Get Started

AI Launch Kit is an open-source (Apache 2.0), agent-first website template: three peer apps in one repo — the site itself (apps/web), an MCP server (apps/mcp), and a REST API (apps/api) — plus a CLI that checks your AEO structure before you ship. Whatever a human visitor can do on the site, an MCP client can do too; that parity is enforced in CI, not just documented.

This page is the shortest path from nothing to a deployed site.

Install

1. Scaffold — pnpm create ailk@latest creates the three-app skeleton: apps/web, apps/mcp, apps/api.
2. Install dependencies — pnpm install pulls the monorepo's shared packages. The repo uses pnpm workspaces throughout — not npm, not yarn.
3. Audit — ailk audit scores your AEO structure and catches missing schema or pages without JSON-LD before you ship, not after.
4. Deploy — one-command deploy to Vercel. The MCP and API apps ship alongside the web app.

Prerequisites and per-platform detail live in Installation.

Where to go next

• What is AI Launch Kit? — the overview: what an agent-first, AEO-optimized template is and why it exists.
• Architecture — the three peer apps and the CI-enforced parity test that keeps the human UI and the MCP surface in sync.
• Page types and schema — typed page types with per-type validation, emitting JSON-LD straight from frontmatter.
• MCP and the agent surface — the agent-callable surface, .well-known/mcp.json, and pointing an MCP client at a running site.
• CLI reference — create-ailk and ailk audit in full.

All of the docs cover the open-source layer — no signup or paid tier is required to read them or to run the template.