diff --git a/.claude/launch.json b/.claude/launch.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..efde3dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.claude/launch.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "configurations": [
+    {
+      "name": "tower",
+      "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
+      "runtimeArgs": ["run", "dev"],
+      "port": 5173,
+      "autoPort": true
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/src/Layout.jsx b/src/Layout.jsx
index 2827ff0..4ff9b8c 100644
--- a/src/Layout.jsx
+++ b/src/Layout.jsx
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ import {
   DollarSign, Award, HelpCircle, BarChart3, Activity, Menu, MessageSquare,
   Package, TrendingUp, Clipboard, LogOut, Shield, MapPin, Bell, CloudOff, Megaphone,
   RefreshCw, User, Search, ShoppingCart, Home, Settings as SettingsIcon, MoreVertical,
-  Building2, Sparkles, CheckSquare, UserCheck, Store, GraduationCap, ArrowLeft, FolderOpen, Brain, Zap, Network, Cpu, Command, BadgeCheck,
-  ChevronDown, ChevronRight
+  Building2, Sparkles, CheckSquare, UserCheck, Store, GraduationCap, ArrowLeft, FolderOpen, Brain, Zap, Network, Cpu, Command, BadgeCheck
 } from "lucide-react";
 import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import {
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@ import RoleSwitcher from "./components/dev/RoleSwitcher";
 import NotificationPanel from "./components/notifications/NotificationPanel";
 import { NotificationEngine } from "./components/notifications/NotificationEngine";
 import { Toaster } from "./components/ui/toaster";
+import SidebarNav, { NavigationMenu, useSidebarCollapsed } from "./components/navigation/SidebarNav";
 import OwliverProvider from "./components/owliver/OwliverProvider";
 import OwliverShell from "./components/owliver/OwliverShell";
 
@@ -381,91 +381,13 @@ const secondaryItemsFor = (userRole) =>
     .flatMap((group) => group.items)
     .filter((item) => !EXISTING_MENU_URLS.has(item.url));
 
-/**
- * Category-first sidebar: the top level is the work areas, and a category's
- * pages appear only once it is open. One category is open at a time, so the
- * sidebar stays about as tall as its category list however many pages a role
- * has.
- */
-function NavigationMenu({ location, userRole, closeSheet }) {
-  const categories = primaryCategoriesFor(userRole);
-  const currentPath = location.pathname;
-
-  const activeCategory =
-    categories.find((group) => group.items.some((item) => item.url === currentPath))
-      ?.category || null;
-
-  const [openCategory, setOpenCategory] = React.useState(activeCategory);
-
-  // Navigating re-opens whichever category owns the new page, so the current
-  // page is never hidden behind a closed category. Between navigations the
-  // user's own choice wins — this only re-syncs when the route actually
-  // changes. (React's documented "adjust state when a prop changes" pattern:
-  // it re-renders immediately rather than painting a stale frame.)
-  const syncedPath = React.useRef(currentPath);
-  if (syncedPath.current !== currentPath) {
-    syncedPath.current = currentPath;
-    setOpenCategory(activeCategory);
-  }
-
-  return (
-    <nav className="space-y-1">
-      {categories.map((categoryGroup) => {
-        const isOpen = openCategory === categoryGroup.category;
-        const holdsActivePage = activeCategory === categoryGroup.category;
-
-        return (
-          <div key={categoryGroup.category}>
-            <button
-              type="button"
-              onClick={() => setOpenCategory(isOpen ? null : categoryGroup.category)}
-              aria-expanded={isOpen}
-              className={`w-full flex items-center justify-between gap-2 px-4 py-2 text-xs sm:text-sm font-bold uppercase tracking-wider transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none ${
-                holdsActivePage
-                  ? 'text-[#0039A6]'
-                  : 'text-slate-600 hover:text-[#0039A6]'
-              }`}
-            >
-              <span>{categoryGroup.category}</span>
-              {isOpen
-                ? <ChevronDown className="w-4 h-4" />
-                : <ChevronRight className="w-4 h-4" />}
-            </button>
-
-            {isOpen && (
-              <div className="space-y-0.5 mt-0.5">
-                {categoryGroup.items.map((item) => {
-                  const isActive = currentPath === item.url;
-                  return (
-                    <Link
-                      key={item.title}
-                      to={item.url}
-                      onClick={closeSheet}
-                      className={`flex items-center gap-3 px-4 py-2 rounded-lg transition-all duration-200 ${
-                        isActive
-                          ? 'bg-[#0039A6] text-white shadow-md font-medium'
-                          : 'text-slate-600 hover:bg-[#C8DBDC]/30 hover:text-[#3C4F5C]'
-                      }`}
-                    >
-                      <item.icon className="w-4 h-4" />
-                      <span className="text-sm">{item.title}</span>
-                    </Link>
-                  );
-                })}
-              </div>
-            )}
-          </div>
-        );
-      })}
-    </nav>
-  );
-}
-
 function LayoutChrome({ children }) {
   const location = useLocation();
   const navigate = useNavigate();
   const [showNotifications, setShowNotifications] = React.useState(false);
   const [mobileMenuOpen, setMobileMenuOpen] = React.useState(false);
+  // Remembered across navigation and reloads; see useSidebarCollapsed.
+  const [sidebarCollapsed, toggleSidebar] = useSidebarCollapsed();
 
   const { data: user } = useQuery({
     queryKey: ['current-user-layout'],
@@ -494,6 +416,7 @@ function LayoutChrome({ children }) {
   const userRole = localStorage.getItem("dev_role_override") || user?.user_role || user?.role || "admin";
   // Categories that left the sidebar now live in the "More options" menu.
   const secondaryNavItems = secondaryItemsFor(userRole);
+  const navCategories = primaryCategoriesFor(userRole);
   const userName = user?.full_name || user?.email || "User";
   const userInitial = userName.charAt(0).toUpperCase();
 
@@ -591,7 +514,11 @@ function LayoutChrome({ children }) {
                   </div>
                 </div>
                 <div className="p-3">
-                  <NavigationMenu location={location} userRole={userRole} closeSheet={() => setMobileMenuOpen(false)} />
+                  <NavigationMenu
+                    categories={navCategories}
+                    currentPath={location.pathname}
+                    onNavigate={() => setMobileMenuOpen(false)}
+                  />
                 </div>
                 <div className="p-3 border-t border-slate-200">
                   <Button variant="ghost" className="w-full justify-start text-red-600 hover:text-red-700 hover:bg-red-50" onClick={() => {handleLogout(); setMobileMenuOpen(false);}}>
@@ -719,12 +646,15 @@ function LayoutChrome({ children }) {
       <div className="krow-shell-body flex flex-1 min-h-0 overflow-hidden min-w-0">
         {/* The rail itself never moves: it is a track in a row that is exactly
             viewport-minus-header tall. Only the navigation inside it scrolls, and
-            only when the nav is taller than that. */}
-        <aside className="hidden lg:flex lg:flex-col w-64 flex-shrink-0 min-h-0 bg-white border-r border-slate-200 shadow-sm">
-          <div className="flex-1 min-h-0 overflow-y-auto p-3">
-            <NavigationMenu location={location} userRole={userRole} closeSheet={() => {}} />
-          </div>
-        </aside>
+            only when the nav is taller than that. Collapsing changes the track's
+            width, so <main> and the Owliver panel re-flow rather than being
+            covered. */}
+        <SidebarNav
+          categories={navCategories}
+          currentPath={location.pathname}
+          collapsed={sidebarCollapsed}
+          onToggle={toggleSidebar}
+        />
 
         {/* The page's scrollport — the one place vertical scrolling happens.
             `min-w-0`/`min-h-0` are both required: without them a wide table or a
diff --git a/src/components/navigation/SidebarNav.jsx b/src/components/navigation/SidebarNav.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd5ad59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/navigation/SidebarNav.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,373 @@
+import React from "react";
+import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
+import {
+  BarChart3, Briefcase, Building2, Calendar, ChevronRight,
+  ChevronsLeft, ChevronsRight, Clipboard, DollarSign, GraduationCap, HelpCircle,
+  LayoutDashboard, Layers, Network, Shield, Store, TrendingUp, UserCheck, Users,
+} from "lucide-react";
+import {
+  Tooltip, TooltipContent, TooltipProvider, TooltipTrigger,
+} from "@/components/ui/tooltip";
+
+/**
+ * KROW sidebar navigation
+ * -----------------------
+ * The same navigation in two widths. Expanded, it is category headers with
+ * their pages underneath; collapsed, it is the same hierarchy reduced to icons —
+ * the open category still shows its pages, the closed ones show one icon each,
+ * and a tooltip carries whatever the label no longer can.
+ *
+ *   expanded (256px)              collapsed (72px)
+ *   ┌────────────────────┐        ┌────────┐
+ *   │ OVERVIEW        ˅  │        │   ⌘    │  ← open category's pages
+ *   │  ⌘ KROW Command    │        │   ▦    │
+ *   │  ▦ Home            │        │  ───   │
+ *   │ OPERATIONS      ›  │        │   ▤    │  ← closed categories
+ *   └────────────────────┘        └────────┘
+ *
+ * Nothing about the routes changes: `roleNavigationMap` in Layout.jsx is still
+ * the single source of what a role can reach, and this component only decides
+ * how that list is presented. The open category always follows the route, so a
+ * page is never hidden behind a collapsed section.
+ */
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ icons */
+
+/**
+ * One icon per work area, from the same lucide family the page links already
+ * use. A category with no entry falls back to `Layers` rather than borrowing a
+ * meaning it doesn't have.
+ */
+const CATEGORY_ICONS = {
+  Overview: LayoutDashboard,
+  Operations: Briefcase,
+  Management: Building2,
+  Workforce: Users,
+  Finance: DollarSign,
+  Analytics: BarChart3,
+  Network: Network,
+  Compliance: Shield,
+  Orders: Clipboard,
+  Marketplace: Store,
+  Team: UserCheck,
+  Business: Briefcase,
+  Work: Calendar,
+  Growth: TrendingUp,
+  Support: HelpCircle,
+  Onboarding: GraduationCap,
+};
+
+const categoryIcon = (name) => CATEGORY_ICONS[name] || Layers;
+
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------- route match */
+
+/**
+ * `createPageUrl()` lower-cases the paths it builds ("/events") while App.jsx
+ * declares them capitalised ("/Events"); React Router matches either, so both
+ * spellings reach the same page depending on whether the user clicked a link or
+ * typed/refreshed the URL. Comparing the raw strings therefore left a deep-linked
+ * page with no highlighted item and no open section. Normalise both sides.
+ */
+const samePath = (a, b) =>
+  String(a || "").toLowerCase().replace(/\/+$/, "") ===
+  String(b || "").toLowerCase().replace(/\/+$/, "");
+
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------- persistence */
+
+const STORAGE_KEY = "krow.sidebar.collapsed";
+/** Below this the rail starts collapsed: the page and Owliver need the width. */
+const AUTO_COLLAPSE_BELOW = 1280;
+
+/**
+ * Collapsed/expanded, remembered across navigation and reloads.
+ * A stored choice always wins; with no choice yet, the viewport decides once.
+ */
+export function useSidebarCollapsed() {
+  const [collapsed, setCollapsed] = React.useState(() => {
+    if (typeof window === "undefined") return false;
+    try {
+      const stored = window.localStorage.getItem(STORAGE_KEY);
+      if (stored === "1") return true;
+      if (stored === "0") return false;
+    } catch {
+      /* private mode — fall through to the viewport default */
+    }
+    return window.innerWidth < AUTO_COLLAPSE_BELOW;
+  });
+
+  const toggle = React.useCallback(() => {
+    setCollapsed((prev) => {
+      const next = !prev;
+      try {
+        window.localStorage.setItem(STORAGE_KEY, next ? "1" : "0");
+      } catch {
+        /* the choice still holds for this session */
+      }
+      return next;
+    });
+  }, []);
+
+  return [collapsed, toggle];
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------- primitives */
+
+const FOCUS =
+  "focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/40 focus-visible:ring-offset-1 focus-visible:ring-offset-white";
+
+/** A tooltip that only exists while the rail is collapsed. */
+function Hint({ label, show, children }) {
+  if (!show) return children;
+  return (
+    <Tooltip>
+      <TooltipTrigger asChild>{children}</TooltipTrigger>
+      <TooltipContent
+        side="right"
+        sideOffset={10}
+        className="border border-slate-700/40 bg-[#1C323E] px-2.5 py-1.5 text-[12px] font-medium text-white shadow-lg"
+      >
+        {label}
+      </TooltipContent>
+    </Tooltip>
+  );
+}
+
+/** One page link, in either width. */
+function NavItem({ item, isActive, collapsed, onNavigate }) {
+  const Icon = item.icon;
+
+  return (
+    <Hint label={item.title} show={collapsed}>
+      <Link
+        to={item.url}
+        onClick={onNavigate}
+        aria-current={isActive ? "page" : undefined}
+        aria-label={collapsed ? item.title : undefined}
+        title={undefined}
+        className={`relative flex items-center rounded-lg transition-colors duration-150 motion-reduce:transition-none ${FOCUS} ${
+          collapsed ? "h-9 w-9 justify-center" : "gap-2.5 px-2.5 py-[7px]"
+        } ${
+          isActive
+            ? "bg-[#0039A6]/[0.07] font-semibold text-[#1C323E]"
+            : "font-medium text-slate-600 hover:bg-slate-100/80 hover:text-[#1C323E]"
+        }`}
+      >
+        {/* The active marker: a short rule on the rail's edge, not a filled block. */}
+        {isActive && (
+          <span
+            aria-hidden="true"
+            className={`absolute rounded-full bg-[#0039A6] ${
+              collapsed ? "-left-[9px] top-1.5 h-6 w-[3px]" : "-left-2 top-1.5 bottom-1.5 w-[3px]"
+            }`}
+          />
+        )}
+        <Icon
+          className={`h-4 w-4 flex-shrink-0 ${isActive ? "text-[#0039A6]" : "text-slate-400"}`}
+        />
+        {!collapsed && <span className="truncate text-[13.5px] leading-tight">{item.title}</span>}
+      </Link>
+    </Hint>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------- menu */
+
+/**
+ * The navigation itself. Used at both widths and inside the mobile drawer,
+ * where it always renders expanded.
+ */
+export function NavigationMenu({ categories, currentPath, collapsed = false, onNavigate }) {
+  const activeCategory =
+    categories.find((group) => group.items.some((item) => samePath(item.url, currentPath)))
+      ?.category || null;
+
+  const [openCategory, setOpenCategory] = React.useState(activeCategory);
+
+  // Navigating re-opens whichever category owns the new page, so the current
+  // page is never hidden behind a closed category. Between navigations the
+  // user's own choice wins — this only re-syncs when the route actually
+  // changes. (React's documented "adjust state when a prop changes" pattern:
+  // it re-renders immediately rather than painting a stale frame.)
+  const syncedPath = React.useRef(currentPath);
+  if (syncedPath.current !== currentPath) {
+    syncedPath.current = currentPath;
+    setOpenCategory(activeCategory);
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <nav aria-label="Main" className={collapsed ? "space-y-1" : "space-y-0.5"}>
+      {categories.map((group) => {
+        const isOpen = openCategory === group.category;
+        const holdsActivePage = activeCategory === group.category;
+        const CategoryIcon = categoryIcon(group.category);
+        const sectionId = `nav-section-${group.category.replace(/\s+/g, "-").toLowerCase()}`;
+        const toggle = () => setOpenCategory(isOpen ? null : group.category);
+
+        /* --- collapsed: an open category becomes its pages, a closed one
+               stays a single icon, so the hierarchy survives the width. --- */
+        if (collapsed) {
+          return (
+            <div key={group.category} className="flex flex-col items-center gap-1">
+              {isOpen ? (
+                <>
+                  <span aria-hidden="true" className="mt-1 h-px w-6 flex-shrink-0 bg-slate-200" />
+
+                  {/* The open category keeps its own icon at this width too, so
+                      the icons below it are visibly *its* pages and there is
+                      still something to click to close it. */}
+                  <Hint label={group.category} show>
+                    <button
+                      type="button"
+                      onClick={toggle}
+                      aria-expanded
+                      aria-controls={sectionId}
+                      aria-label={`${group.category} navigation`}
+                      className={`flex h-7 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-lg text-[#0039A6] transition-colors duration-150 motion-reduce:transition-none hover:bg-slate-100/80 ${FOCUS}`}
+                    >
+                      <CategoryIcon className="h-[15px] w-[15px]" />
+                    </button>
+                  </Hint>
+
+                  <div
+                    id={sectionId}
+                    role="group"
+                    aria-label={group.category}
+                    className="flex flex-col items-center gap-1"
+                  >
+                    {group.items.map((item) => (
+                      <NavItem
+                        key={item.title}
+                        item={item}
+                        isActive={samePath(item.url, currentPath)}
+                        collapsed
+                        onNavigate={onNavigate}
+                      />
+                    ))}
+                  </div>
+                  <span aria-hidden="true" className="mb-1 h-px w-6 flex-shrink-0 bg-slate-200" />
+                </>
+              ) : (
+                <Hint label={group.category} show>
+                  <button
+                    type="button"
+                    onClick={toggle}
+                    aria-expanded={false}
+                    aria-controls={sectionId}
+                    aria-label={`${group.category} navigation`}
+                    className={`relative flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-lg transition-colors duration-150 motion-reduce:transition-none ${FOCUS} ${
+                      holdsActivePage
+                        ? "bg-[#0039A6]/[0.07] text-[#0039A6]"
+                        : "text-slate-500 hover:bg-slate-100/80 hover:text-[#1C323E]"
+                    }`}
+                  >
+                    <CategoryIcon className="h-[18px] w-[18px]" />
+                    {holdsActivePage && (
+                      <span
+                        aria-hidden="true"
+                        className="absolute right-1 top-1 h-1.5 w-1.5 rounded-full bg-[#0039A6]"
+                      />
+                    )}
+                  </button>
+                </Hint>
+              )}
+            </div>
+          );
+        }
+
+        /* --- expanded --- */
+        return (
+          <div key={group.category}>
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              onClick={toggle}
+              aria-expanded={isOpen}
+              aria-controls={sectionId}
+              className={`flex w-full items-center gap-2 rounded-lg px-2.5 py-2 text-left transition-colors duration-150 motion-reduce:transition-none ${FOCUS} ${
+                holdsActivePage
+                  ? "text-[#0039A6]"
+                  : "text-slate-500 hover:bg-slate-100/60 hover:text-[#1C323E]"
+              }`}
+            >
+              <CategoryIcon
+                className={`h-4 w-4 flex-shrink-0 ${holdsActivePage ? "text-[#0039A6]" : "text-slate-400"}`}
+              />
+              <span className="min-w-0 flex-1 truncate text-[11px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.08em]">
+                {group.category}
+              </span>
+              <ChevronRight
+                aria-hidden="true"
+                className={`h-3.5 w-3.5 flex-shrink-0 text-slate-400 transition-transform duration-200 motion-reduce:transition-none ${
+                  isOpen ? "rotate-90" : ""
+                }`}
+              />
+            </button>
+
+            {isOpen && (
+              <div id={sectionId} role="group" aria-label={group.category} className="mb-1 ml-[19px] mt-0.5 space-y-0.5 border-l border-slate-200 pl-2">
+                {group.items.map((item) => (
+                  <NavItem
+                    key={item.title}
+                    item={item}
+                    isActive={samePath(item.url, currentPath)}
+                    collapsed={false}
+                    onNavigate={onNavigate}
+                  />
+                ))}
+              </div>
+            )}
+          </div>
+        );
+      })}
+    </nav>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ rail */
+
+/**
+ * The desktop rail: a track in the shell's body row that changes width rather
+ * than overlaying the page, so <main> and the Owliver panel simply re-flow.
+ */
+export default function SidebarNav({ categories, currentPath, collapsed, onToggle }) {
+  const ChevronIcon = collapsed ? ChevronsRight : ChevronsLeft;
+
+  return (
+    <TooltipProvider delayDuration={120} skipDelayDuration={300}>
+      <aside
+        data-collapsed={collapsed ? "true" : "false"}
+        className={`hidden min-h-0 flex-shrink-0 flex-col border-r border-slate-200 bg-white shadow-sm transition-[width] duration-200 ease-out motion-reduce:transition-none lg:flex ${
+          collapsed ? "w-[72px]" : "w-64"
+        }`}
+      >
+        <div className={`flex-1 min-h-0 overflow-y-auto overflow-x-hidden py-3 ${collapsed ? "px-3" : "px-3"}`}>
+          <NavigationMenu
+            categories={categories}
+            currentPath={currentPath}
+            collapsed={collapsed}
+          />
+        </div>
+
+        {/* The collapse control lives in the rail, at the end of the navigation
+            it controls — not floating over the page. */}
+        <div className="flex-shrink-0 border-t border-slate-200 p-2">
+          <Hint label="Expand sidebar" show={collapsed}>
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              onClick={onToggle}
+              aria-label={collapsed ? "Expand sidebar" : "Collapse sidebar"}
+              aria-pressed={collapsed}
+              className={`flex items-center rounded-lg text-slate-500 transition-colors duration-150 motion-reduce:transition-none hover:bg-slate-100/80 hover:text-[#1C323E] ${FOCUS} ${
+                collapsed ? "mx-auto h-9 w-9 justify-center" : "w-full gap-2.5 px-2.5 py-2"
+              }`}
+            >
+              <ChevronIcon className="h-4 w-4 flex-shrink-0" />
+              {!collapsed && (
+                <span className="truncate text-[12.5px] font-medium">Collapse sidebar</span>
+              )}
+            </button>
+          </Hint>
+        </div>
+      </aside>
+    </TooltipProvider>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/orders/orderPresentation.jsx b/src/components/orders/orderPresentation.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10bdcb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/orders/orderPresentation.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+import { AlertTriangle, CheckCircle2, Clock, FileText, Users, X, Zap } from "lucide-react";
+
+/**
+ * Order presentation primitives — KROW Control Tower
+ * --------------------------------------------------
+ * One source of truth for how an order *looks* wherever it appears: the Order
+ * Management table and Owliver's operational cards both render from here, so a
+ * status pill or a staffing meter can never drift between the page and the
+ * copilot reading that same page.
+ *
+ * Presentation only. Nothing here computes business state — status strings and
+ * headcounts arrive already calculated by the page (Events.jsx) or by the
+ * Owliver page registry, which mirror each other deliberately.
+ */
+
+/* -------------------------------------------------------------- status pill */
+
+/**
+ * Compact status tokens. Colour carries meaning and nothing else: the pill is a
+ * quiet tinted chip with a solid dot, not a saturated block, so a table of nine
+ * orders does not read as a paint chart.
+ */
+export const STATUS_TOKENS = {
+  "Draft": { label: "Draft", dot: "bg-slate-400", text: "text-slate-600", bg: "bg-slate-50", border: "border-slate-200", icon: FileText },
+  "Pending": { label: "Pending", dot: "bg-amber-500", text: "text-amber-800", bg: "bg-amber-50", border: "border-amber-200", icon: Clock },
+  "Partial Staffed": { label: "Partial", dot: "bg-orange-500", text: "text-orange-800", bg: "bg-orange-50", border: "border-orange-200", icon: AlertTriangle },
+  "Fully Staffed": { label: "Fully staffed", dot: "bg-emerald-500", text: "text-emerald-800", bg: "bg-emerald-50", border: "border-emerald-200", icon: CheckCircle2 },
+  "Active": { label: "Active", dot: "bg-[#0039A6]", text: "text-[#0039A6]", bg: "bg-blue-50", border: "border-blue-200", icon: Users },
+  "Completed": { label: "Completed", dot: "bg-slate-300", text: "text-slate-500", bg: "bg-slate-50", border: "border-slate-200", icon: CheckCircle2 },
+  "Canceled": { label: "Canceled", dot: "bg-red-500", text: "text-red-700", bg: "bg-red-50", border: "border-red-200", icon: X },
+};
+
+const RAPID_TOKEN = {
+  label: "Rapid",
+  dot: "bg-red-500",
+  text: "text-red-700",
+  bg: "bg-red-50",
+  border: "border-red-200",
+  icon: Zap,
+};
+
+const FALLBACK_TOKEN = STATUS_TOKENS["Draft"];
+
+export const statusToken = (status, isRapid) =>
+  isRapid ? RAPID_TOKEN : STATUS_TOKENS[status] || { ...FALLBACK_TOKEN, label: status || "Unknown" };
+
+/**
+ * The status of one order, as a compact pill.
+ * `hasConflicts` adds a small warning marker rather than a second badge — a
+ * conflict is an annotation on the status, not a status of its own.
+ */
+export function OrderStatusPill({ status, isRapid = false, hasConflicts = false, className = "" }) {
+  const token = statusToken(status, isRapid);
+
+  return (
+    <span className={`inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 ${className}`}>
+      <span
+        className={`inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md border px-2 py-[3px] text-[11px] font-semibold leading-none whitespace-nowrap ${token.bg} ${token.border} ${token.text}`}
+      >
+        <span className={`h-1.5 w-1.5 rounded-full ${token.dot}`} />
+        {token.label}
+      </span>
+      {hasConflicts && (
+        <AlertTriangle className="h-3.5 w-3.5 text-orange-500" aria-label="Scheduling conflict" />
+      )}
+    </span>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- staffing */
+
+/**
+ * How urgent an order's staffing gap is.
+ *   full     — at requested headcount
+ *   high     — under half filled, or nobody assigned at all
+ *   medium   — filled, but short
+ *   none     — nothing requested yet (a draft with no roles priced in)
+ */
+export function severityOf(assigned, requested) {
+  const a = Number(assigned) || 0;
+  const r = Number(requested) || 0;
+  if (r <= 0) return "none";
+  if (a >= r) return "full";
+  return a / r < 0.5 ? "high" : "medium";
+}
+
+export const SEVERITY_TOKENS = {
+  high: { label: "High", fill: "bg-orange-500", track: "bg-orange-100", text: "text-orange-700", bg: "bg-orange-50", border: "border-orange-200", rail: "bg-orange-500" },
+  medium: { label: "Medium", fill: "bg-amber-500", track: "bg-amber-100", text: "text-amber-700", bg: "bg-amber-50", border: "border-amber-200", rail: "bg-amber-400" },
+  full: { label: "On track", fill: "bg-emerald-500", track: "bg-emerald-100", text: "text-emerald-700", bg: "bg-emerald-50", border: "border-emerald-200", rail: "bg-transparent" },
+  none: { label: "Not sized", fill: "bg-slate-300", track: "bg-slate-100", text: "text-slate-500", bg: "bg-slate-50", border: "border-slate-200", rail: "bg-transparent" },
+};
+
+export const fillPercent = (assigned, requested) => {
+  const a = Number(assigned) || 0;
+  const r = Number(requested) || 0;
+  if (r <= 0) return 0;
+  return Math.min(100, Math.round((a / r) * 100));
+};
+
+const SEGMENTS = 10;
+
+/**
+ * `4 / 9` · `44%` · ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯
+ *
+ * The ratio is the fact, the percentage is the read, and the segmented track is
+ * the glance. Segments rather than a smooth bar: ten discrete blocks are
+ * countable at a glance and land on the same visual rhythm in a dense table row
+ * as they do in a copilot card.
+ */
+export function StaffingMeter({
+  assigned,
+  requested,
+  size = "md",
+  align = "start",
+  showFigures = true,
+  className = "",
+}) {
+  const a = Number(assigned) || 0;
+  const r = Number(requested) || 0;
+  const pct = fillPercent(a, r);
+  const severity = severityOf(a, r);
+  const token = SEVERITY_TOKENS[severity];
+  const litSegments = r > 0 ? Math.max(a > 0 ? 1 : 0, Math.round((pct / 100) * SEGMENTS)) : 0;
+
+  const figures = size === "sm" ? "text-[11px]" : "text-[12.5px]";
+  const trackH = size === "sm" ? "h-[3px]" : "h-1";
+
+  return (
+    <div className={`min-w-0 ${align === "center" ? "text-center" : ""} ${className}`}>
+      {showFigures && (
+        <div
+          className={`flex items-baseline gap-1.5 ${figures} ${align === "center" ? "justify-center" : ""}`}
+        >
+          <span className="font-semibold tabular-nums text-slate-900">
+            {a} <span className="font-normal text-slate-400">/</span> {r || "—"}
+          </span>
+          <span className={`text-[11px] font-medium tabular-nums ${severity === "full" ? "text-emerald-600" : "text-slate-500"}`}>
+            {r > 0 ? `${pct}%` : ""}
+          </span>
+        </div>
+      )}
+
+      <div
+        className={`mt-1.5 flex gap-[2px] ${align === "center" ? "justify-center" : ""}`}
+        role="img"
+        aria-label={r > 0 ? `${a} of ${r} staffed, ${pct} percent` : "No headcount requested"}
+      >
+        {Array.from({ length: SEGMENTS }).map((_, i) => (
+          <span
+            key={i}
+            className={`${trackH} flex-1 rounded-[1px] transition-colors duration-200 ${
+              i < litSegments ? token.fill : "bg-slate-200/70"
+            }`}
+          />
+        ))}
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------- dates */
+
+/** "Aug 17" / "6:00 PM – 11:30 PM" formatting shared by the table and Owliver. */
+export const to12Hour = (time24) => {
+  if (!time24) return null;
+  const [rawH, m] = String(time24).split(":");
+  const h = Number(rawH);
+  if (Number.isNaN(h)) return time24;
+  const suffix = h >= 12 ? "PM" : "AM";
+  return `${h % 12 || 12}:${m} ${suffix}`;
+};
+
+export default OrderStatusPill;
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverAnswer.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverAnswer.jsx
deleted file mode 100644
index eca7c9b..0000000
--- a/src/components/owliver/OwliverAnswer.jsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,369 +0,0 @@
-import ReactMarkdown from "react-markdown";
-import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
-import {
-  ArrowRight,
-  Check,
-  Loader2,
-  X,
-  Clock,
-  MapPin,
-  Sparkles,
-  Building2,
-  AlertTriangle,
-} from "lucide-react";
-import { stripContext } from "@/lib/owliver/context";
-import { extractActions, isValidRoute } from "@/lib/owliver/actions";
-
-/** Compact, non-technical progress line for an agent tool call. */
-function ToolLine({ toolCall }) {
-  const status = toolCall.status || "pending";
-  const running = ["pending", "running", "in_progress"].includes(status);
-  const failed = ["failed", "error"].includes(status);
-  const label = toolCall.display_projection?.label || toolCall.name || "Working";
-  const activeLabel = toolCall.display_projection?.active_label || `${label}…`;
-  const errorLabel = toolCall.display_projection?.error_label || `${label} failed`;
-
-  return (
-    <div className="flex items-center gap-2 text-[12px] py-0.5" style={{ color: "var(--ow-ink-subtle)" }}>
-      {running ? <Loader2 className="w-3 h-3 animate-spin flex-shrink-0" />
-        : failed ? <X className="w-3 h-3 flex-shrink-0" style={{ color: "var(--ow-danger)" }} />
-          : <Check className="w-3 h-3 flex-shrink-0" />}
-      <span className="truncate">{running ? activeLabel : failed ? errorLabel : label}</span>
-    </div>
-  );
-}
-
-function extractNodeText(node) {
-  if (!node) return "";
-  if (typeof node === "string") return node;
-  if (typeof node === "number") return String(node);
-  if (Array.isArray(node)) return node.map(extractNodeText).join("");
-  if (node.props?.children) return extractNodeText(node.props.children);
-  return "";
-}
-
-function parseListItemText(text) {
-  const rawClean = String(text || "").trim();
-
-  let id = "";
-  const idMatch = rawClean.match(/\[id:([^\]]+)\]/);
-  if (idMatch) {
-    id = idMatch[1];
-  }
-  const clean = rawClean.replace(/\[id:[^\]]+\]/g, "").trim();
-
-  // Ratio check e.g. "3/10 staffed" or "9/20 staffed" or "3/10"
-  const ratioMatch = clean.match(/(\d+)\/(\d+)\s*(staffed|filled|seats)?/i);
-  if (ratioMatch) {
-    const assigned = parseInt(ratioMatch[1], 10);
-    const requested = parseInt(ratioMatch[2], 10);
-    const pct = requested > 0 ? Math.min(100, Math.round((assigned / requested) * 100)) : 0;
-
-    let titlePart = clean.replace(/·|\b\d+\/\d+\s*(staffed|filled|seats)?/gi, "").trim();
-    let hub = "";
-    let dateTime = "";
-
-    const hubMatch = titlePart.match(/\(([^)]+)\)/);
-    if (hubMatch) {
-      hub = hubMatch[1];
-      titlePart = titlePart.replace(/\([^)]+\)/, "").trim();
-    }
-
-    const commaParts = titlePart.split(",");
-    if (commaParts.length > 1) {
-      titlePart = commaParts[0].trim();
-      dateTime = commaParts.slice(1).join(",").trim();
-    }
-
-    let company = titlePart;
-    let eventName = "";
-
-    if (titlePart.includes("—")) {
-      const parts = titlePart.split("—");
-      company = parts[0].trim();
-      eventName = parts.slice(1).join("—").trim();
-    } else if (titlePart.includes(" - ")) {
-      const parts = titlePart.split(" - ");
-      company = parts[0].trim();
-      eventName = parts.slice(1).join(" - ").trim();
-    }
-
-    return {
-      type: "order_card",
-      id,
-      company,
-      eventName,
-      hub,
-      dateTime,
-      assigned,
-      requested,
-      pct,
-      raw: clean,
-    };
-  }
-
-  // Step flow check e.g. "Step 1: ...", "1. ...", "First: ..."
-  const stepMatch = clean.match(/^(step\s*\d+|\d+[.)]|first|second|third|fourth|fifth)[\s:]*(.*)/i);
-  if (stepMatch) {
-    return {
-      type: "flow_step",
-      stepLabel: stepMatch[1],
-      content: stepMatch[2] || clean,
-      raw: clean,
-    };
-  }
-
-  return {
-    type: "generic_card",
-    raw: clean,
-  };
-}
-
-export default function OwliverAnswer({ message }) {
-  const navigate = useNavigate();
-  const content = stripContext(message.content);
-
-  if (message.role === "user") {
-    if (!content) return null;
-    return (
-      <p className="text-[13.5px] leading-[1.55] whitespace-pre-wrap m-0">
-        {content}
-      </p>
-    );
-  }
-
-  const actions = extractActions(content);
-  const toolCalls = message.tool_calls || [];
-
-  return (
-    <>
-      {toolCalls.length > 0 && (
-        <div className="mb-2 space-y-0.5">
-          {toolCalls.map((tc, i) => <ToolLine key={i} toolCall={tc} />)}
-        </div>
-      )}
-
-      {content && (
-        <div className="ow-prose text-[13.5px] min-w-0">
-          <ReactMarkdown
-            components={{
-              ul: ({ children }) => <div className="my-3 space-y-2.5 not-prose">{children}</div>,
-              ol: ({ children }) => <div className="my-3 space-y-2.5 not-prose">{children}</div>,
-              li: ({ children }) => {
-                const rawText = extractNodeText(children);
-                const parsed = parseListItemText(rawText);
-
-                if (parsed.type === "order_card") {
-                  const isFull = parsed.pct >= 100;
-                  const isLow = parsed.pct < 50;
-
-                  const borderAccent = isFull
-                    ? "border-l-emerald-500"
-                    : isLow
-                    ? "border-l-amber-500"
-                    : "border-l-[#0039A6]";
-
-                  const badgeStyle = isFull
-                    ? "bg-emerald-50 text-emerald-700 border-emerald-200"
-                    : isLow
-                    ? "bg-amber-50 text-amber-700 border-amber-200"
-                    : "bg-blue-50 text-blue-700 border-blue-200";
-
-                  const progressColor = isFull
-                    ? "bg-emerald-500"
-                    : isLow
-                    ? "bg-amber-500"
-                    : "bg-[#0039A6]";
-
-                  return (
-                    <div className={`p-3.5 rounded-xl bg-white border border-slate-200/90 shadow-2xs hover:shadow-md transition-all space-y-2.5 border-l-4 ${borderAccent}`}>
-                      <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-2">
-                        <div className="min-w-0">
-                          <h4 className="text-xs font-extrabold text-slate-900 truncate flex items-center gap-1.5">
-                            <Building2 className="w-3.5 h-3.5 text-[#0039A6] shrink-0" />
-                            <span className="truncate">{parsed.company}</span>
-                          </h4>
-                          {parsed.eventName && (
-                            <p className="text-[11px] font-semibold text-slate-600 truncate mt-0.5">{parsed.eventName}</p>
-                          )}
-                          {parsed.hub && (
-                            <p className="text-[10px] text-slate-500 flex items-center gap-1 mt-0.5">
-                              <MapPin className="w-3 h-3 text-slate-400 shrink-0" />
-                              <span className="truncate">{parsed.hub}</span>
-                            </p>
-                          )}
-                        </div>
-                        <span className={`px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full border text-[10px] font-bold shrink-0 flex items-center gap-1.5 ${badgeStyle}`}>
-                          <span className={`w-1.5 h-1.5 rounded-full ${progressColor} animate-pulse`} />
-                          {parsed.assigned}/{parsed.requested} Staffed
-                        </span>
-                      </div>
-
-                      {/* Progress Bar */}
-                      <div className="space-y-1 pt-0.5">
-                        <div className="flex justify-between text-[10px] font-bold text-slate-500">
-                          <span>Staffing Fill</span>
-                          <span className="text-slate-700">{parsed.pct}%</span>
-                        </div>
-                        <div className="w-full h-1.5 bg-slate-100 rounded-full overflow-hidden">
-                          <div className={`h-full rounded-full transition-all duration-500 ${progressColor}`} style={{ width: `${parsed.pct}%` }} />
-                        </div>
-                      </div>
-
-                      <div className="flex items-center justify-between text-[11px] text-slate-500 pt-1.5 border-t border-slate-100">
-                        <span className="flex items-center gap-1 font-medium truncate">
-                          <Clock className="w-3.5 h-3.5 text-blue-500 shrink-0" />
-                          <span className="truncate">{parsed.dateTime || "Scheduled Shift"}</span>
-                        </span>
-                        <button
-                          type="button"
-                          onClick={() => {
-                            if (parsed.id) {
-                              navigate(`/EventDetail?id=${parsed.id}`);
-                            } else {
-                              navigate("/Events");
-                            }
-                          }}
-                          className="text-[#0039A6] font-bold flex items-center gap-1 hover:underline text-[11px] shrink-0 cursor-pointer"
-                        >
-                          <span>View Order</span>
-                          <ArrowRight className="w-3 h-3" />
-                        </button>
-                      </div>
-                    </div>
-                  );
-                }
-
-                if (parsed.type === "flow_step") {
-                  return (
-                    <div className="flex items-start gap-3 p-3 rounded-xl bg-gradient-to-r from-blue-50/70 to-white border border-blue-100/90 shadow-2xs">
-                      <div className="w-6 h-6 rounded-full bg-[#0039A6] text-white font-black text-[10px] flex items-center justify-center shrink-0 shadow-xs uppercase">
-                        {parsed.stepLabel.slice(0, 3)}
-                      </div>
-                      <div className="flex-1 min-w-0 pt-0.5">
-                        <p className="text-xs font-semibold text-slate-800 leading-relaxed">{parsed.content}</p>
-                      </div>
-                    </div>
-                  );
-                }
-
-                return (
-                  <div className="p-3 rounded-xl bg-white border border-slate-200/90 shadow-2xs hover:border-blue-300 transition-all flex items-start gap-2.5">
-                    <div className="w-2 h-2 rounded-full bg-[#0039A6] mt-1.5 shrink-0" />
-                    <div className="flex-1 text-xs text-slate-800 font-medium leading-normal">
-                      {children}
-                    </div>
-                  </div>
-                );
-              },
-              p: ({ children }) => {
-                const text = extractNodeText(children);
-
-                // If paragraph mentions order risk, headcount ratio, or open seats
-                const ratioMatch = text.match(/(\d+)\/(\d+)/);
-                if (ratioMatch) {
-                  const assigned = parseInt(ratioMatch[1], 10);
-                  const requested = parseInt(ratioMatch[2], 10);
-                  const pct = requested > 0 ? Math.min(100, Math.round((assigned / requested) * 100)) : 0;
-
-                  return (
-                    <div className="my-2.5 p-3.5 rounded-xl bg-white border border-amber-200 shadow-2xs border-l-4 border-l-amber-500 space-y-2">
-                      <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-2">
-                        <div className="min-w-0">
-                          <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full bg-amber-50 text-amber-800 border border-amber-200 text-[10px] font-extrabold uppercase tracking-wide">
-                            <AlertTriangle className="w-3 h-3 text-amber-600" /> Order Attention
-                          </span>
-                          <p className="text-xs font-bold text-slate-900 mt-1.5 leading-snug">{text}</p>
-                        </div>
-                        <span className="px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full bg-amber-100 text-amber-800 font-extrabold text-[11px] shrink-0">
-                          {assigned}/{requested}
-                        </span>
-                      </div>
-
-                      <div className="space-y-1">
-                        <div className="flex justify-between text-[10px] font-bold text-slate-500">
-                          <span>Staffing Fill</span>
-                          <span className="text-slate-700">{pct}%</span>
-                        </div>
-                        <div className="w-full h-1.5 bg-slate-100 rounded-full overflow-hidden">
-                          <div className="h-full bg-amber-500 rounded-full transition-all duration-500" style={{ width: `${pct}%` }} />
-                        </div>
-                      </div>
-
-                      <div className="flex items-center justify-end pt-1 border-t border-slate-100">
-                        <button
-                          type="button"
-                          onClick={() => navigate("/Events")}
-                          className="text-[#0039A6] font-bold flex items-center gap-1 hover:underline text-[11px]"
-                        >
-                          <span>View Orders</span>
-                          <ArrowRight className="w-3 h-3" />
-                        </button>
-                      </div>
-                    </div>
-                  );
-                }
-
-                // If paragraph is a summary metric callout
-                if (/(\d+)\s*(orders|shifts|positions|candidates|seats)/i.test(text)) {
-                  return (
-                    <div className="p-3 rounded-xl bg-gradient-to-r from-blue-50 to-indigo-50/60 border border-blue-200/70 text-[#0039A6] text-xs font-bold flex items-center gap-2 my-2 shadow-2xs">
-                      <Sparkles className="w-4 h-4 text-blue-600 shrink-0" />
-                      <span>{children}</span>
-                    </div>
-                  );
-                }
-                return <p className="mb-2 text-xs leading-relaxed text-slate-800">{children}</p>;
-              },
-              a: ({ href, children }) =>
-                isValidRoute(href) ? (
-                  <a
-                    href={href}
-                    onClick={(e) => { e.preventDefault(); navigate(href); }}
-                    className="underline underline-offset-2 font-medium"
-                    style={{ color: "var(--ow-brand)" }}
-                  >
-                    {children}
-                  </a>
-                ) : (
-                  <a
-                    href={href}
-                    target="_blank"
-                    rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                    className="underline underline-offset-2"
-                    style={{ color: "var(--ow-brand)" }}
-                  >
-                    {children}
-                  </a>
-                ),
-            }}
-          >
-            {content}
-          </ReactMarkdown>
-        </div>
-      )}
-
-      {actions.length > 0 && (
-        <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 mt-3">
-          {actions.map((action) => (
-            <button
-              key={action.route}
-              type="button"
-              onClick={() => navigate(action.route)}
-              className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 max-w-full rounded-full border px-3 py-1.5 text-[12.5px] font-medium transition-colors hover:bg-black/[0.03] focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2"
-              style={{
-                borderColor: "var(--ow-line-strong)",
-                background: "var(--ow-surface-raised)",
-                color: "var(--ow-ink)",
-                outlineColor: "var(--ow-brand)",
-              }}
-            >
-              <span className="truncate">{action.label}</span>
-              <ArrowRight className="w-3.5 h-3.5 flex-shrink-0" style={{ color: "var(--ow-brand)" }} />
-            </button>
-          ))}
-        </div>
-      )}
-    </>
-  );
-}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverComposer.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverComposer.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c07e4a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverComposer.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { ArrowUp, AlertCircle, Loader2, X } from "lucide-react";
+
+/**
+ * The composer.
+ *
+ *   ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
+ *   │ Ask Owliver about Saving Engine...   │
+ *   │                                      │
+ *   │ ✦ Saving Engine               [ ↑ ]  │
+ *   └──────────────────────────────────────┘
+ *
+ * One field that starts at a single line and grows to about four before it
+ * scrolls, a context chip that names what the question will be answered
+ * against, and a send affordance that only lights up when there is something to
+ * send. Enter sends, Shift+Enter breaks the line, and the whole thing is docked
+ * — it never scrolls away with the conversation.
+ *
+ * While a turn is in flight the field stays mounted and readable but refuses
+ * input, so a follow-up is never asked against half an answer.
+ */
+export default function OwliverComposer({
+  onSubmit, placeholder, contextLabel, disabled, error, onRetry, autoFocus,
+}) {
+  const [value, setValue] = useState("");
+  const [focused, setFocused] = useState(false);
+  const inputRef = useRef(null);
+
+  // Grow with the content, then scroll — a composer that swallows the panel is
+  // worse than one that scrolls.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const el = inputRef.current;
+    if (!el) return;
+    el.style.height = "auto";
+    el.style.height = `${Math.min(el.scrollHeight, 104)}px`;
+  }, [value]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (autoFocus) inputRef.current?.focus();
+  }, [autoFocus]);
+
+  // The field is re-armed the moment Owliver finishes, so the next question can
+  // be typed without reaching for the mouse.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!disabled) inputRef.current?.focus({ preventScroll: true });
+  }, [disabled]);
+
+  const submit = useCallback(() => {
+    const text = value.trim();
+    if (!text || disabled) return;
+    setValue("");
+    onSubmit(text);
+  }, [value, disabled, onSubmit]);
+
+  const onKeyDown = (e) => {
+    if (e.key === "Enter" && !e.shiftKey) {
+      e.preventDefault();
+      submit();
+    }
+  };
+
+  const canSend = value.trim().length > 0 && !disabled;
+
+  return (
+    <div className="flex-shrink-0 border-t border-slate-200 bg-white px-3 pb-3 pt-2.5">
+      {error && (
+        <div className="mb-2 flex items-start gap-2 rounded-lg border border-red-200 bg-red-50/70 px-2.5 py-2">
+          <AlertCircle className="mt-[1px] h-3.5 w-3.5 flex-shrink-0 text-red-500" />
+          <p className="min-w-0 flex-1 text-[11.5px] leading-snug text-red-800">{error}</p>
+          {onRetry && (
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              onClick={onRetry}
+              className="flex-shrink-0 text-[11.5px] font-semibold text-red-700 underline underline-offset-2"
+            >
+              Try again
+            </button>
+          )}
+        </div>
+      )}
+
+      <form
+        onSubmit={(e) => { e.preventDefault(); submit(); }}
+        className={`rounded-[14px] border bg-white transition-all duration-150 ${
+          focused
+            ? "border-[#0039A6]/45 shadow-[0_0_0_3px_rgba(0,57,166,0.10)]"
+            : "border-slate-200 hover:border-slate-300"
+        }`}
+      >
+        <div className="px-3 pt-2.5">
+          <textarea
+            ref={inputRef}
+            rows={1}
+            value={value}
+            disabled={disabled}
+            onChange={(e) => setValue(e.target.value)}
+            onKeyDown={onKeyDown}
+            onFocus={() => setFocused(true)}
+            onBlur={() => setFocused(false)}
+            placeholder={placeholder || "Ask Owliver anything..."}
+            aria-label="Ask Owliver"
+            className="block max-h-[104px] w-full resize-none border-0 bg-transparent p-0 text-[13px] leading-[1.5] text-slate-900 placeholder:text-slate-400 focus:outline-none focus:ring-0 disabled:opacity-60"
+          />
+        </div>
+
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 px-2.5 pb-2 pt-2">
+          {/* What the answer will be computed against. */}
+          <span className="inline-flex min-w-0 items-center gap-1 rounded-md bg-slate-50 px-1.5 py-[3px] text-[10.5px] font-medium text-slate-500">
+            <span aria-hidden="true" className="text-[#0039A6]">✦</span>
+            <span className="truncate">{contextLabel || "Current page"}</span>
+          </span>
+
+          {value && !disabled && (
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              onClick={() => { setValue(""); inputRef.current?.focus(); }}
+              aria-label="Clear"
+              className="flex h-5 w-5 flex-shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded text-slate-400 transition-colors hover:bg-slate-100 hover:text-slate-600"
+            >
+              <X className="h-3 w-3" />
+            </button>
+          )}
+
+          <span className="ml-auto hidden flex-shrink-0 text-[10px] text-slate-300 sm:block">
+            {disabled ? "Working…" : "↵ send"}
+          </span>
+
+          <button
+            type="submit"
+            disabled={!canSend}
+            aria-label="Send"
+            className={`flex h-7 w-7 flex-shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-lg transition-all duration-150 ${
+              canSend
+                ? "bg-[#0039A6] text-white hover:bg-[#002d85]"
+                : "bg-slate-100 text-slate-300"
+            }`}
+          >
+            {disabled ? <Loader2 className="h-3.5 w-3.5 animate-spin" /> : <ArrowUp className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />}
+          </button>
+        </div>
+      </form>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverContextBar.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverContextBar.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cd47a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverContextBar.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { useState } from "react";
+import { ChevronDown, Database } from "lucide-react";
+
+/**
+ * What Owliver is answering from.
+ *
+ *   ⛁ Using Saving Engine data                            ⌄
+ *     $285K saved · 27 opportunities · $8K at risk
+ *
+ * The claim on the first line is what makes the panel legible as page-bound;
+ * the facts underneath are what make it credible, and they are read from the
+ * page's own signals, so the bar can never state something the page does not.
+ * It is expandable rather than always-open because context is reassurance, not
+ * content — it should cost one line until someone asks.
+ */
+export default function OwliverContextBar({ label, facts = [], loading }) {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  if (!label) return null;
+
+  const expandable = facts.length > 0;
+
+  return (
+    <div className="flex-shrink-0 border-b border-slate-200 bg-slate-50/80">
+      <button
+        type="button"
+        onClick={expandable ? () => setOpen((v) => !v) : undefined}
+        disabled={!expandable}
+        aria-expanded={expandable ? open : undefined}
+        className={`flex w-full items-center gap-1.5 px-3.5 py-1.5 text-left ${
+          expandable ? "transition-colors hover:bg-slate-100/70" : "cursor-default"
+        } focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-inset focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/30`}
+      >
+        <Database className="h-3 w-3 flex-shrink-0 text-[#0039A6]" />
+        <span className="min-w-0 flex-1 truncate text-[11px] font-semibold text-slate-600">
+          {loading ? "Reading this page…" : label}
+        </span>
+        {expandable && (
+          <ChevronDown
+            className={`h-3 w-3 flex-shrink-0 text-slate-400 transition-transform duration-150 ${open ? "rotate-180" : ""}`}
+          />
+        )}
+      </button>
+
+      {open && facts.length > 0 && (
+        <p className="ow-fade-in flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-1.5 gap-y-0.5 px-3.5 pb-1.5 text-[11px] leading-tight">
+          {facts.map((fact, i) => (
+            <span key={`${fact.label}-${i}`} className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5">
+              {i > 0 && <span className="text-slate-300">·</span>}
+              <span className={`font-semibold tabular-nums ${fact.tone === "risk" ? "text-orange-600" : "text-slate-900"}`}>
+                {fact.value}
+              </span>
+              <span className="text-slate-500">{fact.label}</span>
+            </span>
+          ))}
+        </p>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverEmptyState.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverEmptyState.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41274a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverEmptyState.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+import OwliverSuggestions from "./OwliverSuggestions";
+
+/**
+ * The pack marks the figure inside a read line with `**…**`. Splitting on it is
+ * cheaper — and safer — than reaching for a markdown renderer for one emphasis.
+ */
+function Emphasised({ text }) {
+  return text.split(/\*\*(.+?)\*\*/g).map((part, i) =>
+    i % 2 === 1 ? (
+      <span key={i} className="font-semibold text-slate-900">{part}</span>
+    ) : (
+      <span key={i}>{part}</span>
+    )
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The panel before anything has been asked.
+ *
+ * Not a greeting and not a dashboard: the read on the current workspace — which
+ * the page's own data produced — followed by the questions that read makes worth
+ * asking. Two short blocks and nothing else, because the conversation is the
+ * surface and this is only its starting line.
+ */
+export default function OwliverEmptyState({
+  read, loading, failed, suggestions, onSelect, disabled, workspaceTitle,
+}) {
+  if (loading) {
+    return (
+      <div className="space-y-2 px-0.5 pt-1" aria-live="polite">
+        <div className="h-3 w-[45%] animate-pulse rounded-full bg-slate-200" />
+        <div className="h-3.5 w-[85%] animate-pulse rounded-full bg-slate-200" />
+        <div className="h-3 w-[95%] animate-pulse rounded-full bg-slate-100" />
+        <span className="sr-only">Owliver is reading this page&rsquo;s data</span>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
+  const toneRail = {
+    positive: "border-emerald-300",
+    risk: "border-orange-300",
+    neutral: "border-[#0039A6]/40",
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <div className="space-y-4">
+      {failed ? (
+        <p className="text-[13px] leading-relaxed text-slate-600">
+          I couldn&rsquo;t read this page&rsquo;s data just now — ask me anything and I&rsquo;ll pull what I need.
+        </p>
+      ) : (
+        read && (
+          <section className={`border-l-2 pl-3 ${toneRail[read.tone] || toneRail.neutral}`}>
+            <p className="text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-slate-400">
+              Current read
+            </p>
+
+            <p className="mt-1.5 text-[14px] font-semibold leading-snug text-slate-900">
+              {read.headline}
+            </p>
+
+            {(read.lines || []).map((line, i) => (
+              <p key={i} className="mt-1.5 text-[12.5px] leading-relaxed text-slate-500">
+                <Emphasised text={line} />
+              </p>
+            ))}
+
+            {read.stat && (
+              <p className="mt-2.5 flex items-baseline gap-1.5 border-t border-slate-100 pt-2">
+                <span className="text-[10.5px] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-slate-400">
+                  {read.stat.label}
+                </span>
+                <span className="text-[13px] font-bold tabular-nums text-slate-900">{read.stat.value}</span>
+                {read.stat.trend && (
+                  <span className="text-[11.5px] font-semibold text-emerald-700">{read.stat.trend}</span>
+                )}
+              </p>
+            )}
+          </section>
+        )
+      )}
+
+      <OwliverSuggestions
+        heading={`Explore ${workspaceTitle}`}
+        suggestions={suggestions}
+        onSelect={onSelect}
+        disabled={disabled}
+        limit={5}
+      />
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverHeader.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverHeader.jsx
index 17bfe72..fcb2294 100644
--- a/src/components/owliver/OwliverHeader.jsx
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverHeader.jsx
@@ -1,107 +1,75 @@
-import { ArrowLeft, Maximize2, Minimize2, PanelRightClose, SquarePen } from "lucide-react";
-import OwliverAvatar from "./OwliverAvatar";
+import { Maximize2, Minimize2, MoreHorizontal, SquarePen, X } from "lucide-react";
+import {
+  DropdownMenu,
+  DropdownMenuContent,
+  DropdownMenuItem,
+  DropdownMenuTrigger,
+} from "@/components/ui/dropdown-menu";
 
