# Patterns

Source: https://docs.native.no/norn/patterns

> **Preview.** The Norn API is not live yet. This page describes the planned interface; names and fields can change before access opens.

Ways to build with Norn: an idea feed in your product, a first week of posts for every new customer, a person in the loop, and ideas for an agent.

Norn is a building block. These are the shapes we expect it to fit first. Each one uses only the calls in these docs.

## An idea feed in your product

For a content tool, a social media manager or a CMS: show each customer a short list of ideas for their brand, ready to use or skip.

1. Create a brand for each customer when they sign up, from the website they gave you.
2. Ask for three to five ideas when they open the planner, or once each morning.
3. Show `title`, `hook` and `why_now`, and keep `sources` one click away so people can check where an idea came from.
4. Send every decision back: used, changed or skipped. Ask for a reason now and then, not on every skip. Native does the same, so reasons keep coming without nagging.

## A first week of posts for every new customer

For a website builder, a booking system or a CRM: the moment a business signs up, you know its website. Turn that into its first week of posts.

TypeScript:

```ts
const brand = await norn('POST', '/brands', {
  website: signup.website,
  country: signup.country,
})
await waitUntilReady(brand.id)

const batch = await norn('POST', '/ideas', { brand: brand.id, count: 5 })
const done = await waitUntilDone(batch.id)
for (const idea of done.data) {
  await drafts.create({ customerId: signup.id, title: idea.title, prompt: idea.prompt })
}
```

`norn` is a small helper around `fetch` that adds your access token, as in the [Quickstart](https://docs.native.no/norn/quickstart). `waitUntilReady` asks for the brand every ten seconds until its `status` is `ready`, and `waitUntilDone` asks for the batch every 15 seconds until it is `done`. Both throw when the status is `failed`, so a failure ends the job instead of waiting forever. Run this in a background job: a brand and a batch together take minutes, not milliseconds.

## A person in the loop

For agencies and teams that approve everything before it goes out: let Norn propose and let people decide. Ask for more ideas than you need, show the top few to whoever approves, and send every decision back. Approvals tell Norn what good looks like for this client. Reasons tell it why.

## Ideas for an AI agent

If you build an agent that writes and posts on its own, have it call Norn first and write from the `prompt`. The agent keeps doing what language models are good at, the writing, and Norn decides what is worth writing about.

## Later: checking drafts before they go out

When [predictions](https://docs.native.no/norn/predictions) arrive, the loop can also run the other way: your team or your models write, and Norn ranks the drafts before anything is published.