---
title: "Deploy Exponential"
description: "Open-source workspace for goals, projects, meetings and your AI agents"
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/exponential
---

# Deploy Exponential

Open-source workspace for goals, projects, meetings and your AI agents

**[Deploy Exponential on Railway](https://railway.com/template/exponential)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/exponential/manifest.json

- **Creator:** J△MΞS's Projects
- **Category:** Other
- **Total deploys:** 3

## Template content

### app

- **Image:** ghcr.io/positonic/exponential-app:latest
- **Health check:** /api/health
- **Public domain:** Yes

### scheduler

- **Image:** ghcr.io/positonic/exponential-scheduler:latest

### postgres

- **Image:** pgvector/pgvector:pg16

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Exponential on Railway

Exponential is an open-source workspace for running your work: projects and actions, goals and OKRs, meetings, decisions and a CRM, all linked together. AI features such as meeting summaries and semantic search are optional. This template gives you your own private install, with your data in your own database.

## About Hosting Exponential

The template starts three services: the Exponential app, a scheduler that runs its background jobs on a timer, and Postgres with the pgvector extension for your data. Every secret is generated for you, and no API key is needed to get started. On each start the app applies any pending database migrations, so the first deploy takes a few minutes. When it is up, the app's logs show a one-time setup token: use it at your install's /setup page to become the admin. Email sign-in, OAuth and AI keys can be added later as variables on the app service.

## Common Use Cases

- A private project and task workspace for a team that wants to keep its own data
- Goals and OKRs linked to the projects and actions that move them forward
- Meeting notes, decisions and follow-ups kept in the same place as the work

## Dependencies for Exponential Hosting

- Postgres 16 with the pgvector extension (included: `pgvector/pgvector:pg16`)
- The prebuilt Exponential app and scheduler images (`ghcr.io/positonic/exponential-app`, `ghcr.io/positonic/exponential-scheduler`), built from https://github.com/positonic/exponential

### Implementation Details

**Claim your install first.** When the deploy finishes, open the **app** service's logs and find the block that starts `This install has no admin yet`. It shows your `/setup` link and a one-time setup token. Enter your email and the token there: you become the instance admin, and sign-up switches to invite-only. Do this straight away, because anyone with the token can claim the install.

**Signing in again.** Until you set up email, the admin's sign-in codes are written to the app's logs (`AUTH_LOG_SIGN_IN_CODES=true`), so anyone who can read those logs can sign in as the admin. Before inviting anyone, add `SMTP_HOST`, `SMTP_PORT`, `SMTP_USER`, `SMTP_PASSWORD` and `EMAIL_FROM` (or `AUTH_POSTMARK_KEY`) to the **app** service, which stops the logging. If you use a Google or Discord OAuth app instead, also set `AUTH_LOG_SIGN_IN_CODES=false`: OAuth alone doesn't stop codes going to the logs.

**AI is optional.** Add `OPENAI_API_KEY` or `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` to the **app** service and redeploy. The startup log lists which AI features are on.

**Updating.** The template uses the `latest` images. Redeploy the app and scheduler to update; migrations run when the app starts.

## Why Deploy Exponential on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Exponential on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.

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