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# List people (POST)

POST https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people
Content-Type: application/json

Returns a paginated people list matching a filter request body. semanticQuery uses the live priority embeddings tier and returns semanticMatch evidence.

Reference: https://docs.aventure.vc/api-reference/a-venture-api/people/list-people-post

## Authentication

- `X-Client-Secret` header (required) — Client secret for read-only service-to-service access (no writes)

## Request

### Query parameters

- `countOnly` (boolean, optional) — When true, return only the page total in the body and skip the content payload.
- `hasImageFirst` (boolean, optional) — When true, sort people who have a photo before those who do not.
- `permitMonogram` (boolean, optional) — When false, monogram fallback logos are stripped from the response. Defaults to true.
- `includePrivate` (boolean, optional) — Privileged read scope for admin callers. Bypasses the public visibility filter so hidden, unverified, and not-yet-published records are returned instead of being silently dropped. Defaults to private for admin API key or ROLE_ADMIN callers; client-secret/client-read callers stay public.
- `page` (integer, optional, default: 0) — Zero-based page index (0..N)
- `size` (integer, optional, default: 25) — The size of the page to be returned
- `sort` (list of string, optional) — Sorting criteria in the format: property,(asc|desc). Default sort order is ascending. Multiple sort criteria are supported.

### Body (application/json)

- `arrayFilter` (object, optional) — Array and range filters
  - `amountInvestedRange` (list of object, optional, nullable)
    - `max` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
    - `min` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
  - `amountRaisedRange` (list of object, optional, nullable)
    - `max` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
    - `min` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
  - `entityName` (list of string, optional, nullable) — Associated entity names.
  - `investedCompany` (list of string, optional, nullable) — Invested company names.
  - `personTitle` (list of string, optional, nullable) — Person titles.
  - `round` (list of string, optional, nullable) — Fundraise round labels.
  - `totalInvestmentCount` (list of object, optional, nullable)
    - `max` (integer, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum integer.
    - `min` (integer, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum integer.
  - `typeRecord` (list of enum, optional, nullable) — Associated entity type scope. Omit or use [] for any associated type.
    - Allowed values: `Company`, `Investment Firm`, `Fund`, `Nonprofit`, `Government`, `Organization`, `Business Line`, `Product`, `Service`
- `entityId` (string, optional, nullable) — Associated entity UUID.
- `entitySlug` (string, optional, nullable) — Associated entity slug.
- `firstName` (string, optional, nullable) — Person first name.
- `includeAddress` (boolean, optional, nullable) — Include addresses on each person
- `includeUrl` (boolean, optional, nullable) — Include URL links on each person
- `investorActivity` (object, optional) — Aggregate investor activity filters.
  - `averageAmountInvestedUsdRange` (list of object, optional)
    - `max` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
    - `min` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
  - `largestAmountInvestedUsdRange` (list of object, optional)
    - `max` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
    - `min` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
  - `smallestAmountInvestedUsdRange` (list of object, optional)
    - `max` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
    - `min` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
  - `totalAmountInvestedUsdRange` (list of object, optional)
    - `max` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
    - `min` (double, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum decimal number, such as 220000 or 123456.78.
  - `totalInvestmentRange` (list of object, optional)
    - `max` (integer, optional, nullable) — Inclusive maximum integer.
    - `min` (integer, optional, nullable) — Inclusive minimum integer.
- `isCurrent` (boolean, optional, nullable) — Filter current associations.
- `lastName` (string, optional, nullable) — Person last name.
- `letter` (string, optional, nullable) — First-name initial.
- `role` (string, optional, nullable) — Associated entity role or title.
- `search` (string, optional, nullable) — Search keyword or phrase. Single characters valid; stop words rejected.
- `semanticQuery` (string, optional, nullable) — Semantic person search phrase.
- `status` (string, optional, nullable) — Person workflow status.

