# Create ventures URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/guide/post-guide-ventures > Creates or imports a venture under the caller studio's portfolio, captures its thesis, sponsor, owner, initial budget and seed evidence, and enrolls its isolated venture organization in a versioned Guide playbook (defaulting to venture). `POST /v1/guide/ventures` > [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/ventures` | | **Method** | `POST` | | **Operation** | `post_guide_ventures` | | **Auth** | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY` | Creates or imports a venture under the caller studio's portfolio, captures its thesis, sponsor, owner, initial budget and seed evidence, and enrolls its isolated venture organization in a versioned Guide playbook (defaulting to venture). Repeated or interrupted calls with the same slug resume idempotently without duplicating the venture, its team checkpoint, or its initial budget. ## Request 13 fields, body `application/json` (required). | Field | In | Type | Required | Description | | ----------------------- | ---- | --------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `evidence` | body | string\[] | — | Evidence lists initial source citations or evidence URIs for the venture. | | `imported` | body | boolean | — | Imported marks whether this venture is being imported from an existing workspace. | | `initialBudgetMicroUSD` | body | integer (int64) | — | InitialBudgetMicroUSD is the initial budget allocated to the venture in integer micro-USD. | | `members` | body | string\[] | — | Members optionally assigns initial teammate subjects access to this venture. | | `owner` | body | string | — | Owner names the venture lead (person or lead agent handle) driving the venture. | | `playbook` | body | string | — | Playbook selects a brand playbook name (such as "venture") or supplies a raw YAML/JSON curriculum document; empty defaults to "venture". | | `slug` | body | string | — | Slug is the venture's unique handle inside the studio portfolio (e.g. "vet-clinic-scheduling"). | | `sponsor` | body | string | — | Sponsor names the studio partner or executive sponsoring the venture. | | `stage` | body | string | — | Stage sets the initial studio funnel stage (intake, discovery, validation, formation, scaling); defaults to "intake". | | `teamSeeded` | body | boolean | — | TeamSeeded marks whether the venture's initial agent roster has been seeded. | | `thesis` | body | string | — | Thesis is the falsifiable venture hypothesis to test before entity formation. | | `title` | body | string | — | Title is the human-readable name of the venture. | | `ventureOrg` | body | string | — | VentureOrg optionally names the explicit venture organization slug; when omitted it defaults to "\--\". | ## Response | Status | Body | Meaning | | --------- | ------------------- | ------- | | `200` | guide.VentureRecord | ok | | `default` | problem-details | refused | `200` body — 39 fields. | Field | In | Type | Always | Description | | ------------------------ | ---- | ----------------------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `createdAt` | body | integer (int64) | — | CreatedAt is when the venture was first registered in the portfolio, as Unix seconds. | | `evidence` | body | string\[] | — | Evidence lists the source citations and evidence URIs attached to the venture. | | `failedRuns` | body | integer (int64) | — | FailedRuns is how many specialist or automation runs have failed and await retry or review. | | `formationId` | body | string | — | FormationID is the legal entity formation identifier from /v1/company once the venture advances to formation. | | `imported` | body | boolean | — | Imported is true when the venture was imported into the studio rather than started from scratch. | | `initialBudgetMicroUSD` | body | integer (int64) | — | InitialBudgetMicroUSD is the initial venture budget in integer micro-USD, allocated at creation. | | `latestEvidence` | body | string | — | LatestEvidence is the most recently recorded evidence citation or URI for this venture. | | `members` | body | string\[] | — | Members lists the teammate subjects explicitly assigned access to this venture. | | `owner` | body | string | — | Owner is the venture lead (person or lead agent handle) accountable for executing the playbook. | | `pendingDecisions` | body | integer (int64) | — | PendingDecisions is how many research decisions, role proposals, or external actions await human approval. | | `playbookVersion` | body | string | — | PlaybookVersion is the version string of the Guide curriculum enrolled for this venture. | | `progress` | body | guide.progressView | — | | | `progress.done` | body | integer (int64) | — | Done counts steps that are FINISHED — done and skipped alike, since a step the org deliberately passed