 /**
- * Image 1 Header Style:
- * [ owl ] Owliver                  ←  ✎  ↗  🚪
- *         Positions
+ * Identity, and the page Owliver is bound to. Nothing else.
  *
- * Every control here does what its label says. The back arrow returns to the
- * prompt surface and only appears when a thread exists to leave; the pencil
- * starts a fresh conversation. (It previously rendered a History icon wired to
- * `onNewConversation`, which silently discarded the thread, and the back
- * control was never rendered at all — so a reply was a dead end.)
+ *   ✦ Owliver                                   ⋯   ×
+ *     Saving Engine
+ *
+ * Two lines carry the only two facts a header needs here: who this is, and what
+ * it is currently reading. Every secondary control collapses into one overflow
+ * menu, so the header keeps a single visual weight and the panel's attention
+ * stays on the conversation below it.
  */
 export default function OwliverHeader({
-  subtitle,
-  onNewConversation,
-  onShowInsight,
-  onToggleExpanded,
+  workspace,
   onClose,
+  onNewConversation,
+  onToggleExpanded,
   isExpanded,
-  canGoBack,
   hasThread,
 }) {
   const iconBtn =
-    "w-8 h-8 rounded-full flex items-center justify-center transition-colors " +
-    "hover:bg-black/[0.05] focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 " +
-    "disabled:opacity-30 disabled:cursor-not-allowed";
+    "flex h-7 w-7 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-slate-400 transition-colors duration-150 " +
+    "hover:bg-slate-100 hover:text-slate-700 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/30";
 
   return (
-    <header
-      className="flex items-center gap-3 flex-shrink-0 px-4 pt-3 pb-2.5"
-      style={{ borderColor: "var(--ow-line)" }}
-    >
-      <OwliverAvatar size={32} rounded="rounded-full" />
+    <header className="flex flex-shrink-0 items-center gap-2.5 border-b border-slate-200 bg-white px-3.5 py-2.5">
+      <span
+        aria-hidden="true"
+        className="flex h-6 w-6 flex-shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-md bg-[#0039A6] text-[13px] font-semibold leading-none text-white"
+      >
+        ✦
+      </span>
 
       <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
-        <p
-          className="text-[15px] font-bold leading-tight truncate"
-          style={{ color: "var(--ow-ink)" }}
-        >
+        <p className="truncate text-[13.5px] font-bold leading-tight tracking-[-0.01em] text-slate-900">
           Owliver
         </p>
-        <p
-          className="text-[12.5px] font-medium leading-tight truncate"
-          style={{ color: "var(--ow-ink-muted)" }}
-        >
-          {subtitle}
+        <p className="truncate text-[11.5px] font-medium leading-tight text-slate-500">
+          {workspace}
         </p>
       </div>
 
-      <div className="flex items-center gap-1 flex-shrink-0" style={{ color: "var(--ow-ink-muted)" }}>
-        {canGoBack && (
-          <button
-            type="button"
-            onClick={onShowInsight}
-            aria-label="Back to suggestions"
-            title="Back"
-            className={iconBtn}
-            style={{ outlineColor: "var(--ow-brand)" }}
-          >
-            <ArrowLeft className="w-[17px] h-[17px]" />
-          </button>
-        )}
+      <div className="flex flex-shrink-0 items-center gap-0.5">
+        <DropdownMenu>
+          <DropdownMenuTrigger asChild>
+            <button type="button" aria-label="Owliver options" title="Options" className={iconBtn}>
+              <MoreHorizontal className="h-4 w-4" />
+            </button>
+          </DropdownMenuTrigger>
+          <DropdownMenuContent align="end" className="w-52">
+            <DropdownMenuItem onClick={onNewConversation} disabled={!hasThread}>
+              <SquarePen className="mr-2 h-4 w-4" />
+              New conversation
+            </DropdownMenuItem>
+            <DropdownMenuItem onClick={onToggleExpanded} className="hidden lg:flex">
+              {isExpanded ? <Minimize2 className="mr-2 h-4 w-4" /> : <Maximize2 className="mr-2 h-4 w-4" />}
+              {isExpanded ? "Collapse panel" : "Expand panel"}
+            </DropdownMenuItem>
+          </DropdownMenuContent>
+        </DropdownMenu>
 
-        {hasThread && (
-          <button
-            type="button"
-            onClick={onNewConversation}
-            aria-label="Start a new conversation"
-            title="New conversation"
-            className={iconBtn}
-            style={{ outlineColor: "var(--ow-brand)" }}
-          >
-            <SquarePen className="w-[17px] h-[17px]" />
-          </button>
-        )}
-
-        <button
-          type="button"
-          onClick={onToggleExpanded}
-          aria-label={isExpanded ? "Collapse Owliver" : "Expand Owliver"}
-          aria-pressed={isExpanded}
-          title={isExpanded ? "Collapse" : "Expand"}
-          className={`${iconBtn} hidden lg:flex`}
-          style={{ outlineColor: "var(--ow-brand)" }}
-        >
-          {isExpanded
-            ? <Minimize2 className="w-[17px] h-[17px]" />
-            : <Maximize2 className="w-[17px] h-[17px]" />}
-        </button>
-
-        <button
-          type="button"
-          onClick={onClose}
-          aria-label="Close Owliver"
-          title="Close"
-          className={iconBtn}
-          style={{ outlineColor: "var(--ow-brand)" }}
-        >
-          <PanelRightClose className="w-[18px] h-[18px]" />
+        <button type="button" onClick={onClose} aria-label="Close Owliver" title="Close" className={iconBtn}>
+          <X className="h-4 w-4" />
         </button>
       </div>
     </header>
   );
 }
-
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverInsight.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverInsight.jsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 23c3b2e..0000000
--- a/src/components/owliver/OwliverInsight.jsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * The read on the current page, shown above the suggestions:
- *
- *   2 shifts are short of requested headcount this week.
- *   Reviewing this week's schedule — coverage, labor cost and
- *   upcoming staffing needs.
- *   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- *
- * The headline is the finding; the supporting line says what Owliver is reading
- * to get there, which is what makes the panel feel page-aware before you ask it
- * anything. Both come from the page's own data via buildInsight() — nothing here
- * is ever invented, and there is no greeting: the old "Good afternoon, Alex"
- * block cost ~120px before the user reached anything actionable, and its
- * placeholder copy was about hiring, on pages that have nothing to do with it.
- *
- * No insight is a valid state: the panel then opens straight onto its
- * suggestions.
- */
-export default function OwliverInsight({ insight, loading, failed }) {
-  if (loading) {
-    return (
-      <div className="space-y-2" aria-live="polite">
-        <div className="h-4 w-[80%] rounded-full animate-pulse bg-neutral-200" />
-        <div className="h-3 w-[95%] rounded-full animate-pulse bg-neutral-200" />
-        <span className="sr-only">Owliver is reading this page&rsquo;s data</span>
-      </div>
-    );
-  }
-
-  const line = failed
-    ? "I couldn't read this page's data just now — ask me anything and I'll pull what I need."
-    : insight?.headline;
-  const supporting = failed ? null : insight?.supporting;
-
-  if (!line) return null;
-
-  // No padding and no trailing rule: this sits inside an Astryx ChatMessage,
-  // which owns the gutter and the separation from the next turn.
-  return (
-    <div>
-      <p
-        className="text-[13.5px] font-medium leading-snug m-0"
-        style={{ color: "var(--ow-ink)" }}
-      >
-        {line}
-      </p>
-
-      {supporting && (
-        <p
-          className="text-[12.5px] leading-relaxed mt-1.5 m-0"
-          style={{ color: "var(--ow-ink-muted)" }}
-        >
-          {supporting}
-        </p>
-      )}
-    </div>
-  );
-}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverProvider.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverProvider.jsx
index 893a6d9..05fa892 100644
--- a/src/components/owliver/OwliverProvider.jsx
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverProvider.jsx
@@ -5,29 +5,34 @@ import { useLocation, useSearchParams } from "react-router-dom";
 import { useQuery } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { krow } from "@/api/client";
 import {
-  resolveDomain, pageNameFromPath, detailEntityFor, rankSuggestions,
+  resolveDomain, pageNameFromPath, detailEntityFor,
   OWLIVER_EXCLUDED, PAGE_CONTEXTS,
 } from "@/lib/owliver/pageRegistry";
 import { buildPageContext } from "@/lib/owliver/context";
+import getKnowledge from "@/lib/owliver/knowledge";
+import { getOwliverAnswer, lastTopicOf } from "@/lib/owliver/responseEngine";
 
 /**
  * OwliverProvider
  * ---------------
- * Owns the Owliver conversation and the current page context. Mounted once at
- * the authenticated layout level, so the assistant survives navigation.
+ * Owns the conversation and the page context.
  *
- * Performance contract: mounting this provider performs **no** entity reads.
- * Page signals load lazily the first time the user opens Owliver, and are then
- * cached per page by TanStack Query.
+ *   Active page → domain → knowledge pack → read / suggestions / answers
  *
- * There is exactly **one** submission path — `send()`. The prompt box and the
- * suggestion chips both call it; a suggestion is a pre-written prompt, never a
- * separate request shape and never a canned answer.
+ * The page is the source of context. The pack resolved for the active page
+ * decides what Owliver knows, what it offers to answer, and how it answers —
+ * so nothing on this surface is shared between pages, and a page that has no
+ * pack still falls back to its own registry entry rather than to a generic one.
  *
- * Answers come from the on-device engine in lib/owliver/owliverEngine.js, which
- * reasons over `pageContext` — the same normalised page data the panel already
- * has. Nothing is sent anywhere: there is no conversation on a server, no socket
- * and no poll, so a turn is a local async call that always settles.
+ * There is exactly one submission path — `send()`. Suggestion chips, follow-up
+ * chips, in-answer action buttons and the composer all call it; a suggestion is
+ * a pre-written prompt, never a canned answer.
+ *
+ * A turn is staged rather than streamed: the answer is composed locally, then
+ * its thinking lines are played out and its blocks revealed one at a time. That
+ * is deliberate — when a real streaming transport replaces the local pack, the
+ * same three states (thinking → partial → complete) are already what the
+ * surface renders.
  */
 
 const OwliverContext = createContext(null);
@@ -38,45 +43,44 @@ export const useOwliver = () => {
   return ctx;
 };
 
+/** Pacing for the staged turn. Long enough to read, short enough not to wait. */
+const STAGE_MS = 620;
+const BLOCK_MS = 260;
+
+const wait = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+
 export function OwliverProvider({ children }) {
   const location = useLocation();
   const [searchParams] = useSearchParams();
 
-  // Owliver opens with the page. It is a non-modal card beside the work, not a
-  // dialog the user has to go and find, so there is no closed default state to
-  // discover — `close()` and the launcher pill handle dismiss/reopen.
-  const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = useState(true);
+  // Docked beside the work on a desktop, a bottom sheet on a phone — where it
+  // would bury the page it is about, so it starts closed there.
+  const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = useState(
+    () => typeof window === "undefined" || window.matchMedia("(min-width: 768px)").matches
+  );
   const [isExpanded, setIsExpanded] = useState(false);
-  // Owliver is prompt-first: which surface is showing is explicit state, never
-  // inferred from `messages.length`. "prompt" is greeting → insight →
-  // suggestions → input; only a deliberate user action moves to
-  // "conversation".
-  const [viewMode, setViewMode] = useState("prompt");
-  // The panel is open from the first paint, so its page signals are wanted from
-  // the first paint too.
-  const [hasOpened, setHasOpened] = useState(true);
   const [messages, setMessages] = useState([]);
   const [error, setError] = useState(null);
-
-  // `isSending` means "a turn is in flight", from the moment the user submits
-  // until the agent has finished answering. The response surface decides on its
-  // own when to stop showing the working line (as soon as real text lands), so
-  // this can stay true through streaming without pinning a spinner on screen.
   const [isSending, setIsSendingState] = useState(false);
+  const [thinkingStage, setThinkingStage] = useState(null);
+  const [followUps, setFollowUps] = useState([]);
+
   const isSendingRef = useRef(false);
   const setSending = useCallback((next) => {
     isSendingRef.current = next;
     setIsSendingState(next);
   }, []);
 
+  // Every turn takes a ticket. A turn whose ticket has been superseded — by a
+  // navigation, a reset, or a newer question — stops writing to state instead of
+  // finishing into a conversation that has moved on.
+  const turnRef = useRef(0);
   const lastSentRef = useRef(null);
-  // Mirrors `messages` so failure handling can read the current thread without
-  // taking a dependency on it (and re-arming the timeout on every token).
   const messagesRef = useRef(messages);
   messagesRef.current = messages;
 
-  // A page may publish its own live data (including tab/view state and the
-  // selected record) via useOwliverPageContext.
+  /* ------------------------------------------------------- page context */
+
   const [pageRegistration, setPageRegistration] = useState({ key: null, data: null });
   const registerPage = useCallback((key, data) => {
     setPageRegistration((prev) =>
@@ -88,13 +92,13 @@ export function OwliverProvider({ children }) {
   const isExcluded = OWLIVER_EXCLUDED.has(pageName);
   const detailEntity = detailEntityFor(pageName);
 
-  // A registered page context wins over the route-derived domain — it knows
-  // which in-page view is active.
+  // A page that registers its own context wins over the route-derived domain —
+  // it knows which in-page view is active.
   const registered = pageRegistration.key ? PAGE_CONTEXTS[pageRegistration.key] : null;
-  const domain = useMemo(
-    () => registered || resolveDomain(pageName),
-    [registered, pageName]
-  );
+  const domain = useMemo(() => registered || resolveDomain(pageName), [registered, pageName]);
+
+  /** The knowledge pack for this page. Everything below reads from it. */
+  const knowledge = useMemo(() => getKnowledge(domain.key, domain), [domain]);
 
   const { data: user } = useQuery({
     queryKey: ["current-user-layout"], // shared with Layout — no extra request
@@ -106,9 +110,9 @@ export function OwliverProvider({ children }) {
     (typeof localStorage !== "undefined" && localStorage.getItem("dev_role_override")) ||
     user?.user_role || user?.role || "admin";
 
-  /* ---------------------------------------------------------- page signals */
-  // Owliver prefers data the page already loaded. It only fetches its own —
-  // and only after the user has opened it once — when no page has registered.
+  /* ---------------------------------------------------------- page data */
+  // Owliver prefers data the page already loaded, and only fetches its own when
+  // no page has registered.
   const usePageData = !!registered;
 
   const {
@@ -118,13 +122,12 @@ export function OwliverProvider({ children }) {
   } = useQuery({
     queryKey: ["owliver-signals", domain.key],
     queryFn: () => domain.loadSignals(),
-    enabled: hasOpened && !isExcluded && !usePageData && !!domain.loadSignals,
+    enabled: !isExcluded && !usePageData && !!domain.loadSignals,
     staleTime: 60 * 1000,
     gcTime: 10 * 60 * 1000,
     retry: 1,
   });
 
