Deployments

Deploy a documentation site in minutes. Profound provisions a Vercel preview from a CMS template, wires it to your workspace's environment variables, and lets you keep editing pages right from the admin panel.

Create a new website

From the dashboard, click Create Website, give it a name and a domain, and pick the Documentation Template as your starting point. You can customize everything later.

Generate an API key

Open the API & Dev Tools tab from the sidebar. The deployment needs a workspace API key to read content from the CMS at build time and runtime ; click API Keys in the top right and generate one. Copy the key; you'll paste it into the deploy dialog next.

Create a deployment

Back in the Deployment section, click Create Deployment. In the dialog, pick the Docs site template, give the deployment a name, and paste your key into PROFOUND_API_KEY. The other environment variables (website ID, CMS API URL, CDN URL) are pre-filled from your workspace.

Click Deploy. Profound forks the template repo, creates a Vercel project, and kicks off the first build. You'll see the deployment appear with a Building status.

Point your website at the deployment

Once the build finishes, Profound prompts you to update your website URL to the new Vercel preview. Click Yes, update URL so the admin's "View Site" links and the template builder preview all point at the live deployment.

Add a page and lay it out

Open Pages and create a new page - for this walkthrough, /en/headless/quickstart. Open it in the template builder and add the UI elements you want: a Header, UISidebar, Categories, Post, UIContent, and UIFooter cover a typical docs layout.

Each UI element has variants; pick the one that fits, then configure its content in the right rail. Hit Republish and your page is live.

That's it! your docs site is deployed, and any further edits in the admin appear on the live URL without a redeploy.