diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.test.ts b/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.test.ts
index d35d96e..f2ff494 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.test.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import {
   showcaseItems,
   filterShowcaseItems,
   countByCategory,
+  templateShowcaseLink,
 } from './showcaseConfig';
 
 describe('showcaseConfig', () => {
@@ -31,12 +32,40 @@ describe('showcaseConfig', () => {
   it('every item links to a live portal surface', () => {
     const allowed = ['/self-service', '/catalog', '/api-docs', '/search', '/docs', '/catalog-graph'];
     showcaseItems.forEach(item => {
-      expect(allowed).toContain(item.link);
+      const isTemplateLink = item.link.startsWith('/self-service/templates/default/');
+      expect(allowed.includes(item.link) || isTemplateLink).toBe(true);
       expect(item.linkLabel.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       expect(item.description.length).toBeGreaterThan(20);
     });
   });
 
+  it('deep-links every template card to its real template entity', () => {
+    // Entity names from examples/templates/*/template.yaml (metadata.name)
+    const realTemplateNames = [
+      'ai-hub-service',
+      'answer-engine-worker',
+      'mcp-server',
+      'github-blank-repo',
+      'github-pull-request-docs',
+      'docs-blank-repo',
+      'docs-template-gitlab-merge-request',
+    ];
+    const templates = showcaseItems.filter(i => i.category === 'templates');
+    templates.forEach(item => {
+      expect(item.link.startsWith('/self-service/templates/default/')).toBe(true);
+      const templateName = item.link.replace('/self-service/templates/default/', '');
+      expect(realTemplateNames).toContain(templateName);
+    });
+    expect(templates.map(t => t.link).sort()).toEqual(
+      realTemplateNames.map(name => templateShowcaseLink(name)).sort(),
+    );
+    const workerCard = showcaseItems.find(i => i.id === 'answer-engine-worker-card');
+    expect(workerCard?.link).toBe(templateShowcaseLink('answer-engine-worker'));
+    expect(templateShowcaseLink('ai-hub-service')).toBe(
+      '/self-service/templates/default/ai-hub-service',
+    );
+  });
+
   it('filters by category', () => {
     const github = filterShowcaseItems(showcaseItems, 'github', '');
     expect(github.every(i => i.category === 'github')).toBe(true);
diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.ts b/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.ts
index a5c4e69..88a7116 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/showcase/showcaseConfig.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ export const showcaseCategoryColors: Record<ShowcaseCategory, string> = {
   platform: '#1a7f37',
 };
 
+export function templateShowcaseLink(templateName: string): string {
+  return `/self-service/templates/default/${templateName}`;
+}
+
 export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
   {
     id: 'template-ai-hub-service',
@@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Scaffold a provider-agnostic gateway in front of your organisation LLM providers, with auth, rate limiting, cost tracking and audit logging.',
     category: 'templates',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('ai-hub-service'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['recommended', 'ai', 'llm', 'github'],
     isRecommended: true,
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Scaffold a queue consumer that retrieves context from a document index and produces cited answers, with an indexer and query API.',
     category: 'templates',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('answer-engine-worker'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['recommended', 'ai', 'rag', 'github'],
     isRecommended: true,
@@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Scaffold a Model Context Protocol server that AI assistants connect to for domain-specific tools and context.',
     category: 'templates',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('mcp-server'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['recommended', 'ai', 'mcp', 'github'],
     isRecommended: true,
@@ -69,7 +73,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Create a new blank repository in GitHub from a local skeleton and register it in the catalog.',
     category: 'templates',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('github-blank-repo'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['recommended', 'github', 'repo'],
     isRecommended: true,
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Create a documentation site in a GitHub repository and open it as a pull request for review.',
     category: 'templates',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('github-pull-request-docs'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['recommended', 'github', 'techdocs'],
     isRecommended: true,
@@ -91,7 +95,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Create a new blank repository in GitLab from a local skeleton and register it in the catalog.',
     category: 'templates',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('docs-blank-repo'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['recommended', 'gitlab', 'repo'],
     isRecommended: true,
@@ -102,7 +106,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Create a documentation site in a GitLab repository and open it as a merge request for review.',
     category: 'templates',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('docs-template-gitlab-merge-request'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['recommended', 'gitlab', 'techdocs'],
     isRecommended: true,
@@ -154,7 +158,7 @@ export const showcaseItems: ShowcaseItem[] = [
     description:
       'Start your own answer engine worker with retrieval, citation handling and catalog registration built in.',
     category: 'answer-engine',
-    link: '/self-service',
+    link: templateShowcaseLink('answer-engine-worker'),
     linkLabel: 'Use template',
     tags: ['ai', 'rag', 'template'],
     isRecommended: true,