## Response

### 200

OK

- `content` (list of object, optional)
  - `id` (string, required) — Canonical person UUID
  - `image` (object, required) — Read projection: person image fields for detail/list responses
    - `isMonogram` (boolean, required) — Whether person image monogram
    - `picture` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `nameAlias` (list of object, required) — Display and search aliases for this person
    - `name` (string, required) — Alternate name text
    - `displayable` (boolean, optional, nullable) — Show this alias in public name displays.
    - `type` (enum, optional, nullable) — Alias type classification
      - Allowed values: `nickname`, `maidenName`, `formerName`, `stageName`
  - `nameFull` (string, required)
  - `slug` (string, required) — Canonical lowercase URL slug for the resource
  - `source` (object, required) — Grouped source/provenance metadata for private v1 response fields
    - `changedAt` (datetime, optional, nullable)
    - `dataSourceUpdatedAt` (datetime, optional, nullable)
    - `detail` (string, optional, nullable)
    - `kind` (string, optional, nullable)
    - `pendingApproval` (integer, optional, nullable)
    - `sourceId` (string, optional, nullable)
    - `status` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `text` (object, required) — Grouped person text content
    - `expanded` (string, optional, nullable) — Expanded summary text
    - `generatedDescription` (string, optional, nullable) — Generated SEO meta description text
    - `short` (string, optional, nullable) — Short summary text
  - `createdAt` (datetime, optional, nullable) — Record creation timestamp
  - `gender` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `lastModifiedAt` (datetime, optional, nullable) — Provenance-grounded last-modified watermark (schema.org dateModified): the latest effective time across all writes attributed to this person.
  - `nameFirst` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `nameLast` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `nameMiddle` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `nickname` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `publicId` (string, optional, nullable) — Stable, immutable public handle (e.g. `pV1StGXR8Z5ab`). Never changes once assigned, unlike the slug. Null on projections that do not select it and on rows still awaiting handle backfill.
  - `semanticMatch` (object, optional, nullable) — Semantic embedding match evidence populated only for semantic people reads.
    - `computedAt` (datetime, required) — Timestamp when the embedding row was computed.
    - `cosineDistance` (double, required) — pgvector cosine distance where lower is closer.
    - `cosineScore` (double, required) — Cosine similarity score where higher is closer.
    - `modelVersion` (string, required) — Embedding model/profile version for this row.
    - `rank` (integer, required) — One-based semantic rank within the returned ANN candidate set.
    - `sourceHash` (string, required) — SHA-256 hash of the source content.
    - `sourceId` (string, required) — Content embedding source identifier.
    - `sourceJson` (string, required) — Serialized JSONB source document stored for the embedding row.
    - `sourceText` (string, required) — Source text used to compute the stored embedding.
    - `sourceType` (enum, required) — Stored content embedding source partition.
      - Allowed values: `entity`, `person`, `newsArticle`, `blogPost`, `text`, `classificationTag`, `classificationCode`, `product`, `service`, `agentHelpDoc`
  - `suffix` (string, optional, nullable)
  - `updatedAt` (datetime, optional, nullable) — Last modification timestamp
- `empty` (boolean, optional)
- `first` (boolean, optional)
- `last` (boolean, optional)
- `number` (integer, optional)
- `numberOfElements` (integer, optional)
- `pageable` (object, optional)
  - `offset` (long, optional)
  - `pageNumber` (integer, optional)
  - `pageSize` (integer, optional)
  - `paged` (boolean, optional)
  - `sort` (object, optional)
    - `empty` (boolean, optional)
    - `sorted` (boolean, optional)
    - `unsorted` (boolean, optional)
  - `unpaged` (boolean, optional)
- `size` (integer, optional)
- `sort` (object, optional)
  - `empty` (boolean, optional)
  - `sorted` (boolean, optional)
  - `unsorted` (boolean, optional)
- `totalElements` (long, optional)
- `totalPages` (integer, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "content": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "image": {
        "isMonogram": true,
        "picture": "string"
      },
      "nameAlias": [
        {
          "name": "Bun",
          "displayable": true,
          "type": "nickname"
        }
      ],
      "nameFull": "string",
      "slug": "aventure-vc",
      "source": {
        "changedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
        "dataSourceUpdatedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
        "detail": "string",
        "kind": "string",
        "pendingApproval": 1,
        "sourceId": "string",
        "status": "string"
      },
      "text": {
        "expanded": "Canonical expanded summary for grouped text assertions.",
        "generatedDescription": "Acme AI builds AI copilots for growth teams.",
        "short": "Canonical short summary"
      },
      "createdAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
      "gender": "string",
      "lastModifiedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
      "nameFirst": "string",
      "nameLast": "string",
      "nameMiddle": "string",
      "nickname": "string",
      "publicId": "pV1StGXR8Z5ab",
      "semanticMatch": {
        "computedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
        "cosineDistance": 1.1,
        "cosineScore": 1.1,
        "modelVersion": "string",
        "rank": 1,
        "sourceHash": "string",
        "sourceId": "string",
        "sourceJson": "string",
        "sourceText": "string",
        "sourceType": "entity"
      },
      "suffix": "string",
      "updatedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "empty": true,
  "first": true,
  "last": true,
  "number": 1,
  "numberOfElements": 1,
  "pageable": {
    "offset": 1,
    "pageNumber": 1,
    "pageSize": 1,
    "paged": true,
    "sort": {
      "empty": true,
      "sorted": true,
      "unsorted": true
    },
    "unpaged": true
  },
  "size": 1,
  "sort": {
    "empty": true,
    "sorted": true,
    "unsorted": true
  },
  "totalElements": 1,
  "totalPages": 1
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people"

querystring = {"includePrivate":"false"}

payload = {}
headers = {
    "X-Client-Secret": "<apiKey>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people?includePrivate=false';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-Client-Secret': '<apiKey>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people?includePrivate=false"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("X-Client-Secret", "<apiKey>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people?includePrivate=false")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-Client-Secret"] = '<apiKey>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people?includePrivate=false")
  .header("X-Client-Secret", "<apiKey>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people?includePrivate=false', [
  'body' => '{}',
  'headers' => [
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
    'X-Client-Secret' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people?includePrivate=false");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("X-Client-Secret", "<apiKey>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "X-Client-Secret": "<apiKey>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.aventure.vc/v1/people?includePrivate=false")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```