Your gateway to the next generation of investors

The Variant API is your gateway to connecting with the next generation of investors and building your avatar's identity in capital markets. Everything a creator does in the app, you can drive from your own code:

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A Variant avatar is fully programmable: give it a persona (name, face, investing lens) and its own channel, then wire your workflows into it and drive everything a creator does from code — create the avatar, publish videos to its channel, and broadcast to subscribers.

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Before you can generate a key or create channels, you need a set-up account:

1. Sign up in the Variant app (phone number).
2. Complete onboarding (username, picks, style).
3. Generate your avatar from a photo.

Key generation and channel creation stay locked until your account has an avatar— that is, until you've created your first avatar and have a valid, onboarded Variant account (set up in the app). Once you have that first avatar, you can spin up more avatars via the API.

Get started — sign up or log in with your phone number

Your selfie

→

Realistic

→

Cartoon

Your selfie becomes a realistic + a cartoon avatar — both used across the app

Keys are created and managed here, in your browser — this is the one place you sign in with your account. Log in with the same phone number as your app, generate a key, and copy it (shown only once). Use that key everywhere else via curl.

Send your key as a Bearer token on every request. Keep it in an environment variable:

export VARIANT_API_KEY="ftk_your_key_here"

# then on each request:
#   -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

The key is the identity — you never pass a user id or avatar id in the request. A key acts as whichever avatar it was minted for (its channel, its face). Your first key is you (your primary avatar).

Once you've created more avatars, mint a key for each and choose which avatar you publish as by which key you send in the Bearer header. Same endpoint, same body — only the key changes:

# publish as your tech avatar → its channel + face
curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/videos -H "Authorization: Bearer ftk_TECH_KEY"  ...

# publish as your consumer avatar → its channel + face
curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/videos -H "Authorization: Bearer ftk_CONSUMER_KEY"  ...

Manage keys (and see which avatar each one acts as) in Get your API key.

Your account can run several avatars — say a tech-focused one and a consumer-focused one. Each has its own face, channel, followers, and broadcasts; they all share one token wallet (your account). The account you signed up as is your primary avatar.

To publish as a given avatar, authenticate with that avatar's key. Swap the Bearer key to switch avatars — nothing in the request body changes.

Create an avatar

Creates a full creator identity: its own generated face (from the required imageUrl), its own channel, and its own research voice. username and imageUrl are required; optional: bio, philosophy, strategy, topPicks (up to 3 tickers), channelName, and channelDescription.

Costs 40 tokens (20 for the face + 20 for its channel), charged to your account wallet and refunded if creation fails. 402 if your balance is too low.

curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/avatars \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "username": "boardroom_alpha",
    "imageUrl": "https://example.com/face.png",
    "strategy": "activist",
    "philosophy": "An activist-oriented investor focused on operational turnarounds and the levers that unlock margin growth.",
    "bio": "Long term investor and student of the greats (Buffett, Ackman, Loeb).",
    "topPicks": ["NKE", "CMG", "DIS"],
    "channelName": "Boardroom Alpha",
    "channelDescription": "Value meets activism — operational turnarounds and capital allocation that unlock a re-rate."
  }'

{
  "avatarId": "cmr...",
  "username": "boardroom_alpha",
  "channelHandle": "boardroomalpha"
}

List your avatars

curl https://variantmobile.com/api/avatars -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

{
  "accountId": "cmr...",
  "count": 2,
  "avatars": [
    { "avatarId": "cmr...", "username": "you",       "isPrimary": true,  "channels": [ ... ] },
    { "avatarId": "cmr...", "username": "tech_desk", "isPrimary": false, "channels": [ ... ] }
  ]
}

Get avatar face images

Returns the active realistic + cartoon face, plus every past generation (as realistic.all, cartoon.all, and paired pairs). Defaults to the avatar the key belongs to; pass ?avatarId=<id> for another avatar under the same account. The private selfie is never returned.

curl https://variantmobile.com/api/avatars/faces -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

Get avatar info

Profile + gamification for an avatar: numeric level (1–100), named tierband (Analyst…Whale), membership tier, followers/following, streak, strategy/style/bio, and lifetime stats (published videos, total likes). Defaults to the key's avatar; pass ?avatarId=<id> for another avatar under the same account.

curl https://variantmobile.com/api/avatars/info -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

Mint a key for an avatar

Returns the avatar's key once. Authenticate with it to publish or broadcast as that avatar. No request body is required; pass an optional name to label the key (it defaults to @<avatar>). You can also mint per-avatar keys from the API-keys panel above.

curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/avatars/AVATAR_ID/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

{
  "avatarId": "cmr...",
  "prefix": "ftk_ab12cd",
  "token": "ftk_...   // shown once — this avatar's key"
}

Publish as an avatar

Every publish/broadcast endpoint is unchanged — the key alone decides which avatar and channel it lands on:

# publish AS the tech avatar — same body, only the key changes
curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ftk_TECH_AVATAR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "videos": [ { "type": "pitch", "title": "...", "ticker": "NVDA", "positionType": "LONG", "sourceText": "..." } ] }'

Create one or more channels owned by you. Each channel's branded image is generated automatically in the background, so the response comes back right away without it (it appears on the channel a few seconds later). Creating your first channel turns your account into a creator.

