diff --git a/fast/stages/00-bootstrap/README.md b/fast/stages/00-bootstrap/README.md
index 9290b343..8edf9f19 100644
--- a/fast/stages/00-bootstrap/README.md
+++ b/fast/stages/00-bootstrap/README.md
@@ -189,7 +189,9 @@ organization={
 }
 # create your own 4-letters prefix
 prefix="fast"
-outputs_location = "../../fast-config"
+
+# comment out if you want to leverage automatic generation of configs
+# outputs_location = "~/fast-config"
 ```
 
 ### Output files and cross-stage variables
@@ -199,9 +201,11 @@ At any time during the life of this stage, you can configure it to automatically
 Automatic generation of files is disabled by default. To enable the mechanism,  set the `outputs_location` variable to a valid path on a local filesystem, e.g.
 
 ```hcl
-outputs_location = "../../config"
+outputs_location = "~/fast-config"
 ```
 
+This is especially suited for initial bootstrapping and development. You might want to adapt it to your practices for production deployments.
+
 Once the variable is set, `apply` will generate and manage providers and variables files, including the initial one used for this stage after the first run. You can then link these files in the relevant stages, instead of manually transfering outputs from one stage, to Terraform variables in another.
 
 Below is the outline of the output files generated by all stages:
@@ -238,8 +242,8 @@ terraform apply \
 Once the initial `apply` completes successfully, configure a remote backend using the new GCS bucket, and impersonation on the automation service account for this stage. To do this you can use the generated `providers.tf` file if you have configured output files as described above, or extract its contents from Terraform's output, then migrate state with `terraform init`:
 
 ```bash
-# if using output files via the outputs_location and set to `../../config`
-ln -s ../../config/providers/00-bootstrap* ./
+# if using output files via the outputs_location and set to `~/fast-config`
+ln -s ~/fast-config/providers/00-bootstrap* ./
 # or from outputs if not using output files
 terraform output -json providers | jq -r '.["00-bootstrap"]' \
   > providers.tf
diff --git a/fast/stages/03-project-factory/dev/data/projects/a.yaml b/fast/stages/03-project-factory/dev/data/projects/a.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b