diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e11d09a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+name: Continuous integration
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - "dev*"
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
+        python-version: ["3.10", 3.11, 3.12]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          cache: "pip"
+
+      - name: Update pip and install the package
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install ".[test]"
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: |
+          python -m pytest tests
+
+      - name: Install and run linters
+        if: |
+          matrix.python-version == 3.11
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install ".[dev]"
+          python -m ruff check .
+          python -m ruff format --check .
+
+    #   - name: Generate Report
+    #     run: |
+    #         coverage run -m pytest
+    #         coverage xml
+
+    #   - name: Upload Coverage to Codecov
+    #     uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+    #     with:
+    #         file: ./coverage.xml
+    #         flags: unittests
+    #         verbose: true
+    #         token: ${{secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN}}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e66d1f5..feb506d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,25 @@
 This is the open-source code repository for the internal ParliAI project, allowing other developers to replicate non-sensitive features of the project and to encourage future collaboration and development in this space. Please do contact us at [datasciencecampus@ons.gov.uk](datasciencecampus@ons.gov.uk) to discuss this or any of our other projects.
 
 ## Installation
-Details to follow...
+
+You are strongly recommended to install resources into a virtual environment. Project setup can be achieved as follows:
+
+``` bash
+$ git clone https://github.com/datasciencecampus/parliai-public.git
+$ cd parliai-public
+$ python -m venv venv
+$ source venv/bin/activate
+$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+$ python -m pip install .
+```
+
+> \[!NOTE\] If you intend on doing any development work, please install the package as editable (`-e`) and with the `dev` optional dependencies:
+>
+> ``` bash
+> $ python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
+> ```
+>
+> Moreover, once you have installed the package, please install the pre-commit hooks. These hooks help us to ensure repository security and a consistent code style.
 
 ### Pre-commit actions
 This repository contains a configuration of pre-commit hooks. These are language agnostic and focussed on repository security (such as detection of passwords and API keys). If approaching this project as a developer, you are encouraged to install and enable `pre-commits` by running the following in your shell:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28f4fcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+[project]
+name = "parliai_public"
+description = "Using LLMs to capture coverage of organisations, people or themes in UK political debate."
+authors = [
+    { name = "Data Science Campus", email = "datasciencecampus@ons.gov.uk" }
+]
+readme = "README.md"
+license = { file = "LICENSE" }
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+dynamic = ["version"]
+dependencies = [
+    "bs4>=0.0.1",
+    "email-validator>=2.1.0.post1",
+    "feedparser>=6.0.11",
+    "google-cloud-secret-manager>=2.19.0",
+    "langchain-community>=0.0.13",
+    "langchain-google-vertexai>=0.0.1",
+    "langchain>=0.1.0",
+    "notifications-python-client>=9.0.0",
+    "python-dotenv>=1.0.1",
+    "toml>=0.10.2",
+    "tqdm>=4.66.1",
+]
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=69"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["src"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = { attr = "parliai_public.__version__" }
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+parliai_public = ["_config/*.toml"]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+test = [
+    "hypothesis>=6.98.6",
+    "pytest>=8.0.0",
+    "pytest-cov>=4.1.0",
+    "pytest-randomly>=3.15.0",
+    "python-dateutil>=2.9.0",
+]
+dev = [
+    "pre-commit==3.3.3",
+    "ruff==0.3.0",
+    "parliai_public[test]"
+]
+
+# `coverage` configurations
+[tool.coverage.run]
+source = [
+    "./src"
+]
+omit = ["**/__init__.py"]
+
+[tool.coverage.report]
+exclude_lines = [
+    "if __name__ == .__main__.:"
+]
+
+[tool.ruff]
+line-length = 79
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+extend-select = ["D", "I", "W"]
+ignore = ["D105", "D107", "D202"]
+
+[tool.ruff.lint.isort]
+known-first-party = ["parliai_public"]
+
+[tool.ruff.lint.pydocstyle]
+convention = "numpy"
diff --git a/src/parliai_public/__init__.py b/src/parliai_public/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e1ac55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/parliai_public/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+"""Using LLMs to capture coverage of organisations, people or themes in UK political debate."""
+
+__version__ = "0.0.1"
+
+__all__ = [
+    "__version__",
+]
diff --git a/src/parliai_public/_config/.gitkeep b/src/parliai_public/_config/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6909a11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""Unit tests for the entire package."""
diff --git a/tests/test_placeholder.py b/tests/test_placeholder.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28921f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_placeholder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+"""Example test to facilitate CI operation."""
+
+
+def test_temp():
+    """Test message."""
+    msg = "I am a test"
+    assert msg == "I am a test"