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+# A one-click self-host option in the README
+
+## What I'd like to change
+
+Add a "Deploy on InstaPods" button to the README, near Quick start or in Deploying, next to the
+existing Vercel path. One line of markdown; it links to a page that provisions the whole stack.
+
+## Why the current options leave a gap
+
+Quick start assumes Bun, Docker and a terminal. Deploying assumes three Vercel deployments plus a
+managed Postgres. Both are reasonable, and neither helps somebody who wants to *try* the CRM before
+deciding whether to run it — the agent is the interesting part, and you cannot see it work from the
+README.
+
+The thing that made us notice is in your own copy. `.env.example` says Context "is the one key that
+is asked for rather than configured: it lives in a row, the onboarding asks for it, and Settings →
+General changes it afterwards, because a self-hoster's admin cannot redeploy to set an environment
+variable." That is exactly the friction we build for. On a pod, environment variables are an edit
+box and a restart, so a self-hoster's admin *can* change one without redeploying.
+
+## What we did already, so you can judge it rather than take our word
+
+We packaged the CRM as a one-click app on InstaPods and it is live:
+
+https://app.instapods.com/dashboard/pods/create?app=crm
+
+It builds from source at a pinned commit, runs all four processes on one machine — PostgreSQL 17,
+the Nest API on Bun, the Next app, and the eve agent — behind one hostname with HTTPS. The Next
+catch-all routes already proxy `/api/*` and `/eve/v1/*`, so nothing needed a second domain. Each pod
+generates its own `BETTER_AUTH_SECRET` and `AGENT_BRIDGE_SECRET` at first boot, `ALLOWED_SIGN_IN`
+starts locked to the deploying user's own address rather than open, and the agent stays stopped
+until someone supplies `AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY`, per the rule in your `AGENTS.md` that a missing key
+removes a capability instead of throwing.
+
+Two things worth saying plainly. Sign-in is Google-only, so there is a five-minute stop in the Google
+Cloud console after deploying — the OAuth client has to name the pod's own callback URL, which cannot
+exist before the pod does. We show that URL and walk through it rather than letting people discover
+it. And we track your `main`, not a tag, since there are no releases to pin to.
+
+## What it would break
+
+Nothing in the codebase — it is a README line and an image. The cost is editorial: it puts a vendor's
+name in your README, and if our page is wrong or our hosting is down it reflects on you. Fair
+objections. If you would rather not, that is a completely reasonable answer and the app stays
+available either way.
+
+## The offer
+
+If you do want it, we pay 20% of the recurring revenue from anyone who signs up through your link,
+for as long as they stay. We would put your referral code in the URL so it is attributed to you
+rather than to us. No exclusivity, and nothing changes about the licence or the code.
+
+Either way, we would rather you told us the page is wrong than left it wrong. Contact is
+vikas@instapods.com.