diff --git a/outlines/fsm/guide.py b/outlines/fsm/guide.py
index b7b121fe6..ec3f9b53c 100644
--- a/outlines/fsm/guide.py
+++ b/outlines/fsm/guide.py
@@ -90,6 +90,43 @@ def is_final_state(self, state: Any) -> bool:
     def copy(self) -> "Guide":
         ...
 
+    def accepts(self, token_ids: List[int], state=None) -> bool:
+        """
+        Determine whether the sequence, `token_ids`, is accepted by the Guide.
+        `token_ids` doesn't need to complete the guide to be accepted.
+        """
+        try:
+            self.derive(token_ids, state)
+            return True
+        except ValueError:
+            return False
+
+    def derive(self, token_ids: List[int], state=None) -> Union["Guide", None]:
+        """
+        TODO: Docstring
+        """
+        if state is None:
+            state = self.initial_state
+        for token_id in token_ids:
+            instruction = self.get_next_instruction(state)
+
+            # determine if token_id allowed by instruction
+            if isinstance(instruction, Write):
+                raise NotImplementedError("TODO")
+            elif isinstance(instruction, Generate):
+                if (
+                    instruction.tokens is not None
+                    and token_id not in instruction.tokens
+                ):
+                    raise ValueError("Cannot advance state with provided token_ids")
+            else:
+                raise TypeError(f"Expected instruction, got {instruction}")
+
+            # advance state
+            state = self.get_next_state(state, token_id)
+
+        return state
+
 
 class StopAtEOSGuide(Guide):
     """Guide to generate tokens until the EOS token has been generated."""
@@ -487,3 +524,214 @@ def must_terminate_state(self, state: CFGState) -> bool:
     def copy(self) -> "CFGGuide":
         """Create a copy of the Guide."""
         return CFGGuide(self.cfg_string, self.tokenizer)
+
+
+@cache()
+def build_vocab_prefix_map(tokenizer: "Tokenizer") -> Dict[str, Set[Tuple[str, Tuple]]]:
+    """Build a map from token prefix to Set[Tuple[suffix, aligment_token_id, suffix_token_ids]]"""
+
+    # precompute the token ids of all vocab suffixes
+    suffixes = list(
+        {tok[i:] for tok in tokenizer.vocabulary for i in range(1, len(tok))}
+    )
+    encoded_suffixes, _ = tokenizer.encode(suffixes)
+    encoded_suffixes = [
+        [tok for tok in seq_ids if tok != tokenizer.pad_token_id]
+        for seq_ids in encoded_suffixes.tolist()
+    ]
+    suffix_map = dict(zip(suffixes, map(tuple, encoded_suffixes)))
+    suffix_map[""] = tuple()
+
+    # compute prefix-suffix map for all tokens, s.t. prefix + suffix = token
+    prefix_map = collections.defaultdict(set)
+    for token, token_id in tokenizer.vocabulary.items():
+        for i in range(1, len(token) + 1):
+            prefix_map[token[:i]].add((token[i:], suffix_map[token[i:]]))
+    return prefix_map
+
+
+AlignmentGuideState = collections.namedtuple(
+    "AlignmentGuideState", ["legal_path_map", "child_guide_state"]
+)
+
+
+class AlignmentGuide(Guide):
+    def __init__(
+        self, prompt: str, tokenizer: "Tokenizer", child_guide: Optional[Guide] = None
+    ):
+        """
+        Initialize the AlignmentGuide with a prompt, tokenizer, and an optional child guide.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        prompt : str
+            The prompt text to be aligned with the generated tokens.
+        tokenizer : Tokenizer
+            Tokenizer used to align the prompt.
