diff --git a/query/autocomplete.js b/query/autocomplete.js
index de1288bc..a12ec979 100644
--- a/query/autocomplete.js
+++ b/query/autocomplete.js
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ const defaults = require('./autocomplete_defaults');
 const textParser = require('./text_parser_addressit');
 const check = require('check-types');
 const logger = require('pelias-logger').get('api');
+const config = require('pelias-config').generate().api;
 
 // additional views (these may be merged in to pelias/query at a later date)
 var views = {
+  custom_boosts:              require('./view/boost_sources_and_layers'),
   ngrams_strict:              require('./view/ngrams_strict'),
   ngrams_last_token_only:     require('./view/ngrams_last_token_only'),
   phrase_first_tokens_only:   require('./view/phrase_first_tokens_only'),
@@ -44,18 +46,8 @@ query.score( peliasQuery.view.focus( views.ngrams_strict ) );
 query.score( peliasQuery.view.popularity( views.pop_subquery ) );
 query.score( peliasQuery.view.population( views.pop_subquery ) );
 
-const boostView = require( './view/boost_sources_and_layers' );
-
-const boostConfig = {}; //TODO: empty config to make functional tests pass for now
-// example useful config:
-//const boostConfig = {
-  //layer: {
-    //stops: 5,
-    //fare: 5,
-    //station: 1
-  //},
-//};
-query.score( boostView(boostConfig) );
+const boostConfig = config.customBoosts || {};
+query.score( views.custom_boosts(config.customBoosts) );
 
 // non-scoring hard filters
 query.filter( peliasQuery.view.sources );
diff --git a/schema.js b/schema.js
index 00c31a2e..dfc4514f 100644
--- a/schema.js
+++ b/schema.js
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ module.exports = Joi.object().keys({
     accessLog: Joi.string(),
     relativeScores: Joi.boolean(),
     requestRetries: Joi.number().integer().min(0),
+    customBoosts: Joi.object().keys({
+      layer: Joi.object(),
+      source: Joi.object()
+    }),
     localization: Joi.object().keys({
       flipNumberAndStreetCountries: Joi.array().items(Joi.string().regex(/^[A-Z]{3}$/))
     }).unknown(false),