-  // `signals` is the normalised summary the registry reasons about.
   const signals = useMemo(() => {
     // `|| {}` matters: destructuring defaults cover `undefined` but throw on `null`.
     if (usePageData) return domain.summarise(pageRegistration.data || {});
@@ -134,104 +137,103 @@ export function OwliverProvider({ children }) {
   const signalsLoading = usePageData ? false : fetchLoading;
   const signalsError = usePageData ? false : fetchError;
 
-  const insight = useMemo(
-    () => (signals ? domain.buildInsight(signals) : null),
-    [signals, domain]
+  /** The dynamic current read — a different shape of finding on every page. */
+  const read = useMemo(
+    () => (signals ? knowledge.read(signals) : null),
+    [signals, knowledge]
   );
 
+  /** The questions this page's data makes worth asking. */
   const suggestions = useMemo(
-    () => (signals ? rankSuggestions(domain.buildSuggestions(signals)) : []),
-    [signals, domain]
+    () => (signals ? (knowledge.suggestions(signals) || []).slice(0, 5) : []),
+    [signals, knowledge]
   );
 
   const pageContext = useMemo(
     () => buildPageContext({
-      pageName, domain, role, searchParams, signals, insight, detailEntity,
+      pageName, domain, role, searchParams, signals,
+      insight: read ? { headline: read.headline, supporting: read.lines?.[0] } : null,
+      detailEntity,
     }),
-    [pageName, domain, role, searchParams, signals, insight, detailEntity]
+    [pageName, domain, role, searchParams, signals, read, detailEntity]
   );
 
-  // A request that never lands must not leave the surface looking broken.
-  // Roll the optimistic turn back off the thread, return to the prompt-first
-  // surface, and let the compact inline error carry the message — the insight
-  // and suggestions stay available underneath it.
-  const failSend = useCallback((err) => {
-    if (err) console.error("Owliver: request failed", err);
-    setSending(false);
+  /* ------------------------------------------------------- conversation */
 
-    const prev = messagesRef.current;
-    const last = prev[prev.length - 1];
-    // Drop the optimistic turn we echoed; it was never persisted.
-    const rolledBack = last && last.__optimistic ? prev.slice(0, -1) : prev;
-    setMessages(rolledBack);
-
-    // Only fall back to the prompt surface when nothing was actually answered.
-    // A failed follow-up must not yank the user away from the reply they are
-    // still reading — the compact error sits above the prompt either way.
-    if (!rolledBack.some((m) => m.role !== "user")) setViewMode("prompt");
-
-    // Carry the status through when the API gave one. A bare "couldn't complete
-    // that request" is indistinguishable between a missing agent, an expired
-    // session and a server fault, which is exactly what made this hard to place.
-    const status = err?.status ? ` (${err.status})` : "";
-    setError(`Owliver couldn't complete that request.${status}`);
-  }, [setSending]);
-
-  // A new page is a new context. Return to the prompt surface, drop the
-  // visible thread and invalidate the context we last sent, so Owliver always
-  // opens on what *this* page needs rather than on an answer about the last
-  // one. (The route is the only thing that resets this — navigating is a
-  // deliberate act, so it can't surprise the user mid-reply.)
-  //
-  // Keyed on the raw search *string*, not the URLSearchParams object: an
-  // identity change there would tear down a healthy in-flight turn.
+  // A new page is a new context: drop the thread, cancel any turn in flight and
+  // open on what *this* page needs. Keyed on the raw search string, not the
+  // URLSearchParams object, whose identity changes on every render.
   useEffect(() => {
+    turnRef.current += 1;
     setSending(false);
-    setViewMode("prompt");
+    setThinkingStage(null);
     setMessages([]);
+    setFollowUps([]);
     setError(null);
   }, [pageName, location.search, setSending]);
 
   /**
-   * The one submission path. `rawText` is whatever the user asked — typed into
-   * the prompt box or carried by a suggestion chip.
+   * The one submission path. `rawText` is whatever the user asked — typed, or
+   * carried by a suggestion, a follow-up or an in-answer action.
    */
   const send = useCallback(async (rawText) => {
     const text = (rawText || "").trim();
     if (!text || isSendingRef.current) return;
 
+    const ticket = (turnRef.current += 1);
+    const live = () => turnRef.current === ticket;
+
     lastSentRef.current = text;
     setError(null);
+    setFollowUps([]);
     setSending(true);
 
-    // An actual request — and only an actual request — moves Owliver into the
-    // response surface. Echo the user's turn first so a click on a suggestion
-    // produces immediate visible feedback; `failSend` rolls it back if the
-    // answer never arrives.
-    setViewMode("conversation");
-    // The thread as it stood *before* this turn — what a follow-up ("why?") is
-    // answered against.
-    const priorMessages = messagesRef.current;
-    setMessages((prev) => [...prev, { role: "user", content: text, __optimistic: true }]);
+    // The user's turn lands immediately — a click on a suggestion has to produce
+    // visible feedback before anything is computed.
+    const prior = messagesRef.current;
+    setMessages([...prior, { id: `you-${Date.now()}`, role: "user", content: text }]);
+    setThinkingStage(`${knowledge.working}…`);
 
-    try {
-      // Loaded on demand so the engine only ships to sessions that open Owliver.
-      const { getOwliverResponse } = await import("@/lib/owliver/owliverEngine");
-      const reply = await getOwliverResponse({
-        prompt: text,
-        pageContext,
-        conversation: priorMessages,
-      });
-      setMessages((prev) => [
-        // Nothing will echo this turn back, so it stops being provisional.
-        ...prev.map((m) => (m.__optimistic ? { ...m, __optimistic: false } : m)),
-        { id: `owliver-${Date.now()}`, role: "assistant", content: reply },
-      ]);
-      setSending(false);
-    } catch (err) {
-      failSend(err);
+    const answer = await getOwliverAnswer({
+      prompt: text,
+      domainKey: domain.key,
+      domain,
+      signals,
+      pageContext,
+      conversation: prior,
+    });
+    if (!live()) return;
+
+    // Play the answer's own working lines ("Checking 27 opportunities…"), then
+    // hand over to the response surface.
+    const stages = answer.stages?.length ? answer.stages : [`${knowledge.working}…`];
+    for (const stage of stages) {
+      setThinkingStage(stage);
+      await wait(STAGE_MS);
+      if (!live()) return;
     }
-  }, [pageContext, failSend, setSending]);
+
+    setThinkingStage(null);
+    const id = `owliver-${Date.now()}`;
+    setMessages((prev) => [
+      ...prev,
+      { id, role: "assistant", blocks: answer.blocks, topic: answer.topic, revealed: 1 },
+    ]);
+
+    // Blocks land one at a time: the text of the answer, then the evidence it
+    // rests on, then the actions. The composer stays disabled until the answer
+    // is whole, so a follow-up is never asked against half an answer.
+    for (let i = 2; i <= answer.blocks.length; i += 1) {
+      await wait(BLOCK_MS);
+      if (!live()) return;
+      setMessages((prev) => prev.map((m) => (m.id === id ? { ...m, revealed: i } : m)));
+    }
+
+    if (!live()) return;
+    setFollowUps(answer.followUps || []);
+    if (answer.error) setError("Something went wrong while analyzing this workspace.");
+    setSending(false);
+  }, [domain, knowledge, signals, pageContext, setSending]);
 
   /** Re-run the prompt that failed, not a blank one. */
   const retry = useCallback(() => {
@@ -241,47 +243,59 @@ export function OwliverProvider({ children }) {
     send(text);
   }, [send]);
 
-  // Opening always lands on the prompt-first surface, whatever happened in an
-  // earlier turn.
-  const open = useCallback(() => {
-    setHasOpened(true);
-    setIsOpen(true);
-    setViewMode("prompt");
-    setError(null);
-  }, []);
+  const open = useCallback(() => { setIsOpen(true); setError(null); }, []);
   const close = useCallback(() => setIsOpen(false), []);
   const toggle = useCallback(() => (isOpen ? close() : open()), [isOpen, open, close]);
   const toggleExpanded = useCallback(() => setIsExpanded((v) => !v), []);
 
   const newConversation = useCallback(() => {
+    turnRef.current += 1;
     setSending(false);
+    setThinkingStage(null);
     setMessages([]);
+    setFollowUps([]);
     setError(null);
-    setViewMode("prompt");
   }, [setSending]);
 
-  // Return to the prompt surface without discarding the thread.
-  const showInsight = useCallback(() => { setViewMode("prompt"); setError(null); }, []);
+  const hasThread = messages.length > 0;
+
+  // An answer normally names its own follow-ups. When it doesn't — the pages
+  // answered through the fallback adapter can't — the page's own remaining
+  // suggestions stand in, minus anything already asked in this thread. Offering
+  // back a question the user just asked is the fastest way to make a panel feel
+  // like it isn't listening.
+  const effectiveFollowUps = useMemo(() => {
+    if (followUps.length) return followUps;
+    const asked = new Set(
+      messages.filter((m) => m.role === "user").map((m) => (m.content || "").trim())
+    );
+    return suggestions
+      .filter((s) => !asked.has((s.prompt || s.label || "").trim()))
+      .slice(0, 3);
+  }, [followUps, messages, suggestions]);
 
   const value = useMemo(() => ({
     isOpen, open, close, toggle,
     isExpanded, toggleExpanded,
     isAvailable: !isExcluded,
-    messages, send, retry, isSending, error,
-    newConversation, showInsight, registerPage,
-    atInsight: viewMode === "prompt",
-    // Whether there is a thread to go back to — drives the header's back
-    // control, so it only appears when it actually does something.
-    hasThread: messages.length > 0,
-    domain, pageName, pageContext, role,
-    signals, signalsLoading, signalsError,
-    insight, suggestions,
+
+    // conversation
+    messages, send, retry, isSending, error, thinkingStage,
+    followUps: effectiveFollowUps,
+    newConversation, hasThread,
+    lastTopic: lastTopicOf(messages),
+
+    // page context
+    registerPage, domain, knowledge, pageName, pageContext, role,
+    signals, signalsLoading, signalsError, read, suggestions,
+    placeholder: knowledge.placeholder,
+    contextLabel: knowledge.contextLabel,
+    workspaceTitle: knowledge.title,
   }), [
     isOpen, open, close, toggle, isExpanded, toggleExpanded, isExcluded,
-    messages, send, retry, isSending, error, newConversation, showInsight,
-    viewMode,
-    registerPage, domain, pageName, pageContext, role, signals,
-    signalsLoading, signalsError, insight, suggestions, user,
+    messages, send, retry, isSending, error, thinkingStage, effectiveFollowUps,
+    newConversation, hasThread, registerPage, domain, knowledge, pageName,
+    pageContext, role, signals, signalsLoading, signalsError, read, suggestions,
   ]);
 
   return <OwliverContext.Provider value={value}>{children}</OwliverContext.Provider>;
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverShell.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverShell.jsx
index 656ca9f..de776bf 100644
--- a/src/components/owliver/OwliverShell.jsx
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverShell.jsx
@@ -1,98 +1,97 @@
-import { useRef } from "react";
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { AnimatePresence, motion } from "framer-motion";
-import {
-  ChatLayout,
-  ChatMessageList,
-  ChatMessage,
-  ChatComposer,
-} from "@astryxdesign/core";
 import { useOwliver } from "./OwliverProvider";
 import OwliverHeader from "./OwliverHeader";
-import OwliverInsight from "./OwliverInsight";
+import OwliverContextBar from "./OwliverContextBar";
+import OwliverEmptyState from "./OwliverEmptyState";
+import OwliverResponse from "./blocks/OwliverResponse";
 import OwliverSuggestions from "./OwliverSuggestions";
-import OwliverAnswer from "./OwliverAnswer";
-import OwliverAvatar from "./OwliverAvatar";
+import OwliverComposer from "./OwliverComposer";
+import OwliverThinking from "./OwliverThinking";
 import OwliverLauncher from "./OwliverLauncher";
 
-/** Owliver's own mark on every turn he speaks — Astryx slots it, KROW supplies it. */
-const owliverMark = <OwliverAvatar size={20} rounded="rounded-md" />;
-
 /**
- * OwliverShell
- * ------------
- * Owliver's chat surface, built on Astryx's ChatLayout (@astryxdesign/core).
+ * OwliverShell — the AI workspace.
  *
- * Astryx supplies the structure and the chat behaviour; KROW supplies the
- * branding and every piece of content. Nothing about the provider, the local
- * engine, the page registry or the demo data changes — this file only decides
- * how a turn is presented.
+ *   ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
+ *   │ ✦ Owliver                     ⋯   ×  │  fixed — identity + page
+ *   │   Saving Engine                      │
+ *   │ ⛁ Using Saving Engine data        ⌄  │  fixed — what is being read
+ *   ├──────────────────────────────────────┤
+ *   │                                      │
+ *   │ conversation — text, metrics, cards, │  the only band that scrolls
+ *   │ tables, charts, flows, actions       │
+ *   │                                      │
+ *   ├──────────────────────────────────────┤
+ *   │ Suggested follow-ups                 │  fixed — derived from the answer
+ *   │ ( … ) ( … )                          │
+ *   │ ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │
+ *   │ │ Ask Owliver about Saving Engine… │ │  fixed
+ *   │ │ ✦ Saving Engine            [ ↑ ] │ │
+ *   │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ │
+ *   └──────────────────────────────────────┘
  *
- * Why ChatLayout does the work here:
- *   • With no `scrollRef`, its own root is the scroll container and the composer
- *     rides a sticky dock at the bottom. That is exactly the required contract —
- *     header pinned, conversation scrolling, composer always reachable — with no
- *     scroll plumbing of our own.
- *   • `ChatMessage` renders a flat sender-attributed row, not a bubble, which is
- *     the message hierarchy this needs.
- *   • `ChatComposer` already owns the input, the send button, the disabled state
- *     and an error status line, so `OwliverPrompt` and `OwliverError` are gone
- *     rather than reimplemented beside it.
+ * The conversation is the surface. Everything else is a thin band around it:
+ * the panel owns its own scrollport, so a long answer never lengthens the page
+ * behind it, and the composer is always one keystroke away from wherever the
+ * user has read to.
  *
- * `density="compact"` because this is a ~360px rail rather than a full-page
- * chat; the default 'balanced' is tuned for a centred conversation column.
- *
- * The default state is not a special screen. It is the same ChatMessageList
- * holding one assistant turn — the page read — followed by the same suggestion
- * chips the reply state uses, so there is only ever one visual system.
- *
- * Placement (right-hand rail on desktop, bottom sheet on small screens) stays in
- * `.krow-owliver-panel`; Astryx owns everything inside it.
+ * Two scrolling rules, both about not fighting the reader. New turns are
+ * followed automatically, but only while the user is already at the bottom —
+ * scroll up to re-read an earlier answer and the panel leaves you there.
  */
 export default function OwliverShell() {
   const {
     isOpen, close, isAvailable, isExpanded, toggleExpanded,
-    domain, insight, suggestions, signalsLoading, signalsError,
-    atInsight, showInsight, hasThread, newConversation,
-    messages, send, isSending, error, retry,
+    knowledge, workspaceTitle, contextLabel, placeholder,
+    read, suggestions, signals, signalsLoading, signalsError,
+    hasThread, newConversation,
+    messages, send, isSending, error, retry, thinkingStage, followUps,
   } = useOwliver();
 
-  const launcherRef = useRef(null);
+  const scrollRef = useRef(null);
+  const endRef = useRef(null);
+  const [following, setFollowing] = useState(true);
+
+  // "Following" means the user is reading the newest turn. Anything more than a
+  // short distance from the bottom means they have gone back for something, and
+  // the panel stops pulling them forward until they return.
+  const onScroll = useCallback(() => {
+    const el = scrollRef.current;
+    if (!el) return;
+    const distance = el.scrollHeight - el.scrollTop - el.clientHeight;
+    setFollowing(distance < 80);
+  }, []);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!isOpen || !following) return;
+    endRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ block: "end", behavior: "smooth" });
+  }, [messages, thinkingStage, isSending, isOpen, following]);
+
+  // A new question is always followed, wherever the user had scrolled to.
+  const submit = useCallback((text) => {
+    setFollowing(true);
+    send(text);
+  }, [send]);
+
+  // The other floating controls step aside while the panel is open (the rule
+  // lives in index.css; this is what turns it on).
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const root = document.documentElement;
+    if (isOpen && isAvailable) root.setAttribute("data-owliver-open", "true");
+    else root.removeAttribute("data-owliver-open");
+    return () => root.removeAttribute("data-owliver-open");
+  }, [isOpen, isAvailable]);
 
   if (!isAvailable) return null;
 
-  const placeholder =
-    domain.placeholder || `Ask Owliver about ${domain.title.toLowerCase()}...`;
-
-  // Follow-ups are the same page-derived suggestions minus anything already
-  // asked in this thread — offering back a question the user just asked is the
-  // fastest way to make a panel feel like it isn't listening.
-  const asked = new Set(
-    messages.filter((m) => m.role === "user").map((m) => (m.content || "").trim())
-  );
-  const followUps = suggestions
-    .filter((s) => !asked.has((s.prompt || s.label || "").trim()))
-    .slice(0, 3);
-
-  const composer = (
-    <ChatComposer
-      onSubmit={send}
-      placeholder={atInsight ? placeholder : "Ask a follow-up..."}
-      isDisabled={isSending}
-      density="compact"
-      elevation="none"
-      // A failure belongs to the composer, not the transcript: it reports on the
-      // control that failed and leaves the answer above it readable.
-      status={error ? { type: "error", message: error } : undefined}
-    />
-  );
+  const facts = signals ? knowledge.contextFacts(signals) || [] : [];
 
   return (
     <>
       {/* Dismissing the panel leaves the pill behind, so the page never loses
-          its way back to Owliver. Rendered unconditionally — the launcher owns
-          its own `!isOpen` guard inside an AnimatePresence, and gating it here
-          too would unmount it before it could animate out. */}
-      <OwliverLauncher ref={launcherRef} />
+          its way back to Owliver. */}
+      <OwliverLauncher />
 
       <AnimatePresence>
         {isOpen && (
@@ -100,93 +99,99 @@ export default function OwliverShell() {
             key="ow-panel"
             data-owliver=""
             role="complementary"
-            aria-label={`Owliver — ${domain.title}`}
+            aria-label={`Owliver — ${workspaceTitle}`}
             initial={{ opacity: 0 }}
             animate={{ opacity: 1 }}
             exit={{ opacity: 0 }}
             transition={{ duration: 0.16, ease: "easeOut" }}
             className="krow-owliver-panel z-40 flex flex-col overflow-hidden"
             data-expanded={isExpanded ? "true" : "false"}
-            data-mode={atInsight ? "prompt" : "conversation"}
           >
             <OwliverHeader
-              subtitle={domain.title}
+              workspace={workspaceTitle}
               onClose={close}
               onNewConversation={newConversation}
-              onShowInsight={showInsight}
               onToggleExpanded={toggleExpanded}
               isExpanded={isExpanded}
-              canGoBack={!atInsight}
               hasThread={hasThread}
             />
 
-            {/* ChatLayout is the whole body: it scrolls internally and docks the
-                composer. `scrollButton={null}` because a 360px rail with a
-                pinned composer has nowhere to put a floating jump button. */}
-            <div className="krow-owliver-chat min-h-0 flex-1">
-              <ChatLayout
-                composer={composer}
-                density="compact"
-                scrollButton={null}
-              >
-                <ChatMessageList density="compact" isStreaming={isSending}>
-                  {atInsight ? (
-                    <ChatMessage sender="assistant" name="Owliver" avatar={owliverMark}>
-                      <OwliverInsight
-                        insight={insight}
-                        loading={signalsLoading}
-                        failed={signalsError}
-                      />
-                      <OwliverSuggestions
-                        suggestions={suggestions}
-                        onSelect={send}
-                        disabled={isSending}
-                      />
-                    </ChatMessage>
-                  ) : (
-                    <>
-                      {messages.map((message, i) => (
-                        <ChatMessage
-                          key={message.id || i}
-                          sender={message.role === "user" ? "user" : "assistant"}
-                          name={message.role === "user" ? undefined : "Owliver"}
-                          avatar={message.role === "user" ? undefined : owliverMark}
-                        >
-                          <OwliverAnswer message={message} />
-                        </ChatMessage>
-                      ))}
+            <OwliverContextBar label={contextLabel} facts={facts} loading={signalsLoading} />
 
-                      {/* Where an answer leaves you: the next useful question,
-                          in the same chips as the default state. Held back
-                          while a turn is in flight. */}
-                      {!isSending && hasThread && followUps.length > 0 && (
-                        <ChatMessage sender="assistant" name="Owliver" avatar={owliverMark}>
-                          <OwliverSuggestions
-                            heading="Follow up"
-                            suggestions={followUps}
-                            onSelect={send}
-                            disabled={isSending}
-                          />
-                        </ChatMessage>
-                      )}
-
-                      {error && (
-                        <ChatMessage sender="system">
-                          <button
-                            type="button"
-                            onClick={retry}
-                            className="text-[12.5px] font-medium underline underline-offset-2"
-                            style={{ color: "var(--ow-brand)" }}
-                          >
-                            Try that again
-                          </button>
-                        </ChatMessage>
-                      )}
-                    </>
+            {/* The one scrolling band. */}
+            <div
+              ref={scrollRef}
+              onScroll={onScroll}
+              className="min-h-0 flex-1 overflow-y-auto px-3.5 py-3.5"
+            >
+              {!hasThread ? (
+                <OwliverEmptyState
+                  read={read}
+                  loading={signalsLoading}
+                  failed={signalsError}
+                  suggestions={suggestions}
+                  onSelect={submit}
+                  disabled={isSending}
+                  workspaceTitle={workspaceTitle}
+                />
+              ) : (
+                <div className="space-y-5">
+                  {messages.map((message, i) =>
+                    message.role === "user" ? (
+                      <div key={message.id || i} className="ow-fade-in">
+                        <p className="text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-slate-400">
+                          You
+                        </p>
+                        <p className="mt-1 whitespace-pre-wrap text-[13px] leading-[1.55] text-slate-800">
+                          {message.content}
+                        </p>
+                      </div>
+                    ) : (
+                      <div key={message.id || i}>
+                        <p className="mb-1.5 text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-[#0039A6]">
+                          Owliver
+                        </p>
+                        <OwliverResponse
+                          blocks={(message.blocks || []).slice(0, message.revealed ?? message.blocks?.length)}
+                          onPrompt={submit}
+                          onRetry={retry}
+                          disabled={isSending}
+                        />
+                      </div>
+                    )
                   )}
-                </ChatMessageList>
-              </ChatLayout>
+
+                  {isSending && thinkingStage && <OwliverThinking stage={thinkingStage} />}
+
+                  <div ref={endRef} className="h-px" />
+                </div>
+              )}
             </div>
+
+            {/* Where an answer leaves you: the questions it made worth asking.
+                Only after a turn — before one, the suggestions live in the
+                conversation area where there is room to read them. */}
+            {hasThread && !isSending && followUps.length > 0 && (
+              <div className="flex-shrink-0 border-t border-slate-200 bg-slate-50/70 px-3.5 py-2">
+                <OwliverSuggestions
+                  heading="Suggested follow-ups"
+                  variant="row"
+                  suggestions={followUps}
+                  onSelect={submit}
+                  disabled={isSending}
+                  limit={3}
+                />
+              </div>
+            )}
+
+            <OwliverComposer
+              onSubmit={submit}
+              placeholder={placeholder}
+              contextLabel={workspaceTitle}
+              disabled={isSending}
+              error={error}
+              onRetry={retry}
+            />
           </motion.section>
         )}
       </AnimatePresence>
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverSuggestions.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverSuggestions.jsx
index 8dd2e9c..48e8401 100644
--- a/src/components/owliver/OwliverSuggestions.jsx
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverSuggestions.jsx
@@ -1,107 +1,59 @@
-import {
-  Sparkles,
-  AlertTriangle,
-  Calendar,
-  DollarSign,
-  Users,
-  ChevronRight,
-} from "lucide-react";
-
 /**
- * Returns a contextual icon matching the suggestion prompt text.
+ * Questions this page's data makes worth asking.
+ *
+ * They are prompts, not shortcuts: clicking one goes through the same `send()`
+ * path as typing it. The list is derived from the active page's knowledge pack,
+ * so it changes with the workspace — and after an answer it is replaced by that
+ * answer's own follow-ups, which is what stops the panel reading like a fixed
+ * command menu.
  */
-function getSuggestionIcon(label = "") {
-  const text = String(label || "").toLowerCase();
-  if (
-    text.includes("short") ||
-    text.includes("gap") ||
-    text.includes("understaffed") ||
-    text.includes("conflict") ||
-    text.includes("risk") ||
-    text.includes("emergency")
-  ) {
-    return AlertTriangle;
-  }
-  if (
-    text.includes("cost") ||
-    text.includes("budget") ||
-    text.includes("spend") ||
-    text.includes("$") ||
-    text.includes("payroll") ||
-    text.includes("labor")
-  ) {
-    return DollarSign;
-  }
-  if (
-    text.includes("coverage") ||
-    text.includes("upcoming") ||
-    text.includes("week") ||
-    text.includes("schedule") ||
-    text.includes("shift")
-  ) {
-    return Calendar;
-  }
-  if (
-    text.includes("staff") ||
-    text.includes("worker") ||
-    text.includes("candidate") ||
-    text.includes("applicant") ||
-    text.includes("roster")
-  ) {
-    return Users;
-  }
-  if (
-    text.includes("summarize") ||
-    text.includes("overview") ||
-    text.includes("recap") ||
-    text.includes("report") ||
-    text.includes("health")
-  ) {
-    return Sparkles;
-  }
-  return ChevronRight;
-}
+export default function OwliverSuggestions({
+  suggestions,
+  onSelect,
+  disabled,
+  heading = "Suggested questions",
+  limit,
+  variant = "wrap",
+}) {
+  const items = (suggestions || [])
+    .filter(Boolean)
+    .map((item) => (typeof item === "string"
+      ? { label: item, prompt: item }
+      : { label: item.label || item.prompt, prompt: item.prompt || item.label }))
+    .filter((item) => item.label);
 
-export default function OwliverSuggestions({ suggestions, onSelect, disabled, heading }) {
-  if (!suggestions?.length) return null;
-
-  const sectionHeading = heading || "Suggested actions";
+  const shown = limit ? items.slice(0, limit) : items;
+  if (!shown.length) return null;
 
   return (
-    <nav aria-label="Suggested actions" className="mt-3.5 mb-2">
-      <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5 mb-2.5">
-        <Sparkles className="w-3.5 h-3.5 text-[#0039A6]" />
-        <span className="text-[11px] font-bold uppercase tracking-wider text-slate-400">
-          {sectionHeading}
-        </span>
-      </div>
+    <nav aria-label={heading} className="ow-fade-in">
+      {heading && (
+        <p className="mb-1.5 text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-slate-400">
+          {heading}
+        </p>
+      )}
 
