diff --git a/ingest/README.md b/ingest/README.md
index 99084906..8b879d9c 100644
--- a/ingest/README.md
+++ b/ingest/README.md
@@ -10,19 +10,19 @@ This is the ingest pipeline for mpox virus sequences.
 Fetch sequences with
 
 ```sh
-nextstrain build --cpus 1 . data/sequences.ndjson
+nextstrain build . data/sequences.ndjson
 ```
 
 Run the complete ingest pipeline with
 
 ```sh
-nextstrain build --cpus 1 .
+nextstrain build .
 ```
 
 This will produce two files (within the `ingest` directory):
 
-- data/metadata.tsv
-- data/sequences.fasta
+- `data/metadata.tsv`
+- `data/sequences.fasta`
 
 Run the complete ingest pipeline and upload results to AWS S3 with
 
diff --git a/ingest/profiles/default/config.yaml b/ingest/profiles/default/config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c69390b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/profiles/default/config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+cores: all
+rerun-incomplete: true
+printshellcmds: true
+reason: true