Restrict or Hide Stage Options on Deal Creation

Restrict or Hide Stage Options on Deal Creation

Here's my case that I'm trying to solve.

We use Zoho for our mortgage company, and I need to be able to restrict the stages users have access to (Stages are "Getting Started", "Application Complete", "Pre-approved", "Setup", etc....)
Our workflow is the following:
1. User creates deal
2. Blueprint restricts user from moving deal stage and only allows ops team to move it forward

However, on deal creation, I want to be able to force the stage to be "Getting Started", so they have to go through the correct deal progression.