diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c707583..4e4015c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,8 +11,12 @@
 </div>
 <br />
 
+See [usage](https://github.com/daylinmorgan/viv/blob/main/docs/usage.md) for more demo gifs.
+
 ## Setup
 
+### Manual (Recommended)
+
 Start by cloning the repo and symlinking the script for access to the CLI.
 By default it will symlink `./src/viv/viv.py` to `~/bin/viv`.
 You can set `PREFIX` to symlink to a different location.
@@ -29,20 +33,98 @@ Place this directory on the python path in your rc file.
 export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/.viv/src"
 ```
 
-Then in any python script with external dependencies you can add this line.
+### Pypi (Not Recommended)
+
+```sh
+pip install viv
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+Then in any python script with external dependencies you can add this line,
+to automate env creation and installation of dependencies.
 
 ```python
 __import__("viv").activate("click")
 ```
 
-## Usage
-
-To remove all viv venvs:
+To remove all `vivenvs`:
 ```sh
 viv remove $(viv list -q)
 ```
 
+## Standalone Function
+
+The below function can be freely pasted at the top of your scripts and requires
+no modification of your PYTHONPATH or import of additional modules.
+
+It can be auto-generated with for example: `viv freeze rich --standalone`.
+
+The only part necessary to modify if copied verbatim from here is the call to `_viv_activate`.
+
+```python
+# <<<<< auto-generated by daylinmorgan/viv (v.22.12a3)
+# fmt: off
+def _viv_activate(*pkgs: str, track_exe: bool = False, name: str = "") -> None: # noqa
+    i,m,e = __import__,map,lambda x: True if x else False # noqa
+    if not {*m(type, pkgs)} == {str}: raise ValueError(f"spec: {pkgs} is invalid") # noqa
+    ge,sys,P,exe = i("os").getenv,i("sys"),i("pathlib").Path,i("sys").executable # noqa
+    vivcache = (P(ge("XDG_CACHE_HOME",P.home()/".cache"))/"viv"/"venvs");vivcache.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) # noqa
+    spec,exe_path = [*pkgs], (str(P(exe).resolve()) if track_exe else "N/A") # noqa
+    hash = i("hashlib").sha256(); hash.update(str(spec).encode()) # noqa
+    if track_exe: hash.update(exe_path.encode()) # noqa
+    _id = hash.hexdigest() # noqa
+    name, envpath = (lambda n: (n,vivcache/n))(name if name else _id) # noqa
+    if name not in (d.name for d in vivcache.iterdir()) or ge("VIV_FORCE"): # noqa
+        run = i("subprocess").run; i("venv").EnvBuilder(with_pip=True, clear=True).create(envpath) # noqa
+        with (envpath/"pip.conf").open("w") as f:f.write("[global]\ndisable-pip-version-check = true") # noqa
+        p = run([envpath/"bin"/"pip","install","--force-reinstall", *spec], universal_newlines=True, # noqa
+            **dict(zip(("stdout","stderr"),[(-1,-2),(None,)*2,][e(ge("VIV_VERBOSE"))]))) # noqa
+        if (p.returncode!=0)*envpath.is_dir():i("shutil").rmtree(str(envpath)) # noqa
+        if p.returncode!=0:sys.stderr.write(f"pip had non zero exit ({p.returncode})\\n{p.stdout}");sys.exit(p.returncode) # noqa
+        with (envpath/"viv-info.json").open("w") as f: # noqa
+            i("json").dump({"created":str(i("datetime").datetime.today()),"id":_id,"spec":spec,"exe":exe},f) # noqa
+    sys.path = [p for p in (*sys.path, str(*(envpath/"lib").glob("py*/si*"))) if p!=i("site").USER_SITE] # noqa
+
+_viv_activate("markdown-it-py==2.2.0", "mdurl==0.1.2", "Pygments==2.14.0", "rich==13.3.2") # noqa
+
+# fmt: on
+# >>>>> code golfed with <3
+
+```
+
 ## Alternatives
 
-- `pipx`
-- `pip-run`
+### [pip-run](https://github.com/jaraco/pip-run)
+
+```sh
+pip-run (10.0.5)
+├── autocommand (2.2.2)
+├── jaraco-context (4.3.0)
+├── jaraco-functools (3.6.0)
+│   └── more-itertools (9.1.0)
+├── jaraco-text (3.11.1)
+│   ├── autocommand (2.2.2)
+│   ├── inflect (6.0.2)
+│   │   └── pydantic>=1.9.1 (1.10.5)
+│   │       └── typing-extensions>=4.2.0 (4.5.0)
+│   ├── jaraco-context>=4.1 (4.3.0)
+│   ├── jaraco-functools (3.6.0)
+│   │   └── more-itertools (9.1.0)
+│   └── more-itertools (9.1.0)
+├── more-itertools>=8.3 (9.1.0)
+├── packaging (23.0)
+├── path>=15.1 (16.6.0)
+├── pip>=19.3 (23.0.1)
+└── platformdirs (3.1.0)
+```
+
+### [pipx](https://github.com/pypa/pipx/)
+
+```sh
+pipx (1.1.0)
+├── argcomplete>=1.9.4 (2.1.1)
+├── packaging>=20.0 (23.0)
+└── userpath>=1.6.0 (1.8.0)
+    └── click (8.1.3)
+```
diff --git a/docs/usage.md b/docs/usage.md
index 353e737..fd16c44 100644
--- a/docs/usage.md
+++ b/docs/usage.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 *NOTE*: these demo gif's are a work in progress. If you'd like to see them you can run `vhs` locally with `make docs`.
 
+<div align="center">
 # Demo
 
 <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daylinmorgan/viv/main/docs/demo.gif" alt="demo" width=600 >
@@ -13,3 +14,5 @@
 # List | Info | Remove
 
 <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daylinmorgan/viv/main/docs/list-info-remove.gif" alt="demo" width=600 >
+
+</div>