-      <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 items-center">
-        {suggestions.map((item, index) => {
-          const labelText = typeof item === "string" ? item : item.label || item.prompt || "";
-          const promptValue = typeof item === "string" ? item : item.prompt || item.label || "";
-          if (!labelText) return null;
-
-          const Icon = getSuggestionIcon(labelText);
-          const isPrimary = index === 0;
-
-          return (
-            <button
-              key={labelText || index}
-              type="button"
-              disabled={disabled}
-              onClick={() => onSelect(promptValue)}
-              className={`inline-flex items-center gap-2 px-3.5 py-2 rounded-xl text-[13px] font-semibold transition-all duration-150 cursor-pointer max-w-full text-left active:scale-[0.98] focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/40 disabled:opacity-50 disabled:cursor-not-allowed ${
-                isPrimary
-                  ? "bg-blue-50/90 text-[#0039A6] border border-[#0039A6]/35 hover:bg-blue-100/90 hover:border-[#0039A6]/60 shadow-2xs"
-                  : "bg-white text-slate-700 border border-slate-200/90 hover:border-[#0039A6]/40 hover:bg-blue-50/60 hover:text-[#0039A6] shadow-2xs"
-              }`}
-            >
-              <Icon className={`w-3.5 h-3.5 shrink-0 ${isPrimary ? "text-[#0039A6]" : "text-slate-400"}`} />
-              <span className="truncate">{labelText}</span>
-            </button>
-          );
-        })}
+      {/* Docked, the chips wrap into the room the panel has. On the phone sheet
+          that room is vertical and scarce, so they become one scrolling row
+          instead of eating three lines of the conversation. */}
+      <div
+        className={
+          variant === "row"
+            ? "ow-scroll-x flex flex-nowrap gap-1.5 md:flex-wrap"
+            : "flex flex-wrap gap-1.5"
+        }
+      >
+        {shown.map((item, i) => (
+          <button
+            key={`${item.label}-${i}`}
+            type="button"
+            disabled={disabled}
+            onClick={() => onSelect(item.prompt)}
+            className="max-w-full flex-shrink-0 rounded-full border border-slate-200 bg-white px-2.5 py-[5px] text-left text-[12px] font-medium text-slate-600 transition-colors duration-150 hover:border-[#0039A6]/40 hover:bg-blue-50/70 hover:text-[#0039A6] focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/30 disabled:cursor-not-allowed disabled:opacity-50"
+          >
+            <span className="block truncate">{item.label}</span>
+          </button>
+        ))}
       </div>
     </nav>
   );
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/OwliverThinking.jsx b/src/components/owliver/OwliverThinking.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37a3fc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/OwliverThinking.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/**
+ * The working state: the line Owliver is currently on, and three dots.
+ *
+ * The line comes from the answer being composed ("Checking 27 opportunities…"),
+ * so it names real work on real page data rather than saying "thinking". It is
+ * announced politely so a screen reader follows the same stages a sighted user
+ * watches.
+ */
+export default function OwliverThinking({ stage }) {
+  return (
+    <div className="ow-fade-in" aria-live="polite">
+      <p className="text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-[#0039A6]">Owliver</p>
+      <div className="mt-1 flex items-center gap-2">
+        <span key={stage} className="ow-fade-in text-[12.5px] font-medium text-slate-500">
+          {stage || "Analyzing…"}
+        </span>
+        <span className="flex items-center gap-[3px]" aria-hidden="true">
+          <span className="ow-dot h-1 w-1 rounded-full bg-slate-400" />
+          <span className="ow-dot h-1 w-1 rounded-full bg-slate-400" style={{ animationDelay: "160ms" }} />
+          <span className="ow-dot h-1 w-1 rounded-full bg-slate-400" style={{ animationDelay: "320ms" }} />
+        </span>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverActions.jsx b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverActions.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..302cf2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverActions.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
+import { ArrowRight, RotateCw } from "lucide-react";
+import { Label } from "./primitives";
+
+/**
+ * What to do about the answer.
+ *
+ * Three action shapes, all of them real: a `route` navigates into the
+ * application, a `prompt` asks Owliver the follow-up through the same send path
+ * as typing it, and `retry` re-runs the question that failed. An action with
+ * none of those is not rendered — a button that does nothing is worse than no
+ * button.
+ */
+export default function OwliverActions({ block, onPrompt, onRetry, disabled }) {
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  const items = (block.items || []).filter((a) => a.route || a.prompt || a.retry);
+  if (!items.length) return null;
+
+  const run = (action) => {
+    if (action.retry) return onRetry?.();
+    if (action.route) return navigate(action.route);
+    if (action.prompt) return onPrompt?.(action.prompt);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <section>
+      {block.title && <Label className="mb-1.5">{block.title}</Label>}
+      <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-1.5">
+        {items.map((action, i) => (
+          <button
+            key={`${action.label}-${i}`}
+            type="button"
+            disabled={disabled && !action.route}
+            onClick={() => run(action)}
+            className="inline-flex max-w-full items-center gap-1.5 rounded-lg border border-slate-200 bg-white px-2.5 py-1.5 text-[12px] font-semibold text-slate-700 transition-colors duration-150 hover:border-[#0039A6]/40 hover:bg-blue-50/60 hover:text-[#0039A6] focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/30 disabled:cursor-not-allowed disabled:opacity-50"
+          >
+            <span className="truncate">{action.label}</span>
+            {action.retry ? (
+              <RotateCw className="h-3 w-3 flex-shrink-0 text-[#0039A6]" />
+            ) : (
+              <ArrowRight className="h-3 w-3 flex-shrink-0 text-[#0039A6]" />
+            )}
+          </button>
+        ))}
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverCards.jsx b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverCards.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53c9ed3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverCards.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+import { useState } from "react";
+import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
+import { ArrowUpRight, ChevronDown } from "lucide-react";
+import { Label, TONE_CHIP, TONE_BG } from "./primitives";
+
+/**
+ * Record cards — an opportunity, an order, a risk.
+ *
+ *   ┌───────────────────────────────┐
+ *   │ Vendor consolidation   HIGH   │
+ *   │ Vendor                        │
+ *   │ $96,400  per year             │
+ *   │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▁▁▁  34% of total      │
+ *   │ Status Active · Effort medium │
+ *   │                      View →   │
+ *   └───────────────────────────────┘
+ *
+ * A card is interactive in two ways and both are real: the header expands the
+ * record's detail in place, and the action opens the record in the application.
+ * A card with no route renders no action rather than a dead button.
+ */
+export default function OwliverCards({ block }) {
+  if (!block.items?.length) return null;
+  return (
+    <section>
+      {block.title && <Label className="mb-1.5">{block.title}</Label>}
+      <div className="space-y-2">
+        {block.items.map((item, i) => (
+          <RecordCard key={item.id || `${item.title}-${i}`} card={item} />
+        ))}
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+function RecordCard({ card }) {
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  const expandable = !!card.body;
+
+  const progressWidth = card.progress
+    ? Math.max(2, Math.min(100, (Number(card.progress.value) / (Number(card.progress.max) || 1)) * 100))
+    : 0;
+
+  return (
+    <article className="ow-fade-in overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white transition-colors duration-150 hover:border-slate-300">
+      <div
+        role={expandable ? "button" : undefined}
+        tabIndex={expandable ? 0 : undefined}
+        onClick={expandable ? () => setOpen((v) => !v) : undefined}
+        onKeyDown={
+          expandable
+            ? (e) => { if (e.key === "Enter" || e.key === " ") { e.preventDefault(); setOpen((v) => !v); } }
+            : undefined
+        }
+        className={`px-3 pt-2.5 ${expandable ? "cursor-pointer" : ""}`}
+      >
+        <div className="flex items-start gap-2">
+          <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
+            <h4 className="truncate text-[13px] font-semibold leading-tight text-slate-900">{card.title}</h4>
+            {card.subtitle && (
+              <p className="mt-0.5 truncate text-[11.5px] leading-tight text-slate-500">{card.subtitle}</p>
+            )}
+          </div>
+          {card.badge && (
+            <span
+              className={`flex-shrink-0 rounded border px-1.5 py-[2px] text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-wider ${
+                TONE_CHIP[card.badgeTone] || TONE_CHIP.neutral
+              }`}
+            >
+              {card.badge}
+            </span>
+          )}
+          {expandable && (
+            <ChevronDown
+              className={`mt-0.5 h-3.5 w-3.5 flex-shrink-0 text-slate-400 transition-transform duration-150 ${open ? "rotate-180" : ""}`}
+            />
+          )}
+        </div>
+
+        {card.value && (
+          <p className="mt-2 flex items-baseline gap-1.5">
+            <span className="text-[20px] font-bold leading-none tabular-nums text-slate-900">{card.value}</span>
+            {card.valueLabel && <span className="text-[11px] font-medium text-slate-500">{card.valueLabel}</span>}
+          </p>
+        )}
+
+        {card.progress && (
+          <div className="mt-2">
+            <div className="h-1.5 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-slate-100">
+              <div
+                className={`h-full rounded-full transition-[width] duration-500 ease-out ${TONE_BG[card.progress.tone] || TONE_BG.brand}`}
+                style={{ width: `${progressWidth}%` }}
+              />
+            </div>
+            {card.progress.label && (
+              <p className="mt-1 text-[11px] font-medium text-slate-500">{card.progress.label}</p>
+            )}
+          </div>
+        )}
+
+        {open && card.body && (
+          <p className="ow-fade-in mt-2 text-[12px] leading-relaxed text-slate-600">{card.body}</p>
+        )}
+      </div>
+
+      {(card.meta?.length > 0 || card.route) && (
+        <div className="mt-2.5 flex items-center justify-between gap-2 border-t border-slate-100 px-3 py-2">
+          <p className="flex min-w-0 flex-wrap items-center gap-x-1.5 text-[11px] text-slate-500">
+            {(card.meta || []).map((m, i) => (
+              <span key={`${m.label}-${i}`} className="inline-flex items-center gap-1">
+                {i > 0 && <span className="text-slate-300">·</span>}
+                <span className="text-slate-400">{m.label}</span>
+                <span className="font-medium text-slate-600">{m.value}</span>
+              </span>
+            ))}
+          </p>
+          {card.route && (
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              onClick={() => navigate(card.route)}
+              className="flex flex-shrink-0 items-center gap-1 rounded text-[11px] font-semibold text-[#0039A6] transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/30"
+            >
+              {card.actionLabel || "View"}
+              <ArrowUpRight className="h-3 w-3" />
+            </button>
+          )}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </article>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverChart.jsx b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverChart.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a05ab1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverChart.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import {
+  Area, AreaChart, Bar, BarChart, CartesianGrid, Line, LineChart,
+  ResponsiveContainer, Tooltip, XAxis, YAxis,
+} from "recharts";
+import { Label } from "./primitives";
+
+/**
+ * A compact chart, drawn with the charting library the application already
+ * ships (recharts) — no new dependency for one panel.
+ *
+ * At panel width almost everything a dashboard chart carries is noise, so this
+ * keeps four things: the series, a light horizontal grid, the category axis and
+ * a value on hover. Y ticks are formatted through the block's own `format`, so
+ * a money series reads "$40K" rather than "40000".
+ */
+
+const compact = (v) => {
+  const n = Number(v || 0);
+  if (Math.abs(n) >= 1000) return `${Math.round(n / 1000)}K`;
+  return String(n);
+};
+
+export default function OwliverChart({ block }) {
+  const data = block.data || [];
+  if (!data.length) return null;
+
+  const isMoney = block.format === "money";
+  const tick = (v) => (isMoney ? `$${compact(v)}` : compact(v));
+  const tipValue = (v) => (isMoney ? `$${Number(v).toLocaleString("en-US")}` : Number(v).toLocaleString("en-US"));
+
+  const axis = { stroke: "#94A3B8", fontSize: 10, tickLine: false, axisLine: false };
+  const Chart = block.variant === "bar" ? BarChart : block.variant === "line" ? LineChart : AreaChart;
+
+  return (
+    <section className="rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white px-3 py-3">
+      {(block.title || block.summary) && (
+        <div className="mb-2 flex items-baseline justify-between gap-2 px-0.5">
+          {block.title && <Label>{block.title}</Label>}
+          {block.summary && (
+            <span className="flex-shrink-0 text-[11px] font-semibold text-emerald-700">{block.summary}</span>
+          )}
+        </div>
+      )}
+
+      <div className="h-[148px] w-full">
+        <ResponsiveContainer width="100%" height="100%">
+          <Chart data={data} margin={{ top: 4, right: 4, bottom: 0, left: -12 }}>
+            <defs>
+              <linearGradient id="owArea" x1="0" y1="0" x2="0" y2="1">
+                <stop offset="0%" stopColor="#0039A6" stopOpacity={0.22} />
+                <stop offset="100%" stopColor="#0039A6" stopOpacity={0.02} />
+              </linearGradient>
+            </defs>
+
+            <CartesianGrid vertical={false} stroke="#F1F5F9" />
+            <XAxis dataKey="label" {...axis} />
+            <YAxis {...axis} tickFormatter={tick} width={46} />
+            <Tooltip
+              cursor={{ stroke: "#CBD5E1", strokeWidth: 1 }}
+              contentStyle={{
+                borderRadius: 10,
+                border: "1px solid #E2E8F0",
+                boxShadow: "0 4px 16px rgba(15,23,42,0.08)",
+                fontSize: 12,
+                padding: "6px 10px",
+              }}
+              labelStyle={{ fontSize: 10, color: "#94A3B8", fontWeight: 600, textTransform: "uppercase" }}
+              formatter={(value) => [tipValue(value), block.unit || "Value"]}
+            />
+
+            {block.variant === "bar" && <Bar dataKey="value" fill="#0039A6" radius={[3, 3, 0, 0]} maxBarSize={26} />}
+            {block.variant === "line" && (
+              <Line type="monotone" dataKey="value" stroke="#0039A6" strokeWidth={2} dot={{ r: 2.5, fill: "#0039A6" }} activeDot={{ r: 4 }} />
+            )}
+            {(!block.variant || block.variant === "area") && (
+              <Area type="monotone" dataKey="value" stroke="#0039A6" strokeWidth={2} fill="url(#owArea)" dot={{ r: 2.5, fill: "#0039A6" }} activeDot={{ r: 4 }} />
+            )}
+          </Chart>
+        </ResponsiveContainer>
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverFlow.jsx b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverFlow.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a05c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverFlow.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+import { useState } from "react";
+import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
+import { ArrowUpRight, ChevronDown } from "lucide-react";
+import { Label, TONE_BG, TONE_TEXT } from "./primitives";
+
+/**
+ * A process, drawn as nodes and connectors rather than described in a
+ * paragraph. Vertical by default because the panel is tall and narrow, and each
+ * node is a real control: selecting one opens what that stage is doing right
+ * now, with its own figures and its own way into the application.
+ *
+ *   ● Data sources
+ *   │
+ *   ● Identify spend
+ *   │
+ *   ▸ Detect opportunity        ← selected
+ *     ┌──────────────────────┐
+ *     │ 27 opportunities     │
+ *     │ 12 high · 9 med · 6  │
+ *     │ View opportunities → │
+ *     └──────────────────────┘
+ */
+export default function OwliverFlow({ block }) {
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  const [active, setActive] = useState(null);
+  const nodes = block.nodes || [];
+  if (!nodes.length) return null;
+
+  return (
+    <section className="rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white px-3 py-3">
+      {block.title && <Label className="mb-2.5">{block.title}</Label>}
+
+      <ol className="space-y-0">
+        {nodes.map((node, i) => {
+          const isOpen = active === node.id;
+          const isLast = i === nodes.length - 1;
+          const detail = node.detail;
+
+          return (
+            <li key={node.id || i} className="relative">
+              <div className="flex gap-2.5">
+                {/* rail */}
+                <div className="flex flex-col items-center">
+                  <span
+                    className={`mt-[7px] h-2 w-2 flex-shrink-0 rounded-full ring-4 ring-white transition-transform duration-150 ${
+                      TONE_BG[node.tone] || TONE_BG.brand
+                    } ${isOpen ? "scale-125" : ""}`}
+                    aria-hidden="true"
+                  />
+                  {!isLast && <span className="w-px flex-1 bg-slate-200" aria-hidden="true" />}
+                </div>
+
+                <div className={`min-w-0 flex-1 ${isLast ? "pb-0" : "pb-3"}`}>
+                  <button
+                    type="button"
+                    onClick={() => setActive(isOpen ? null : node.id)}
+                    disabled={!detail}
+                    aria-expanded={isOpen}
+                    className={`group flex w-full items-start gap-2 rounded-lg px-2 py-1 text-left transition-colors duration-150 ${
+                      detail ? "hover:bg-slate-50" : "cursor-default"
+                    } ${isOpen ? "bg-blue-50/70" : ""} focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-[#0039A6]/30`}
+                  >
+                    <span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
+                      <span className={`block truncate text-[12.5px] font-semibold leading-tight ${isOpen ? TONE_TEXT.brand : "text-slate-900"}`}>
+                        {node.label}
+                      </span>
+                      {node.caption && (
+                        <span className="mt-0.5 block truncate text-[11px] leading-tight text-slate-500">
+                          {node.caption}
+                        </span>
+                      )}
+                    </span>
+                    {detail && (
+                      <ChevronDown
+                        className={`mt-0.5 h-3.5 w-3.5 flex-shrink-0 text-slate-300 transition-transform duration-150 group-hover:text-slate-500 ${isOpen ? "rotate-180" : ""}`}
+                      />
+                    )}
+                  </button>
+
+                  {isOpen && detail && (
+                    <div className="ow-fade-in mt-1.5 rounded-lg border border-slate-200 bg-slate-50/80 px-2.5 py-2">
+                      <p className="text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-slate-400">
+                        {detail.title}
+                      </p>
+
+                      {detail.metrics?.length > 0 && (
+                        <div className="mt-1.5 flex flex-wrap gap-x-4 gap-y-1.5">
+                          {detail.metrics.map((m, j) => (
+                            <div key={`${m.label}-${j}`}>
+                              <p className="text-[15px] font-bold leading-none tabular-nums text-slate-900">{m.value}</p>
+                              <p className="mt-0.5 text-[10.5px] text-slate-500">{m.label}</p>
+                            </div>
+                          ))}
+                        </div>
+                      )}
+
+                      {(detail.lines || []).map((line, j) => (
+                        <p key={j} className="mt-1.5 text-[11.5px] leading-relaxed text-slate-600">{line}</p>
+                      ))}
+
+                      {detail.route && (
+                        <button
+                          type="button"
+                          onClick={() => navigate(detail.route)}
+                          className="mt-2 inline-flex items-center gap-1 text-[11px] font-semibold text-[#0039A6] hover:opacity-70"
+                        >
+                          {detail.actionLabel || "Open"}
+                          <ArrowUpRight className="h-3 w-3" />
+                        </button>
+                      )}
+                    </div>
+                  )}
+                </div>
+              </div>
+            </li>
+          );
+        })}
+      </ol>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverResponse.jsx b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverResponse.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e013c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverResponse.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import {
+  TextBlock, NoteBlock, MetricBlock, ListBlock, ProgressBlock,
+  StatusBlock, TimelineBlock, CompareBlock,
+} from "./primitives";
+import OwliverCards from "./OwliverCards";
+import OwliverTable from "./OwliverTable";
+import OwliverChart from "./OwliverChart";
+import OwliverFlow from "./OwliverFlow";
+import OwliverActions from "./OwliverActions";
+
+/**
+ * The response renderer.
+ *
+ * An Owliver answer is an array of typed blocks; this switches on `type` and
+ * nothing else. That is the whole point of the schema — a real model or API
+ * response that emits the same blocks renders here without a line changing, and
+ * an unknown block type is skipped rather than crashing the panel.
+ *
+ * Blocks appear one at a time as the provider reveals them (see
+ * `revealedBlocks` in OwliverProvider), which is what produces the staged
+ * "text first, then the cards" feel without any streaming transport.
+ */
+
+const RENDERERS = {
+  text: TextBlock,
+  note: NoteBlock,
+  metric: MetricBlock,
+  list: ListBlock,
+  progress: ProgressBlock,
+  status: StatusBlock,
+  timeline: TimelineBlock,
+  compare: CompareBlock,
+  cards: OwliverCards,
+  table: OwliverTable,
+  chart: OwliverChart,
+  flow: OwliverFlow,
+  actions: OwliverActions,
+};
+
+export default function OwliverResponse({ blocks = [], onPrompt, onRetry, disabled }) {
+  if (!blocks.length) return null;
+
+  return (
+    <div className="space-y-2.5">
+      {blocks.map((block, i) => {
+        const Renderer = RENDERERS[block?.type];
+        if (!Renderer) return null;
+        return (
+          <div key={`${block.type}-${i}`} className="ow-block-in">
+            <Renderer block={block} onPrompt={onPrompt} onRetry={onRetry} disabled={disabled} />
+          </div>
+        );
+      })}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverTable.jsx b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverTable.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f92f4bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/blocks/OwliverTable.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+import { Fragment, useMemo, useState } from "react";
+import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
+import { ArrowUpRight, ChevronsUpDown } from "lucide-react";
+import { Label, TONE_CHIP } from "./primitives";
+
+/**
+ * A compact table, sized for a 360px panel.
+ *
+ * Three rules keep it usable there: at most a handful of columns, the whole
+ * grid scrolls horizontally inside its own container rather than widening the
+ * panel, and a row expands in place instead of opening anything. Sortable
+ * columns sort on the numeric value the block carries, never on the formatted
+ * string — "$96,400" does not sort.
+ */
+export default function OwliverTable({ block }) {
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  const [sort, setSort] = useState(null);      // { key, dir }
+  const [expanded, setExpanded] = useState(null);
+
+  const columns = block.columns || [];
+  const rows = useMemo(() => {
+    const list = [...(block.rows || [])];
+    if (!sort) return list;
+    const dir = sort.dir === "asc" ? 1 : -1;
+    return list.sort((a, b) => {
+      const x = a[sort.key];
+      const y = b[sort.key];
+      if (typeof x === "number" && typeof y === "number") return (x - y) * dir;
+      return String(x ?? "").localeCompare(String(y ?? "")) * dir;
+    });
+  }, [block.rows, sort]);
+
+  if (!rows.length || !columns.length) return null;
+
+  const toggleSort = (key) =>
+    setSort((prev) =>
+      prev?.key === key ? { key, dir: prev.dir === "asc" ? "desc" : "asc" } : { key, dir: "desc" }
+    );
+
+  const display = (row, col) => row[`${col.key}Display`] ?? row[col.key];
+
+  return (
+    <section className="overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white">
+      {block.title && (
+        <div className="border-b border-slate-100 px-3 py-2">
+          <Label>{block.title}</Label>
+        </div>
+      )}
+
+      <div className="ow-scroll-x">
+        <table className="w-full min-w-[300px] border-collapse text-left">
+          <thead>
+            <tr className="border-b border-slate-100">
+              {columns.map((col) => (
+                <th
+                  key={col.key}
+                  scope="col"
+                  className={`px-3 py-1.5 text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.1em] text-slate-400 ${
+                    col.align === "right" ? "text-right" : "text-left"
+                  }`}
+                >
+                  {col.sortable ? (
+                    <button
+                      type="button"
+                      onClick={() => toggleSort(col.key)}
+                      className={`inline-flex items-center gap-1 transition-colors hover:text-slate-600 ${
+                        sort?.key === col.key ? "text-[#0039A6]" : ""
+                      }`}
+                    >
+                      {col.label}
+                      <ChevronsUpDown className="h-2.5 w-2.5" />
+                    </button>
+                  ) : (
+                    col.label
+                  )}
+                </th>
+              ))}
+            </tr>
+          </thead>
+
+          <tbody>
+            {rows.map((row, i) => {
+              const key = row.id || i;
+              const isOpen = expanded === key;
+              const interactive = !!(row.detail || row.route);
+              return (
+                <Fragment key={key}>
+                  <tr
+                    onClick={interactive ? () => setExpanded(isOpen ? null : key) : undefined}
+                    className={`border-b border-slate-50 last:border-0 ${
+                      interactive ? "cursor-pointer transition-colors hover:bg-slate-50/70" : ""
+                    }`}
+                  >
+                    {columns.map((col) => (
+                      <td
+                        key={col.key}
+                        className={`px-3 py-2 align-top text-[12px] ${
+                          col.align === "right"
+                            ? "whitespace-nowrap text-right font-semibold tabular-nums text-slate-900"
+                            : "text-slate-700"
+                        }`}
+                      >
+                        {col.badge ? (
+                          <span className={`inline-block rounded border px-1.5 py-[1px] text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-wide ${TONE_CHIP.neutral}`}>
+                            {display(row, col)}
+                          </span>
+                        ) : (
+                          display(row, col)
+                        )}
+                      </td>
+                    ))}
+                  </tr>
+
+                  {isOpen && (
+                    <tr className="border-b border-slate-50 bg-slate-50/60">
+                      <td colSpan={columns.length} className="px-3 py-2">
+                        {row.detail && (
+                          <p className="text-[11.5px] leading-relaxed text-slate-600">{row.detail}</p>
+                        )}
+                        {row.route && (
+                          <button
+                            type="button"
+                            onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); navigate(row.route); }}
+                            className="mt-1.5 inline-flex items-center gap-1 text-[11px] font-semibold text-[#0039A6] hover:opacity-70"
+                          >
+                            View record
+                            <ArrowUpRight className="h-3 w-3" />
+                          </button>
+                        )}
+                      </td>
+                    </tr>
+                  )}
+                </Fragment>
+              );
+            })}
+          </tbody>
+        </table>
+      </div>
+
+      {block.footnote && (
+        <p className="border-t border-slate-100 px-3 py-1.5 text-[10.5px] text-slate-400">{block.footnote}</p>
+      )}
+    </section>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/owliver/blocks/primitives.jsx b/src/components/owliver/blocks/primitives.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44fb245
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/owliver/blocks/primitives.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+import ReactMarkdown from "react-markdown";
+import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
+import { isValidRoute } from "@/lib/owliver/actions";
+
+/**
+ * The small blocks: text, note, metric, list, progress, status, timeline and
+ * compare. Each one renders exactly what its block carries and nothing more —
+ * a block with no data renders nothing rather than an empty frame.
+ *
+ * Typography does the work here. Figures are large, tabular and dark; labels are
+ * small, uppercase and grey; prose sits between the two. That hierarchy is what
+ * makes a narrow panel readable without boxes around everything.
+ */
+
+export const TONE_TEXT = {
+  neutral: "text-slate-700",
+  positive: "text-emerald-700",
+  risk: "text-orange-700",
+  warning: "text-amber-700",
+  info: "text-[#0039A6]",
+  brand: "text-[#0039A6]",
+};
+
+export const TONE_BG = {
+  neutral: "bg-slate-100",
+  positive: "bg-emerald-500",
+  risk: "bg-orange-500",
+  warning: "bg-amber-500",
+  info: "bg-[#0039A6]",
+  brand: "bg-[#0039A6]",
+};
+
+export const TONE_CHIP = {
+  neutral: "border-slate-200 bg-slate-50 text-slate-600",
+  positive: "border-emerald-200 bg-emerald-50 text-emerald-700",
+  risk: "border-orange-200 bg-orange-50 text-orange-700",
+  warning: "border-amber-200 bg-amber-50 text-amber-700",
+  info: "border-[#0039A6]/25 bg-blue-50 text-[#0039A6]",
+  brand: "border-[#0039A6]/25 bg-blue-50 text-[#0039A6]",
+};
+
+export const Label = ({ children, className = "" }) => (
+  <p className={`text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-slate-400 ${className}`}>
+    {children}
+  </p>
+);
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- text */
+
+export function TextBlock({ block }) {
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  if (!block.content) return null;
+
+  return (
+    <div className="ow-prose text-[13px] leading-[1.62] text-slate-700">
+      <ReactMarkdown
+        components={{
+          p: ({ children }) => <p className="m-0 mb-2 last:mb-0">{children}</p>,
+          strong: ({ children }) => <strong className="font-semibold text-slate-900">{children}</strong>,
+          ul: ({ children }) => <ul className="m-0 mb-2 list-disc space-y-1 pl-4 last:mb-0">{children}</ul>,
+          a: ({ href, children }) =>
+            isValidRoute(href) ? (
+              <a
+                href={href}
+                onClick={(e) => { e.preventDefault(); navigate(href); }}
+                className="font-medium text-[#0039A6] underline underline-offset-2"
+              >
+                {children}
+              </a>
+            ) : (
+              <span>{children}</span>
+            ),
+        }}
+      >
+        {block.content}
+      </ReactMarkdown>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+export const NoteBlock = ({ block }) =>
+  block.text ? <p className="text-[11.5px] leading-relaxed text-slate-400">{block.text}</p> : null;
+
+/* -------------------------------------------------------------- metric */
+
+/** The headline figure. One number leads; `sub` qualifies it. */
+export function MetricBlock({ block }) {
+  const trendTone = TONE_TEXT[block.trendTone] || TONE_TEXT.neutral;
+
+  return (
+    <section className="rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white px-3.5 py-3">
+      {block.label && <Label>{block.label}</Label>}
+
+      <div className="mt-1.5 flex flex-wrap items-baseline gap-x-2.5 gap-y-1">
+        <p className="text-[30px] font-bold leading-none tracking-[-0.02em] tabular-nums text-slate-900">
+          {block.value}
+        </p>
+        {block.trend && (
+          <span className={`text-[12.5px] font-semibold tabular-nums ${trendTone}`}>{block.trend}</span>
+        )}
+      </div>
+
+      {block.caption && <p className="mt-1.5 text-[11.5px] text-slate-500">{block.caption}</p>}
+
+      {block.sub?.length > 0 && (
+        <div className="mt-3 grid grid-cols-2 gap-x-3 gap-y-2 border-t border-slate-100 pt-2.5">
+          {block.sub.map((item, i) => (
+            <div key={`${item.label}-${i}`} className="min-w-0">
+              <p className="truncate text-[10.5px] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-slate-400">
+                {item.label}
+              </p>
+              <p className="mt-0.5 truncate text-[14.5px] font-bold tabular-nums text-slate-800">
+                {item.value}
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- list */
+
+export function ListBlock({ block }) {
+  if (!block.items?.length) return null;
+  return (
+    <section className="rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white px-3.5 py-2.5">
+      {block.title && <Label className="mb-1.5">{block.title}</Label>}
+      <dl className="divide-y divide-slate-100">
+        {block.items.map((item, i) => (
+          <div key={`${item.label}-${i}`} className="flex items-center justify-between gap-3 py-1.5 first:pt-0 last:pb-0">
+            <dt className="min-w-0 flex-1 truncate text-[12.5px] text-slate-600">{item.label}</dt>
+            <dd className={`flex-shrink-0 text-[12.5px] font-semibold tabular-nums ${TONE_TEXT[item.tone] || "text-slate-900"}`}>
+              {item.value}
+            </dd>
+          </div>
+        ))}
+      </dl>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------ progress */
+
+/** Proportion, drawn. Bars are relative to the block's own max, never to 100. */
+export function ProgressBlock({ block }) {
+  if (!block.items?.length) return null;
+  return (
+    <section className="rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white px-3.5 py-3">
+      {block.title && <Label className="mb-2.5">{block.title}</Label>}
+      <div className="space-y-2.5">
+        {block.items.map((item, i) => {
+          const max = Number(item.max) || 1;
+          const width = Math.max(2, Math.min(100, (Number(item.value) / max) * 100));
+          return (
+            <div key={`${item.label}-${i}`}>
+              <div className="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3">
+                <p className="min-w-0 flex-1 truncate text-[12px] font-medium text-slate-700">{item.label}</p>
+                <p className="flex-shrink-0 text-[12px] font-semibold tabular-nums text-slate-900">
+                  {item.caption ?? item.value}
+                </p>
+              </div>
+              <div className="mt-1 h-1.5 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-slate-100">
+                <div
+                  className={`h-full rounded-full transition-[width] duration-500 ease-out ${TONE_BG[item.tone] || TONE_BG.brand}`}
+                  style={{ width: `${width}%` }}
+                />
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          );
+        })}
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+/* -------------------------------------------------------------- status */
+
+export function StatusBlock({ block }) {
+  const map = {
+    positive: "border-emerald-200 bg-emerald-50/60",
+    risk: "border-orange-200 bg-orange-50/60",
+    warning: "border-amber-200 bg-amber-50/60",
+    neutral: "border-slate-200 bg-slate-50/60",
+    info: "border-[#0039A6]/20 bg-blue-50/60",
+  };
+  return (
+    <section className={`rounded-xl border px-3.5 py-3 ${map[block.tone] || map.neutral}`}>
+      <p className={`text-[10.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.1em] ${TONE_TEXT[block.tone] || TONE_TEXT.neutral}`}>
+        {block.label}
+      </p>
+      <p className="mt-1.5 text-[13px] leading-relaxed text-slate-700">{block.text}</p>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------ timeline */
+
+export function TimelineBlock({ block }) {
+  if (!block.items?.length) return null;
+  return (
+    <section className="rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white px-3.5 py-3">
+      {block.title && <Label className="mb-2.5">{block.title}</Label>}
+      <ol className="relative space-y-3 border-l border-slate-200 pl-3.5">
+        {block.items.map((item, i) => (
+          <li key={`${item.label}-${i}`} className="relative">
+            <span
+              className={`absolute -left-[19px] top-1 h-2 w-2 rounded-full ring-2 ring-white ${TONE_BG[item.tone] || TONE_BG.neutral}`}
+              aria-hidden="true"
+            />
+            <p className="text-[9.5px] font-bold uppercase tracking-[0.12em] text-slate-400">{item.time}</p>
+            <p className="mt-0.5 text-[12.5px] font-semibold leading-tight text-slate-900">{item.label}</p>
+            {item.caption && <p className="mt-0.5 text-[11.5px] text-slate-500">{item.caption}</p>}
+          </li>
+        ))}
+      </ol>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------- compare */
+
+/** Two or three figures beside each other, for "which of these" questions. */
+export function CompareBlock({ block }) {
+  if (!block.items?.length) return null;
+  return (
+    <section>
+      {block.title && <Label className="mb-1.5">{block.title}</Label>}
+      <div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-2 sm:grid-cols-3">
+        {block.items.map((item, i) => (
+          <div
+            key={`${item.label}-${i}`}
+            className={`rounded-xl border px-2.5 py-2 ${
+              item.tone === "positive"
+                ? "border-emerald-200 bg-emerald-50/50"
+                : "border-slate-200 bg-white"
+            }`}
+          >
+            <p className="truncate text-[11px] font-medium text-slate-500" title={item.label}>{item.label}</p>
+            <p className="mt-1 text-[16px] font-bold leading-none tabular-nums text-slate-900">{item.value}</p>
+            {item.caption && <p className="mt-1 text-[10.5px] leading-tight text-slate-500">{item.caption}</p>}
+          </div>
+        ))}
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/reports/ClientTrendsReport.jsx b/src/components/reports/ClientTrendsReport.jsx
index 46563ca..90d3d5f 100644
--- a/src/components/reports/ClientTrendsReport.jsx
+++ b/src/components/reports/ClientTrendsReport.jsx
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import React, { useState, useMemo, useEffect, useRef } from "react";
+import useOwliverPageContext from "@/components/owliver/useOwliverPageContext";
 import { Card, CardContent, CardHeader, CardTitle } from "@/components/ui/card";
 import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger, TabsContent } from "@/components/ui/tabs";
@@ -288,6 +289,28 @@ export default function ClientTrendsReport({ events = [], invoices = [] }) {
     revenuePerLaborHour, laborCostPct,
   };
 
+  // Owliver answers this page from the figures the report has already computed
+  // for the period the reader has selected — the same objects the charts below
+  // render from, so the panel and the page cannot quote different numbers.
+  useOwliverPageContext("analytics", {
+    events: filteredEvents,
+    invoices: filteredInvoices,
+    metrics,
+    spendTimeline,
+    hoursTimeline,
+    byHub,
+    byDept,
+    byPosition,
+    period,
+    groupBy,
+    activeTab,
+    // Primitives the registration signature can see: the objects above are
+    // rebuilt on every render, and re-registering only when a collection's
+    // length changes would leave Owliver holding a stale period's figures.
+    spend: Math.round(totalSpend),
+    fill: Math.round(fillRatePct),
+  });
+
   const handleExport = () => {
     const rows = [
       ['Client Labor Report'], ['Generated', new Date().toISOString()], ['Period', period], [''],
diff --git a/src/index.css b/src/index.css
index 263df45..97f8595 100644
--- a/src/index.css
+++ b/src/index.css
@@ -4,12 +4,6 @@
 @tailwind components;
 @tailwind utilities;
 
-/* Astryx's stylesheet is NOT imported here. It has to load after Tailwind's
-   preflight — which resets `button { padding: 0; background: transparent }` and
-   `* { border-width: 0 }` at the same specificity as Astryx's atomic classes,
-   so loading it first left every Astryx button as bare text — and a CSS
-   `@import` is only valid at the top of a file, where it would lose that race.
-   It is imported after this file in src/main.jsx instead. */
 
 
 /* :root {
@@ -215,7 +209,7 @@ button:focus-visible {
    cannot move: only its own middle band scrolls, so its header and composer stay
    put however long an answer runs.
 
-   Below `md` a 300px column would eat the viewport, so the SAME element becomes
+   Below `md` a 380px column would eat the viewport, so the SAME element becomes
    an out-of-flow sheet at the bottom of the screen. `position: fixed` takes it
    out of the flex row entirely, which is what lets <main> reclaim the full width
    without the layout needing to know anything about it.
@@ -229,9 +223,9 @@ button:focus-visible {
    to a hamburger, so 300px is what the page beside it can afford. Declared on
    :root rather than on an open/closed attribute because the element only exists
    while Owliver is open — there is no closed state to size. */
-:root { --krow-owliver-w: 18.75rem; }              /* 300px — tablet */
-@media (min-width: 1024px) { :root { --krow-owliver-w: 21.25rem; } }   /* 340px */
-@media (min-width: 1280px) { :root { --krow-owliver-w: 22.5rem; } }    /* 360px */
+:root { --krow-owliver-w: 23.75rem; }              /* 380px — tablet */
+@media (min-width: 1024px) { :root { --krow-owliver-w: 25rem; } }      /* 400px */
+@media (min-width: 1280px) { :root { --krow-owliver-w: 26.25rem; } }   /* 420px */
 
 .krow-owliver-panel {
   /* --- sheet form (below md) --- */
@@ -240,19 +234,21 @@ button:focus-visible {
   right: 1rem;
   bottom: var(--krow-dock-base);
   height: auto;
-  /* Leave the page it is about visible above it, and cap the sheet so its own
-     middle band scrolls rather than the sheet growing off-screen. */
+  /* The conversation is the surface, so the sheet takes most of the screen —
+     capped, not full, so the page it is about stays visible above it and the
+     sheet's own middle band is what scrolls. */
   max-height: min(
-    68dvh,
+    78dvh,
     calc(100dvh - var(--krow-header-h) - var(--krow-dock-base) - 0.5rem)
   );
 
-  /* Owliver's warm off-white, unchanged between the two placements — the chips
-     and message rows are all designed as white-on-this. */
-  background: #FAF9F5;
-  border: 1px solid #EAE6DE;
-  border-radius: 24px;
-  box-shadow: 0 4px 24px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08), 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);
+  /* A very light neutral, unchanged between the two placements: the insight,
+     order and command cards are all designed as white-on-this, so the panel
+     reads as one control surface rather than a stack of floating cards. */
+  background: #FAFBFC;
+  border: 1px solid #E2E8F0;
+  border-radius: 20px;
+  box-shadow: 0 4px 24px rgba(15, 23, 42, 0.08), 0 1px 4px rgba(15, 23, 42, 0.04);
 }
 
 @media (min-width: 640px) {
@@ -260,7 +256,7 @@ button:focus-visible {
     left: auto;
     right: 1.5rem;
     top: auto;
-    width: min(22.5rem, calc(100vw - 3rem));
+    width: min(23.75rem, calc(100vw - 3rem));
   }
 }
 
@@ -289,26 +285,46 @@ button:focus-visible {
    where the header's expand control appears. */
 @media (min-width: 1024px) {
   .krow-owliver-panel[data-expanded="true"] {
-    flex-basis: 27.5rem;
-    width: 27.5rem;
+    flex-basis: 32rem;
+    width: 32rem;
   }
 }
 
-/* Astryx's ChatLayout sizes itself to its parent, so the wrapper between it and
-   the panel has to pass the panel's height through rather than collapsing to
-   content. Two rules, and the library handles the scrolling from there. */
-.krow-owliver-chat { display: flex; flex-direction: column; }
-.krow-owliver-chat > .astryx-chat-layout { flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 0; }
+/* The panel's own scrollport. Its scrollbar is slim so a 400px rail does not
+   lose 15px of readable width to browser chrome. */
+.krow-owliver-panel ::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 8px; }
+.krow-owliver-panel ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
+  background: rgba(100, 116, 139, 0.28);
+  border-radius: 999px;
+  border: 2px solid transparent;
+  background-clip: content-box;
+}
+.krow-owliver-panel ::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: transparent; }
 
-/* ChatMessageList bottom-anchors a short transcript: it puts an empty
-   `flex-grow: 1` spacer before the first message so a two-line exchange sits
-   just above the composer. That is right for a full-page chat, where the
-   conversation is the page. In a 360px rail it reads as a mostly-empty panel
-   with the content stranded at the bottom, so here the spacer is collapsed and
-   content starts under the header. `:empty` picks out the spacer alone — every
-   real message has content — so nothing else in the list is affected. */
-.krow-owliver-panel .astryx-chat-message-list > div > div:first-child:empty {
-  flex-grow: 0;
+/* Motion: an insight card arrives, it does not perform. */
+@keyframes ow-fade-in {
+  from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(4px); }
+  to   { opacity: 1; transform: none; }
+}
+.ow-fade-in { animation: ow-fade-in 200ms ease-out both; }
+
+@keyframes ow-dot {
+  0%, 60%, 100% { opacity: 0.25; transform: translateY(0); }
+  30%           { opacity: 1;    transform: translateY(-2px); }
+}
+.ow-dot { animation: ow-dot 1.1s ease-in-out infinite; }
+
+/* A response block arriving. Each one lands on its own, which is what gives a
+   staged answer its "text first, then the evidence" feel without any streaming
+   transport behind it. */
+@keyframes ow-block-in {
+  from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(6px); }
+  to   { opacity: 1; transform: none; }
+}
+.ow-block-in { animation: ow-block-in 260ms cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1) both; }
+
+@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
+  .ow-block-in, .ow-fade-in { animation: none; }
 }
 
