diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/NodeAPITest.tsx b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/NodeAPITest.tsx
index a6f4427b60..270b54840f 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/NodeAPITest.tsx
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/NodeAPITest.tsx
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ const NodeAPITest = () => {
       return;
     }
 
+    setResultImages([]);
+
     // set up socket.io listeners
 
     // TODO: suppose this should be handled in the socket.io middleware?
@@ -190,10 +192,16 @@ const NodeAPITest = () => {
       <IAIButton onClick={handleCancelProcessing} colorScheme="error">
         Cancel Processing
       </IAIButton>
-      <IAIButton onClick={handleCreateSession} colorScheme="accent">
-        Create Session
-      </IAIButton>
       <IAIButton
+        onClick={handleCreateSession}
+        colorScheme="accent"
+        loadingText={`Invoking ${
+          progress === null ? '...' : `${Math.round(progress * 100)}%`
+        }`}
+      >
+        Create Session & Invoke
+      </IAIButton>
+      {/* <IAIButton
         onClick={handleInvokeSession}
         loadingText={`Invoking ${
           progress === null ? '...' : `${Math.round(progress * 100)}%`
@@ -201,7 +209,7 @@ const NodeAPITest = () => {
         colorScheme="accent"
       >
         Invoke
-      </IAIButton>
+      </IAIButton> */}
       <Flex wrap="wrap" gap={4} overflow="scroll">
         <Image
           src={progressImage?.dataURL}
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/store.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/store.ts
index 152c988a1d..a8599641ca 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/store.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/app/store.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import uiReducer from 'features/ui/store/uiSlice';
 import apiReducer from 'services/apiSlice';
 
 import { socketioMiddleware } from './socketio/middleware';
+import { invokeMiddleware } from 'services/invokeMiddleware';
 
 /**
  * redux-persist provides an easy and reliable way to persist state across reloads.
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ export const store = configureStore({
     getDefaultMiddleware({
       immutableCheck: false,
       serializableCheck: false,
-    }).concat(socketioMiddleware()),
+    }).concat(socketioMiddleware(), invokeMiddleware),
   devTools: {
     // Uncommenting these very rapidly called actions makes the redux dev tools output much more readable
     actionsDenylist: [
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/buildGraph.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/buildGraph.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14da1ae655
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/buildGraph.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
+
+import { RootState } from 'app/store';
+import { InvokeTabName, tabMap } from 'features/ui/store/tabMap';
+import { Graph } from 'services/api';
+import { buildTxt2ImgNode } from './buildNodes';
+
+function mapTabToFunction(activeTabName: InvokeTabName) {
+  switch (activeTabName) {
+    case 'txt2img':
+      return buildTxt2ImgNode;
+
+    default:
+      return buildTxt2ImgNode;
+  }
+}
+
+export const buildGraph = (state: RootState): Graph => {
+  const { activeTab } = state.ui;
+  const activeTabName = tabMap[activeTab];
+  const nodeId = uuidv4();
+
+  return {
+    nodes: {
+      [nodeId]: {
+        id: nodeId,
+        ...mapTabToFunction(activeTabName)(state),
+      },
+    },
+  };
+};
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/buildNodes.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/buildNodes.ts
index 273521d0f2..6973a97505 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/buildNodes.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/buildNodes.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import { RootState } from 'app/store';
 import {
   ImageToImageInvocation,
@@ -12,10 +11,12 @@ import {
 // be todo add symmetry fields
 // be todo variations....
 
-export function buildTxt2ImgNode(state: RootState): TextToImageInvocation {
+export function buildTxt2ImgNode(
+  state: RootState
+): Omit<TextToImageInvocation, 'id'> {
   const { generation, system } = state;
 
-  const { shouldDisplayInProgressType, openModel } = system;
+  const { shouldDisplayInProgressType, model } = system;
 
   const {
     prompt,
@@ -30,7 +31,6 @@ export function buildTxt2ImgNode(state: RootState): TextToImageInvocation {
 
   // missing fields in TextToImageInvocation: strength, hires_fix
   return {
-    id: uuidv4(),
     type: 'txt2img',
     prompt,
     seed,
@@ -40,12 +40,14 @@ export function buildTxt2ImgNode(state: RootState): TextToImageInvocation {
     cfg_scale,
     sampler_name: sampler as TextToImageInvocation['sampler_name'],
     seamless,
-    model: openModel as string | undefined,
+    model,
     progress_images: shouldDisplayInProgressType === 'full-res',
   };
 }
 