+        child_guide : Guide, optional
+            A guide to take control after alignment is complete. None -> Unconstrained after alignment
+        """
+        self.prompt = prompt
+        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        self.child_guide = child_guide
+
+        alignment_seqs, child_guide_ids = self._get_alignment_sequences(
+            prompt, tokenizer, child_guide
+        )
+        alignment_prompt_ids, common_prompt_len = self._get_longest_common_prompt_ids(
+            alignment_seqs
+        )
+
+        self.alignment_prompt = self.tokenizer.decode(
+            [alignment_seqs[0, :common_prompt_len]]
+        )[0]
+
+        # calculate map of alignment_prompt continuation tokens -> child_guide advancement tokens
+        legal_paths = [
+            tuple([t for t in seq if t != tokenizer.pad_token_id])
+            for seq in alignment_seqs[:, common_prompt_len:].tolist()
+        ]
+        legal_path_map = dict(zip(legal_paths, child_guide_ids))
+
+        self.initial_state = AlignmentGuideState(
+            legal_path_map=legal_path_map, child_guide_state=None
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_alignment_sequences(
+        prompt: str, tokenizer: "Tokenizer", child_guide: Optional[Guide] = None
+    ):
+        """
+        Calculate all possible sequences which are valid with a prompt + child_guide
+        E.g. prompt="hello wo", child guide accepts "rld" -> tokenization ["hello", "world"] is valid
+
+        Returns tuple of (alignment_seqs, child_guide_ids) of same length
+        - alignment_seqs:
+            All token sequences which can represent `prompt` + start of generation. The last token
+            must represent the end of the prompt can extend beyond the prompt to start generation.
+            Sequences are only included if the start of generation portion is legal with child guide.
+        - child_guide_ids:
+            Token to send to the child guide to simulate the start of generation. In the example above
+            "world" is the last alignment seq token, therefore we must advance the state of the child
+            guide with the tokenization of "rld" in order to continue generation with the child guide.
+        """
+        guide_accepts: Dict[
+            Tuple[int], bool
+        ] = {}  # cache of suffix acceptance for child_guide.accepts()
+
+        # prompts with alignment tokens at end
+        aligned_prompt_completions: List[str] = []
+        # tokens to feed child guide once alignment completes
+        child_guide_ids: List[Tuple] = []
+
+        # compute alignment seqs which are valid with prompt and child guide
+        for prefix, alignment_details in build_vocab_prefix_map(tokenizer).items():
+            if prompt.endswith(prefix):
+                for suffix, suffix_ids in alignment_details:
+                    if child_guide is None:
+                        aligned_prompt_completions.append(prompt + suffix)
+                        child_guide_ids.append(tuple())
+                    elif guide_accepts.setdefault(
+                        suffix_ids, child_guide.accepts(suffix_ids)
+                    ):
+                        aligned_prompt_completions.append(prompt + suffix)
+                        child_guide_ids.append(suffix_ids)
+
+        alignment_seqs, _ = tokenizer.encode(aligned_prompt_completions)
+        return alignment_seqs, child_guide_ids
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_longest_common_prompt_ids(alignment_seqs):
+        """
+        Among all candidate prompt alignment seqs, get the longest shared prefix and their length
+        """
+        # get longest common prefix among alignment sequences, which will form our alignment prompt
+        common = (
+            (alignment_seqs.unsqueeze(1) == alignment_seqs.unsqueeze(0))
+            .all(0)
+            .cumprod(1)
+        )
+        common_len = common.sum(1).max().item()
+        return alignment_seqs[0, :common_len], common_len
+
+    def get_next_instruction(self, state: AlignmentGuideState) -> Instruction:
+        """
+        Return the next set of valid tokens for generation based on the current state.
+
+        If alignment hasn't completed:
+            tokens which continue one of the candidate alignment paths are legal
+        If alignment has completed:
+            get instruction from the child guide
+        """
+        if state.legal_path_map is not None:
+            return Generate(
+                sorted({token_ids[0] for token_ids in state.legal_path_map.keys()})
+            )
+        elif self.child_guide is None:
+            return Generate(None)
+        else:
+            return self.child_guide.get_next_instruction(state.child_guide_state)
+
+    def get_next_state(
+        self, state: AlignmentGuideState, token_id: int
+    ) -> AlignmentGuideState:
+        """
+        Get AlignmentGuideState advanced by token ID.