 /* ============================================================================
@@ -318,20 +334,20 @@ button:focus-visible {
    Brand indigo is sampled from the KROW logo mark (#3851A4).
    ========================================================================== */
 [data-owliver] {
-  --ow-canvas: #F7F4EF;
-  --ow-surface: #FFFDF9;
+  --ow-canvas: #FAFBFC;
+  --ow-surface: #FFFFFF;
   --ow-surface-raised: #FFFFFF;
-  --ow-ink: #1B2333;
-  --ow-ink-muted: #6E7484;
-  --ow-ink-subtle: #9AA0AE;
-  --ow-line: #EAE4DA;
-  --ow-line-strong: #DDD5C7;
-  --ow-brand: #3851A4;
-  --ow-brand-deep: #2A3F82;
-  --ow-brand-wash: #EEF1F9;
+  --ow-ink: #0F172A;
+  --ow-ink-muted: #64748B;
+  --ow-ink-subtle: #94A3B8;
+  --ow-line: #E2E8F0;
+  --ow-line-strong: #CBD5E1;
+  --ow-brand: #0039A6;
+  --ow-brand-deep: #002D85;
+  --ow-brand-wash: #EFF4FE;
   --ow-danger: #B4442F;
-  --ow-radius: 28px;
-  --ow-radius-sm: 16px;
+  --ow-radius: 20px;
+  --ow-radius-sm: 12px;
   --ow-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(27, 35, 51, 0.04), 0 8px 24px rgba(27, 35, 51, 0.06);
   --ow-shadow-lift: 0 2px 4px rgba(27, 35, 51, 0.05), 0 18px 48px rgba(27, 35, 51, 0.12);
   color: var(--ow-ink);
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/answerModel.js b/src/lib/owliver/answerModel.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77dd950
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/owliver/answerModel.js
@@ -0,0 +1,273 @@
+/**
+ * Owliver answer → structured operational model
+ * ---------------------------------------------
+ * The engine (lib/owliver/owliverEngine.js) is unchanged and still the only
+ * place answers are composed. This module is presentation: it reads the markdown
+ * the engine produced and recovers the operational shape hiding inside it, so
+ * the panel can render
+ *
+ *      INSIGHT  →  EVIDENCE  →  ACTION
+ *
+ * rather than a paragraph of prose.
+ *
+ * Nothing is invented here. Every number in the model is one the engine already
+ * wrote: the lead's count, the parenthetical seat total, and the `a/b staffed`
+ * figures on each order line. If a line doesn't parse, it falls through to
+ * `paragraphs` and renders as text — degrading to prose is always safe.
+ *
+ * The line formats the engine emits (see the `orders` responder):
+ *   - **Business** — Event Name (Hub), 08.17.2026, 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM · 3/10 staffed [id:x]
+ *   **Business — Event Name** (Hub), 08.17.2026, 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM · 3/10 staffed [id:x]
+ */
+
+import { stripContext } from "./context";
+import { extractActions } from "./actions";
+
+const ID_TAG = /\[id:([^\]]+)\]/;
+const HUB = /\(([^)]+)\)/;
+const US_DATE = /\b(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{4})\b/;
+const TIME_RANGE = /(\d{1,2}:\d{2}\s*[AP]M)\s*[–—-]\s*(\d{1,2}:\d{2}\s*[AP]M)/i;
+const RATIO = /(\d+)\s*\/\s*(\d+)/;
+
+const MONTHS = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
+
+/** "08.17.2026" → "Aug 17". The year is dropped: these are operational dates. */
+const shortDate = (raw) => {
+  const m = String(raw || "").match(US_DATE);
+  if (!m) return raw || null;
+  const month = MONTHS[Number(m[1]) - 1];
+  return month ? `${month} ${Number(m[2])}` : raw;
+};
+
+const clean = (value) =>
+  String(value || "")
+    .replace(/\*\*/g, "")
+    .replace(/^[\s,·—–-]+|[\s,·—–-]+$/g, "")
+    .trim();
+
+/**
+ * One order line → a card, or null when the line isn't an order.
+ * @returns {{id, business, name, hub, date, time, assigned, requested, gap, statusText}|null}
+ */
+export function parseOrderLine(raw) {
+  let text = String(raw || "").replace(/^\s*[-*]\s+/, "").trim();
+  if (!text) return null;
+
+  const id = text.match(ID_TAG)?.[1] || null;
+  text = text.replace(ID_TAG, "").trim();
+
+  // The trailing segment after the last "·" carries the staffing read.
+  let head = text;
+  let tail = "";
+  const split = text.lastIndexOf("·");
+  if (split > -1) {
+    head = text.slice(0, split);
+    tail = text.slice(split + 1).trim();
+  }
+
+  const ratio = tail.match(RATIO);
+  const assigned = ratio ? Number(ratio[1]) : null;
+  const requested = ratio ? Number(ratio[2]) : null;
+  const statusText = ratio ? null : clean(tail) || null;
+
+  // A line with neither a ratio nor an id is prose, not an order.
+  if (assigned == null && !id) return null;
+
+  const bold = head.match(/\*\*(.+?)\*\*/)?.[1] || "";
+  let rest = head.replace(/\*\*(.+?)\*\*/, " ").trim();
+
+  let business = bold;
+  let name = "";
+  const dash = bold.indexOf("—");
+  if (dash > -1) {
+    business = bold.slice(0, dash);
+    name = bold.slice(dash + 1);
+  }
+
+  const hub = rest.match(HUB)?.[1] || null;
+  if (hub) rest = rest.replace(HUB, " ");
+
+  const dateRaw = rest.match(US_DATE)?.[0] || null;
+  if (dateRaw) rest = rest.replace(US_DATE, " ");
+
+  const timeMatch = rest.match(TIME_RANGE);
+  const time = timeMatch ? `${timeMatch[1]} – ${timeMatch[2]}` : null;
+  if (timeMatch) rest = rest.replace(TIME_RANGE, " ");
+
+  if (!name) name = rest;
+
+  const gap =
+    assigned != null && requested != null ? Math.max(0, requested - assigned) : 0;
+
+  return {
+    id,
+    business: clean(business) || clean(name) || "Order",
+    name: clean(name),
+    hub: clean(hub) || null,
+    date: dateRaw ? shortDate(dateRaw) : null,
+    time,
+    assigned,
+    requested,
+    gap,
+    statusText,
+  };
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ insight */
+
+/** What the answer is *about*, taken from the words the engine chose. */
+const LABELS = [
+  [/orders? on this page|on this page —/i, "Order summary", "neutral"],
+  [/staffing attention|need[s]? .*attention|headcount gap/i, "Staffing attention", "risk"],
+  [/at risk|unstaffed/i, "Upcoming at risk", "risk"],
+  [/partially staffed/i, "Partially staffed", "risk"],
+  [/pending confirmation|pending/i, "Pending confirmation", "pending"],
+  [/draft/i, "Draft orders", "neutral"],
+  [/conflict|double.?book/i, "Scheduling conflicts", "risk"],
+  [/scheduled ahead|scheduled/i, "Scheduled ahead", "neutral"],
+  [/seats? (still )?open|open seat/i, "Open headcount", "risk"],
+];
+
+/** The reassuring counterpart, when the answer is that nothing is wrong. */
+const CLEAR_LABELS = [
+  [/conflict|double.?book/i, "No conflicts"],
+  [/pending/i, "Nothing pending"],
+  [/draft/i, "No drafts"],
+  [/at risk|unstaffed/i, "No immediate risk"],
+  [/partially staffed|attention|short of headcount/i, "No staffing gaps"],
+];
+
+const NEGATIVE_OPENER = /^(no |nothing |none |every |all |there (is|are) no)/i;
+
+const labelFor = (text) => {
+  const hit = LABELS.find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(text));
+  return hit ? { label: hit[1], tone: hit[2] } : { label: "Order insight", tone: "neutral" };
+};
+
+const clearLabelFor = (text) => {
+  const hit = CLEAR_LABELS.find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(text));
+  return hit ? hit[1] : "All clear";
+};
+
+/**
+ * The lead sentence, read as a metric.
+ * "3 orders need staffing attention, ranked by open headcount gap:" →
+ *   { count: 3, unit: "orders", label: "Staffing attention", tone: "risk" }
+ */
+function parseLead(text, cards) {
+  const trimmed = String(text || "").replace(/[:\s]+$/, "").trim();
+  if (!trimmed) return null;
+
+  const positive = cards.length === 0 && NEGATIVE_OPENER.test(trimmed);
+  if (positive) {
+    return {
+      tone: "positive",
+      label: clearLabelFor(trimmed),
+      count: null,
+      unit: null,
+      secondary: null,
+      text: trimmed,
+    };
+  }
+
+  // "4 upcoming orders …" keeps its qualifier; "3 orders need …" does not pick
+  // up the verb after it.
+  const opening =
+    trimmed.match(
+      /^(\d+)\s+((?:[a-zA-Z]+\s+)?(?:orders?|shifts?|seats?|conflicts?|invoices?|positions?|candidates?|workers?))\b/i
+    ) || trimmed.match(/^(\d+)\s+([a-zA-Z]+)\b/);
+  const { label, tone } = labelFor(trimmed);
+
+  // "(18 open seats total)" — the engine's own second figure, when it gave one.
+  let secondary = null;
+  const paren = trimmed.match(/\(([^)]*\d[^)]*)\)/);
+  if (paren) {
+    const num = paren[1].match(/\d+/);
+    if (num) {
+      secondary = {
+        value: Number(num[0]),
+        unit: clean(paren[1].replace(/\d+/, "").replace(/\btotal\b/i, "")) || "open",
+      };
+    }
+  } else {
+    // "…so 51 seats are still open." — the engine's own figure, mid-sentence.
+    const stated = trimmed.match(/(\d+)\s+(?:open\s+seats?|seats?)\s+(?:are|is)?\s*(?:still\s+)?open/i);
+    if (stated) {
+      secondary = { value: Number(stated[1]), unit: "seats open" };
+    } else if (cards.length) {
+      const gaps = cards.reduce((sum, card) => sum + (card.gap || 0), 0);
+      if (gaps > 0) secondary = { value: gaps, unit: "seats open" };
+    }
+  }
+
+  // No figure to lead with and nothing resolved: this is conversational prose
+  // ("I can raise a new order…"), and dressing it as a metric card would be a
+  // lie about what the answer contains.
+  if (!opening && !secondary) return { tone: "prose", label: null, count: null, unit: null, secondary: null, text: trimmed };
+
+  return {
+    tone,
+    label,
+    count: opening ? Number(opening[1]) : null,
+    unit: opening ? opening[2].trim() : null,
+    secondary,
+    text: trimmed,
+  };
+}
+
+/* -------------------------------------------------------------------- model */
+
+/**
+ * Turn one assistant message into blocks the panel can render.
+ *
+ * @param {string} content raw markdown from the engine
+ * @returns {{insight, cards, paragraphs, actions, raw}}
+ */
+export function buildAnswerModel(content) {
+  const raw = stripContext(content);
+  if (!raw) return { insight: null, cards: [], paragraphs: [], actions: [], raw: "" };
+
+  const lines = raw.split("\n");
+  const cards = [];
+  const paragraphs = [];
+
+  for (const line of lines) {
+    const trimmed = line.trim();
+    if (!trimmed) continue;
+
+    if (/^[-*]\s+/.test(trimmed)) {
+      const card = parseOrderLine(trimmed);
+      if (card) {
+        cards.push(card);
+        continue;
+      }
+      paragraphs.push(trimmed.replace(/^[-*]\s+/, ""));
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // A standalone bolded record ("which order needs the most attention?").
+    if (/^\*\*/.test(trimmed) && (RATIO.test(trimmed) || ID_TAG.test(trimmed))) {
+      const card = parseOrderLine(trimmed);
+      if (card) {
+        cards.push(card);
+        continue;
+      }
+    }
+
+    paragraphs.push(trimmed);
+  }
+
+  const lead = paragraphs.length ? paragraphs[0] : "";
+  const insight = parseLead(lead, cards);
+  const body = insight ? paragraphs.slice(1) : paragraphs;
+
+  return {
+    insight,
+    cards,
+    paragraphs: body,
+    actions: extractActions(raw),
+    raw,
+  };
+}
+
+export default buildAnswerModel;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/blocks.js b/src/lib/owliver/blocks.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1c38eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/owliver/blocks.js
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/**
+ * Owliver response blocks
+ * -----------------------
+ * An Owliver answer is a list of typed blocks, never a string of markup. The
+ * renderer (components/owliver/blocks) switches on `type` and nothing else, so
+ * the same surface can be driven by today's local knowledge packs and by a real
+ * model/API tomorrow — the transport changes, the schema does not.
+ *
+ *   type OwliverBlock =
+ *     | { type: "text",     content }
+ *     | { type: "metric",   label, value, trend?, caption?, sub? }
+ *     | { type: "cards",    items }
+ *     | { type: "table",    columns, rows }
+ *     | { type: "chart",    variant, data }
+ *     | { type: "flow",     nodes }
+ *     | { type: "actions",  items }
+ *     | { type: "list",     items }
+ *     | { type: "progress", items }
+ *     | { type: "status",   tone, label, text }
+ *     | { type: "timeline", items }
+ *     | { type: "compare",  items }
+ *     | { type: "note",     text }
+ *
+ * The factories below exist so a knowledge pack reads as a description of an
+ * answer rather than as object literals, and so a typo in a block type fails
+ * where it is written instead of silently rendering nothing.
+ */
+
+export const BLOCK_TYPES = [
+  "text", "metric", "cards", "table", "chart", "flow",
+  "actions", "list", "progress", "status", "timeline", "compare", "note",
+];
+
+/** Tone vocabulary shared by every block that carries one. */
+export const TONES = ["neutral", "positive", "risk", "warning", "info"];
+
+export const text = (content) => ({ type: "text", content });
+
+export const note = (content) => ({ type: "note", text: content });
+
+/**
+ * The headline figure of an answer.
+ * `sub` carries the qualifying figures ("Monthly $42,800 · Annualized …").
+ */
+export const metric = ({ label, value, trend, trendTone = "neutral", caption, sub = [] }) => ({
+  type: "metric", label, value, trend, trendTone, caption, sub,
+});
+
+/** Records: opportunities, orders, risks — anything the user can open. */
+export const cards = (items, { title } = {}) => ({ type: "cards", title, items });
+
+export const table = ({ title, columns, rows, footnote }) => ({
+  type: "table", title, columns, rows, footnote,
+});
+
+export const chart = ({ title, variant = "line", data, unit, summary, format = "number" }) => ({
+  type: "chart", title, variant, data, unit, summary, format,
+});
+
+/** A process, drawn. `nodes` are ordered; each may carry a `detail` panel. */
+export const flow = ({ title, nodes, orientation = "vertical" }) => ({
+  type: "flow", title, nodes, orientation,
+});
+
+/** Buttons. A route navigates; a prompt asks Owliver the follow-up. */
+export const actions = (items, { title } = {}) => ({ type: "actions", title, items });
+
+export const list = ({ title, items }) => ({ type: "list", title, items });
+
+export const progress = ({ title, items }) => ({ type: "progress", title, items });
+
+export const status = ({ tone = "positive", label, text: body }) => ({
+  type: "status", tone, label, text: body,
+});
+
+export const timeline = ({ title, items }) => ({ type: "timeline", title, items });
+
+export const compare = ({ title, items }) => ({ type: "compare", title, items });
+
+/** Drop falsy entries so a pack can write `cond && block(...)` inline. */
+export const blocks = (...entries) => entries.flat().filter(Boolean);
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------- formatting */
+
+export const money = (value, { compact = false } = {}) => {
+  const n = Number(value || 0);
+  if (compact && Math.abs(n) >= 1000) {
+    const k = n / 1000;
+    return `$${(Math.abs(k) >= 100 ? Math.round(k) : Number(k.toFixed(1)))}K`;
+  }
+  return `$${Math.round(n).toLocaleString("en-US")}`;
+};
+
+export const pct = (value, digits = 0) => `${Number(value || 0).toFixed(digits)}%`;
+
+export const plural = (count, one, many) => `${count} ${count === 1 ? one : many}`;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/analytics.js b/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/analytics.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba6abef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/analytics.js
@@ -0,0 +1,550 @@
+/**
+ * Operational Intelligence (Analytics) — page knowledge
+ * -----------------------------------------------------
+ * Answers about the Reports page from the figures that page has already
+ * computed: spend against budget, hours scheduled against hours worked, fill
+ * rate, and where the money went by hub, department and position.
+ *
+ * Every figure here is read from `signals` — the workspace derived in
+ * `analyticsWorkspace.js` from the orders and invoices the page is showing. A
+ * breakdown the page has no records for is not drawn, and the answer says so
+ * rather than modelling a distribution that nothing supports.
+ */
+
+import {
+  blocks, text, note, metric, chart, table, actions, list, progress, status,
+  money, pct, plural,
+} from "../blocks";
+
+const n = (v) => Number(v || 0);
+
+const EMPTY = {
+  view: { period: "all", periodLabel: "all time", groupBy: "monthly", activeTab: "executive" },
+  totals: {}, timeline: [], hoursTimeline: [], byHub: [], byDept: [], byPosition: [],
+};
+
+const workspace = (signals) => (signals && signals.totals ? signals : EMPTY);
+
+const completionRate = (t) => (n(t.events) ? (n(t.completed) / n(t.events)) * 100 : 0);
+
+const nothingToRead = (topic, what) => ({
+  topic,
+  stages: ["Reading the numbers…"],
+  blocks: blocks(
+    text(`This page has no ${what} to read yet.`),
+    note("Owliver reads the orders and invoices the Reports page has loaded for the selected period. Widening the period is usually enough."),
+    actions([{ label: "Open reports", route: "/Reports" }])
+  ),
+  followUps: [],
+});
+
+/* ================================================================= answers */
+
+const answerSummary = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (!t.events && !t.invoices) return nothingToRead("summary", "orders or invoices");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "summary",
+    stages: [`Reading ${plural(t.events, "order", "orders")} and ${plural(t.invoices, "invoice", "invoices")}…`, "Comparing against budget…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`Across the ${d.view.periodLabel}, **${money(t.spend)}** of labor spend covers ${plural(t.events, "order", "orders")} — ${plural(t.completed, "completed", "completed")}, ${t.open} still open — at a ${pct(t.fillRatePct, 1)} fill rate.`),
+      metric({
+        label: "Labor spend",
+        value: money(t.spend),
+        trend: t.spendDelta == null ? undefined : `${t.spendDelta >= 0 ? "↑" : "↓"} ${pct(Math.abs(t.spendDelta), 1)}`,
+        trendTone: t.spendDelta == null ? "neutral" : t.spendDelta > 0 ? "risk" : "positive",
+        caption: t.budget ? `${pct(t.budgetUsedPct, 1)} of a ${money(t.budget)} budget` : d.view.periodLabel,
+        sub: [
+          { label: "Invoices", value: String(t.invoices) },
+          { label: "Labor cost", value: t.laborCostPct ? pct(t.laborCostPct, 1) : "—" },
+        ],
+      }),
+      list({
+        title: "Where it stands",
+        items: [
+          { label: "Orders completed", value: `${t.completed} of ${t.events}`, tone: t.open ? "neutral" : "positive" },
+          { label: "Fill rate", value: pct(t.fillRatePct, 1), tone: t.fillRatePct >= 95 ? "positive" : "risk" },
+          t.openShifts ? { label: "Open shifts", value: String(t.openShifts), tone: "risk" } : null,
+          t.scheduledHours ? { label: "Hours scheduled vs worked", value: `${t.scheduledHours} / ${t.workedHours}` } : null,
+          t.budget ? { label: "Budget remaining", value: money(t.budgetLeft), tone: t.budgetLeft >= 0 ? "positive" : "risk" } : null,
+        ].filter(Boolean),
+      }),
+      actions([
+        d.byDept.length ? { label: "Break it down by department", prompt: "Break spend down by department" } : null,
+        { label: "What needs attention?", prompt: "What in the numbers needs my attention?" },
+      ].filter(Boolean))
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      d.timeline.length > 1 && { label: "What changed over the period?", prompt: "What changed over the period?" },
+      d.byDept.length && { label: "Which department costs most?", prompt: "Which department costs the most?" },
+      { label: "What needs attention?", prompt: "What in the numbers needs my attention?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerChanged = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (d.timeline.length < 2) {
+    return {
+      topic: "changed",
+      stages: ["Reading order and invoice history…"],
+      blocks: blocks(
+        text("There is not enough dated history in the selected period to read a trend."),
+        note(d.timeline.length
+          ? "Only one bucket of spend falls inside this period, so there is nothing to compare it against."
+          : "No invoice or order in this period carries a date."),
+        actions([{ label: "Give me a summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" }])
+      ),
+      followUps: [{ label: "Give me a summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" }],
+    };
+  }
+
+  const first = d.timeline[0];
+  const last = d.timeline[d.timeline.length - 1];
+  const growth = first.value ? ((last.value - first.value) / first.value) * 100 : null;
+
+  return {
+    topic: "changed",
+    stages: ["Reading order and invoice history…", "Comparing against the prior period…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`Spend moved from ${money(first.value, { compact: true })} in ${first.label} to **${money(last.value, { compact: true })}** in ${last.label}${growth == null ? "" : `, ${growth >= 0 ? "up" : "down"} ${pct(Math.abs(growth), 1)} across the period`}.`),
+      chart({
+        title: "Labor spend",
+        variant: "area",
+        data: d.timeline,
+        format: "money",
+        summary: `${d.view.periodLabel} · ${plural(d.timeline.length, "bucket", "buckets")}`,
+      }),
+      metric({
+        label: "Completion rate",
+        value: pct(completionRate(t), 1),
+        caption: `${t.completed} of ${t.events} orders`,
+        sub: [
+          { label: "Invoices", value: String(t.invoices) },
+          { label: "Billed", value: money(t.spend, { compact: true }) },
+        ],
+      }),
+      actions([
+        { label: "Where is margin leaking?", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+        { label: "Open reports", route: "/Reports" },
+      ])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Where is margin leaking?", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+      { label: "What needs attention?", prompt: "What in the numbers needs my attention?" },
+      d.byDept.length && { label: "Which department costs most?", prompt: "Which department costs the most?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerRevenue = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (!t.invoices && !t.spend) return nothingToRead("revenue", "invoices");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "revenue",
+    stages: [`Reading ${plural(t.invoices, "invoice", "invoices")}…`],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${money(t.spend)}** billed across ${plural(t.invoices, "invoice", "invoices")} in the ${d.view.periodLabel}.`),
+      d.timeline.length > 1 ? chart({
+        title: "Billed value",
+        variant: "area",
+        data: d.timeline,
+        format: "money",
+        summary: `${plural(d.timeline.length, "bucket", "buckets")} across the period`,
+      }) : null,
+      metric({
+        label: "Average invoice",
+        value: money(t.invoices ? t.spend / t.invoices : 0),
+        caption: `per invoice, ${d.view.periodLabel}`,
+        sub: [
+          t.revenuePerLaborHour ? { label: "Rev / labor hr", value: money(t.revenuePerLaborHour) } : null,
+          t.laborCostPct ? { label: "Labor cost", value: pct(t.laborCostPct, 1) } : null,
+        ].filter(Boolean),
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open invoices", route: "/Invoices" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Where is margin leaking?", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+      d.timeline.length > 1 && { label: "What changed over the period?", prompt: "What changed over the period?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerMargin = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+
+  /**
+   * The leak, from the three things this page can actually measure: hours paid
+   * for above what was scheduled, shifts left open, and orders that went short.
+   * Each is worth a number only where the records carry one.
+   */
+  const leaks = [
+    t.overtimeHours > 0 && {
+      label: "Hours above schedule",
+      value: t.overtimeHours,
+      caption: `${plural(t.overtimeHours, "hour", "hours")} worked beyond ${t.scheduledHours} scheduled`,
+    },
+    t.openShifts > 0 && {
+      label: "Open shifts",
+      value: t.openShifts,
+      caption: `${plural(t.openShifts, "shift", "shifts")} unfilled at a ${pct(t.fillRatePct, 1)} fill rate`,
+    },
+    t.noShows > 0 && {
+      label: "Orders that went short",
+      value: t.noShows,
+      caption: `${plural(t.noShows, "order", "orders")} ran below requested headcount`,
+    },
+    t.budget && t.budgetLeft < 0 && {
+      label: "Over budget",
+      value: Math.abs(t.budgetLeft),
+      caption: `${money(Math.abs(t.budgetLeft))} above the ${money(t.budget)} budget`,
+    },
+  ].filter(Boolean);
+
+  if (!leaks.length) {
+    return {
+      topic: "margin",
+      stages: ["Checking spend against billed value…"],
+      blocks: blocks(
+        text("Nothing on this page is currently leaking margin."),
+        status({
+          tone: "positive",
+          label: "No leak detected",
+          text: `Every shift was filled, no hours were worked above schedule, and spend is ${t.budget ? `${pct(t.budgetUsedPct, 1)} of budget` : "within the tracked window"}.`,
+        }),
+        actions([{ label: "Give me a summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" }])
+      ),
+      followUps: [{ label: "Give me a summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" }],
+    };
+  }
+
+  const worst = leaks[0];
+  return {
+    topic: "margin",
+    stages: ["Checking spend against billed value…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`${plural(leaks.length, "thing is", "things are")} costing margin on the records this page tracks:`),
+      progress({
+        title: "Where it is going",
+        items: leaks.map((l) => ({
+          label: l.label,
+          value: l.value,
+          max: Math.max(...leaks.map((x) => x.value)),
+          caption: l.caption,
+          tone: l === worst ? "brand" : "neutral",
+        })),
+      }),
+      t.hoursSavings ? note(`Hours saved against schedule are worth ${money(t.hoursSavings)} at the average rate this period.`) : null,
+      actions([
+        { label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" },
+        { label: "Open reports", route: "/Reports" },
+      ])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      d.byDept.length && { label: "Which department costs most?", prompt: "Which department costs the most?" },
+      { label: "What needs attention?", prompt: "What in the numbers needs my attention?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerAttention = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (!t.events && !t.invoices) return nothingToRead("attention", "orders or invoices");
+
+  const flags = [
+    t.open > 0 && { label: "Orders still open", value: String(t.open), tone: "risk" },
+    t.openShifts > 0 && { label: "Unfilled shifts", value: String(t.openShifts), tone: "risk" },
+    t.noShows > 0 && { label: "Orders that went short", value: String(t.noShows), tone: "risk" },
+    t.budget && t.budgetLeft < 0 && { label: "Over budget by", value: money(Math.abs(t.budgetLeft)), tone: "risk" },
+    t.fillRatePct < 95 && { label: "Fill rate", value: pct(t.fillRatePct, 1), tone: "risk" },
+  ].filter(Boolean);
+
+  return {
+    topic: "attention",
+    stages: ["Scanning for anomalies…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(flags.length
+        ? `${plural(flags.length, "thing needs", "things need")} a look on this page.`
+        : `Nothing on this page needs intervention — ${t.completed} of ${plural(t.events, "order", "orders")} completed at a ${pct(t.fillRatePct, 1)} fill rate.`),
+      list({
+        title: flags.length ? "Worth a look" : "Where it stands",
+        items: flags.length ? flags : [
+          { label: "Completed", value: String(t.completed), tone: "positive" },
+          { label: "Fill rate", value: pct(t.fillRatePct, 1), tone: "positive" },
+          { label: "Invoices tracked", value: String(t.invoices) },
+        ],
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open reports", route: "/Reports" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Where is margin leaking?", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+      d.timeline.length > 1 && { label: "What changed over the period?", prompt: "What changed over the period?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+/**
+ * The breakdown answers. One responder, three groupings, chosen by the words
+ * used — a department question and a hub question are the same reading of the
+ * same records at a different grain.
+ */
+const breakdown = (d, key, label) => {
+  const rows = d[key] || [];
+  if (!rows.length) return nothingToRead(`by-${key}`, `${label} breakdown`);
+
+  const total = rows.reduce((s, r) => s + n(r.spend), 0);
+  const lead = rows[0];
+
+  return {
+    topic: "breakdown",
+    stages: [`Grouping spend by ${label}…`],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${lead.name}** is the largest ${label} on this page at ${money(lead.spend)}${total ? `, ${pct((n(lead.spend) / total) * 100, 1)} of ${money(total)} tracked` : ""}.`),
+      table({
+        title: `Spend by ${label}`,
+        columns: [
+          { key: "name", label: label.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + label.slice(1), align: "left" },
+          { key: "spend", label: "Spend", align: "right", sortable: true, numeric: true },
+          { key: "count", label: key === "byHub" ? "Shifts" : "Headcount", align: "right", numeric: true },
+        ],
+        rows: rows.map((r, i) => ({
+          id: `${key}-${i}`,
+          name: r.name,
+          spend: n(r.spend),
+          spendDisplay: money(r.spend),
+          count: n(r.count ?? r.shifts),
+        })),
+        footnote: "Sort by spend",
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open reports", route: "/Reports" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      key !== "byDept" && d.byDept.length && { label: "Which department costs most?", prompt: "Which department costs the most?" },
+      key !== "byPosition" && d.byPosition.length && { label: "Which position costs most?", prompt: "Which position costs the most?" },
+      { label: "Where is margin leaking?", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerByDept = (d) => breakdown(d, "byDept", "department");
+const answerByPosition = (d) => breakdown(d, "byPosition", "position");
+const answerByHub = (d) => breakdown(d, "byHub", "hub");
+
+const answerHours = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (!t.scheduledHours) return nothingToRead("hours", "scheduled hours");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "hours",
+    stages: ["Reading scheduled against worked hours…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${plural(t.scheduledHours, "hour", "hours")} scheduled** against ${plural(t.workedHours, "hour", "hours")} worked — a ${t.savedHours >= 0 ? "saving" : "overrun"} of ${plural(Math.abs(t.savedHours), "hour", "hours")}.`),
+      metric({
+        label: t.savedHours >= 0 ? "Hours saved" : "Hours over",
+        value: String(Math.abs(t.savedHours)),
+        caption: t.hoursSavings ? `${money(Math.abs(t.hoursSavings))} at the period's average rate` : d.view.periodLabel,
+        sub: [
+          { label: "Scheduled", value: String(t.scheduledHours) },
+          { label: "Worked", value: String(t.workedHours) },
+        ],
+      }),
+      list({
+        title: "Coverage",
+        items: [
+          { label: "Fill rate", value: pct(t.fillRatePct, 1), tone: t.fillRatePct >= 95 ? "positive" : "risk" },
+          t.openShifts ? { label: "Open shifts", value: String(t.openShifts), tone: "risk" } : null,
+          t.overtimeHours ? { label: "Hours above schedule", value: String(t.overtimeHours), tone: "risk" } : null,
+        ].filter(Boolean),
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open reports", route: "/Reports" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Where is margin leaking?", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+      d.byPosition.length && { label: "Which position costs most?", prompt: "Which position costs the most?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerVolume = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (!t.events) return nothingToRead("volume", "orders");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "volume",
+    stages: ["Reading order history…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`${plural(t.events, "order", "orders")} tracked in the ${d.view.periodLabel}, ${t.completed} completed.`),
+      table({
+        title: "Tracked volume",
+        columns: [
+          { key: "label", label: "Measure", align: "left" },
+          { key: "value", label: "Count", align: "right", sortable: true, numeric: true },
+        ],
+        rows: [
+          { id: "events", label: "Orders tracked", value: t.events, valueDisplay: String(t.events) },
+          { id: "completed", label: "Completed", value: t.completed, valueDisplay: String(t.completed) },
+          { id: "open", label: "Still open", value: t.open, valueDisplay: String(t.open) },
+          { id: "invoices", label: "Invoices", value: t.invoices, valueDisplay: String(t.invoices) },
+        ],
+      })
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Give me a summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" },
+      { label: "What needs attention?", prompt: "What in the numbers needs my attention?" },
+    ],
+  };
+};
+
+/* ============================================================== dispatcher */
+
+const ROUTES = [
+  [/\bdepartment|dept\b/i, answerByDept],
+  [/\bposition|role\b/i, answerByPosition],
+  [/\bhub|location|site|venue\b/i, answerByHub],
+  [/\bmargin|leak|profit|overrun|waste\b/i, answerMargin],
+  [/\bhours?|overtime|scheduled vs|utilisation|utilization\b/i, answerHours],
+  [/\brevenue|billed|invoice value|income|spend\b/i, answerRevenue],
+  [/\bchanged|this week|compared|trend|over time|growth\b/i, answerChanged],
+  [/\battention|risk|anomal|unusual|watch|concern\b/i, answerAttention],
+  [/\bvolume|how many|throughput|completed|count\b/i, answerVolume],
+  [/\bsummar|overview|recap|status|how (are|is) things|break ?down\b/i, answerSummary],
+];
+
+/**
+ * What a pronoun means, given what Owliver just said — the same mechanism the
+ * other packs use, so a follow-up asked here stays on this page's records.
+ */
+const FROM_TOPIC = {
+  summary: [
+    [/\bbiggest|most|largest|worst\b/i, answerByDept],
+    [/\bchang|trend|over time\b/i, answerChanged],
+    [/\brisk|attention\b/i, answerAttention],
+    [/\bhours?\b/i, answerHours],
+  ],
+  changed: [
+    [/\bcaused|why|driver|where\b/i, answerMargin],
+    [/\bbiggest|most|largest\b/i, answerByDept],
+  ],
+  breakdown: [
+    [/\bwhy|caused\b/i, answerMargin],
+    [/\bhours?\b/i, answerHours],
+  ],
+  margin: [
+    [/\bbiggest|most|largest|worst\b/i, answerByDept],
+    [/\bhours?\b/i, answerHours],
+  ],
+  attention: [
+    [/\bbiggest|most|worst|first\b/i, answerMargin],
+    [/\bhours?\b/i, answerHours],
+  ],
+  hours: [
+    [/\bbiggest|most|largest\b/i, answerByPosition],
+    [/\bcost|money|spend\b/i, answerMargin],
+  ],
+  revenue: [
+    [/\bbiggest|most|largest\b/i, answerByDept],
+    [/\bchang|trend\b/i, answerChanged],
+  ],
+  volume: [
+    [/\bbiggest|most|largest\b/i, answerByDept],
+  ],
+};
+
+const FOLLOW_UP = /\b(one|ones|these|those|them|it|that|this)\b/i;
+
+const answerUnknown = (d) => ({
+  topic: null,
+  stages: ["Reading the numbers…"],
+  blocks: blocks(
+    text("I can analyse the metrics tracked in this workspace, but I couldn't map that question onto them."),
+    actions([
+      { label: "Summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" },
+      d.timeline.length > 1 ? { label: "Trends", prompt: "What changed over the period?" } : null,
+      d.byDept.length ? { label: "Departments", prompt: "Which department costs the most?" } : null,
+      { label: "Margin", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+      { label: "Risks", prompt: "What in the numbers needs my attention?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean), { title: "Try asking about" })
+  ),
+  followUps: [],
+});
+
+/* ================================================================== export */
+
+export const analytics = {
+  key: "analytics",
+  title: "Operational Intelligence",
+  placeholder: "Ask Owliver about trends, metrics, or performance...",
+  contextLabel: "Using Analytics data",
+  working: "Reading the numbers",
+
+  contextFacts: (signals) => {
+    const t = workspace(signals).totals;
+    return [
+      { value: n(t.events), label: "orders tracked" },
+      { value: n(t.completed), label: "completed" },
+      { value: n(t.invoices), label: "invoices" },
+    ].filter((f) => f.value > 0);
+  },
+
+  read: (signals) => {
+    const d = workspace(signals);
+    const t = d.totals;
+
+    if (!t.events && !t.invoices) {
+      return {
+        tone: "neutral",
+        headline: "Nothing tracked in the selected period.",
+        lines: ["Owliver reads the orders and invoices this page has loaded."],
+        stat: null,
+      };
+    }
+
+    const lead = d.byDept[0] || d.byHub[0];
+    return {
+      tone: t.fillRatePct < 95 || (t.budget && t.budgetLeft < 0) ? "warning" : "neutral",
+      headline: `${plural(t.completed, "order", "orders")} completed out of ${t.events} tracked.`,
+      lines: [
+        `**${money(t.spend)}** of labor spend across ${plural(t.invoices, "invoice", "invoices")} in the ${d.view.periodLabel}.`,
+        lead
+          ? `**${lead.name}** is the largest cost centre at ${money(lead.spend)}.`
+          : `**${pct(completionRate(t), 1)} completion rate** across the tracked window.`,
+        t.openShifts ? `**${plural(t.openShifts, "shift is", "shifts are")}** still unfilled.` : null,
+      ].filter(Boolean),
+      stat: { label: "Billed", value: money(t.spend, { compact: true }) },
+    };
+  },
+
+  /** Derived, so a chip is only offered when the page can answer it. */
+  suggestions: (signals) => {
+    const d = workspace(signals);
+    const t = d.totals;
+    const dept = d.byDept[0];
+
+    return [
+      { label: "Give me a summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" },
+      d.timeline.length > 1 && { label: "What changed over the period?", prompt: "What changed over the period?" },
+      dept && { label: `Why is ${dept.name} the biggest cost?`, prompt: "Which department costs the most?" },
+      d.byPosition.length && { label: "Which position costs most?", prompt: "Which position costs the most?" },
+      (t.openShifts > 0 || t.fillRatePct < 95) && { label: "What needs attention?", prompt: "What in the numbers needs my attention?" },
+      { label: "Where is margin leaking?", prompt: "Where is margin leaking?" },
+      t.scheduledHours > 0 && { label: "Scheduled vs worked hours", prompt: "Show scheduled against worked hours" },
+    ].filter(Boolean);
+  },
+
+  answer({ prompt, signals, lastTopic }) {
+    const d = workspace(signals);
+    const q = String(prompt || "");
+
+    if (FOLLOW_UP.test(q) && lastTopic && FROM_TOPIC[lastTopic]) {
+      const hit = FROM_TOPIC[lastTopic].find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(q));
+      if (hit) return hit[1](d);
+    }
+
+    const route = ROUTES.find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(q));
+    return route ? route[1](d) : answerUnknown(d);
+  },
+};
+
+export default analytics;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/analyticsWorkspace.js b/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/analyticsWorkspace.js
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+/**
+ * Analytics — workspace derivation
+ * --------------------------------
+ * The Reports page's own records, read into the shape Owliver answers from.
+ * Same contract as `savingsWorkspace.js`, and for the same reason:
+ *
+ *   the page   `ClientTrendsReport` publishes the figures and series it has
+ *              already computed to draw its own charts, together with the
+ *              period the reader has selected
+ *   the route  `DOMAINS.analytics.loadSignals()` fetches Events and Invoices
+ *              and recomputes those same figures here
+ *
+ * Where the page hands over a figure, it is used as-is — the page computed it to
+ * draw a chart, and recomputing it slightly differently is how a panel ends up
+ * contradicting the page beside it. Only the route-level path derives.
+ */
+
+const num = (v) => Number(v || 0);
+const round = (v) => Math.round(num(v));
+
+const PERIOD_LABEL = {
+  "7d": "last 7 days", "30d": "last 30 days", "90d": "last 90 days",
+  ytd: "year to date", all: "all time",
+};
+
+const asDate = (value) => {
+  if (!value) return null;
+  const d = new Date(value);
+  return Number.isNaN(d.getTime()) ? null : d;
+};
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------- shift maths */
+
+/** Scheduled hours on one order: hours × headcount, across every shift role. */
+const scheduledHoursOf = (event) =>
+  (event.shifts || []).reduce(
+    (s, sh) => s + (sh.roles || []).reduce((sr, r) => sr + num(r.hours) * num(r.count), 0), 0
+  );
+
+const requestedCountOf = (event) =>
+  (event.shifts || []).reduce(
+    (sc, sh) => sc + (sh.roles || []).reduce((sr, r) => sr + num(r.count), 0), 0
+  );
+
+/**
+ * Worked hours, on the report's own model.
+ *
+ * Reproduced from `ClientTrendsReport` rather than reinvented — including its
+ * per-order variance term, which is a deterministic function of the order name.
+ * A different formula here would put a different number in the panel than the
+ * chart shows, which is the one outcome worth going to this length to avoid.
+ */
+const workedHoursOf = (event, avgHours) => {
+  const variance = 0.92 + (Math.abs(event.event_name?.charCodeAt(0) || 65) % 8) * 0.01;
+  return num((event.assigned_staff || []).length) * avgHours * variance;
+};
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------ raw derivation */
+
+function deriveFromRecords(events, invoices) {
+  const revenue = invoices.reduce((s, i) => s + num(i.amount), 0);
+  const orderValue = events.reduce((s, e) => s + num(e.total), 0);
+
+  const scheduledHours = events.reduce((s, e) => s + scheduledHoursOf(e), 0);
+  const workedHours = events.reduce((s, e) => {
+    const count = requestedCountOf(e);
+    const avg = count > 0 ? scheduledHours / count : 5;
+    return s + workedHoursOf(e, avg);
+  }, 0);
+
+  const scheduledShifts = events.reduce((s, e) => s + num(e.requested), 0);
+  const workedShifts = events.reduce((s, e) => s + (e.assigned_staff || []).length, 0);
+  const savedHours = scheduledHours - workedHours;
+  const avgRate = revenue > 0 && workedHours > 0 ? revenue / workedHours : 28;
+
+  return {
+    spend: revenue,
+    prevSpend: 0,
+    spendDelta: null,
+    budget: revenue > 0 ? Math.round(revenue * 1.148) : 0,
+    scheduledHours,
+    workedHours,
+    savedHours,
+    hoursSavings: savedHours * avgRate,
+    fillRatePct: scheduledShifts > 0 ? (workedShifts / scheduledShifts) * 100 : 100,
+    openShifts: Math.max(scheduledShifts - workedShifts, 0),
+    overtimeHours: workedHours > scheduledHours ? workedHours - scheduledHours : 0,
+    noShows: events.filter((e) => (e.assigned_staff || []).length < num(e.requested)).length,
+    revenuePerLaborHour: workedHours > 0 ? orderValue / workedHours : 0,
+    laborCostPct: orderValue > 0 ? (revenue / orderValue) * 100 : 0,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Monthly spend, from the dates the invoices and orders actually carry. */
+function deriveTimeline(events, invoices) {
+  const buckets = new Map();
+  const put = (date, amount) => {
+    const d = asDate(date);
+    if (!d) return;
+    const key = `${d.getFullYear()}-${String(d.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, "0")}`;
+    const entry = buckets.get(key)
+      || { key, label: d.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { month: "short" }), value: 0 };
+    entry.value += num(amount);
+    buckets.set(key, entry);
+  };
+
+  for (const i of invoices) put(i.issue_date, i.amount);
+  if (!buckets.size) for (const e of events) put(e.date, e.total);
+
+  return [...buckets.values()]
+    .sort((a, b) => a.key.localeCompare(b.key))
+    .slice(-6)
+    .map(({ label, value }) => ({ label, value: round(value) }));
+}
+
+const groupSpend = (events, pick) => {
+  const map = new Map();
+  for (const e of events) {
+    const key = pick(e) || "Unknown";
+    const entry = map.get(key) || { name: key, spend: 0, count: 0 };
+    entry.spend += num(e.total);
+    entry.count += (e.assigned_staff || []).length;
+    map.set(key, entry);
+  }
+  return [...map.values()].sort((a, b) => b.spend - a.spend).slice(0, 8);
+};
+
+const groupRoles = (events, pick) => {
+  const map = new Map();
+  for (const e of events) {
+    for (const sh of e.shifts || []) {
+      for (const r of sh.roles || []) {
+        const key = pick(r) || "Unknown";
+        const entry = map.get(key) || { name: key, spend: 0, count: 0 };
+        entry.spend += num(r.total_value);
+        entry.count += num(r.count);
+        map.set(key, entry);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return [...map.values()].sort((a, b) => b.spend - a.spend).slice(0, 8);
+};
+
+/* ============================================================ the workspace */
+
+/**
+ * The Analytics page, as the object Owliver answers from.
+ *
+ * `metrics` and the series are taken straight from the page when it publishes
+ * them; everything else falls back to a derivation over the raw records.
+ */
+export function buildAnalyticsWorkspace(page = {}) {
+  const {
+    events = [], invoices = [], period = "all", groupBy = "monthly",
+    activeTab = "executive", userRole = "admin",
+  } = page || {};
+
+  const derived = page.metrics ? null : deriveFromRecords(events, invoices);
+  const m = page.metrics || derived;
+
+  const completed = events.filter((e) => e.status === "Completed").length;
+  const timeline = (page.spendTimeline || []).length
+    ? page.spendTimeline.map((row) => ({
+      label: row.period, value: round(row.thisPeriod), hours: round(row.hours),
+    }))
+    : deriveTimeline(events, invoices);
+
+  const byHub = (page.byHub || []).length ? page.byHub : groupSpend(events, (e) => e.hub || "No Hub");
+  const byDept = (page.byDept || []).length ? page.byDept : groupRoles(events, (r) => r.department);
+  const byPosition = (page.byPosition || []).length ? page.byPosition : groupRoles(events, (r) => r.role);
+
+  return {
+    view: {
+      period, groupBy, activeTab, userRole,
+      periodLabel: PERIOD_LABEL[period] || String(period),
+    },
+
+    totals: {
+      /* Volume — what the page is reading. */
+      events: events.length,
+      completed,
+      open: events.length - completed,
+      invoices: invoices.length,
+
+      /* Money. */
+      revenue: round(m.totalSpend ?? m.spend),
+      spend: round(m.totalSpend ?? m.spend),
+      prevSpend: round(m.prevSpend),
+      spendDelta: m.spendDelta == null ? null : Number(m.spendDelta),
+      budget: round(m.budget),
+      budgetUsedPct: num(m.budgetUsedPct),
+      budgetLeft: round(m.budgetLeft ?? num(m.budget) - num(m.totalSpend ?? m.spend)),
+      laborCostPct: num(m.laborCostPct),
+      revenuePerLaborHour: num(m.revenuePerLaborHour),
+
+      /* Hours and coverage. */
+      scheduledHours: round(m.scheduledHours),
+      workedHours: round(m.effectiveWorkedHours ?? m.workedHours),
+      savedHours: round(m.savedHours),
+      hoursSavings: round(m.hoursSavings),
+      overtimeHours: round(m.overtimeHours),
+      fillRatePct: num(m.fillRatePct),
+      openShifts: round(m.openShifts),
+      noShows: round(m.noShows),
+      lateArrivals: round(m.lateArrivals),
+    },
+
+    timeline,
+    hoursTimeline: page.hoursTimeline || [],
+    byHub,
+    byDept,
+    byPosition,
+  };
+}
+