-export function buildImg2ImgNode(state: RootState): ImageToImageInvocation {
+export function buildImg2ImgNode(
+  state: RootState
+): Omit<ImageToImageInvocation, 'id'> {
   const { generation, system } = state;
 
   const { shouldDisplayInProgressType, openModel: model } = system;
@@ -65,7 +67,6 @@ export function buildImg2ImgNode(state: RootState): ImageToImageInvocation {
   } = generation;
 
   return {
-    id: 'a',
     type: 'img2img',
     prompt,
     seed,
@@ -86,7 +87,9 @@ export function buildImg2ImgNode(state: RootState): ImageToImageInvocation {
   };
 }
 
-export function buildFacetoolNode(state: RootState): RestoreFaceInvocation {
+export function buildFacetoolNode(
+  state: RootState
+): Omit<RestoreFaceInvocation, 'id'> {
   const { generation, postprocessing } = state;
 
   const { initialImage } = generation;
@@ -95,7 +98,6 @@ export function buildFacetoolNode(state: RootState): RestoreFaceInvocation {
 
   // missing fields in RestoreFaceInvocation: type, codeformer_fidelity
   return {
-    id: uuidv4(),
     type: 'restore_face',
     image: {
       image_name:
@@ -106,7 +108,9 @@ export function buildFacetoolNode(state: RootState): RestoreFaceInvocation {
 }
 
 // is this ESRGAN??
-export function buildUpscaleNode(state: RootState): UpscaleInvocation {
+export function buildUpscaleNode(
+  state: RootState
+): Omit<UpscaleInvocation, 'id'> {
   const { generation, postprocessing } = state;
 
   const { initialImage } = generation;
@@ -115,7 +119,6 @@ export function buildUpscaleNode(state: RootState): UpscaleInvocation {
 
   // missing fields in UpscaleInvocation: denoise_str
   return {
-    id: uuidv4(),
     type: 'upscale',
     image: {
       image_name:
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/parameters/components/ProcessButtons/InvokeButton.tsx b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/parameters/components/ProcessButtons/InvokeButton.tsx
index b68f245044..07363ded1a 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/parameters/components/ProcessButtons/InvokeButton.tsx
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/parameters/components/ProcessButtons/InvokeButton.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { activeTabNameSelector } from 'features/ui/store/uiSelectors';
 import { useHotkeys } from 'react-hotkeys-hook';
 import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next';
 import { FaPlay } from 'react-icons/fa';
+import { createSession } from 'services/thunks/session';
 
 interface InvokeButton
   extends Omit<IAIButtonProps | IAIIconButtonProps, 'aria-label'> {
@@ -24,7 +25,8 @@ export default function InvokeButton(props: InvokeButton) {
   const activeTabName = useAppSelector(activeTabNameSelector);
 
   const handleClickGenerate = () => {
-    dispatch(generateImage(activeTabName));
+    // dispatch(generateImage(activeTabName));
+    dispatch(createSession());
   };
 
   const { t } = useTranslation();
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/invokeMiddleware.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/invokeMiddleware.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b5909f98b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/invokeMiddleware.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { Middleware } from '@reduxjs/toolkit';
+import { setSessionId } from './apiSlice';
+import { invokeSession } from './thunks/session';
+
+export const invokeMiddleware: Middleware = (store) => (next) => (action) => {
+  const { dispatch } = store;
+
+  if (action.type === 'api/createSession/fulfilled' && action?.payload?.id) {
+    console.log('createSession.fulfilled');
+
+    dispatch(setSessionId(action.payload.id));
+    // types are wrong but this works
+    dispatch(invokeSession({ sessionId: action.payload.id }));
+  } else {
+    next(action);
+  }
+};
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/thunks/session.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/thunks/session.ts
index 0c22fcd474..a1ce7260c9 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/thunks/session.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/thunks/session.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { createAppAsyncThunk } from 'app/storeUtils';
 import { SessionsService } from 'services/api';
+import { buildGraph } from 'common/util/buildGraph';
 
 /**
  * createSession thunk
@@ -18,7 +19,16 @@ type CreateSessionRequestBody = Parameters<
 export const createSession = createAppAsyncThunk(
   'api/createSession',
   async (arg: CreateSessionRequestBody, _thunkApi) => {
-    const response = await SessionsService.createSession({ requestBody: arg });
+    let graph = arg;
+    if (!arg) {
+      const { getState } = _thunkApi;
+      const state = getState();
+      graph = buildGraph(state);
+    }
+
+    const response = await SessionsService.createSession({
+      requestBody: graph,
+    });
 
     return response;
   }