShares();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/captable/shares \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "boardApprovalDate": "<boardApprovalDate>",
       "capitalContribution": "<capitalContribution>"
     }'
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **captable** through the `captable` tool, which names its 30 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_captable_classes"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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