+export default buildAnalyticsWorkspace;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/fallback.js b/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/fallback.js
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+/**
+ * Fallback knowledge — every page without a dedicated pack
+ * --------------------------------------------------------
+ * Owliver covers ~80 routes. Only the pages with a real analytical story get a
+ * hand-written pack; the rest keep the behaviour they already had — page-derived
+ * suggestions from the registry and answers from the local engine — and this
+ * adapter lifts that markdown into the same block schema the renderer uses.
+ *
+ * The adapter never invents structure: a lead sentence carrying a number becomes
+ * a metric, order lines become cards, links become actions, and anything it does
+ * not recognise stays as text. Degrading to prose is always safe.
+ */
+
+import { blocks, text, metric, cards, actions, status, plural } from "../blocks";
+import { buildAnswerModel } from "../answerModel";
+
+const SEVERITY = (card) => {
+  if (!card.requested) return { badge: "Unsized", tone: "neutral" };
+  const filled = card.assigned / card.requested;
+  if (filled >= 1) return { badge: "On track", tone: "positive" };
+  if (filled < 0.5) return { badge: "High risk", tone: "risk" };
+  return { badge: "Medium risk", tone: "warning" };
+};
+
+const toCard = (c) => {
+  const sev = SEVERITY(c);
+  return {
+    id: c.id,
+    title: c.business || c.name || "Record",
+    subtitle: c.name && c.name !== c.business ? c.name : null,
+    value: c.requested ? `${c.assigned}/${c.requested}` : null,
+    valueLabel: c.requested ? "staffed" : null,
+    badge: sev.badge,
+    badgeTone: sev.tone,
+    meta: [
+      c.hub && { label: "Hub", value: c.hub },
+      c.date && { label: "Date", value: c.time ? `${c.date} · ${c.time}` : c.date },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+    progress: c.requested
+      ? { value: c.assigned, max: c.requested, label: c.gap > 0 ? `${plural(c.gap, "seat", "seats")} still open` : "Fully staffed", tone: sev.tone }
+      : null,
+    body: !c.requested && c.statusText ? c.statusText : null,
+    route: c.id ? `/EventDetail?id=${c.id}` : null,
+    actionLabel: c.id ? "View record" : null,
+  };
+};
+
+/** Legacy markdown answer → blocks. */
+export function markdownToBlocks(markdown) {
+  const model = buildAnswerModel(markdown);
+  const { insight, cards: recs, paragraphs, actions: acts } = model;
+
+  const lead = [];
+  if (insight?.tone === "positive") {
+    lead.push(status({ tone: "positive", label: insight.label, text: insight.text }));
+  } else if (insight && insight.tone !== "prose" && insight.count != null) {
+    lead.push(
+      metric({
+        label: insight.label,
+        value: String(insight.count),
+        caption: insight.unit,
+        sub: insight.secondary ? [{ label: insight.secondary.unit, value: String(insight.secondary.value) }] : [],
+      }),
+      text(insight.text)
+    );
+  } else if (insight?.text) {
+    lead.push(text(insight.text));
+  }
+
+  return blocks(
+    lead,
+    recs.length ? cards(recs.map(toCard)) : null,
+    paragraphs.length ? text(paragraphs.join("\n\n")) : null,
+    acts.length ? actions(acts.map((a) => ({ label: a.label, route: a.route }))) : null
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build a pack for a route-derived domain. `domain` is the registry entry, so
+ * the title, placeholder, working line, insight and suggestions all stay the
+ * page's own.
+ */
+export const fallbackPack = (domain) => ({
+  key: domain.key,
+  title: domain.title,
+  placeholder: domain.placeholder || `Ask Owliver about ${String(domain.title || "this page").toLowerCase()}...`,
+  contextLabel: `Using ${domain.title} data`,
+  working: (domain.working || "Owliver is analyzing").replace(/[….]$/, ""),
+
+  contextFacts: (d) => {
+    if (!d) return [];
+    const MEASURE = /cost|amount|spend|rate|percent|pct|score|hours|avg|average|revenue/i;
+    return Object.entries(d)
+      .filter(([k, v]) => typeof v === "number" && Number.isInteger(v) && v > 0 && !MEASURE.test(k))
+      .slice(0, 3)
+      .map(([k, v]) => ({ value: v, label: k.replace(/([A-Z])/g, " $1").replace(/_/g, " ").toLowerCase().trim() }));
+  },
+
+  read: (d) => {
+    const insight = d ? domain.buildInsight(d) : null;
+    if (!insight?.headline) return null;
+    return { tone: "neutral", headline: insight.headline, lines: insight.supporting ? [insight.supporting] : [] };
+  },
+
+  suggestions: (d) => (d ? (domain.buildSuggestions(d) || []).filter(Boolean) : []),
+
+  /** Async: the local engine is loaded on demand, exactly as it was before. */
+  async answer({ prompt, pageContext, conversation }) {
+    const { getOwliverResponse } = await import("../owliverEngine");
+    const markdown = await getOwliverResponse({ prompt, pageContext, conversation, skipLatency: true });
+    return { topic: null, stages: [], blocks: markdownToBlocks(markdown), followUps: [] };
+  },
+});
+
+export default fallbackPack;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/index.js b/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/index.js
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+/**
+ * Page-aware knowledge registry
+ * -----------------------------
+ *
+ *   Active page → domain key → knowledge pack → suggestions / read / answers
+ *
+ * A pack is the whole contract between a page and Owliver:
+ *
+ *   title, placeholder, contextLabel, working
+ *   contextFacts(signals) → [{ value, label, tone }]
+ *   read(signals)         → { tone, headline, lines[], stat }   (the current read)
+ *   suggestions(signals)  → [{ label, prompt }]
+ *   answer({ prompt, signals, conversation, lastTopic, pageContext })
+ *                         → { topic, stages[], blocks[], followUps[] }
+ *
+ * Packs are keyed by the domain key the page registry already resolves, so a
+ * page gets its pack simply by being on a route that maps to that domain.
+ * Anything without a pack falls back to the route's registry entry, which is
+ * still page-specific — there is no shared default suggestion list anywhere.
+ */
+
+import savingEngine from "./savingEngine";
+import orders from "./orders";
+import analytics from "./analytics";
+import { fallbackPack } from "./fallback";
+
+export const KNOWLEDGE_PACKS = {
+  savingEngine,
+  orders,
+  analytics,
+};
+
+/**
+ * @param {string} domainKey resolved domain for the active page
+ * @param {object} domain    the registry entry, used to build a fallback
+ */
+export function getKnowledge(domainKey, domain) {
+  const pack = KNOWLEDGE_PACKS[domainKey];
+  if (pack) return pack;
+  return fallbackPack(domain || { key: domainKey, title: "this workspace", buildInsight: () => null, buildSuggestions: () => [] });
+}
+
+export const hasPack = (domainKey) => !!KNOWLEDGE_PACKS[domainKey];
+
+export default getKnowledge;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/orders.js b/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/orders.js
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+/**
+ * Order Management — page knowledge
+ * ---------------------------------
+ * Unlike the Saving Engine pack, nothing here is demo data: `signals` is the
+ * live summary Events.jsx registers through useOwliverPageContext, normalised
+ * by PAGE_CONTEXTS.orders. The pack's job is only to turn that summary into
+ * blocks — which is exactly the job it will do when the Saving Engine's demo
+ * payload is replaced by a real one.
+ */
+
+import {
+  blocks, text, metric, cards, table, actions, list, status, plural,
+} from "../blocks";
+
+const MONTHS = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
+
+/**
+ * "08.26.2026" → "Aug 26". The registry emits the dotted form for the engine's
+ * markdown lines; in a card the year is noise — these are operational dates.
+ */
+const shortDate = (raw) => {
+  const m = String(raw || "").match(/^(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.\d{4}$/);
+  if (!m) return raw || null;
+  const month = MONTHS[Number(m[1]) - 1];
+  return month ? `${month} ${Number(m[2])}` : raw;
+};
+
+const SEVERITY = (card) => {
+  if (!card.requested) return { badge: "Unsized", tone: "neutral" };
+  const filled = card.assigned / card.requested;
+  if (filled >= 1) return { badge: "On track", tone: "positive" };
+  if (filled < 0.5) return { badge: "High risk", tone: "risk" };
+  return { badge: "Medium risk", tone: "warning" };
+};
+
+/** An order record → a panel card. */
+const orderCard = (o) => {
+  const sev = SEVERITY(o);
+  return {
+    id: o.id,
+    title: o.business || o.name || "Order",
+    subtitle: o.name && o.name !== o.business ? o.name : null,
+    value: o.requested ? `${o.assigned}/${o.requested}` : null,
+    valueLabel: o.requested ? "staffed" : null,
+    badge: sev.badge,
+    badgeTone: sev.tone,
+    meta: [
+      o.hub && { label: "Hub", value: o.hub },
+      o.date && { label: "Date", value: shortDate(o.date) },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+    progress: o.requested
+      ? {
+          value: o.assigned,
+          max: o.requested,
+          label: o.gap > 0 ? `${plural(o.gap, "seat", "seats")} still open` : "Fully staffed",
+          tone: sev.tone,
+        }
+      : null,
+    route: o.id ? `/EventDetail?id=${o.id}` : "/Events",
+    actionLabel: "View order",
+  };
+};
+
+const listOf = (d, key) => (Array.isArray(d[key]) ? d[key] : []);
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- answers */
+
+const answerAttention = (d) => {
+  const gaps = listOf(d, "gapsOrders").slice(0, 3);
+  if (!gaps.length) {
+    return {
+      topic: "attention",
+      stages: [`Reading ${d.total} orders…`],
+      blocks: blocks(
+        status({ tone: "positive", label: "No staffing gaps", text: "Every open order on this page is fully staffed." })
+      ),
+      followUps: [
+        { label: "What is still pending?", prompt: "Which orders are still pending confirmation?" },
+        { label: "Show today's critical orders", prompt: "Show today's critical orders" },
+      ],
+    };
+  }
+  return {
+    topic: "attention",
+    stages: [`Reading ${d.total} orders…`, "Ranking by open headcount…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${plural(gaps.length, "order needs", "orders need")} staffing attention**, ranked by how short they are.`),
+      metric({
+        label: "Open headcount",
+        value: String(d.openSeats),
+        caption: `seats open across ${plural(d.total, "order", "orders")}`,
+        sub: [
+          { label: "Partially staffed", value: String(d.partial) },
+          { label: "Upcoming at risk", value: String(d.atRisk) },
+        ],
+      }),
+      cards(gaps.map(orderCard)),
+      actions([
+        { label: "Open Order Management", route: "/Events" },
+        { label: "Show upcoming risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+      ])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Which one needs people first?", prompt: "Which one needs people first?" },
+      { label: "Show upcoming risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+      { label: "What is still pending?", prompt: "Which orders are still pending confirmation?" },
+    ],
+  };
+};
+
+const answerRisk = (d) => {
+  const atRisk = listOf(d, "atRiskOrders").slice(0, 3);
+  if (!atRisk.length) {
+    return {
+      topic: "risk",
+      stages: ["Checking upcoming orders…"],
+      blocks: blocks(
+        status({ tone: "positive", label: "No immediate risk", text: "Nothing upcoming is short of headcount." })
+      ),
+      followUps: [{ label: "Which orders need staffing?", prompt: "Which orders need staffing attention?" }],
+    };
+  }
+  return {
+    topic: "risk",
+    stages: ["Checking upcoming orders…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${plural(d.atRisk, "upcoming order is", "upcoming orders are")}** not fully staffed yet.`),
+      cards(atRisk.map(orderCard)),
+      actions([{ label: "Open Order Management", route: "/Events" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Which one needs people first?", prompt: "Which one needs people first?" },
+      { label: "Which orders need staffing?", prompt: "Which orders need staffing attention?" },
+    ],
+  };
+};
+
+const answerFirst = (d) => {
+  const first = d.neediest || d.soonestAtRisk || listOf(d, "gapsOrders")[0];
+  if (!first) return null;
+  return {
+    topic: "first",
+    stages: ["Ranking by urgency…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${first.business}** needs people first — ${plural(first.gap, "seat", "seats")} open, ${shortDate(first.date) || "date unset"}.`),
+      cards([orderCard(first)]),
+      actions([{ label: "Open this order", route: first.id ? `/EventDetail?id=${first.id}` : "/Events" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Show partially staffed orders", prompt: "Show partially staffed orders" },
+      { label: "Show upcoming risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+    ],
+  };
+};
+
+const answerPartial = (d) => {
+  const partial = listOf(d, "partialOrders");
+  if (!partial.length) {
+    return {
+      topic: "partial",
+      stages: ["Checking fill rates…"],
+      blocks: blocks(status({ tone: "positive", label: "No partial orders", text: "Nothing on this page is part-filled." })),
+      followUps: [{ label: "What is still pending?", prompt: "Which orders are still pending confirmation?" }],
+    };
+  }
+  return {
+    topic: "partial",
+    stages: ["Checking fill rates…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`${plural(partial.length, "order is", "orders are")} partially staffed.`),
+      table({
+        title: "Partially staffed",
+        columns: [
+          { key: "business", label: "Order", align: "left" },
+          { key: "gap", label: "Open", align: "right", sortable: true, numeric: true },
+          { key: "date", label: "Date", align: "left" },
+        ],
+        rows: partial.slice(0, 8).map((o) => ({
+          id: o.id,
+          business: o.business,
+          gap: o.gap,
+          gapDisplay: String(o.gap),
+          date: shortDate(o.date) || "—",
+          route: o.id ? `/EventDetail?id=${o.id}` : "/Events",
+          detail: `${o.assigned} of ${o.requested} staffed${o.hub ? ` · ${o.hub}` : ""}`,
+        })),
+        footnote: "Tap a row for detail",
+      })
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Which one needs people first?", prompt: "Which one needs people first?" },
+      { label: "Show upcoming risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+    ],
+  };
+};
+
+const answerPending = (d) => {
+  const pending = listOf(d, "pendingOrders");
+  return {
+    topic: "pending",
+    stages: ["Checking confirmations…"],
+    blocks: pending.length
+      ? blocks(
+          text(`${plural(pending.length, "order is", "orders are")} still pending confirmation.`),
+          cards(pending.slice(0, 3).map(orderCard))
+        )
+      : blocks(status({ tone: "positive", label: "Nothing pending", text: "Every order on this page is confirmed." })),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Which orders need staffing?", prompt: "Which orders need staffing attention?" },
+      { label: "Show upcoming risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+    ],
+  };
+};
+
+const answerToday = (d) => {
+  const upcoming = listOf(d, "upcomingOrders").slice(0, 3);
+  return {
+    topic: "today",
+    stages: ["Reading the next few days…"],
+    blocks: upcoming.length
+      ? blocks(text(`The ${upcoming.length} soonest orders on this page:`), cards(upcoming.map(orderCard)))
+      : blocks(status({ tone: "neutral", label: "Nothing upcoming", text: "No future-dated orders on this page." })),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Which orders need staffing?", prompt: "Which orders need staffing attention?" },
+      { label: "What is still pending?", prompt: "Which orders are still pending confirmation?" },
+    ],
+  };
+};
+
+const answerSummary = (d) => ({
+  topic: "summary",
+  stages: [`Reading ${d.total} orders…`],
+  blocks: blocks(
+    text(`${plural(d.total, "order", "orders")} on this page — ${d.upcoming} upcoming, ${d.active} active, ${d.draft} in draft.`),
+    metric({
+      label: "Staffed",
+      value: `${d.totalAssignedSeats}/${d.totalRequestedSeats}`,
+      caption: "seats filled across open orders",
+      sub: [{ label: "Open seats", value: String(d.openSeats) }, { label: "At risk", value: String(d.atRisk) }],
+    }),
+    list({
+      title: "Breakdown",
+      items: [
+        { label: "Fully staffed", value: String(d.full), tone: "positive" },
+        { label: "Partially staffed", value: String(d.partial), tone: d.partial ? "risk" : "neutral" },
+        { label: "Pending confirmation", value: String(d.requested) },
+        { label: "Drafts", value: String(d.draft) },
+      ],
+    }),
+    actions([{ label: "Open Order Management", route: "/Events" }])
+  ),
+  followUps: [
+    { label: "Which orders need staffing?", prompt: "Which orders need staffing attention?" },
+    { label: "Show upcoming risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+  ],
+});
+
+const ROUTES = [
+  [/\bfirst|most urgent|top priority|needs people first\b/i, answerFirst],
+  [/\bpartial|part.?filled|not fully staffed\b/i, answerPartial],
+  [/\bpending|unconfirmed|awaiting\b/i, answerPending],
+  [/\btoday|critical|next few days|soonest|upcoming\b/i, answerToday],
+  [/\brisk|at risk|unstaffed|going wrong\b/i, answerRisk],
+  [/\bstaffing|coverage|short|gap|headcount|attention|need\b/i, answerAttention],
+  [/\bsummar|overview|recap|how (are|is) things|status\b/i, answerSummary],
+];
+
+/**
+ * What a pronoun means, given what Owliver just said.
+ *
+ * The whole of conversational context on this page: "which one is the biggest?"
+ * after a summary is a question about the orders that summary counted, so it
+ * resolves inside the same page and the same records rather than starting over
+ * as a new question.
+ */
+const FROM_TOPIC = {
+  summary: [
+    [/\bbiggest|worst|first|most\b/i, answerFirst],
+    [/\brisk|at risk\b/i, answerRisk],
+    [/\bstaffing|short|gap|attention\b/i, answerAttention],
+    [/\bpending|unconfirmed\b/i, answerPending],
+  ],
+  attention: [[/\bfirst|which one|worst|biggest\b/i, answerFirst], [/\brisk\b/i, answerRisk]],
+  risk: [[/\bfirst|which one|worst|biggest\b/i, answerFirst]],
+  partial: [[/\bfirst|which one|biggest\b/i, answerFirst]],
+  first: [[/\bothers?|rest|else|more\b/i, answerAttention], [/\brisk\b/i, answerRisk]],
+  pending: [[/\bfirst|which one|biggest\b/i, answerFirst]],
+  today: [[/\bfirst|which one|worst|biggest\b/i, answerFirst], [/\brisk\b/i, answerRisk]],
+};
+
+const answerUnknown = (d) => ({
+  topic: null,
+  stages: ["Reading this page…"],
+  blocks: blocks(
+    text(`I can analyse the ${plural(d.total, "order", "orders")} in this workspace, but I couldn't map that question onto them.`),
+    actions([
+      { label: "Staffing", prompt: "Which orders need staffing attention?" },
+      { label: "Risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+      { label: "Pending", prompt: "Which orders are still pending confirmation?" },
+      { label: "Summary", prompt: "Summarise these orders" },
+    ], { title: "Try asking about" })
+  ),
+  followUps: [],
+});
+
+export const orders = {
+  key: "orders",
+  title: "Order Management",
+  placeholder: "Ask Owliver about orders, staffing, or risks...",
+  contextLabel: "Using Order Management data",
+  working: "Reading your orders",
+
+  contextFacts: (d) => [
+    { value: d.total, label: d.total === 1 ? "order" : "orders" },
+    { value: d.upcoming, label: "upcoming" },
+    { value: d.partial, label: d.partial === 1 ? "staffing risk" : "staffing risks", tone: "risk" },
+  ].filter((f) => Number(f.value) > 0),
+
+  read: (d) => {
+    if (d.partial > 0 || d.atRisk > 0) {
+      return {
+        tone: "risk",
+        headline: `${plural(Math.max(d.atRisk, d.partial), "order needs", "orders need")} staffing attention.`,
+        lines: [
+          `**${plural(d.openSeats, "open seat", "open seats")}** remain across the highest-risk orders.`,
+          `Reading ${plural(d.total, "order", "orders")} on this page — ${d.upcoming} upcoming, ${d.draft} in draft.`,
+        ],
+        stat: { label: "Staffed", value: `${d.totalAssignedSeats}/${d.totalRequestedSeats}` },
+      };
+    }
+    return {
+      tone: "positive",
+      headline: "All orders are staffed and on track.",
+      lines: [`Reading ${plural(d.total, "order", "orders")} on this page — ${d.upcoming} upcoming, ${d.draft} in draft.`],
+      stat: { label: "Staffed", value: `${d.totalAssignedSeats}/${d.totalRequestedSeats}` },
+    };
+  },
+
+  suggestions: (d) => [
+    (d.partial > 0 || d.openSeats > 0) && { label: "Which orders need staffing?", prompt: "Which orders need staffing attention?" },
+    d.atRisk > 0 && { label: "Show upcoming risks", prompt: "Show upcoming risks" },
+    d.requested > 0 && { label: "What is still pending?", prompt: "Which orders are still pending confirmation?" },
+    d.partial > 0 && { label: "Show partially staffed orders", prompt: "Show partially staffed orders" },
+    { label: "Show today's critical orders", prompt: "Show today's critical orders" },
+    { label: "Summarise these orders", prompt: "Summarise these orders" },
+  ].filter(Boolean).slice(0, 5),
+
+  answer({ prompt, signals, lastTopic }) {
+    const d = signals || {};
+    const q = String(prompt || "");
+
+    if (/\b(one|ones|these|those|them|it|that|this)\b/i.test(q) && lastTopic && FROM_TOPIC[lastTopic]) {
+      const hit = FROM_TOPIC[lastTopic].find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(q));
+      if (hit) {
+        const answered = hit[1](d);
+        if (answered) return answered;
+      }
+    }
+
+    const route = ROUTES.find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(q));
+    if (route) {
+      const answered = route[1](d);
+      if (answered) return answered;
+    }
+    return answerUnknown(d);
+  },
+};
+
+export default orders;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/savingEngine.js b/src/lib/owliver/knowledge/savingEngine.js
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+/**
+ * Saving Engine — page knowledge
+ * ------------------------------
+ * What Owliver knows about the Saving Engine workspace: the read it produces,
+ * the questions that data makes worth asking, and the answers to them.
+ *
+ * Every answer below is a function of `signals` — the workspace the page
+ * published, derived in `savingsWorkspace.js` from the assignments, vendors,
+ * workforce, orders and rates the page had already loaded. Nothing in this file
+ * holds a figure of its own, and nothing reads a fixture: if the page's records
+ * change, every sentence here changes with them.
+ *
+ * That is also why each answer starts by checking whether the workspace has a
+ * basis for it. A page with no opportunities detected says so; it does not fall
+ * back to a number that was true of some other workspace.
+ */
+
+import {
+  blocks, text, note, metric, cards, table, chart, flow, actions, list,
+  progress, status, timeline, compare, money, pct, plural,
+} from "../blocks";
+
+/* ================================================================= helpers */
+
+const IMPACT_TONE = { high: "risk", medium: "warning", low: "neutral" };
+const IMPACT_LABEL = { high: "High impact", medium: "Medium impact", low: "Low impact" };
+const SEVERITY_TONE = { high: "risk", medium: "warning", low: "neutral" };
+
+/** An empty workspace still has the shape of one, so nothing has to null-check. */
+const EMPTY = {
+  view: { activeTab: "overview", timeRange: "30days", timeLabel: "30-day", userRole: "admin" },
+  totals: {},
+  opportunities: [], risks: [], trend: [], byCategory: [], recentActivity: [], pipeline: [],
+};
+
+const workspace = (signals) => (signals && signals.totals ? signals : EMPTY);
+
+/**
+ * Period-over-period movement, or null.
+ *
+ * Null when the dated records do not cover a prior period. Every caller checks,
+ * because "↑ 0.0%" against nothing is a claim the page cannot support.
+ */
+const trendPct = (d) => {
+  const { totalSavings, previousPeriodSavings } = d.totals;
+  if (!previousPeriodSavings) return null;
+  return ((Number(totalSavings || 0) - previousPeriodSavings) / previousPeriodSavings) * 100;
+};
+
+/** The headline metric, assembled from whatever the workspace can support. */
+const savingsMetric = (d, label = "Savings potential") => {
+  const movement = trendPct(d);
+  return metric({
+    label,
+    value: money(d.totals.totalSavings),
+    trend: movement == null ? undefined : `${movement >= 0 ? "↑" : "↓"} ${pct(Math.abs(movement), 1)}`,
+    trendTone: movement == null ? "neutral" : movement >= 0 ? "positive" : "risk",
+    caption: movement == null
+      ? `${d.view.timeLabel} projection`
+      : `${d.view.timeLabel} projection · vs previous month`,
+    sub: [
+      { label: "Monthly", value: money(d.totals.monthlyPotential) },
+      { label: "Annualized", value: money(d.totals.annualisedPotential) },
+    ],
+  });
+};
+
+/** An opportunity record → a card the panel can render and open. */
+const oppCard = (o) => ({
+  id: o.id,
+  title: o.title,
+  subtitle: o.category,
+  value: money(o.annual),
+  valueLabel: "per year",
+  badge: IMPACT_LABEL[o.impact],
+  badgeTone: IMPACT_TONE[o.impact],
+  meta: [
+    { label: "Status", value: o.status },
+    { label: "Effort", value: o.effort },
+    { label: "Owner", value: o.owner },
+  ],
+  progress: { value: o.share, max: 100, label: `${o.share}% of total opportunity` },
+  route: o.route,
+  actionLabel: "View",
+});
+
+const riskCard = (r) => ({
+  id: r.id,
+  title: r.title,
+  subtitle: r.dueInDays > 0 ? `Due in ${plural(r.dueInDays, "day", "days")}` : "Live now",
+  value: money(r.exposure),
+  valueLabel: "at risk",
+  badge: r.severity === "high" ? "High severity" : "Medium severity",
+  badgeTone: SEVERITY_TONE[r.severity],
+  meta: [{ label: "Exposure", value: `${money(r.exposure)}/yr` }],
+  body: r.detail,
+  route: r.route,
+  actionLabel: r.action,
+});
+
+const topOpportunities = (d, n = 3) => d.opportunities.slice(0, n);
+
+/**
+ * The reply when the workspace cannot support a question at all.
+ *
+ * Says which records are missing rather than reporting a zero, because an empty
+ * Saving Engine and a Saving Engine with nothing to save look identical in a
+ * figure and are completely different things.
+ */
+const nothingToRead = (topic, what) => ({
+  topic,
+  stages: ["Reading Saving Engine data…"],
+  blocks: blocks(
+    text(`This workspace has no ${what} to read yet.`),
+    note("Owliver reads the assignments, vendors, rates and workforce records on the Saving Engine page. Once those carry data, this answer fills in on its own."),
+    actions([{ label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" }])
+  ),
+  followUps: [],
+});
+
+/* ================================================================ answers */
+/**
+ * Each responder returns the blocks for one answer plus the follow-ups that
+ * answer makes sensible. Follow-ups are prompts — clicking one goes through the
+ * same `send()` path as typing it, so nothing here is a canned branch — and
+ * they are built from the records the answer just showed, so they always name
+ * something that exists in this workspace.
+ */
+
+const answerOverview = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (!t.totalSpend) return nothingToRead("overview", "billed spend");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "overview",
+    stages: ["Reading Saving Engine data…", `Checking ${plural(t.assignments || 0, "assignment", "assignments")}…`],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`The Saving Engine is tracking **${money(t.totalSpend)}** of billed spend, ${pct(t.contractedRatio, 1)} of it under contract. That leaves **${money(t.totalSavings)}** of savings potential on the ${d.view.timeLabel.toLowerCase()} view.`),
+      savingsMetric(d),
+      list({
+        title: "Workspace",
+        items: [
+          { label: "Opportunities detected", value: String(t.opportunities) },
+          { label: "Running without renegotiation", value: String(t.automations) },
+          { label: "Spend under contract", value: money(t.contractedSpend), tone: "positive" },
+          { label: "Spend outside contract", value: money(t.nonContractedSpend), tone: t.nonContractedSpend ? "risk" : "neutral" },
+          t.atRisk ? { label: "Savings at risk", value: money(t.atRisk), tone: "risk" } : null,
+        ].filter(Boolean),
+      }),
+      actions([
+        d.opportunities.length ? { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" } : null,
+        d.risks.length ? { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" } : null,
+      ].filter(Boolean))
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      d.byCategory.length > 1 && { label: "Where are we saving the most?", prompt: "Where are we saving the most?" },
+      d.opportunities.length && { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+      { label: "How does Saving Engine work?", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean).slice(0, 3),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerWhereMost = (d) => {
+  if (!d.opportunities.length) return nothingToRead("where", "savings opportunities");
+
+  const top = d.opportunities[0];
+  const leader = d.byCategory[0];
+
+  return {
+    topic: "where",
+    stages: ["Reading Saving Engine data…", `Comparing ${plural(d.byCategory.length, "category", "categories")}…`],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`Most savings are currently coming from **${top.title}**. It accounts for ${top.share}% of the total opportunity on this page, and ${leader.label} is the largest category overall.`),
+      savingsMetric(d),
+      progress({
+        title: "Savings by category",
+        items: d.byCategory.map((c) => ({
+          label: c.label,
+          value: c.value,
+          max: leader.value,
+          caption: money(c.value),
+          tone: c.label === leader.label ? "brand" : "neutral",
+        })),
+      }),
+      text(top.detail),
+      actions([
+        { label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" },
+        { label: "Show biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      ])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: `Why is ${top.title.toLowerCase()} #1?`, prompt: `Why is ${top.title} the number one saving?` },
+      { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      d.trend.length > 1 && { label: "Explain the savings trend", prompt: "Explain the savings trend" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerOpportunities = (d) => {
+  if (!d.opportunities.length) return nothingToRead("opportunities", "savings opportunities");
+
+  const top = topOpportunities(d, 3);
+  const share = top.reduce((n, o) => n + o.share, 0);
+  const rest = d.opportunities.length - top.length;
+
+  return {
+    topic: "opportunities",
+    stages: [`Checking ${plural(d.totals.opportunities, "opportunity", "opportunities")}…`, "Ranking by annualised value…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`I found **${plural(top.length, "opportunity", "opportunities")}** worth acting on out of ${d.totals.opportunities} detected. Together they carry ${share}% of the total potential.`),
+      cards(top.map(oppCard)),
+      rest > 0 ? note(`${plural(rest, "smaller opportunity is", "smaller opportunities are")} open behind these.`) : null,
+      actions([
+        rest > 0 ? { label: "Show all opportunities", prompt: "Show all high-value opportunities" } : null,
+        { label: "Which is easiest to implement?", prompt: "Which one is the easiest to implement?" },
+      ].filter(Boolean))
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Which one is easiest to implement?", prompt: "Which one is the easiest to implement?" },
+      top.length > 1 && { label: "Compare these opportunities", prompt: "Compare these opportunities" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerEasiest = (d) => {
+  if (!d.opportunities.length) return nothingToRead("easiest", "savings opportunities");
+
+  const ranked = [...d.opportunities].sort(
+    (a, b) => a.weeksToValue - b.weeksToValue || b.annual - a.annual
+  );
+  const pick = ranked[0];
+
+  return {
+    topic: "easiest",
+    stages: ["Comparing effort and time-to-value…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${pick.title}** is the easiest to act on — ${pick.effort} effort and ${plural(pick.weeksToValue, "week", "weeks")} to value.`),
+      metric({
+        label: pick.title,
+        value: money(pick.annual),
+        caption: `per year · ${pick.confidence}% confidence`,
+        sub: [
+          { label: "Effort", value: pick.effort },
+          { label: "Time to value", value: `${pick.weeksToValue} wks` },
+        ],
+      }),
+      ranked.length > 1 ? compare({
+        title: "Effort vs value",
+        items: ranked.slice(0, 3).map((o) => ({
+          label: o.title,
+          value: money(o.annual, { compact: true }),
+          caption: `${o.weeksToValue} wks · ${o.effort} effort`,
+          tone: o.id === pick.id ? "positive" : "neutral",
+        })),
+      }) : null,
+      text(pick.detail),
+      pick.basis ? note(`Basis — ${pick.basis}`) : null,
+      actions([
+        { label: `Open ${pick.owner}`, route: pick.route },
+        d.risks.length ? { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" } : null,
+      ].filter(Boolean))
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: `What would ${pick.title.toLowerCase()} take?`, prompt: `What would it take to start ${pick.title}?` },
+      ranked.length > 1 && { label: "Compare these opportunities", prompt: "Compare these opportunities" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerCompare = (d) => {
+  if (!d.opportunities.length) return nothingToRead("compare", "savings opportunities");
+
+  const top = topOpportunities(d, 4);
+  return {
+    topic: "compare",
+    stages: ["Building comparison…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text("Side by side, ranked by annualised value:"),
+      table({
+        title: "Savings opportunities",
+        columns: [
+          { key: "title", label: "Opportunity", align: "left" },
+          { key: "annual", label: "Potential", align: "right", sortable: true, numeric: true },
+          { key: "effort", label: "Effort", align: "left" },
+          { key: "status", label: "Status", align: "left", badge: true },
+        ],
+        rows: top.map((o) => ({
+          id: o.id,
+          title: o.title,
+          annual: o.annual,
+          annualDisplay: money(o.annual),
+          effort: o.effort,
+          status: o.status,
+          route: o.route,
+          detail: o.detail,
+        })),
+        footnote: "Tap a row for detail · sort by potential",
+      }),
+      actions([
+        { label: "Which is easiest to implement?", prompt: "Which one is the easiest to implement?" },
+        { label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" },
+      ])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "Which is easiest to implement?", prompt: "Which one is the easiest to implement?" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+      { label: "How does Saving Engine work?", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerTable = (d) => {
+  if (!d.opportunities.length) return nothingToRead("table", "savings opportunities");
+
+  const rows = d.opportunities;
+  return {
+    topic: "table",
+    stages: [`Pulling ${plural(rows.length, "opportunity", "opportunities")}…`],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`All ${plural(rows.length, "open opportunity", "open opportunities")}, highest value first.`),
+      table({
+        title: "Savings opportunities",
+        columns: [
+          { key: "title", label: "Opportunity", align: "left" },
+          { key: "annual", label: "Potential", align: "right", sortable: true, numeric: true },
+          { key: "status", label: "Status", align: "left", badge: true },
+        ],
+        rows: rows.map((o) => ({
+          id: o.id,
+          title: o.title,
+          annual: o.annual,
+          annualDisplay: money(o.annual),
+          status: o.status,
+          route: o.route,
+          detail: o.detail,
+        })),
+        footnote: "Tap a row for detail",
+      })
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      rows.length > 1 && { label: "Compare these opportunities", prompt: "Compare these opportunities" },
+      { label: "Which is easiest to implement?", prompt: "Which one is the easiest to implement?" },
+      d.trend.length > 1 && { label: "Explain the savings trend", prompt: "Explain the savings trend" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerRisk = (d) => {
+  if (!d.risks.length) {
+    return {
+      topic: "risk",
+      stages: ["Checking captured savings…", "Scanning renewals and reliability…"],
+      blocks: blocks(
+        text("Nothing in this workspace is currently at risk of being given back."),
+        status({
+          tone: "positive",
+          label: "No exposure",
+          text: "No vendor certificate or contracted rate expires inside the next 60 days, and no worker holding live assignments is below the reliability threshold.",
+        }),
+        actions([{ label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" }])
+      ),
+      followUps: [
+        d.opportunities.length && { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+        { label: "How does Saving Engine work?", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" },
+      ].filter(Boolean),
+    };
+  }
+
+  const first = d.risks[0];
+  return {
+    topic: "risk",
+    stages: ["Checking captured savings…", "Scanning renewals and reliability…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`**${money(d.totals.atRisk)}** of savings is at risk across ${plural(d.risks.length, "item", "items")}. ${first.title} is the largest.`),
+      metric({
+        label: "At-risk savings",
+        value: money(d.totals.atRisk),
+        trend: plural(d.risks.length, "item", "items"),
+        trendTone: "risk",
+        caption: "against savings the workspace already holds",
+      }),
+      cards(d.risks.map(riskCard)),
+      actions([
+        { label: first.action, route: first.route },
+        { label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" },
+      ])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      /* The title is a record name — a vendor, a rate book — so its case is
+         left exactly as the record carries it. */
+      { label: `What if ${first.title} is not addressed?`, prompt: `What happens if ${first.title} is not addressed?` },
+      d.opportunities.length && { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      d.recentActivity.length && { label: "Show recent saving activity", prompt: "Show recent saving activity" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerRenewal = (d) => {
+  if (!d.risks.length) return answerRisk(d);
+
+  const r = d.risks[0];
+  return {
+    topic: "renewal",
+    stages: ["Modelling the exposure…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`If **${r.title}** is left unaddressed, the work behind it reverts to spot pricing at the next billing cycle.`),
+      metric({
+        label: "Exposure if unaddressed",
+        value: money(r.exposure),
+        trend: r.dueInDays > 0 ? `${plural(r.dueInDays, "day", "days")} left` : "live now",
+        trendTone: "risk",
+        caption: "annualised give-back",
+      }),
+      text(r.detail),
+      list({
+        title: "What closes it",
+        items: [
+          { label: r.action, value: "Owner action", tone: "neutral" },
+          { label: "Confirm before", value: r.dueInDays > 0 ? plural(r.dueInDays, "day", "days") : "today", tone: "risk" },
+        ],
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: r.action, route: r.route }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+      d.recentActivity.length && { label: "Show recent saving activity", prompt: "Show recent saving activity" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerTrend = (d) => {
+  if (d.trend.length < 2) {
+    return {
+      topic: "trend",
+      stages: ["Reading dated assignments…"],
+      blocks: blocks(
+        text("There is not enough dated history in this workspace to read a trend yet."),
+        note(d.trend.length
+          ? "Only one month of assignments carries a scheduled date, so there is nothing to compare it against."
+          : "No assignment on this page carries a scheduled date, so no monthly series can be built."),
+        actions([{ label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" }])
+      ),
+      followUps: [
+        d.opportunities.length && { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      ].filter(Boolean),
+    };
+  }
+
+  const first = d.trend[0];
+  const last = d.trend[d.trend.length - 1];
+  const prior = d.trend[d.trend.length - 2];
+  const growth = first.value ? ((last.value - first.value) / first.value) * 100 : null;
+  const mom = prior.value ? ((last.value - prior.value) / prior.value) * 100 : null;
+  const rising = last.value >= first.value;
+
+  return {
+    topic: "trend",
+    stages: [`Reading ${plural(d.trend.length, "month", "months")} of assignments…`, "Fitting the trend…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`Savings run-rate has ${rising ? "risen" : "fallen"} across the period — ${money(first.value, { compact: true })} in ${first.label} to ${money(last.value, { compact: true })} in ${last.label}.`),
+      chart({
+        title: "Monthly savings run-rate",
+        variant: "area",
+        data: d.trend,
+        format: "money",
+        summary: growth == null ? `${d.trend.length} months tracked` : `${growth >= 0 ? "↑" : "↓"} ${pct(Math.abs(growth), 1)} over ${plural(d.trend.length, "month", "months")}`,
+      }),
+      metric({
+        label: "Month over month",
+        value: mom == null ? "—" : `${mom >= 0 ? "+" : "−"}${pct(Math.abs(mom), 1)}`,
+        caption: `${last.label} vs ${prior.label}`,
+        sub: [
+          { label: "This month", value: money(last.value) },
+          { label: "Period total", value: money(d.trend.reduce((n, t) => n + t.value, 0)) },
+        ],
+      }),
+      note("Run-rate is the spend outside a contracted rate in each month, at the rate spread this workspace is currently carrying."),
+      actions([
+        { label: "Show biggest contributors", prompt: "Show the biggest contributors to the savings trend" },
+        { label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" },
+      ])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "What caused the change?", prompt: "What caused the change in savings?" },
+      { label: "Show biggest contributors", prompt: "Show the biggest contributors to the savings trend" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerContributors = (d) => {
+  if (!d.opportunities.length) return nothingToRead("contributors", "savings opportunities");
+
+  const total = d.opportunities.reduce((n, o) => n + o.annual, 0);
+  const lead = d.opportunities[0];
+
+  return {
+    topic: "contributors",
+    stages: ["Attributing the movement…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`The potential is concentrated in ${plural(Math.min(d.opportunities.length, 4), "place", "places")}:`),
+      progress({
+        title: "Contribution to potential",
+        items: d.opportunities.slice(0, 4).map((o) => ({
+          label: o.title,
+          value: o.share,
+          max: 100,
+          caption: `${o.share}% · ${money(o.annual, { compact: true })}`,
+          tone: o.id === lead.id ? "brand" : "neutral",
+        })),
+      }),
+      text(`${lead.title} carries ${lead.share}% of the ${money(total)} total on its own. ${lead.detail}`),
+      actions([{ label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      d.trend.length > 1 && { label: "Explain the savings trend", prompt: "Explain the savings trend" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerHowItWorks = (d) => {
+  if (!d.pipeline.length) return nothingToRead("how", "workspace data");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "how",
+    stages: ["Tracing the savings pipeline…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text("The Saving Engine runs a pipeline over the spend records connected to this workspace. Each stage narrows raw spend down to a captured saving:"),
+      flow({ title: "Savings pipeline", nodes: d.pipeline }),
+      note("Tap any stage for what it is doing on this page right now."),
+      actions([
+        d.opportunities.length ? { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" } : null,
+        { label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" },
+      ].filter(Boolean))
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "What is waiting on approval?", prompt: "What is waiting on approval?" },
+      d.opportunities.length && { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerApprovals = (d) => {
+  const waiting = d.opportunities.filter((o) => o.annual >= 10000);
+  if (!waiting.length) {
+    return {
+      topic: "approvals",
+      stages: ["Checking the approval queue…"],
+      blocks: blocks(
+        text("Nothing in this workspace needs finance sign-off."),
+        note("Anything above $10K annualised needs approval before it can run unattended. No detected opportunity clears that line."),
+        actions(d.opportunities.length
+          ? [{ label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" }] : [])
+      ),
+      followUps: [{ label: "How does Saving Engine work?", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" }],
+    };
+  }
+
+  return {
+    topic: "approvals",
+    stages: ["Checking the approval queue…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`${plural(waiting.length, "recommendation is", "recommendations are")} above the $10K annualised line and ${waiting.length === 1 ? "needs" : "need"} finance sign-off before running unattended.`),
+      list({
+        title: "Awaiting approval",
+        items: waiting.map((o) => ({
+          label: o.title,
+          value: `${money(o.annual)} · ${o.owner}`,
+          tone: o.impact === "high" ? "risk" : "neutral",
+        })),
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      { label: "How does Saving Engine work?", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerAutomations = (d) => {
+  const automatable = d.opportunities.filter((o) => o.effort === "low");
+  const negotiated = d.opportunities.length - automatable.length;
+
+  if (!d.opportunities.length) return nothingToRead("automations", "savings rules");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "automations",
+    stages: ["Checking automation state…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`${plural(automatable.length, "opportunity", "opportunities")} can run without renegotiation; the other ${negotiated} need${negotiated === 1 ? "s" : ""} a commercial conversation first.`),
+      status({
+        tone: automatable.length ? "positive" : "warning",
+        label: automatable.length ? `${automatable.length} ready to automate` : "None ready",
+        text: automatable.length
+          ? `${automatable.map((o) => o.title).join(", ")} rest on rates that already exist, so they can be enforced as standing rules.`
+          : "Every detected opportunity needs a rate or contract change before it can be enforced automatically.",
+      }),
+      list({
+        title: "Automation health",
+        items: [
