# Create subjects

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/compliance/post-compliance-subjects

> Records a party the org is verifying as part of its own onboarding/compliance — a team member, vendor, customer, or counterparty.

`POST /v1/compliance/subjects`

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|               |                                               |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/compliance/subjects` |
| **Method**    | `POST`                                        |
| **Operation** | `post_compliance_subjects`                    |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`        |

Records a party the org is verifying as part of its own
onboarding/compliance — a team member, vendor, customer, or counterparty. The
subject's contact PII (name/email) is sealed at rest and returned only to the
owning org; downstream records reference the subject by opaque id.

## Request

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

| Field   | In   | Type   | Required | Description                                                     |
| ------- | ---- | ------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `email` | body | string | —        | Email is the subject's contact email, sealed at rest.           |
| `kind`  | body | string | —        | Kind is the party type: "individual" (KYC) or "business" (KYB). |
| `name`  | body | string | —        | Name is the subject's name, sealed at rest.                     |
| `ref`   | body | string | —        | Ref is the org's own opaque external id for this subject.       |

## Response

| Status    | Body               | Meaning |
| --------- | ------------------ | ------- |
| `201`     | compliance.Subject | created |
| `default` | problem-details    | refused |

`201` body — 8 fields.

| Field       | In   | Type            | Always | Description                                                                                                                                    |
| ----------- | ---- | --------------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `createdAt` | body | integer (int64) | —      | CreatedAt is when the subject was first recorded, Unix SECONDS.                                                                                |
| `email`     | body | string          | —      | Email is the party's address, when the org supplied one.                                                                                       |
| `id`        | body | string          | —      | ID is the opaque handle every other record uses to point at this party.                                                                        |
| `kind`      | body | string          | —      | Kind is what is being verified: "individual" (a natural person, so KYC) or "business" (a legal entity, so KYB).                                |
| `name`      | body | string          | —      | Name is the party's name, under the same PII rule as Email.                                                                                    |
| `org`       | body | string          | —      | Org is the tenant that is doing the verifying — the party who must answer for this record, not the party being verified.                       |
| `ref`       | body | string          | —      | Ref is the org's OWN identifier for this party, carried so a caller can match a subject back to their system without keeping a second mapping. |
| `updatedAt` | body | integer (int64) | —      | UpdatedAt is when the subject's own fields last changed, Unix seconds.                                                                         |

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

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo compliance subjects create
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

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

const api = new ComplianceApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postComplianceSubjects({ email: "<email>", kind: "<kind>" });
```

**.py**

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

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = ComplianceApi(client).post_compliance_subjects(email="<email>", kind="<kind>")
```

**.go**

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

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

**.rs**

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

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

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

**.java**

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

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

var result = new ComplianceApi(client).postComplianceSubjects();
```

**HTTP**

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

**MCP**

MCP reaches **compliance** through the `compliance` tool, which names its 16 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": "get_compliance_accreditation"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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