+
+        If alignment has completed:
+            get instruction from the child guide
+        If alignment hasn't completed:
+            Filter out alignment paths which don't start with token_id
+            Remove First token from remaining paths
+        If advancing the state completes alignment:
+            Advance the child_guide state
+        """
+        if state.legal_path_map is None:
+            if self.child_guide is not None:
+                return AlignmentGuideState(
+                    legal_path_map=None,
+                    child_guide_state=self.child_guide.get_next_state(
+                        state.child_guide_state, token_id
+                    ),
+                )
+            else:
+                return AlignmentGuideState(None, None)
+        else:
+            next_state_legal_path_map = {
+                key[1:]: value
+                for key, value in state.legal_path_map.items()
+                if key[0] == token_id
+            }
+            # if none remaining, advance the child guide
+            if not any(next_state_legal_path_map):
+                if self.child_guide is not None:
+                    child_guide_advancement_ids = next(
+                        iter(next_state_legal_path_map.values())
+                    )
+                    return AlignmentGuideState(
+                        legal_path_map=None,
+                        child_guide_state=self.child_guide.derive(
+                            child_guide_advancement_ids, state.child_guide_state
+                        ),
+                    )
+                else:
+                    return AlignmentGuideState(None, None)
+
+            # if paths remaining, return advanced legal_path_map
+            else:
+                return AlignmentGuideState(
+                    legal_path_map=next_state_legal_path_map,
+                    child_guide_state=state.child_guide_state,
+                )
+
+    def is_final_state(self, state: AlignmentGuideState) -> bool:
+        if state.legal_path_map is not None:
+            return False
+        elif self.child_guide is None:
+            return True
+        else:
+            return self.child_guide.is_final_state(state.child_guide_state)
+
+    def copy(self):
+        """AlignmentGuide isn't mutated"""
+        return self
diff --git a/tests/fsm/test_alignment_guide.py b/tests/fsm/test_alignment_guide.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d823b7a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fsm/test_alignment_guide.py
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+from outlines.fsm.guide import AlignmentGuide, RegexGuide
+from outlines.models.transformers import TransformerTokenizer
+
+
+class MockTokenizer:
+    def __init__(self, vocabulary):
+        self.vocabulary = {tok: i for i, tok in enumerate(vocabulary)}
+        self.vocabulary["<eos>"] = len(self.vocabulary)
+        self.special_tokens = {"<eos>"}
+        self.eos_token_id = self.vocabulary["<eos>"]
+        self.pad_token_id = -1
+
+        self.inverse_vocabulary = {i: tok for tok, i in self.vocabulary.items()}
+
+    def convert_token_to_string(self, token):
+        return token
+
+    def decode(self, token_ids):
+        if token_ids == []:
+            return ""
+        if isinstance(list(token_ids)[0], list):
+            return [
+                "".join(map(self.inverse_vocabulary.get, token_ids_sublist))
+                for token_ids_sublist in token_ids
+            ]
+        return [self.inverse_vocabulary[int(token_id)] for token_id in token_ids]
+
+    def encode(self, texts):
+        """
+        Encodes the input texts by finding the longest matching tokens in the vocabulary.
+        """
+        seqs = []
+        for text in texts:
+            tokens = []
+            while text:
+                token = next(
+                    (
+                        tok
+                        for tok in sorted(self.vocabulary, key=len, reverse=True)
+                        if text.startswith(tok)
+                    ),
+                    None,
+                )
+                if token is None:
+                    tokens = [self.pad_token_id]
+                    break
+                tokens.append(self.vocabulary[token])
+                text = text[len(token) :]
+            seqs.append(tokens)
+
+        max_len = max(len(seq) for seq in seqs)
+        padded_seqs = torch.tensor(
+            [seq + [self.pad_token_id] * (max_len - len(seq)) for seq in seqs]
+        )
+        return padded_seqs, None
+
+
+def test_alignment_with_pseudo_token_and_regex_guide():
+    # Mock tokenizer with the vocabulary for "hello", "world", "wo", "rld", and "!"
+    tokenizer = MockTokenizer(["hello", " world", " wo", "rld", "!"])
+    prompt = "hello wo"
+
+    # Create a RegexGuide that expects the sequence "rld!"
+    child_guide = RegexGuide(regex_string="rld!", tokenizer=tokenizer)
+
+    # Create the AlignmentGuide with the child guide
+    guide = AlignmentGuide(prompt, tokenizer, child_guide=child_guide)
+
+    assert guide.alignment_prompt == "hello"
+
+    # assert " world!" is legal and final
+    seq = [tokenizer.vocabulary[" world"], tokenizer.vocabulary["!"]]
+    assert guide.accepts(seq)
+    assert guide.is_final_state(guide.derive(seq, guide.initial_state)) is True
+
+
+def test_alignment_guide_gpt2_url():
+    # Based on notebook
+    # https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/blob/af63e6/notebooks/tutorials/token_healing.ipynb#L4
+    tokenizer = TransformerTokenizer(AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2"))
+    prompt = "The url of Google is http:"
+    guide = AlignmentGuide(prompt, tokenizer)
+    assert guide.alignment_prompt == "The url of Google is http"
+    assert guide.accepts(list(tokenizer.encode("://google.com")[0][0]))