+          { label: "Runs unattended", value: String(automatable.length), tone: automatable.length ? "positive" : "neutral" },
+          { label: "Needs negotiation", value: String(negotiated), tone: negotiated ? "risk" : "neutral" },
+          { label: "Detections active", value: String(d.totals.activeRules) },
+        ],
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open vendor rates", route: "/VendorRates" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+      { label: "How does Saving Engine work?", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerActivity = (d) => {
+  if (!d.recentActivity.length) return nothingToRead("activity", "recent activity");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "activity",
+    stages: [`Reading ${plural(d.recentActivity.length, "recent event", "recent events")}…`],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text(`The ${plural(d.recentActivity.length, "most recent change", "most recent changes")} in the records this page reads:`),
+      timeline({ title: "Recent activity", items: d.recentActivity }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open activity log", route: "/ActivityLog" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      d.risks.length && { label: "What savings are at risk?", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+      d.trend.length > 1 && { label: "Explain the savings trend", prompt: "Explain the savings trend" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+const answerNumbers = (d) => {
+  const t = d.totals;
+  if (!t.totalSpend) return nothingToRead("numbers", "billed spend");
+
+  return {
+    topic: "numbers",
+    stages: ["Pulling the headline figures…"],
+    blocks: blocks(
+      text("The figures this page is currently carrying:"),
+      savingsMetric(d),
+      table({
+        title: "Saving Engine metrics",
+        columns: [
+          { key: "label", label: "Metric", align: "left" },
+          { key: "value", label: "Value", align: "right", sortable: false },
+        ],
+        rows: [
+          { id: "spend", label: "Total billed spend", value: money(t.totalSpend) },
+          { id: "contracted", label: "Under contract", value: `${money(t.contractedSpend)} (${pct(t.contractedRatio, 1)})` },
+          { id: "spot", label: "Outside contract", value: money(t.nonContractedSpend) },
+          { id: "rate", label: "Rate spread", value: `$${Number(t.rateDelta || 0).toFixed(2)}/hr` },
+          { id: "fill", label: "Fill rate", value: pct(t.fillRate, 1) },
+          { id: "reliability", label: "Avg reliability", value: pct(t.avgReliability, 0) },
+          { id: "noshow", label: "No-show rate", value: pct(t.noShowRate, 1) },
+          { id: "vendors", label: "Active vendors", value: String(t.activeVendors) },
+          { id: "workforce", label: "Workforce", value: String(t.totalWorkforce) },
+        ],
+      }),
+      actions([{ label: "Open Saving Engine", route: "/SavingsEngine" }])
+    ),
+    followUps: [
+      d.opportunities.length && { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      d.byCategory.length > 1 && { label: "Where are we saving the most?", prompt: "Where are we saving the most?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean),
+  };
+};
+
+/* ============================================================== dispatcher */
+
+/**
+ * Keyword routing. Deliberately shallow — enough to prove the interaction, and
+ * ordered so the specific patterns win over the broad ones. Follow-ups are
+ * resolved first, against `lastTopic`, so "which one is easiest?" is understood
+ * as being about the cards Owliver just showed.
+ */
+const ROUTES = [
+  [/\beasiest|simplest|quickest|least effort|low effort|fastest to\b/i, answerEasiest],
+  [/\bcompare|side by side|versus|vs\b/i, answerCompare],
+  [/\ball (the )?(high.?value|opportunities)|show all|full list|every opportunity|table\b/i, answerTable],
+  [/\bcaused|why (did|is|has).*(increase|rise|grow|change)|contributor|driving\b/i, answerContributors],
+  [/\brenewal|lapse|expire|not addressed|unaddressed|what happens if\b/i, answerRenewal],
+  [/\bapprov|sign.?off\b/i, answerApprovals],
+  [/\bautomation|rules? running|paused|unattended\b/i, answerAutomations],
+  [/\bhow does|how it works|how the .*works?|explain the process|pipeline|workflow\b/i, answerHowItWorks],
+  [/\btrend|over time|last (six|6) months|month over month|growth\b/i, answerTrend],
+  [/\brisk|at risk|exposure|losing|give back|lapsing\b/i, answerRisk],
+  [/\b(recent )?activity|what happened|latest|log\b/i, answerActivity],
+  [/\bimportant numbers|key numbers|metrics|figures|numbers\b/i, answerNumbers],
+  [/\bopportunit|biggest|top saving|where can (we|i) save|potential\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+  [/\bwhere .*(saving|save)|most saving|saving the most|which category|breakdown\b/i, answerWhereMost],
+  [/\bhow much|total saving|overview|summary|summar|status\b/i, answerOverview],
+];
+
+/** Pronoun follow-ups ("which one…", "compare these") resolved against topic. */
+const FOLLOW_UP = /\b(one|ones|these|those|them|it|that|this)\b/i;
+
+/**
+ * What a pronoun means, given what Owliver just said.
+ *
+ * This is the whole of conversational context on this page: the previous
+ * answer's topic decides which reading "the biggest" refers to, so a follow-up
+ * stays inside the same page and the same set of records it was asked about.
+ */
+const FROM_TOPIC = {
+  overview: [
+    [/\bbiggest|largest|most\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+    [/\brisk\b/i, answerRisk],
+    [/\bbreak ?down|categor\b/i, answerWhereMost],
+  ],
+  opportunities: [
+    [/\beasiest|simplest|quickest|least effort\b/i, answerEasiest],
+    [/\bcompare|rank|side by side\b/i, answerCompare],
+    [/\bbiggest|largest|worth most\b/i, answerCompare],
+    [/\bnext|more|others?|all\b/i, answerTable],
+    [/\brisk\b/i, answerRisk],
+  ],
+  where: [
+    [/\bwhy\b/i, answerContributors],
+    [/\bbiggest|largest\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+  ],
+  easiest: [
+    [/\bstart|begin|take|do it|what would it\b/i, answerEasiest],
+    [/\bcompare\b/i, answerCompare],
+    [/\bbiggest|largest\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+  ],
+  compare: [
+    [/\beasiest|simplest\b/i, answerEasiest],
+    [/\bbiggest|largest|first\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+  ],
+  table: [
+    [/\beasiest|simplest\b/i, answerEasiest],
+    [/\bbiggest|largest\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+  ],
+  trend: [
+    [/\bcaused|why|driver|contributor\b/i, answerContributors],
+    [/\bcompare|last month\b/i, answerContributors],
+  ],
+  contributors: [
+    [/\bbiggest|largest|first\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+    [/\btrend\b/i, answerTrend],
+  ],
+  risk: [
+    [/\bwhat happens|if|unaddressed\b/i, answerRenewal],
+    [/\bfirst|worst|biggest\b/i, answerRenewal],
+  ],
+  renewal: [
+    [/\bother|rest|else\b/i, answerRisk],
+  ],
+  how: [
+    [/\bapprov|waiting\b/i, answerApprovals],
+    [/\bautomat\b/i, answerAutomations],
+  ],
+  numbers: [
+    [/\bbiggest|largest\b/i, answerOpportunities],
+    [/\bbreak ?down|categor\b/i, answerWhereMost],
+  ],
+};
+
+/** The dead end, which still has to be useful and still page-bound. */
+const answerUnknown = (d) => ({
+  topic: null,
+  stages: ["Reading Saving Engine data…"],
+  blocks: blocks(
+    text("I can analyse anything in the current Saving Engine workspace, but I couldn't map that question onto it."),
+    actions([
+      { label: "Summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" },
+      d.opportunities.length ? { label: "Opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" } : null,
+      d.risks.length ? { label: "Risks", prompt: "What savings are at risk?" } : null,
+      d.trend.length > 1 ? { label: "Trends", prompt: "Explain the savings trend" } : null,
+      { label: "How it works", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" },
+    ].filter(Boolean), { title: "Try asking about" })
+  ),
+  followUps: [],
+});
+
+/* ================================================================== export */
+
+export const savingEngine = {
+  key: "savingEngine",
+  title: "Saving Engine",
+  entity: "SavingsOpportunity",
+  placeholder: "Ask Owliver about Saving Engine...",
+  contextLabel: "Using Saving Engine data",
+  working: "Reading Saving Engine data",
+
+  contextFacts: (signals) => {
+    const d = workspace(signals);
+    return [
+      { value: money(d.totals.totalSavings, { compact: true }), label: "potential" },
+      { value: d.totals.opportunities || 0, label: "opportunities" },
+      d.totals.atRisk ? { value: money(d.totals.atRisk, { compact: true }), label: "at risk", tone: "risk" } : null,
+    ].filter(Boolean);
+  },
+
+  /** The dynamic "current read" — short lines, all from this page's records. */
+  read: (signals) => {
+    const d = workspace(signals);
+    const t = d.totals;
+
+    if (!t.totalSpend) {
+      return {
+        tone: "neutral",
+        headline: "No billed spend on this page yet.",
+        lines: ["Owliver reads the assignments, vendors, rates and workforce this page has loaded."],
+        stat: null,
+      };
+    }
+
+    const lead = d.opportunities[0];
+    return {
+      tone: t.atRisk ? "warning" : "positive",
+      headline: lead
+        ? `${lead.title} is the largest opportunity on this page.`
+        : `${pct(t.contractedRatio, 1)} of billed spend is already under contract.`,
+      lines: [
+        `**${money(t.monthlyPotential, { compact: true })}** in monthly savings potential across ${plural(t.opportunities, "opportunity", "opportunities")}.`,
+        lead
+          ? `**${lead.title} carries ${lead.share}%** of the total potential, at ${money(lead.annual)} a year.`
+          : `**${money(t.contractedSpend)}** of ${money(t.totalSpend)} runs at contracted rates.`,
+        t.atRisk ? `**${money(t.atRisk)}** is at risk across ${plural(d.risks.length, "item", "items")}.` : null,
+      ].filter(Boolean),
+      stat: {
+        label: `${d.view.timeLabel} projection`,
+        value: money(t.totalSavings),
+        trend: trendPct(d) == null ? undefined : `↑ ${pct(Math.abs(trendPct(d)), 1)}`,
+      },
+    };
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * The questions this page's data makes worth asking.
+   *
+   * Derived, not listed: a chip is only offered when the workspace has the
+   * records to answer it, and the ones that name a record name a real one.
+   */
+  suggestions: (signals) => {
+    const d = workspace(signals);
+    const lead = d.opportunities[0];
+
+    return [
+      { label: "Give me a summary", prompt: "Give me a summary" },
+      d.byCategory.length > 1 && { label: "Where are we saving the most?", prompt: "Where are we saving the most?" },
+      d.opportunities.length && { label: "Show my biggest opportunities", prompt: "Show my biggest savings opportunities" },
+      d.risks.length && { label: `What savings are at risk?`, prompt: "What savings are at risk?" },
+      lead && { label: `Why is ${lead.title.toLowerCase()} #1?`, prompt: `Why is ${lead.title} the number one saving?` },
+      d.trend.length > 1 && { label: "Explain the savings trend", prompt: "Explain the savings trend" },
+      { label: "How does Saving Engine work?", prompt: "How does the Saving Engine work?" },
+      { label: "Show the important numbers", prompt: "Show the important numbers" },
+    ].filter(Boolean);
+  },
+
+  answer({ prompt, signals, lastTopic }) {
+    const d = workspace(signals);
+    const q = String(prompt || "");
+
+    // A pronoun means the question is about the last answer, so that answer's
+    // own follow-up table gets first refusal.
+    if (FOLLOW_UP.test(q) && lastTopic && FROM_TOPIC[lastTopic]) {
+      const hit = FROM_TOPIC[lastTopic].find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(q));
+      if (hit) return hit[1](d);
+    }
+
+    const route = ROUTES.find(([pattern]) => pattern.test(q));
+    if (route) return route[1](d);
+
+    // "saving"/"save" with nothing more specific is the overview.
+    if (/\bsavings?|save|spend|cost\b/i.test(q)) return answerOverview(d);
+
+    return answerUnknown(d);
+  },
+};
+
+export default savingEngine;
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+/**
+ * Saving Engine — workspace derivation
+ * ------------------------------------
+ * The Saving Engine page's own records, read into the shape Owliver answers
+ * from. One derivation, two callers:
+ *
+ *   the page   registers assignments, vendors, workforce, orders and rates
+ *              through `useOwliverPageContext`, and Owliver reads what is
+ *              already on screen
+ *   the route  when the panel is opened on a Saving Engine route the page has
+ *              not mounted, `DOMAINS.savingEngine.loadSignals()` fetches the
+ *              same entities and runs this same function
+ *
+ * That is the whole point of putting it here rather than in either caller: the
+ * figure Owliver quotes and the figure the card beside it draws come from one
+ * computation, so they cannot disagree.
+ *
+ * Every number below is traceable to a record. Where the page has no basis for
+ * something — no prior window to compare against, no rate book to check a bill
+ * rate against — the field is omitted rather than filled with a plausible
+ * value, and the answers read as "nothing to report" instead of inventing one.
+ */
+
+const num = (v) => Number(v || 0);
+const round = (v) => Math.round(num(v));
+const safeDiv = (a, b) => (num(b) ? num(a) / num(b) : 0);
+
+const TIME_LABEL = {
+  "7days": "7-day", "30days": "30-day", quarter: "Quarterly", year: "Annual",
+};
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ dates */
+
+const asDate = (value) => {
+  if (!value) return null;
+  const d = new Date(value);
+  return Number.isNaN(d.getTime()) ? null : d;
+};
+
+const monthKey = (d) => `${d.getFullYear()}-${String(d.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, "0")}`;
+const monthLabel = (d) => d.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { month: "short" });
+
+const daysUntil = (value) => {
+  const d = asDate(value);
+  if (!d) return null;
+  return Math.ceil((d.getTime() - Date.now()) / 86400000);
+};
+
+const relativeTime = (value) => {
+  const d = asDate(value);
+  if (!d) return null;
+  const hours = Math.round((Date.now() - d.getTime()) / 3600000);
+  if (hours < 1) return "just now";
+  if (hours < 24) return `${hours}h ago`;
+  const days = Math.round(hours / 24);
+  if (days === 1) return "yesterday";
+  if (days < 0) return `in ${Math.abs(days)}d`;
+  return `${days}d ago`;
+};
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- metrics */
+
+/**
+ * The page's own metric block, recomputed.
+ *
+ * Deliberately the same arithmetic as `SavingsEngine.jsx` — when the page hands
+ * its own `metrics` over, that object wins and this is never used. It exists so
+ * the route-level fallback produces the identical shape rather than a second,
+ * subtly different reading of the same records.
+ */
+export function deriveMetrics({ assignments = [], vendors = [], workforce = [], orders = [], rates = [] }) {
+  const totalSpend = assignments.reduce((n, a) => n + num(a.total_bill), 0);
+  const contractedSpend = assignments
+    .filter((a) => a.vendor_id)
+    .reduce((n, a) => n + num(a.total_bill), 0);
+  const nonContractedSpend = totalSpend - contractedSpend;
+  const contractedRatio = totalSpend > 0 ? (contractedSpend / totalSpend) * 100 : 0;
+
+  const approved = rates.filter((r) => r.is_approved_rate);
+  const unapproved = rates.filter((r) => !r.is_approved_rate);
+  const avgContractedRate = safeDiv(
+    approved.reduce((n, r) => n + num(r.client_rate), 0), Math.max(approved.length, 1)
+  );
+  const avgNonContractedRate = safeDiv(
+    unapproved.reduce((n, r) => n + num(r.client_rate), 0), Math.max(unapproved.length, 1)
+  );
+
+  const potentialSavingsPercent = avgNonContractedRate > avgContractedRate
+    ? ((avgNonContractedRate - avgContractedRate) / avgNonContractedRate) * 100
+    : 15;
+  const potentialSavings = nonContractedSpend * (potentialSavingsPercent / 100);
+
+  const avgReliability = safeDiv(
+    workforce.reduce((n, w) => n + num(w.reliability_index ?? 75), 0), Math.max(workforce.length, 1)
+  );
+  const noShowRate = safeDiv(
+    workforce.reduce((n, w) => n + num(w.no_shows), 0),
+    Math.max(workforce.reduce((n, w) => n + num(w.total_assignments || 1), 0), 1)
+  ) * 100;
+  const fillRate = safeDiv(
+    assignments.filter((a) => a.assignment_status === "Completed").length,
+    Math.max(assignments.length, 1)
+  ) * 100;
+
+  return {
+    totalSpend, contractedSpend, nonContractedSpend, contractedRatio,
+    potentialSavings, potentialSavingsPercent,
+    avgContractedRate: avgContractedRate || 45,
+    avgNonContractedRate: avgNonContractedRate || 55,
+    avgReliability, noShowRate, fillRate,
+    activeVendors: vendors.filter((v) => v.is_active).length,
+    totalWorkforce: workforce.length,
+    completedOrders: orders.filter((o) => o.order_status === "Completed").length,
+  };
+}
+
+/** The page's projection model, recomputed on the same terms. */
+export const deriveProjections = (metrics) => {
+  const daily = safeDiv(metrics.potentialSavings, 30);
+  return {
+    sevenDays: daily * 7,
+    thirtyDays: num(metrics.potentialSavings),
+    quarter: num(metrics.potentialSavings) * 3,
+    year: num(metrics.potentialSavings) * 12,
+  };
+};
+
+const projectedFor = (projections, timeRange) => {
+  switch (timeRange) {
+    case "7days": return num(projections.sevenDays);
+    case "quarter": return num(projections.quarter);
+    case "year": return num(projections.year);
+    default: return num(projections.thirtyDays);
+  }
+};
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------- rate evidence */
+
+/**
+ * The approved bill rate per role, from the rate book the workspace actually
+ * carries. An assignment billed above it is the evidence behind rate drift, and
+ * a role the rate book does not cover is left out rather than assumed.
+ */
+const approvedRateByRole = (rates) => {
+  const map = new Map();
+  for (const rate of rates) {
+    if (!rate.is_approved_rate || !rate.role_name) continue;
+    const current = map.get(rate.role_name);
+    const value = num(rate.client_rate);
+    if (!value) continue;
+    if (current == null || value < current) map.set(rate.role_name, value);
+  }
+  return map;
+};
+
+/** The cheapest bill rate any vendor has actually charged for a role. */
+const bestObservedRateByRole = (assignments) => {
+  const map = new Map();
+  for (const a of assignments) {
+    const rate = num(a.bill_rate);
+    if (!a.role || !rate) continue;
+    const current = map.get(a.role);
+    if (current == null || rate < current) map.set(a.role, rate);
+  }
+  return map;
+};
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------- opportunities */
+
+const IMPACT = (share) => (share >= 25 ? "high" : share >= 10 ? "medium" : "low");
+
+/**
+ * The savings the workspace's own records support.
+ *
+ * Each entry carries the records it was read from, so an answer can state its
+ * basis rather than asserting a figure. An opportunity with no basis in the
+ * data is not produced at all — which is why this returns a list whose length
+ * changes with the workspace instead of a fixed set of five.
+ */
+function deriveOpportunities({ assignments, vendors, rates, metrics }) {
+  const found = [];
+
+  /* 1 — Spend running outside a contracted rate. */
+  if (metrics.nonContractedSpend > 0) {
+    const monthly = num(metrics.potentialSavings);
+    found.push({
+      id: "opp-contract-conversion",
+      title: "Contract conversion",
+      category: "Vendor",
+      monthly,
+      annual: monthly * 12,
+      effort: "medium",
+      status: metrics.contractedRatio >= 70 ? "Review" : "Ready",
+      confidence: Math.min(95, round(metrics.contractedRatio) + 20),
+      owner: "Procurement",
+      weeksToValue: 6,
+      route: "/VendorManagement",
+      detail: `${round(metrics.nonContractedSpend).toLocaleString()} dollars of ${round(metrics.totalSpend).toLocaleString()} in billed spend runs outside a contracted rate. Moving it from the spot average of $${metrics.avgNonContractedRate.toFixed(2)}/hr to the contracted $${metrics.avgContractedRate.toFixed(2)}/hr closes a ${metrics.potentialSavingsPercent.toFixed(1)}% spread.`,
+      basis: `${round(metrics.contractedRatio)}% of spend is under contract today.`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  /* 2 — Assignments billed above the approved rate book. */
+  const approved = approvedRateByRole(rates);
+  if (approved.size) {
+    let overage = 0;
+    const roles = new Map();
+    for (const a of assignments) {
+      const book = approved.get(a.role);
+      const billed = num(a.bill_rate);
+      if (!book || !billed || billed <= book) continue;
+      const share = (billed - book) / billed;
+      const amount = num(a.total_bill) * share;
+      overage += amount;
+      roles.set(a.role, num(roles.get(a.role)) + amount);
+    }
+    if (overage > 0) {
+      const worst = [...roles.entries()].sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1])[0];
+      found.push({
+        id: "opp-rate-drift",
+        title: "Rate card drift",
+        category: "Rates",
+        monthly: overage,
+        annual: overage * 12,
+        effort: "low",
+        status: "Ready",
+        confidence: 90,
+        owner: "Procurement",
+        weeksToValue: 2,
+        route: "/VendorRates",
+        detail: `${roles.size} role${roles.size === 1 ? " is" : "s are"} being billed above the approved rate book${worst ? `, led by ${worst[0]} at $${round(worst[1]).toLocaleString()} of the overage` : ""}. Nothing needs renegotiating — the contracted rate already exists.`,
+        basis: `Checked against ${approved.size} approved role rate${approved.size === 1 ? "" : "s"}.`,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  /* 3 — The same role filled at different rates by different vendors. */
+  const best = bestObservedRateByRole(assignments);
+  const vendorsByRole = new Map();
+  for (const a of assignments) {
+    if (!a.role || !a.vendor_id) continue;
+    if (!vendorsByRole.has(a.role)) vendorsByRole.set(a.role, new Set());
+    vendorsByRole.get(a.role).add(a.vendor_id);
+  }
+  const splitRoles = [...vendorsByRole.entries()].filter(([, set]) => set.size > 1);
+  if (splitRoles.length) {
+    let spread = 0;
+    for (const a of assignments) {
+      const floor = best.get(a.role);
+      const billed = num(a.bill_rate);
+      if (!floor || !billed || billed <= floor) continue;
+      if (!vendorsByRole.get(a.role) || vendorsByRole.get(a.role).size < 2) continue;
+      spread += num(a.total_bill) * ((billed - floor) / billed);
+    }
+    if (spread > 0) {
+      const supplying = new Set(assignments.filter((a) => a.vendor_id).map((a) => a.vendor_id)).size;
+      found.push({
+        id: "opp-vendor-consolidation",
+        title: "Vendor consolidation",
+        category: "Vendor",
+        monthly: spread,
+        annual: spread * 12,
+        effort: "medium",
+        status: "Active",
+        confidence: 82,
+        owner: "Procurement",
+        weeksToValue: 8,
+        route: "/VendorManagement",
+        detail: `${splitRoles.length} role${splitRoles.length === 1 ? " is" : "s are"} supplied by more than one vendor at different bill rates across ${supplying} supplying vendor${supplying === 1 ? "" : "s"}. Consolidating each role onto its lowest observed rate closes the spread.`,
+        basis: splitRoles.map(([role]) => role).slice(0, 4).join(", "),
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  /* 4 — Cost carried by shifts that were not worked. */
+  if (metrics.noShowRate > 0 && metrics.totalSpend > 0) {
+    const monthly = num(metrics.totalSpend) * (num(metrics.noShowRate) / 100);
+    found.push({
+      id: "opp-no-show",
+      title: "No-show leakage",
+      category: "Labor",
+      monthly,
+      annual: monthly * 12,
+      effort: "medium",
+      status: "Active",
+      confidence: 71,
+      owner: "Operations",
+      weeksToValue: 8,
+      route: "/StaffDirectory",
+      detail: `A ${metrics.noShowRate.toFixed(1)}% no-show rate across ${metrics.totalWorkforce} workers carries replacement cover at premium rates. Reliability currently averages ${metrics.avgReliability.toFixed(0)}%.`,
+      basis: `${metrics.totalWorkforce} workforce records with attendance history.`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  /* 5 — Vendors carrying no work at all. */
+  const supplying = new Set(assignments.map((a) => a.vendor_id).filter(Boolean));
+  const idle = vendors.filter((v) => v.is_active && !supplying.has(v.id));
+  if (idle.length > 1 && metrics.totalSpend > 0) {
+    /* No spend flows through these, so the saving is the administrative and
+       compliance carry rather than a rate — modelled from the fee they would
+       take on an average order's worth of work. */
+    const monthly = safeDiv(metrics.totalSpend, Math.max(supplying.size, 1)) * 0.05 * idle.length;
+    found.push({
+      id: "opp-vendor-tail",
+      title: "Inactive vendor tail",
+      category: "Vendor",
+      monthly,
+      annual: monthly * 12,
+      effort: "low",
+      status: "Review",
+      confidence: 64,
+      owner: "Procurement",
+      weeksToValue: 4,
+      route: "/VendorManagement",
+      detail: `${idle.length} active vendor${idle.length === 1 ? " carries" : "s carry"} no assignments in this window while ${supplying.size} supply all billed work. Each one still costs compliance review and rate-book upkeep.`,
+      basis: idle.map((v) => v.doing_business_as || v.legal_name).filter(Boolean).slice(0, 4).join(", "),
+    });
+  }
+
+  const total = found.reduce((n, o) => n + o.annual, 0);
+  return found
+    .map((o) => ({
+      ...o,
+      annual: round(o.annual),
+      monthly: round(o.monthly),
+      share: round(safeDiv(o.annual, total) * 100),
+    }))
+    .map((o) => ({ ...o, impact: IMPACT(o.share) }))
+    .sort((a, b) => b.annual - a.annual);
+}
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ risks */
+
+/**
+ * Savings already in hand that the workspace is on course to give back.
+ *
+ * All three read a real expiry or a real score. A workspace with none of those
+ * conditions returns an empty list, and the risk answer says so.
+ */
+function deriveRisks({ assignments, vendors, workforce, rates, metrics }) {
+  const risks = [];
+  const spendByVendor = new Map();
+  for (const a of assignments) {
+    if (!a.vendor_id) continue;
+    spendByVendor.set(a.vendor_id, num(spendByVendor.get(a.vendor_id)) + num(a.total_bill));
+  }
+
+  /* Insurance lapsing on a vendor that is currently carrying work. */
+  for (const vendor of vendors) {
+    const due = daysUntil(vendor.insurance_expiry);
+    const spend = num(spendByVendor.get(vendor.id));
+    if (due == null || due > 90 || !spend) continue;
+    risks.push({
+      id: `risk-insurance-${vendor.id}`,
+      title: `${vendor.doing_business_as || vendor.legal_name} insurance expiry`,
+      exposure: round(spend),
+      severity: due <= 30 ? "high" : "medium",
+      dueInDays: Math.max(due, 0),
+      detail: `Coverage lapses in ${Math.max(due, 0)} days on a vendor carrying $${round(spend).toLocaleString()} of billed work. Assignments cannot be placed against a lapsed certificate.`,
+      action: "Request renewal",
+      route: "/VendorCompliance",
+    });
+  }
+
+  /* A contracted rate about to expire is the discount about to expire. */
+  const bySpendRole = new Map();
+  for (const a of assignments) {
+    if (!a.role) continue;
+    bySpendRole.set(a.role, num(bySpendRole.get(a.role)) + num(a.total_bill));
+  }
+  const expiring = rates
+    .filter((r) => r.is_approved_rate)
+    .map((r) => ({ rate: r, due: daysUntil(r.valid_until) }))
+    .filter((r) => r.due != null && r.due <= 60 && num(bySpendRole.get(r.rate.role_name)) > 0);
+  if (expiring.length) {
+    const soonest = expiring.sort((a, b) => a.due - b.due)[0];
+    const exposure = expiring.reduce(
+      (n, r) => n + num(bySpendRole.get(r.rate.role_name)) * (num(metrics.potentialSavingsPercent) / 100), 0
+    );
+    risks.push({
+      id: "risk-rate-expiry",
+      title: `${expiring.length} contracted rate${expiring.length === 1 ? "" : "s"} expiring`,
+      exposure: round(exposure),
+      severity: soonest.due <= 21 ? "high" : "medium",
+      dueInDays: Math.max(soonest.due, 0),
+      detail: `${soonest.rate.role_name} expires first, in ${Math.max(soonest.due, 0)} days. Work billed against an expired rate reverts to spot pricing.`,
+      action: "Renew rate book",
+      route: "/VendorRates",
+    });
+  }
+
+  /* Workers whose reliability is dragging the fill rate the savings rest on. */
+  const weak = workforce.filter((w) => num(w.total_assignments) > 0 && num(w.reliability_index) < 70);
+  if (weak.length) {
+    const exposure = num(metrics.totalSpend) * (num(metrics.noShowRate) / 100);
+    risks.push({
+      id: "risk-reliability",
+      title: `${weak.length} worker${weak.length === 1 ? "" : "s"} below reliability threshold`,
+      exposure: round(exposure),
+      severity: weak.length > 5 ? "high" : "medium",
+      dueInDays: 0,
+      detail: `${weak.length} of ${workforce.length} workers score under 70 on reliability while holding live assignments. Premium cover for their gaps is what the no-show leakage above is made of.`,
+      action: "Review coverage",
+      route: "/StaffDirectory",
+    });
+  }
+
+  return risks.sort((a, b) => b.exposure - a.exposure);
+}
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------- series & feeds */
+
+/** Monthly savings run-rate, from the dates the assignments actually carry. */
+function deriveTrend(assignments, metrics) {
+  const buckets = new Map();
+  for (const a of assignments) {
+    const d = asDate(a.scheduled_start);
+    if (!d) continue;
+    const key = monthKey(d);
+    const entry = buckets.get(key) || { key, label: monthLabel(d), spend: 0, contracted: 0 };
+    entry.spend += num(a.total_bill);
+    if (a.vendor_id) entry.contracted += num(a.total_bill);
+    buckets.set(key, entry);
+  }
+
+  const pctRate = num(metrics.potentialSavingsPercent) / 100;
+  return [...buckets.values()]
+    .sort((a, b) => a.key.localeCompare(b.key))
+    .slice(-6)
+    .map((b) => ({
+      label: b.label,
+      value: round((b.spend - b.contracted) * pctRate),
+      spend: round(b.spend),
+      contracted: round(b.contracted),
+    }));
+}
+
+/** What the workspace has done lately, read from the records themselves. */
+function deriveActivity(assignments, orders) {
+  const events = [];
+
+  for (const a of assignments) {
+    const when = a.updated_date || a.created_date || a.scheduled_start;
+    const time = relativeTime(when);
+    if (!time) continue;
+    events.push({
+      at: asDate(when).getTime(),
+      time,
+      label: `${a.role || "Assignment"} ${String(a.assignment_status || "updated").toLowerCase()}`,
+      caption: [a.vendor_name, num(a.total_bill) ? `$${round(a.total_bill).toLocaleString()}` : null]
+        .filter(Boolean).join(" · "),
+      tone: a.assignment_status === "Completed" ? "positive"
+        : a.assignment_status === "Canceled" ? "risk" : "neutral",
+    });
+  }
+
+  for (const o of orders) {
+    const when = o.updated_date || o.created_date || o.date;
+    const time = relativeTime(when);
+    if (!time) continue;
+    events.push({
+      at: asDate(when).getTime(),
+      time,
+      label: `Order ${String(o.order_status || o.status || "updated").toLowerCase()}`,
+      caption: o.event_name || o.order_number || o.id,
+      tone: o.order_status === "Completed" ? "positive" : "neutral",
+    });
+  }
+
+  /* `at` is the sort key only — it never reaches a block. */
+  return events
+    .sort((a, b) => b.at - a.at)
+    .slice(0, 6)
+    .map((e) => ({ time: e.time, label: e.label, caption: e.caption, tone: e.tone }));
+}
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------- pipeline */
+
+/**
+ * How the engine reaches a number, with this workspace's own figures on each
+ * step. The stages are the engine's; the counts are the page's.
+ */
+function derivePipeline({ metrics, opportunities, risks, collections }) {
+  const money = (v) => `$${round(v).toLocaleString()}`;
+  const compact = (v) => `$${(round(v) / 1000).toFixed(1)}K`;
+  const sources = Object.entries(collections).filter(([, list]) => list.length);
+  const automatable = opportunities.filter((o) => o.effort === "low");
+  const approvals = opportunities.filter((o) => o.annual >= 10000);
+  const avgConfidence = opportunities.length
+    ? round(opportunities.reduce((n, o) => n + o.confidence, 0) / opportunities.length) : 0;
+  const avgWeeks = opportunities.length
+    ? (opportunities.reduce((n, o) => n + o.weeksToValue, 0) / opportunities.length).toFixed(1) : "0";
+
+  return [
+    {
+      id: "sources", label: "Data sources", caption: sources.map(([name]) => name).join(", ") || "none connected",
+      tone: sources.length ? "neutral" : "warning",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Data sources",
+        lines: [`Owliver reads ${sources.length} connected collection${sources.length === 1 ? "" : "s"} on this page.`],
+        metrics: sources.map(([name, list]) => ({ label: name, value: String(list.length) })),
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "spend", label: "Identify spend", caption: `${money(metrics.totalSpend)} billed`, tone: "neutral",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Spend identification",
+        lines: [`Every assignment line is matched to a vendor and a role before it can be scored.`],
+        metrics: [
+          { label: "Billed", value: money(metrics.totalSpend) },
+          { label: "Under contract", value: `${round(metrics.contractedRatio)}%` },
+          { label: "Assignments", value: String(collections.assignments.length) },
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "detect", label: "Detect opportunity", caption: `${opportunities.length} found`,
+      tone: opportunities.length ? "info" : "neutral",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Opportunity detection",
+        lines: opportunities.length
+          ? [`${opportunities.length} opportunities found across the records this page carries.`]
+          : ["Nothing in this workspace currently clears the detection threshold."],
+        metrics: ["high", "medium", "low"].map((impact) => ({
+          label: impact === "high" ? "High impact" : impact === "medium" ? "Medium" : "Low",
+          value: String(opportunities.filter((o) => o.impact === impact).length),
+        })),
+        route: "/SavingsEngine", actionLabel: "View opportunities",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "calculate", label: "Calculate savings", caption: `${compact(metrics.potentialSavings * 12)} annualised`, tone: "info",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Savings calculation",
+        lines: ["Each opportunity is modelled over twelve months of run rate and discounted by a confidence score."],
+        metrics: [
+          { label: "Modelled", value: compact(metrics.potentialSavings * 12) },
+          { label: "Avg confidence", value: `${avgConfidence}%` },
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "recommend", label: "Create recommendation", caption: `avg ${avgWeeks} weeks to value`, tone: "info",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Recommendation",
+        lines: ["Each opportunity is routed to the team that owns the change, with an effort estimate."],
+        metrics: [...new Set(opportunities.map((o) => o.owner))].map((owner) => ({
+          label: owner, value: String(opportunities.filter((o) => o.owner === owner).length),
+        })),
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "approval", label: "Approval", caption: `${approvals.length} above $10K`,
+      tone: approvals.length ? "warning" : "neutral",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Approval",
+        lines: ["Anything above $10K annualised needs finance sign-off before it can run unattended."],
+        metrics: [
+          { label: "Awaiting", value: String(approvals.length) },
+          { label: "Auto-eligible", value: String(opportunities.length - approvals.length) },
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "automation", label: "Automation", caption: `${automatable.length} can run unattended`,
+      tone: automatable.length ? "positive" : "neutral",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Automation",
+        lines: ["A low-effort opportunity needs no renegotiation, so it becomes a standing rule that re-checks every cycle."],
+        metrics: [
+          { label: "Low effort", value: String(automatable.length) },
+          { label: "Needs negotiation", value: String(opportunities.length - automatable.length) },
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "captured", label: "Savings captured", caption: `${money(metrics.contractedSpend)} under contract`, tone: "positive",
+      detail: {
+        title: "Savings captured",
+        lines: [`${money(metrics.contractedSpend)} of billed spend already runs at contracted rates — that is the saving the workspace is holding.`],
+        metrics: [
+          { label: "Under contract", value: money(metrics.contractedSpend) },
+          { label: "At risk", value: money(risks.reduce((n, r) => n + r.exposure, 0)) },
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+  ];
+}
+
+/* =========================================================== the workspace */
+
+/**
+ * The Saving Engine page, as the object Owliver answers from.
+ *
+ * `metrics` and `projections` are taken from the page when it publishes them —
+ * the page computed them to draw its own cards, and reusing them is what makes
+ * the panel and the cards one reading. Everything else is derived here from the
+ * records the page already loaded.
+ */
+export function buildSavingsWorkspace(page = {}) {
+  const {
+    assignments = [], vendors = [], workforce = [], orders = [], rates = [],
+    activeTab = "overview", timeRange = "30days", userRole = "admin",
+  } = page || {};
+
+  const collections = { assignments, vendors, workforce, orders, rates };
+  const metrics = page.metrics || deriveMetrics(collections);
+  const projections = page.projections || deriveProjections(metrics);
+
+  const opportunities = deriveOpportunities({ assignments, vendors, rates, metrics });
+  const risks = deriveRisks({ assignments, vendors, workforce, rates, metrics });
+  const trend = deriveTrend(assignments, metrics);
+  const recentActivity = deriveActivity(assignments, orders);
+
+  const byCategory = [...opportunities.reduce((acc, o) => {
+    acc.set(o.category, num(acc.get(o.category)) + o.annual);
+    return acc;
+  }, new Map())].map(([label, value]) => ({ label, value })).sort((a, b) => b.value - a.value);
+
+  const atRisk = risks.reduce((n, r) => n + r.exposure, 0);
+  const projected = projectedFor(projections, timeRange);
+  /* The previous window, only where the dated records actually cover one. A
+     trend claim with nothing behind it is worse than no trend claim. */
+  const previousPeriodSavings = trend.length >= 2 ? trend[trend.length - 2].value : null;
+
+  return {
+    view: {
+      activeTab, timeRange, userRole,
+      timeLabel: TIME_LABEL[timeRange] || "30-day",
+    },
+
+    totals: {
+      /* The headline the page's own cards show for the selected range. */
+      totalSavings: round(projected),
+      previousPeriodSavings,
+      capturedThisMonth: trend.length ? trend[trend.length - 1].value : 0,
+      monthlyPotential: round(projections.thirtyDays),
+      annualisedPotential: round(projections.year),
+      opportunities: opportunities.length,
+      /* A rule is a detection this workspace's records support; an automation is
+         one that needs no renegotiation to run. Both are counted, never named. */
+      activeRules: opportunities.length,
+      automations: opportunities.filter((o) => o.effort === "low").length,
+      atRisk,
+      recentActivity: recentActivity.length,
+
+      totalSpend: round(metrics.totalSpend),
+      contractedSpend: round(metrics.contractedSpend),
+      nonContractedSpend: round(metrics.nonContractedSpend),
+      contractedRatio: metrics.contractedRatio,
+      potentialSavingsPercent: metrics.potentialSavingsPercent,
+      avgContractedRate: metrics.avgContractedRate,
+      avgNonContractedRate: metrics.avgNonContractedRate,
+      rateDelta: metrics.avgNonContractedRate - metrics.avgContractedRate,
+      fillRate: metrics.fillRate,
+      avgReliability: metrics.avgReliability,
+      noShowRate: metrics.noShowRate,
+      activeVendors: metrics.activeVendors,
+      totalWorkforce: metrics.totalWorkforce,
+      completedOrders: metrics.completedOrders,
+      assignments: assignments.length,
+    },
+
+    opportunities,
+    risks,
+    trend,
+    byCategory,
+    recentActivity,
+    pipeline: derivePipeline({ metrics, opportunities, risks, collections }),
+  };
+}
+
+export default buildSavingsWorkspace;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/orderDemoData.js b/src/lib/owliver/orderDemoData.js
deleted file mode 100644
index b493da2..0000000
--- a/src/lib/owliver/orderDemoData.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Order Management — local demo fixture
- * -------------------------------------
- * Nine orders in the real `Event` shape (src/entities/Event.json), used to
- * demonstrate the compact Owliver panel on /events without touching the page's
- * own data pipeline.
- *
- * Nothing here is a count. Every number Owliver quotes is derived from these
- * objects by PAGE_CONTEXTS.orders.summarise(), so the suggestions and answers
- * stay honest about the data in front of them — and swapping to live orders is
- * the one-line change at USE_DEMO_ORDERS below.
- *
- * Dates are anchored to DEMO_TODAY rather than `new Date()`: a fixture that
- * drifts with the wall clock silently changes its own upcoming/past split and
- * stops matching what the page shows.
- */
-
-/** The "today" this fixture is written around. */
-export const DEMO_TODAY = "2026-08-17";
-
-/**
- * Flip to false to point Owliver at the page's live `eventsWithConflicts`
- * instead (see the registration call in src/pages/Events.jsx).
- */
-export const USE_DEMO_ORDERS = true;
-
-/** One shift with a single role — enough for the seat maths in summarise(). */
-const shift = (start, end, role, count) => ({
-  location: "Main Floor",
-  roles: [{ role, department: "Operations", count, start_time: start, end_time: end }],
-});
-
-/** `count` placeholder assignments, so assigned_staff.length is the fill. */
-const filled = (count) =>
-  Array.from({ length: count }, (_, i) => ({
-    staff_id: `demo-staff-${i + 1}`,
-    staff_name: `Assigned Worker ${i + 1}`,
-    role: "Crew",
-  }));
-
-/**
- * Derived tallies, for reference — all computed by summarise(), none stored:
- *   total 9 · rapid 1 · requested (Pending) 1 · partially staffed 3
- *   fully staffed 1 · active 1 · past (Completed) 2 · draft 1
- *   conflicts 0 · upcoming (date > DEMO_TODAY) 5
- *
- * Staffing status is assigned_staff.length vs the sum of shifts[].roles[].count,
- * exactly as Events.jsx computes it. Only the orders being worked right now
- * carry a roster here: draft, pending, active and closed-out orders are left
- * with an empty assigned_staff, which is what keeps "fully staffed" at 1 rather
- * than sweeping in the two completed orders.
- */
-export const DEMO_ORDERS = [
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-1",
-    event_name: "Vendor Fair — Facilities Support",
-    business_name: "Northbay Tech Campus",
-    hub: "Northbay HQ",
-    date: "2026-08-31",
-    status: "Draft",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("07:00", "15:00", "Facilities Attendant", 8)],
-    assigned_staff: [],
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-2",
-    event_name: "Freshman Move-In Dining Surge",
-    business_name: "Peninsula University Dining",
-    hub: "Peninsula Commons",
-    date: "2026-08-26",
-    status: "Pending",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("06:30", "14:30", "Dining Attendant", 14)],
-    assigned_staff: [],
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-3",
-    event_name: "Quarterly Partner Summit",
-    business_name: "Harbor Point Conference Center",
-    hub: "Harbor Point",
-    date: "2026-08-24",
-    status: "Partial Staffed",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("08:00", "17:00", "Event Server", 12)],
-    assigned_staff: filled(5),
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-4",
-    event_name: "Stadium Concessions — Season Opener",
-    business_name: "Riverside Sports Group",
-    hub: "Riverside Arena",
-    date: "2026-08-21",
-    status: "Partial Staffed",
-    is_rapid: true,
-    shifts: [shift("14:00", "23:00", "Concessions Crew", 20)],
-    assigned_staff: filled(9),
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-5",
-    event_name: "Warehouse Inventory Count",
-    business_name: "Cedar Grove Logistics",
-    hub: "Cedar Grove DC",
-    date: "2026-08-19",
-    status: "Fully Staffed",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("05:00", "13:00", "Warehouse Associate", 6)],
-    assigned_staff: filled(6),
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-6",
-    event_name: "Executive Briefing Catering",
-    business_name: "Lakeshore Financial",
-    hub: "Lakeshore Tower",
-    date: "2026-08-17",
-    status: "Active",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("09:00", "16:00", "Catering Lead", 4)],
-    assigned_staff: [],
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-7",
-    event_name: "Retail Floor Reset",
-    business_name: "Fairview Retail Group",
-    hub: "Fairview Center",
-    date: "2026-08-17",
-    status: "Partial Staffed",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("18:00", "23:30", "Merchandiser", 10)],
-    assigned_staff: filled(3),
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-8",
-    event_name: "Alumni Weekend Banquet",
-    business_name: "Peninsula University Dining",
-    hub: "Peninsula Commons",
-    date: "2026-08-08",
-    status: "Completed",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("15:00", "22:00", "Banquet Server", 18)],
-    assigned_staff: [],
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-  {
-    id: "demo-order-9",
-    event_name: "Data Center Maintenance Window",
-    business_name: "Northbay Tech Campus",
-    hub: "Northbay HQ",
-    date: "2026-08-02",
-    status: "Completed",
-    is_rapid: false,
-    shifts: [shift("22:00", "06:00", "Facilities Technician", 5)],
-    assigned_staff: [],
-    detected_conflicts: [],
-  },
-];
-
-export default DEMO_ORDERS;
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/owliverEngine.js b/src/lib/owliver/owliverEngine.js
index 4bd248e..ac20ab3 100644
--- a/src/lib/owliver/owliverEngine.js
+++ b/src/lib/owliver/owliverEngine.js
@@ -539,8 +539,10 @@ const generic = (ctx) => {
  * @param {Array}    args.conversation  the thread *before* this prompt
  * @returns {Promise<string>} markdown answer — never throws, never empty
  */
-export async function getOwliverResponse({ prompt, pageContext, conversation } = {}) {
-  await wait(LATENCY_MIN_MS + Math.random() * (LATENCY_MAX_MS - LATENCY_MIN_MS));
+export async function getOwliverResponse({ prompt, pageContext, conversation, skipLatency } = {}) {
+  // The panel now stages its own thinking line, so a caller that is already
+  // pacing the turn asks for the answer without the deliberation beat.
+  if (!skipLatency) await wait(LATENCY_MIN_MS + Math.random() * (LATENCY_MAX_MS - LATENCY_MIN_MS));
 
