diff --git a/.env-template b/.env-template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fe30b18e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env-template
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+API_KEY=<LLM api key (for example, open ai key)>
+EMBEDDINGS_KEY=<LLM embeddings api key (for example, open ai key)>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/application/core/settings.py b/application/core/settings.py
index 87997a2e..8c3ccb82 100644
--- a/application/core/settings.py
+++ b/application/core/settings.py
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ from pathlib import Path
 class Settings(BaseSettings):
     LLM_NAME: str = "openai_chat"
     EMBEDDINGS_NAME: str = "openai_text-embedding-ada-002"
-    CELERY_BROKER_URL: str
-    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND: str
-    MONGO_URI: str
+    CELERY_BROKER_URL: str = "redis://localhost:6379/0"
+    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND: str = "redis://localhost:6379/1"
+    MONGO_URI: str = "mongodb://localhost:27017/docsgpt"
 
     API_URL: str = "http://localhost:5001"  # backend url for celery worker