diff --git a/scripts/seed-fixture.mjs b/scripts/seed-fixture.mjs
index 056f12e..4d9144c 100644
--- a/scripts/seed-fixture.mjs
+++ b/scripts/seed-fixture.mjs
@@ -31,10 +31,31 @@ export const GENERATED_NOTE =
 
 export function fixtureFrom(seedModule) {
   const { ShiftRecord, ...entities } = seedModule.seedData;
-  /* First key, so it is the first thing anyone opening the file reads. The Go
-     loader unmarshals into a struct of demoUser + entities and ignores the
-     rest, so this costs nothing on the reading side. */
-  return { _generated: GENERATED_NOTE, demoUser: seedModule.DEMO_USER, entities };
+  /* `_generated` first, so it is the first thing anyone opening the file reads.
+
+     `users` is the channel the seeder actually reads — `internal/seeder`
+     unmarshals into `{demoUser, users, entities}` and writes every account in
+     `users`, falling back to `demoUser` alone when the key is absent. That
+     fallback is why `demoUser` stays beside it rather than being replaced: a
+     fixture written here still seeds correctly against a backend that predates
+     the list, it simply seeds one account instead of two.
+
+     Emitting only `demoUser` is what this generator used to do, and it was a
+     version behind: the fixture on disk carries the employer account, the
+     seeder reads it from `users`, and regenerating without this key would drop
+     `employer@krow.app` from every fresh seed — leaving nobody to sign in as
+     to reach the employer console, which is the exact gap the account was
+     added to close.
+
+     `entities.User` carries the same list. The seeder ignores it, and it is
+     emitted because `seedData` is copied wholesale; the two are the same array
+     rather than two places to keep in step. */
+  return {
+    _generated: GENERATED_NOTE,
+    demoUser: seedModule.DEMO_USER,
+    users: seedModule.seedData.User,
+    entities,
+  };
 }
 
 /** Serialised exactly as the committed file is: 2-space indent, no trailing newline. */
diff --git a/src/api/demoUser.ts b/src/api/demoUser.ts
index 8721818..a5e9846 100644
--- a/src/api/demoUser.ts
+++ b/src/api/demoUser.ts
@@ -39,3 +39,29 @@ export const DEMO_USER: User = {
     emailDigest: true,
   },
 };
+
+/**
+ * The employer account, and the reason there is a second one at all.
+ *
+ * `policy.go` has always had three roles — admin, employer, talent — and the
+ * fixture had one administrator, so two thirds of the authorization table was
+ * never exercised and there was nobody to sign in as to reach the employer
+ * console. This account is what makes that path reachable.
+ *
+ * Unlike `DEMO_USER` this is not a default shape for the first render: nothing
+ * in the running app reads it. It exists so that `seedData.User` names both
+ * accounts, which is what the backend seeder writes. See `seed.ts`.
+ */
+export const EMPLOYER_USER: User = {
+  id: 'user_employer',
+  full_name: 'Jordan Blake',
+  email: 'employer@krow.app',
+  role: 'employer',
+  account_type: 'employer',
+  created_date: '2026-06-01T09:00:00.000Z',
+  preferences: {
+    owliverDefault: true,
+    compactDensity: false,
+    emailDigest: true,
+  },
+};
diff --git a/src/api/seed.ts b/src/api/seed.ts
index 736d3a7..f2fc442 100644
--- a/src/api/seed.ts
+++ b/src/api/seed.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  */
 
 import { SHIFT_RECORDS } from './attendanceSeed';
-import { DEMO_USER } from './demoUser';
+import { DEMO_USER, EMPLOYER_USER } from './demoUser';
 
 const iso = (date: string) => new Date(`${date}T09:00:00.000Z`).toISOString();
 
@@ -1990,8 +1990,12 @@ const USER_ACTIVITY = ACTIVITY_EVENTS.map(([event_type, user_email, user_name, a
  * candidate, interview and shift record below — into the production bundle.
  * The fixtures here are for the test scripts, and they still read
  * `seedData.User` and `DEMO_USER` from this module, so both keep working.
+ *
+ * `EMPLOYER_USER` travels the same way. It is seeded, never rendered: the
+ * backend writes both accounts so the employer console has somebody to sign
+ * in as, and nothing in the running app imports it.
  */
-export { DEMO_USER } from './demoUser';
+export { DEMO_USER, EMPLOYER_USER } from './demoUser';
 
 /* ── Assignments ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    Who is on which position, and until when — the record that turns a hire into
@@ -2051,5 +2055,5 @@ export const seedData = {
   Assignment: ASSIGNMENTS,
   ShiftRecord: SHIFT_RECORDS,
   Evidence: EVIDENCE,
-  User: [DEMO_USER],
+  User: [DEMO_USER, EMPLOYER_USER],
 };