## The short version

A client portal blueprint for accounting firms built with Laravel on Ample. Domain schema:
- client_entities (legal_name, entity_type, fiscal_year_end, jurisdiction): the businesses and individuals served;
- engagements (client_entity_id, service_line, period_start, period_end, status): bookkeeping, tax and audit engagements by period;
- document_requests (engagement_id, title, due_at, status, uploaded_object_key): requests for source documents;
- deliverables (engagement_id, title, object_key, released_at): returns and statements released to the client;
- document_access (document_id, principal_reference, role, granted_at): who may read which document.

Public information: service lines and typical engagement periods, filing calendars and deadlines, office locations. Kept out of scope until handling is reviewed: tax identifiers and financial statements, bank and payroll records, identity documents. Financial records and tax identifiers are regulated in most jurisdictions; the portal flows here model authorization only and claim no compliance. Technical basis verified on Laravel: a role-to-document access model with negative tests (401 without identity, 403 for the wrong role) and a private-bucket round-trip for the allowed role (private=ok).

## What it needs

- [Compute](/content/discover/primitive/compute/index.html): verified (Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs; sizes are the priced VM sizes.)
- [Postgres](/content/discover/primitive/postgres/index.html): verified (Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.)
- [S3-compatible object storage](/content/discover/primitive/s3-compatible-object-storage/index.html): verified (Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary. Other S3 operations are not verified.)

## Before you start

- A Laravel project (composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template)
- A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL (auto-provisioned when omitted)
- Bucket credentials from `ample bucket create` passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
- A review of which accounting firms data classes may be handled at all; this blueprint models public information only

## How to do it

1. **Model the accounting firms domain**  
Create the tables client_entities, engagements, document_requests, deliverables, document_access. The businesses and individuals served lives in client_entities; keep the sensitive classes (tax identifiers and financial statements, bank and payroll records, identity documents) out of this schema.

2. **Workflow step 1**  
Model client entities and engagement periods; every document belongs to one engagement

3. **Workflow step 2**  
Authorize by client entity and role before any storage access (401 without identity, 403 for the wrong client)

4. **Workflow step 3**  
Store documents in the private bucket and stream them through the app

5. **Workflow step 4**  
Deploy and verify the negative authorization tests and an authorized download

6. **Deploy**  
Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result. Re-running with no change is a no-op.
   
```bash
ample deploy . --name <app-name> --public --env S3_ENDPOINT=... --env S3_REGION=... --env S3_BUCKET=... --env S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... --env S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
```

7. **Verify**  
Run the pattern self-test(s) from the example (/p/private-document-library) and your own acceptance checks for the accounting firms workflow.

```bash
ample logs <deployment_id> --kind build
```

## Tested examples

- **Laravel pattern fixture** (`tests/deploy-canaries/laravel-patterns`): Verified private document library basis for this blueprint.

## How to know it worked

- app responds on its public URL (`/` on the live URL, expect ample canary laravel patterns)
- private-document-library self-test from the example (`/p/private-document-library` on the live URL, expect see the pattern fixture checks)

## Cost estimate

Estimated 10.00 USD per month (size prices from pricing.toml at build revision ca0b484a7a9957c573a88d3a32dc603c3c10135a).

- app server x1 `s-1vcpu-1gb`: 5.00 USD
- managed PostgreSQL database x1 `s-1vcpu-1gb`: 5.00 USD

Upper-bound monthly price of the tested sizes. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

## Verification evidence

- canary_run on 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z at revision `118ad1c6d7d23d4c2ce069254bab9ec9d37cd57b (CLI 118ad1c)`: Laravel pattern fixture deployed on Ample (composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template); the private document library checks passed: a role-to-document access model with negative tests (401 without identity, 403 for the wrong role) and a private-bucket round-trip for the allowed role (private=ok). The blueprint's Accounting firms schema and workflow below build on that verified basis and were not separately executed. (expires 2027-03-19T20:36:21Z)

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- Read the existing agent authentication setup (`GET /mcp/setup` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Browse Accounting firms (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/industry%3Aaccounting-firms` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)  
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## Identifiers and status

Recipe `page:blueprints:accounting-firms:client-portal:laravel`. Revision r1.

release **published**
support **verified**
execution **blocked (schema_changed: live tool schema differs from the recorded binding)**

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