# Create chat URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/guide/post-guide-chat > Answers a founder's question about their launch journey as the Business AI coach: it grounds the reply in the org's REAL progress, its ranked available quests and its analytics funnel, and returns those candidate quests alongside so the caller can act on one. `POST /v1/guide/chat` > [Guide →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/guide) · [All API references →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi) · [Get started →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/guides) | | | | ------------- | -------------------------------------- | | **Address** | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/guide/chat` | | **Method** | `POST` | | **Operation** | `post_guide_chat` | | **Auth** | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY` | Answers a founder's question about their launch journey as the Business AI coach: it grounds the reply in the org's REAL progress, its ranked available quests and its analytics funnel, and returns those candidate quests alongside so the caller can act on one. READ-ONLY — it advises and never runs a step, so it cannot be talked into performing an action; the only executing path is POST /v1/guide/steps/{id}/do. One AI completion per call, billed to the caller's own payer. ## Request 1 field, body `application/json` (required). | Field | In | Type | Required | Description | | --------- | ---- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | `message` | body | string | — | Message is the founder's question for the Business AI. | ## Response | Status | Body | Meaning | | --------- | ------------------ | ------- | | `200` | guide.chatResponse | ok | | `default` | problem-details | refused | `200` body — 16 fields. | Field | In | Type | Always | Description | | --------------------------- | ---- | ------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `funnel` | body | guide.Funnel | — | | | `funnel.available` | body | boolean | — | Available separates "this org has no traffic" from "we could not ask". | | `funnel.orders` | body | integer (int64) | — | Orders counts completed orders in the window — purchases, not carts started. | | `funnel.pageviews` | body | integer (int64) | — | Pageviews counts page events in the window, one per view rather than per person, so a single visitor reading ten pages counts ten. | | `funnel.revenue` | body | number (double) | — | Revenue is the sum of the amounts those orders reported, in whatever currency the beacon stamped on them (major units, e.g. 49.5 for $49.50) — NOT cents, and not converted to a single currency. | | `funnel.signups` | body | integer (int64) | — | Signups counts completed signups in the window, the step where an anonymous visitor becomes somebody with an account. | | `funnel.visitors` | body | integer (int64) | — | Visitors is the number of DISTINCT people seen in the window, counted by the beacon's distinct id — so it is unique visitors, not sessions and not views. | | `funnel.windowDays` | body | integer (int64) | — | WindowDays is the length of the trailing window every count covers, so a reader knows whether 40 signups is a month or a day. | | `reply` | body | string | — | Reply is the coach's answer, grounded only in the quests and funnel below. | | `suggestions` | body | guide.suggestion\[] | — | Suggestions are the current candidate quests, ranked best-first. | | `suggestions[].automatable` | body | boolean | — | Automatable is true when the step names a tool, so the Business AI can do it rather than only describe it. | | `suggestions[].detail` | body | string | — | Detail is the step's own prose — what it asks for. | | `suggestions[].rationale` | body | string | — | Rationale is why this step is being suggested NOW, written for the person reading it. | | `suggestions[].stepId` | body | string | — | StepID is the checklist step being recommended — the id every step route takes, so a caller can act on the suggestion directly. | | `suggestions[].title` | body | string | — | Title is the step's own one-line quest. | | `suggestions[].unlocks` | body | integer (int64) | — | Unlocks is how many downstream steps completing this one immediately makes available (its leverage) — the primary ranking key. | Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors). ## Examples **CLI** ```bash hanzo guide chat ``` **SDK** **.ts** ```ts import { Configuration, GuideApi } from 'hanzoai'; const api = new GuideApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY })); const { data } = await api.postGuideChat({ message: "" }); ``` **.py** ```python from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration from hanzoai.cloud.api import GuideApi client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"])) result = GuideApi(client).post_guide_chat(message="") ``` **.go** ```go cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration() cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY")) client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg) resp, _, err := client.GuideAPI.PostGuideChat(context.Background()).Execute() if err != nil { return err } ``` **.rs** ```rust use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, guide_api}; let mut cfg = Configuration::new(); cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok(); let result = guide_api::post_guide_chat(&cfg, Default::default()).await?; ``` **.java** ```java import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient; import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.GuideApi; ApiClient client = new ApiClient(); client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY")); var result = new GuideApi(client).postGuideChat(); ``` **HTTP** ```bash curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/guide/chat \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "message": "" }' ``` **MCP** MCP reaches **guide** through the `guide` tool, which names its 13 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_guides" } } }' ``` --- [Guide API](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/guide) · [All Hanzo APIs](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi) · [Interactive reference](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/reference)