Each channel costs 20 tokens(same as creating one in the app). If you don't have enough, the request fails with a 402 and nothing is created — see Tokens.

# store your key once
export VARIANT_API_KEY="ftk_your_key_here"

curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/channels \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "channels": [
      { "name": "Value Desk", "styleTag": "value", "bio": "Deep-value ideas." }
    ]
  }'

Send up to 10 channels at once in the channels array. Each succeeds or fails independently:

{
  "created": [
    { "channelId": "cmr...", "handle": "valuedesk" }
  ],
  "errors": []
}

List your channels

While a channel's image is still generating, its imageStatus is pending and image is null; both flip to ready/ the image URL once it's attached.

curl https://variantmobile.com/api/channels -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

{
  "channels": [
    {
      "channelId": "cmr...",
      "name": "Value Desk",
      "handle": "valuedesk",
      "styleTag": "value",
      "bio": "Deep-value ideas.",
      "image": null,
      "imageStatus": "pending",   // "ready" once the image is attached
      "followers": 0,
      "videos": 0,
      "createdAt": "2026-07-03T12:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Generate a video on your account — the same flow as the app. Variant writes a script from your source material and renders a short vertical video narrated by your avatar. Rendering is asynchronous (a few minutes), then it publishes to your channel. You need at least one channel first.

Which avatar publishes it is decided by the Bearer key you send. Use an avatar's key to publish as that avatar (its channel, its face); swap the key to publish as a different one — see Authentication.

Stock Pitch & Research

Both the pitch and research formats are created through /api/videos via the type field. Each costs 100 tokens. (News has its own endpoint — see below.)

curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "videos": [
      {
        "type": "pitch",
        "title": "Why AAPL is still a buy",
        "ticker": "AAPL",
        "positionType": "LONG",
        "sourceText": "Services margin expansion, buybacks, a cheap install base...",
        "avatarMode": "cartoon"
      }
    ]
  }'

Up to 5 videos per request. The response returns immediately with each new video's id:

{
  "created": [
    { "videoId": "cmr...", "status": "GENERATING" }
  ],
  "errors": []
}

News videos

A News video is a broadcast-style segment about any company news. Supply a ticker and free text (the story or details) — or a sourcePdfUrl to pull the text from a PDF; Variant writes a substantive, thesis-first anchor script from it — leading with the takeaway — over a looped industry b-roll (your avatar reports it at a news desk). It's the cheapest format at just 50 tokens (half a pitch/research video), same async rendering, and it publishes to your channel.

curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/news \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "text": "Apple unveiled a new AI services tier today, opening a fresh high-margin revenue line and...",
    "avatarMode": "realistic"
  }'

{
  "videoId": "cmr...",
  "status": "GENERATING",
  "balance": 950
}

Check status

Rendering is async, so poll a video until its status is PUBLISHED and videoUrl is set. GET /api/videos lists all of yours; GET /api/videos/{id} is one:

curl https://variantmobile.com/api/videos/VIDEO_ID -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

{
  "video": {
    "videoId": "cmr...",
    "title": "Why AAPL is still a buy",
    "type": "PITCH",
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "videoUrl": "https://...blob.../videos/....mp4",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://...",
    "job": { "stage": "DONE", "progress": 100, "error": null }
  }
}

Send a message to everyone who follows you— it arrives as a push + an in-app notification, and shows on your profile to subscribers. Same as the app's “Message your followers.” As with videos, the Bearer key decides which avatar broadcasts— the message goes to that avatar's followers.

• message — 5–280 characters, profanity-checked. Over the limit returns a 422 with a field error.
• Requires at least 2 followers; rate-limited to 5 per hour.
• Costs 5 tokens per blast.

The in-app composer — the API sends the same blast

curl -X POST https://variantmobile.com/api/broadcast \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "message": "New pitch just dropped — take a look!" }'

{ "sent": 42 }

sent is how many followers received it.

List your blasts

The messages you've sent (newest first) — the same ones shown on your profile.

curl https://variantmobile.com/api/broadcast -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

{
  "broadcasts": [
    {
      "id": "cmr...",
      "message": "New pitch just dropped — take a look!",
      "createdAt": "2026-07-04T17:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Actions that create content cost tokens. New accounts start with a balance, and you top up in the Variant app — there is no purchase API.

Check your current balance any time:

curl https://variantmobile.com/api/balance -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARIANT_API_KEY"

{ "tokenBalance": 100 }

Every error is shaped { "error": "message" } (plus an issues object on validation failures).