diff --git a/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/entities.yaml b/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/entities.yaml
index 447e8b1f34..cc57de8b7a 100644
--- a/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/entities.yaml
+++ b/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/entities.yaml
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
 kind: Component
 metadata:
   name: example-website
+  annotations:
+    backstage.io/techdocs-ref: dir:./example-docs
 spec:
   type: website
   lifecycle: experimental
diff --git a/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/example-docs/docs/index.md b/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/example-docs/docs/index.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ecd4dbd529
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/example-docs/docs/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Example TechDocs page
+
+This is an example TechDocs page!
+
+The source of this documentation for the `example-website` component is found in the `examples/example-docs` directory, which is referenced from `examples/entities.yaml`. Typically the `docs` directory would live alongside the `catalog-info.yaml` file of a component instead, but in this case it is separated out to avoid cluttering the examples directory.
diff --git a/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/example-docs/mkdocs.yml b/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/example-docs/mkdocs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b482f45a27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-app/templates/next-app/examples/example-docs/mkdocs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+site_name: example-website
+docs_dir: docs
+plugins:
+  - techdocs-core