diff --git a/Prototypes/Cloud.wl b/Prototypes/Cloud.wl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07df471
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Prototypes/Cloud.wl
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+CreateNotebookRenderAPI[] := Module[  {function,api,form},
+  function = Function[ Module[{nb, co}, nb = Import[URLDownload[#url]]; co = CloudPublish[nb]; HTTPRedirect[First[co]] ]];
+  api = APIFunction[{"url" -> "String"}, function, "CloudCDF"];
+  CloudDeploy[api, CloudObject["api/render-notebook"],  Permissions -> "Public"];
+  form = FormFunction[{"url" -> "String"}, function, "CloudCDF"];
+  CloudDeploy[form, CloudObject["form/render-notebook"],  Permissions -> "Public"];
+];
+
+RenderOnlineNotebook[ url_ ] :=  Module[{},
+  If[ Not @ $CloudConnected, CloudConnect[] ];
+  SystemOpen[ First[$CloudRootDirectory] <> "/api/render-notebook?url=" <> URLEncode[url]];
+];
diff --git a/Prototypes/PacletInfo.m b/Prototypes/PacletInfo.m
index 1986dfb..761a012 100644
--- a/Prototypes/PacletInfo.m
+++ b/Prototypes/PacletInfo.m
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@
 "Prototypes`$LocalAppDataDirectory",
 "Prototypes`$LocalResourceObjects",
 "Prototypes`$RoamingAppDataDirectory",
-"Prototypes`$UUIDStringPattern", "Prototypes`LayeredGeoGraphics"},
+"Prototypes`$UUIDStringPattern", "Prototypes`LayeredGeoGraphics",
+"Prototypes`RenderOnlineNotebook","Prototypes`CreateNotebookRenderAPI"},
      Context -> {"Prototypes`"} }
   }
 ]
diff --git a/Prototypes/Prototypes.wl b/Prototypes/Prototypes.wl
index 85d5663..4fafa65 100644
--- a/Prototypes/Prototypes.wl
+++ b/Prototypes/Prototypes.wl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Begin["`Private`"];
 Module[ {files},
 
   (* load in any session *)
-  files = {"Build.wl", "Dataset.wl", "Files.wl",
+  files = {"Build.wl", "Dataset.wl", "Files.wl", "Cloud.wl",
   "Image.wl", "Language.wl", "Paclet.wl", "Formats.wl",
   "Resources.wl", "Search.wl", "String.wl", "Color.wl",
   "Entities.wl", "WolframAlpha.wl", "Translation.wl","GeoGraphics.wl"};
diff --git a/Prototypes/Usage.wl b/Prototypes/Usage.wl
index d3b0d25..01c8946 100644
--- a/Prototypes/Usage.wl
+++ b/Prototypes/Usage.wl
@@ -105,3 +105,6 @@ TranslationCell::usage = "TranslationCell[text,lang] prints a \"Text\" cell cont
 GeoService::usage = "GeoService[name] provides GeoServer 'name' for geographical functions. Use GeoService[\"Properties\"] for a list. Use with GeoServer option.";
 LayeredGeoGraphics::usage = "LayeredGeoGraphics[primitives,layers] creates a layered GeoGraphics map for the specified GeoService layers";
 FormatDetect::usage = "FormatDetect[format,data] checks if 'data' (String/List/ByteArray) matches 'format' (PNG/JPG/GIF)";
+(* cloud *)
+CreateNotebookRenderAPI::usage = "CreateNotebookRenderAPI[] creates the cloud api functions used by RenderOnlineNotebook";
+RenderOnlineNotebook::usage = "RenderOnlineNotebook[url] reads 'url' and opens a private editable copy";