Add AI to Your App in 5 Minutes

Prerequisites

• A Behest AI account (free, sign up at behest.ai/dashboard — no credit card required)
• Any HTTP client — fetch, axios, requests, curl, or your language of choice

1Get Your API Key

1. Sign up at behest.ai/dashboard
2. Create a new project
3. Configure your allowed CORS origins (e.g., http://localhost:3000 for local development)
4. Copy your project API key

Your project URL will look like https://your-project.behest.app

2Make Your First API Call

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch(
  "https://your-project.behest.app/v1/chat/completions",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "Authorization": "Bearer your-api-key",
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      model: "gemini-2.5-flash",
      messages: [
        { role: "user", content: "Summarize this contract" }
      ],
    }),
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.choices[0].message.content);

Python (requests)

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://your-project.behest.app/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer your-api-key",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={
        "model": "gemini-2.5-flash",
        "messages": [
            {"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this contract"}
        ],
    },
)

data = response.json()
print(data["choices"][0]["message"]["content"])

curl

curl -X POST https://your-project.behest.app/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer your-api-key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gemini-2.5-flash",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this contract"}
    ]
  }'

3What Happens Automatically

When you make that API call, Behest handles everything behind the scenes:

Next Steps