## The short version

A documentation site blueprint for creator businesses built with Next.js on Ample. Domain schema:

- **customer_workspaces** (name, membership_tier, joined_at): member accounts or communities;
- **content_items** (title, tier_required, object_key, published_at, version): versioned content releases;
- **customer_assets** (workspace_id, title, object_key, visibility): downloads granted to a member;
- **releases** (content_item_id, version, notes): release notes per version;
- **state_transitions** (record_type, from_state, to_state): the allowed state machine.  
Public information: free content and previews, membership tiers, creator profile. Kept out of scope until handling is reviewed: member identity and payment status, private community posts.  
Member payment status comes from your payment provider; it is not modeled here and no PCI claim is made.  
Technical basis verified on Next.js: a workspace-scoped table, an explicit state machine (draft to review to published) that rejects invalid transitions, and a cross-workspace read that returns nothing (transitions=true isolation=true).

## 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.)
- [CDN](/content/discover/primitive/cdn/index.html): verified (A published bucket's objects are served at its public_url. It does not front app compute and is not a cache or key-value store.)

## Before you start

- A Next.js project (next build then next start -H 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT on the node-22 template)
- A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL (auto-provisioned when omitted)
- Bucket credentials from `ample bucket create` passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables and a published bucket for public assets (CDN_*)
- A review of which creator businesses data classes may be handled at all; this blueprint models public information only

## How to do it

1. 1

### Model the creator businesses domain

Create the tables customer_workspaces, content_items, customer_assets, releases, state_transitions. Member accounts or communities lives in customer_workspaces; keep the sensitive classes (member identity and payment status, private community posts) out of this schema.

2. 2

### Workflow step 1

Model versioned documents with a state machine (draft, review, published) scoped to a product version

3. 3

### Workflow step 2

Publish assets for released versions to the CDN bucket

4. 4

### Workflow step 3

Serve only published versions publicly

5. 5

### Workflow step 4

Deploy and verify the version list and a published page

6. 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=... --env CDN_PUBLIC_URL=...
```

7. 7

### Verify

Run the pattern self-test(s) from the example (/p/relational-records) and your own acceptance checks for the creator businesses workflow.

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

## Tested examples

- **Next.js pattern fixture** (`tests/deploy-canaries/next-js-patterns`): Verified relational records basis for this blueprint.

## How to know it worked

- app responds on its public URL (`/` on the live URL, expect ample canary next js patterns)
- relational-records self-test from the example (`/p/relational-records` 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 2026-09-21T02:34:39Z at revision `1d28ae0 (CLI 0.1.21)`: Next.js pattern fixture deployed on Ample (next build then next start -H 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT on the node-22 template); the relational records checks passed: a workspace-scoped table, an explicit state machine (draft to review to published) that rejects invalid transitions, and a cross-workspace read that returns nothing (transitions=true isolation=true). The blueprint's Creator businesses schema and workflow below build on that verified basis and were not separately executed. (expires 2027-03-20T02:34:39Z)

## Execution binding

MCP tool `ample_deploy` (registry `mcp:ample_deploy`), schema hash `876465fce906da0c` observed 2026-09-22T00:31:22.774679+00:00 at revision `e6446ceea69b`. Binding state at export: schema_changed. Required scopes: servers:write, databases:read, buckets:read.

## Typed next actions

- Browse the catalog index (`GET /v1/catalog` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Search published recipes by intent, stack and constraints (`POST /v1/catalog/search` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Prepare a side-effect-free deployment plan for an authorized project (`POST /v1/catalog/plan` on the api origin; authentication required, approval not required)
- Read the existing agent authentication setup (`GET /mcp/setup` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Browse Creator businesses (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/industry%3Acreator-businesses` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Browse Documentation site (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/workload%3Adocumentation-site` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Browse Next.js (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/stack%3Aframework-next-js` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Browse Deploy web app (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/intent%3Adeploy-web-app` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)  
Actions describe possible next steps. They are typed data, not commands, and grant no permission. Public discovery never provisions anything; planning requires your own authenticated token and approval happens in your client.

## Identifiers and status

Recipe `page:blueprints:creator-businesses:documentation-site:next-js`. Revision r1.  
release **published** support **verified** execution **blocked (schema_changed: live tool schema differs from the recorded binding)**  
Formats: [HTML](/content/blueprints/creator-businesses/documentation-site/next-js/index.html) | [Markdown](/content/blueprints/creator-businesses/documentation-site/next-js.md) | [JSON contract](https://api.ample.computer/v1/catalog/recipes/page%3Ablueprints%3Acreator-businesses%3Adocumentation-site%3Anext-js)