diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 927d983..3733488 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,6 +18,28 @@ The Dat SDK combines the lower level pieces of the Dat ecosystem into high level
   - React-Native?
   - Electron?
 
+## API/Examples (Promise)
+
+```js
+// Auto-detects sane defaults based on your environment
+// Uses Beaker's APIs if they are if they are available
+// DatArchive is the same as Beaker
+// https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/apis/dat
+const {DatArchive} = require('dat-sdk/auto')
+
+const archive = await DatArchive.load('dat://dat.foundation')
+
+const someData = await DatArchive.readFile('/dat.json', 'utf8')
+
+console.log('Dat foundation dat.json:', someData)
+
+const myArchive = await DatArchive.create({
+  title: 'My Archive'
+})
+
+await myArchive.writeFile('/example.txt', 'Hello World!')
+```
+
 ## API/Examples (Callbacks)
 
 ```js
@@ -160,6 +182,10 @@ trie.put('key', 'value', () => {
   - [x] Ability to close drives
   - [x] Check that hypercore replication is working
   - [x] Release v0.2.0
+- [x] Initial Promise API / Beaker support
+  - [x] Implement DatArchive API over CB based SDK
+  - [x] Expose 'auto' module that automatically configures the SDK
+  - [x] Release
 - [ ] New Hyperdrive and Hyperswarm and Corestore
   - [ ] Add corestore for replication
   - [ ] virtual-corestore API
@@ -172,8 +198,8 @@ trie.put('key', 'value', () => {
   - [ ] Test that hypercore still works using web storage / proxying
   - [ ] Make sure tests work in Node / Web / Beaker
   - [ ] Release
-- [ ] Initial Promise API
-  - [ ] Draft API (Hyperdrive, Hypercore, DNS, Corestore)
+- [ ] Promise API for new data types
+  - [ ] Draft API (Hypercore, DNS, Corestore)
   - [ ] Create wrappers over Callback API
   - [ ] Auto-detect presence of Beaker APIs and use those
   - [ ] Release
diff --git a/auto.js b/auto.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eeaecc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/auto.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+const global = require('global')
+
+if (global.DatArchive) {
+  module.exports = {
+    DatArchive: global.DatArchive,
+    destroy: () => void 0
+  }
+} else {
+  module.exports = require('./promise')()
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 06d1ab0..38bb035 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
     "dat-dns": "^4.0.0",
     "dat-encoding": "^5.0.1",
     "dom-event-target": "^1.0.0",
+    "global": "^4.4.0",
     "hex-to-32": "^2.0.0",
     "hypercore": "^7.5.0",
     "hypercore-crypto": "^1.0.0",
diff --git a/promise.js b/promise.js
index 1cfbbfa..a7e5499 100644
--- a/promise.js
+++ b/promise.js
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ module.exports = function SDK (opts) {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       function cb (err, result) {
         // Ignore errors saying we're up to date
-        if(err && err.message !== 'No update available from peers') reject(err)
+        if (err && err.message !== 'No update available from peers') reject(err)
         else resolve(result)
       }
       if (archive.metadata.peers.length) {
@@ -153,16 +153,6 @@ module.exports = function SDK (opts) {
         this.url = this.url || `dat://${archive.key.toString('hex')}`
         this._loadPromise = null
 
-        // if (!archive.writable && !archive.metadata.length) {
-        //   // wait to receive a first update
-        //   await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-        //     archive.metadata.update(err => {
-        //       if (err) reject(err)
-        //       else resolve()
-        //     })
-        //   })
-        // }
-
         var s = toEventTarget(pda.createNetworkActivityStream(this._archive))
 
         s.addEventListener('network-changed', detail =>
@@ -462,8 +452,9 @@ module.exports = function SDK (opts) {
       return archive
     }
 
-    static async create ({ title, description, type, author } = {}) {
-      const archive = new DatArchive(null)
+    static async create (options = {}) {
+      const { title, description, type, author } = options
+      const archive = new DatArchive(null, options)
 
       await archive._loadPromise