over is not still owed. | | `progress.next` | body | string | — | Next is the id of the step to do next: the first available, unfinished step in authoring order. | | `progress.percent` | body | integer (int64) | — | Percent is done/total as a whole number 0-100, rounded, so a caller renders a bar without recomputing it. | | `progress.total` | body | integer (int64) | — | Total is how many steps this org's journey holds — the ENABLED steps of the playbook, so it shrinks when an operator disables one and does not match the authored step count. | | `resumed` | body | boolean | — | Resumed is true when a repeated or interrupted create call resumed an existing venture without duplicating budget or team. | | `setup` | body | guide.VentureSetupState | — | | | `setup.budgetAllocated` | body | boolean | — | BudgetAllocated is true once the initial micro-USD budget has been committed, preventing duplicate allocation. | | `setup.members` | body | string\[] | — | Members lists the teammate subjects explicitly assigned access to this venture. | | `setup.orgProvisioned` | body | boolean | — | OrgProvisioned is true once the venture's isolated organization store has been opened. | | `setup.playbookEnrolled` | body | boolean | — | PlaybookEnrolled is true once the versioned curriculum has been persisted in the venture's store. | | `setup.revokedMembers` | body | string\[] | — | RevokedMembers lists teammate subjects whose seat access to this venture has been revoked. | | `setup.teamSeeded` | body | boolean | — | TeamSeeded is true once the venture's team roster has been enrolled. | | `slug` | body | string | — | Slug is the venture's unique handle inside the studio portfolio. | | `spendMicroUSD` | body | integer (int64) | — | SpendMicroUSD is the cumulative spend recorded against this venture in integer micro-USD. | | `sponsor` | body | string | — | Sponsor is the studio partner or executive sponsoring the venture. | | `stage` | body | string | — | Stage is the venture's position in the studio funnel: intake, discovery, validation, formation, or scaling. | | `status` | body | string | — | Status is the venture's operating state: active, paused, forming, formed, or offboarded. | | `studioOrg` | body | string | — | StudioOrg is the parent studio organization operating the portfolio. | | `templates` | body | guide.Page\[] | — | Templates are the shared studio templates from the playbook visible in this venture. | | `templates[].body` | body | string | — | Body is the reusable prompt or snippet itself. | | `templates[].enabled` | body | boolean | — | Enabled is the admin lever. | | `templates[].id` | body | string | — | ID is the slug a step references to pull this template in. | | `templates[].title` | body | string | — | Title names the template in the authoring plane and in a picker. | | `thesis` | body | string | — | Thesis is the falsifiable venture hypothesis being tested before entity formation. | | `title` | body | string | — | Title is the human-readable name of the venture. | | `updatedAt` | body | integer (int64) | — | UpdatedAt is when the venture record was last updated, as Unix seconds. | | `ventureOrg` | body | string | — | VentureOrg is the isolated organization namespace holding this venture's private progress, documents, runs, and secrets. | Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors). ## Examples **CLI** ```bash hanzo guide ventures create ``` **SDK** **.ts** ```ts import { Configuration, GuideApi } from 'hanzoai'; const api = new GuideApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY })); const { data } = await api.postGuideVentures({ evidence: [""], imported: false }); ``` **.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_ventures(evidence=[""], imported=False) ``` **.go** ```go cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration() cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY")) client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg) resp, _, err := client.GuideAPI.PostGuideVentures(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_ventures(&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).postGuideVentures(); ``` The method above is the one at the current release of the document. `hanzoai@8.5.914` (npm) and `hanzoai@8.5.914` (PyPI) were generated from an earlier release, where this operation carried a different id, so it spells the method differently — regenerating the clients is what makes the two agree. [SDKs →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/sdks) **HTTP** ```bash curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/guide/ventures \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "evidence": [ "" ], "imported": false }' ``` **MCP** MCP reaches **guide** through the `guide` tool, which names its 18 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)