diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cd67eac..7a67571 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,8 @@
 .Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.Rdata
+.httr-oauth
+.DS_Store
+.quarto
+local/
+secrets/
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e9db20f..6371d45 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -8,14 +8,19 @@ Description: We find ourselves repeating the same simple tasks or running a seri
 License: GPL (>= 3)
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
-RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
 Imports:
     cli,
     dbplyr,
     dplyr,
     fs,
+    gert,
+    gh,
+    readr,
+    renv,
     rlang,
     stringr,
+    usethis,
     withr
 Suggests:
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
diff --git a/R/project.R b/R/project.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..feb127b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/project.R
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+#' @title Create Project
+#' @description Creates a new R project with a standard directory structure
+#'
+ojo_create_project <- function(name = NULL, description = NULL, dir = ".", private = TRUE, packages = NULL) {
+  # Get the initial working directory
+  init_wd <- fs::path_wd()
+
+  # TODO: Default to using OJO_PATH env var for project location
+
+  # Get full path of project directory
+  project_dir <- fs::path_abs(paste0(dir, "/", name))
+
+  # If name is NULL, first try to use interactive CLI, otherwise fail
+  if (is.null(name)) {
+    if (rlang::is_interactive()) {
+      # TODO: Get variable interactively
+    } else {
+      rlang::abort("No project name provided, and no support for interactive definition available in this environment.")
+    }
+  }
+
+  # TODO: Check name matches conventions and isn't taken
+  # TODO: If interactive, offer to change
+
+  # TODO: Check description format
+  # TODO: If description NULL offer to create
+
+  # TODO: Wrap API call and issue custom error message
+  # Create Github repo from project template
+  gh_resp <- gh::gh(
+    "POST /repos/openjusticeok/ojo-project-template/generate",
+    owner = "openjusticeok",
+    name = name,
+    description = description,
+    private = private
+  )
+
+  # Have to give github the time to transfer the repo
+  # TODO: Base this on an API call?
+  Sys.sleep(1)
+
+  usethis::create_from_github(
+    repo_spec = glue::glue("git@github.com:openjusticeok/{name}.git"),
+    destdir = dir,
+    fork = FALSE,
+    rstudio = TRUE,
+    open = FALSE,
+    protocol = "ssh"
+  )
+
+  # Prefill readme with title line
+  readr::write_lines(
+    x = c(
+      paste0("# ", name),
+      description
+    ),
+    sep = "\n\n",
+    file = fs::path(project_dir, "README.md"),
+    append = FALSE
+  )
+
+  # TODO: Ask in cli if you want to edit the readme further
+
+  # Init renv
+  renv::init(
+    project = project_dir,
+    bare = TRUE,
+    load = FALSE,
+    restart = FALSE
+  )
+
+  # Add pak
+  renv::install(
+    packages = c(
+      "pak"
+    ),
+    prompt = FALSE,
+    lock = TRUE,
+    project = project_dir
+  )
+
+  # Stage all changed files
+  gert::git_add(
+    files = c("*", ".*"),
+    repo = project_dir
+  )
+
+  # Commit changes
+  gert::git_commit(
+    message = "Scaffold project",
+    repo = project_dir
+  )
+
+  # Push changes to Github
+  gert::git_push(repo = project_dir)
+
+  # Return the directory of the project invisibly
+  invisible(project_dir)
+}
diff --git a/man/ojo_create_project.Rd b/man/ojo_create_project.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e201b44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/ojo_create_project.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/project.R
+\name{ojo_create_project}
+\alias{ojo_create_project}
+\title{Create Project}
+\usage{
+ojo_create_project(name = NULL, dir = ".", private = TRUE)
+}
+\description{
+Creates a new R project with a standard directory structure
+}