hanzo.ai/public/llms.txt

# Hanzo

> The AI operating system for business. Building business software since 2014. Techstars '17.

One API at https://api.hanzo.ai/v1 for every model, Kai decisions and agents,
behind one key, beside Chat, Dev, Studio, Tabs and Bot. A person starts on the
Free plan: 50 free requests a day, no card.

## For agents

Sign up free with a wallet. Get an API key free. A small free allowance to try it. Top up in USDC or USDT over the API to raise your limits and pay as you go. No human required.

- Start: https://hanzo.ai/agents#headless, the path step by step and the whole of it as one TypeScript file.
- Discover: `GET https://api.hanzo.ai/v1` lists every capability and `GET https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/openapi.json` is the whole spec, no key for either.
- Your numbers: `GET https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/billing/tier` with your key says your plan, what it allows and what is left; `GET https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/billing/plans` lists every plan and price, no key needed.
- Top up: `GET https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/billing/crypto/options`, `POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/billing/crypto/deposit`, then `GET https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/billing/crypto/deposit/{id}` until it says succeeded.
- Every request spelled out: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/agents
- Talk to people at Hanzo: https://cal.com/hanzo

## Platform

Enso is the intelligence layer: one endpoint that reads the objective, applies
your policies and puts the right model behind the work. Zen is the open-weight
family. Both run beside the rest of the catalog on the same endpoint and the
same key.

Kai is the decision model: typed questions about a state (choice, noul, score),
answered with calibrated distributions instead of generated text, at
`POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/decisions`. Docs: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/decisions

- Sign in with a person nearby: `curl -fsSL https://hanzo.sh | sh`, then `hanzo auth login` (on a machine with no browser it prints a link and an 8-character code your person approves on any device), then `export HANZO_API_KEY="$(hanzo auth token)"` or `hanzo account keys create --name agent --type secret`. An agent with its own inbox signs up by email code over HTTP: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/agents
- Pay: USDC or USDT over the API, on the chains `GET /v1/billing/crypto/options` lists (today Base, Ethereum and Solana); a deposit address is the caller's own, valid 24 hours, credited when the chain confirms. A person pays by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay at https://hanzo.ai/pay, and wire instructions come from `GET /v1/billing/wire`. Plans and prices: https://hanzo.ai/pricing
- Bound spend: a key takes a monthly budget in cents and a rate in requests a minute; a session takes a cap at `POST /v1/agent/sessions/{id}/budget`.
- Evaluate Kai: the frozen harness is public at https://github.com/hanzoai/benchmarks (decision/); published runs, no key needed: https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/research/runs?org=hanzo&benchmark=app.phishing
- Tools: `npx -y --package=@hanzo/mcp@latest hanzo-mcp serve` is an MCP server over stdio for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Zed.
- Skills: `npx skills add https://hanzoskills.com/hanzo.md`, and the index at https://hanzoskills.com/llms.txt
- Docs for agents: https://docs.hanzo.ai/llms.txt. Every operation: https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/openapi.json, also listed in https://hanzo.ai/.well-known/api-catalog

## Company

- Building business software since 2014; the commerce platform's first commit is dated 2014-09-29, and it has been a Go-native platform since October 2014. Founded as Crowdstart (crowdstart.com), a crowdfunding and commerce platform, and renamed Hanzo in 2016.
- First customer, 2014: SKULLY, the fastest fully funded campaign on Indiegogo, raising $1M in about 45 hours (TechCrunch, 2014-08-14: https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/the-skully-smart-helmet-is-the-fastest-funded-indiegogo-campaign-to-hit-1m/).
- AI and machine learning in commercial use since 2014; GPT models in production by 2019.
- The first blockchain-native commerce platform, 2017: the Unikrn ICO raised over 120,000 ETH (Crunchbase News, 2017-10-24: https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/found-ico-makes-sense/).
- Techstars '17: https://hanzo.blog/2017-06-08-techstars-17/ and Startland News, 2017-10-10: https://startlandnews.com/2017/10/techstars-spotlight-hanzos-e-commerce-tools-designed-to-make-you-money/
- Hundreds of venture-funded startups, backed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Techstars and other tier-1 firms: billions in client revenue, two companies taken past 100 million users, and two that went public on Nasdaq in 2024, Damon Motorcycles and Triller.
- Damon Motorcycles' CES 2020 launch ran on Hanzo: $8.4M of motorcycles sold in 30 days at a 541:1 return on ad spend, with AI-generated ads (https://hanzo.ai/customers/damon-motorcycles).
- A decade of running commerce, analytics and marketing for that portfolio is what Hanzo's AI is built on.
- Led by CEO Antje Worring (https://www.linkedin.com/in/antje-worring/) and CTO Zach Kelling (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeekay/, https://github.com/zeekay).
- History: https://hanzo.ai/about. Book a call: https://cal.com/hanzo. Investors: [email protected]. Security: [email protected].