Quickstart

Cantila is a hosting cloud you talk to. Drop files in. Cantila detects the stack. You get a URL. This page takes you from no account to a live deploy in five steps.

1. Create an account

Sign up at cantila.app/signup. Email + password is enough; the SSO button uses Cantila's bundled OIDC provider when one is configured for your organisation.

When the form returns you to the Console, you're on console.cantila.app/dashboard — the dashboard is the front door from here on.

2. Open Chat Deploy

From the sidebar, pick Chat Deploy. This is the conversational entry point — one thread that turns intent or files into a running deployment.

You can do two things:

• Drop files in. A zip, a folder, a GitHub repo URL. Cantila reads the project, detects the stack, infers env vars, and starts a build.
• Describe what you want. "Ship me a Next.js blog with a Postgres." Cantila generates the project, scaffolds it, and deploys.

3. Watch the build

The thread streams every action: stack detected, deps installed, env wired, build started. Every step is a concrete, reversible operation that also shows up in the dashboard's Activity feed.

A first deploy typically takes about three minutes. Cantila auto-wires:

• A managed Postgres, with the connection string injected as DATABASE_URL before the first build runs.
• A free <slug>.cantila.app subdomain with SSL.
• A project mailbox (Phase 2 — see auto-wired services).
• An SMS number (Phase 3 — see auto-wired services).

4. Visit your URL

When the build is green, the thread prints live · https://<slug>.cantila.app and the dashboard's project card flips to live. Click through; the app is real.

5. Take it further

From here:

• Attach a custom domain. Project → Domains → Buy or transfer in. DNS, SSL, and email records auto-wire. See Cantila Domains.
• Add the CLI. npm i -g @cantila/cli. See the Cantila CLI.
• Add Cantila to Claude. One config snippet to make cantila_deploy a native capability in any Claude surface. See the MCP server.
• Set up Git push-to-deploy. Connect a repo so every push builds and every PR gets a preview URL. See push-to-deploy.