## The short version

A client portal blueprint for digital agencies built with Django on Ample. Domain schema: client_entities (name, brand, primary_contact_role): client brands; engagements (client_entity_id, campaign_or_project, period_start, period_end, status): retainers and projects; approval_rounds (engagement_id, round_no, asset_object_key, status, decided_at): creative approval rounds; deliverables (engagement_id, title, object_key, version): final assets delivered; document_access (document_id, principal_reference, role, granted_at): who may read which document. Public information: services and case studies, team, contact. Kept out of scope until handling is reviewed: unreleased creative and campaign plans, client analytics exports, brand credentials. Unreleased creative is confidential; brand platform credentials never belong in these flows. Technical basis verified on Django: 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 Django project (pip install into .ample/python from requirements.txt, then waitress serving project.wsgi from run.py reading PORT on the python-3.12 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 digital agencies data classes may be handled at all; this blueprint models public information only

## How to do it

1.

### Model the digital agencies domain

Create the tables client_entities, engagements, approval_rounds, deliverables, document_access. Client brands lives in client_entities; keep the sensitive classes (unreleased creative and campaign plans, client analytics exports, brand credentials) 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.

```
ample deploy . --name <app-name> --public --start "python3 run.py" --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 digital agencies workflow.

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

## Tested examples

- **Django pattern fixture** (`tests/deploy-canaries/django-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 django 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 2026-09-20T03:31:44Z at revision `03b6402b1b3e19178985f08ea4033804521d85d4 (CLI b75e104)`: Django pattern fixture deployed on Ample (pip install into .ample/python from requirements.txt, then waitress serving project.wsgi from run.py reading PORT on the python-3.12 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 Digital agencies schema and workflow below build on that verified basis and were not separately executed. (expires 2027-03-19T03:31:44Z)

## 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 Digital agencies (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/industry%3Adigital-agencies` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Browse Client portal (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/workload%3Aclient-portal` on the api origin; authentication not required, approval not required)
- Browse Django (`GET /v1/catalog/nodes/stack%3Aframework-django` 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.

## About this recipe

## Identifiers and status

Recipe `page:blueprints:digital-agencies:client-portal:django`. Revision r1.

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

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