diff --git a/templates/types/simple/fastapi/README-template.md b/templates/types/simple/fastapi/README-template.md
index f0bfa5e089a960e2327b6ccdd4548948952b36f3..38f3c4a3fa5715639752a987051ff7a2879aa288 100644
--- a/templates/types/simple/fastapi/README-template.md
+++ b/templates/types/simple/fastapi/README-template.md
@@ -17,7 +17,13 @@ Example `backend/.env` file:
 OPENAI_API_KEY=<openai_api_key>
 ```
 
-Second, run the development server:
+Second, generate the embeddings of the documents in the `./data` directory (if this folder exists - otherwise, skip this step):
+
+```
+python app/engine/generate.py
+```
+
+Third, run the development server:
 
 ```
 python main.py