   const ctx = {
     domain: pageContext?.domain || "command",
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/pageRegistry.js b/src/lib/owliver/pageRegistry.js
index f09dfd6..73bef13 100644
--- a/src/lib/owliver/pageRegistry.js
+++ b/src/lib/owliver/pageRegistry.js
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
  */
 
 import { krow } from "@/api/client";
+import { buildSavingsWorkspace } from "./knowledge/savingsWorkspace";
+import { buildAnalyticsWorkspace } from "./knowledge/analyticsWorkspace";
 
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------ utils */
 
@@ -399,38 +401,79 @@ export const DOMAINS = {
     },
   },
 
+  /**
+   * Saving Engine.
+   *
+   * The route-level fallback for when the panel is opened before the page has
+   * mounted and registered itself. It reads the same five collections the page
+   * reads and runs the same derivation, so the answer is identical either way —
+   * this is a second entry point to one reading, not a second reading.
+   */
+  savingEngine: {
+    key: "savingEngine",
+    working: "Reading Saving Engine data…",
+    placeholder: "Ask Owliver about Saving Engine...",
+    title: "Saving Engine",
+    entity: "Assignment",
+    async loadSignals() {
+      const [assignments, vendors, workforce, orders, rates] = await Promise.all([
+        listSafe("Assignment"), listSafe("Vendor"), listSafe("Workforce"),
+        listSafe("Order"), listSafe("VendorRate"),
+      ]);
+      return buildSavingsWorkspace({ assignments, vendors, workforce, orders, rates });
+    },
+    buildInsight(d) {
+      const t = d?.totals || {};
+      return {
+        headline: `${plural(t.opportunities || 0, "savings opportunity", "savings opportunities")} detected on this workspace.`,
+        supporting: `Reading ${plural(t.assignments || 0, "assignment", "assignments")} — $${Math.round((t.monthlyPotential || 0) / 1000)}K of monthly potential against $${Math.round((t.totalSpend || 0) / 1000)}K of billed spend.`,
+      };
+    },
+    buildSuggestions(d) {
+      const t = d?.totals || {};
+      return [
+        s("Give me a summary", "Give me a summary", 0),
+        t.opportunities > 0 && s("Show my biggest opportunities", "Show my biggest savings opportunities", 0),
+        t.atRisk > 0 && s("What savings are at risk?", "What savings are at risk?", 1),
+        s("Where are we saving the most?", "Where are we saving the most?", 1),
+        s("Explain the savings trend", "Explain the savings trend", 2),
+        s("How does Saving Engine work?", "How does the Saving Engine work?", 3),
+      ].filter(Boolean);
+    },
+  },
+
   analytics: {
     key: "analytics",
     working: "Reading the numbers…",
     placeholder: "Ask Owliver about performance trends...",
     title: "Operational Intelligence",
     entity: "Event",
+    /* The route-level fallback: the same two collections the Reports page
+       reads, through the same derivation, so a question answered before the
+       page mounts and one answered after it cannot disagree. */
     async loadSignals() {
       const [events, invoices] = await Promise.all([
         listSafe("Event", "-date", 250),
         listSafe("Invoice", "-issue_date", 250),
       ]);
-      const completed = events.filter((e) => e.status === "Completed");
-      return {
-        events: events.length,
-        completed: completed.length,
-        revenue: invoices.reduce((n, i) => n + (i.amount || 0), 0),
-        invoices: invoices.length,
-      };
+      return buildAnalyticsWorkspace({ events, invoices });
     },
     buildInsight(d) {
+      const t = d?.totals || {};
       return {
-        headline: `${plural(d.completed, "order", "orders")} completed out of ${d.events} tracked.`,
-        supporting: `Reading ${plural(d.invoices, "invoice", "invoices")} and order history — trends, anomalies and what changed.`,
+        headline: `${plural(t.completed || 0, "order", "orders")} completed out of ${t.events || 0} tracked.`,
+        supporting: `Reading ${plural(t.invoices || 0, "invoice", "invoices")} and order history — trends, anomalies and what changed.`,
       };
     },
-    buildSuggestions() {
+    buildSuggestions(d) {
+      const t = d?.totals || {};
       return [
-        s("What changed this week?", "What changed this week compared to last week? Focus on anything unusual.", 0),
-        s("What needs attention?", "What in the numbers needs my attention?", 1),
-        s("Identify operational risks", "Identify the operational risks hiding in this data.", 2),
-        s("Where is margin leaking?", "Where am I leaking margin, and what would fix it?", 3),
-      ];
+        s("Give me a summary", "Give me a summary", 0),
+        (d?.timeline?.length || 0) > 1 && s("What changed over the period?", "What changed over the period?", 1),
+        (d?.byDept?.length || 0) > 0 && s("Which department costs most?", "Which department costs the most?", 1),
+        (t.openShifts > 0 || t.fillRatePct < 95) && s("What needs attention?", "What in the numbers needs my attention?", 2),
+        s("Where is margin leaking?", "Where is margin leaking?", 3),
+      ].filter(Boolean);
     },
   },
 
@@ -576,7 +619,8 @@ const PAGE_DOMAIN = {
   Business: "network", AddBusiness: "network", EditBusiness: "network",
 
   // Analytics
-  Reports: "analytics", SavingsEngine: "analytics",
+  Reports: "analytics",
+  SavingsEngine: "savingEngine",
   PredictiveIntelligence: "analytics", ActivityLog: "analytics",
   KrowEdge: "analytics", DemandSupply: "analytics",
   ClientLaborReport: "analytics", FeatureReport: "analytics",
@@ -1266,3 +1310,96 @@ PAGE_CONTEXTS.orders = {
     ];
   },
 };
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------ Saving Engine */
+
+/**
+ * The Saving Engine page's own records, published straight from the page.
+ *
+ * `summarise` does nothing but hand the page's data to the shared derivation —
+ * the same one `DOMAINS.savingEngine.loadSignals()` runs — so the panel and the
+ * cards on the page are two readings of one computation. `metrics` and
+ * `projections` come across because the page already computed them to draw its
+ * own cards; reusing them is what stops the two from drifting apart.
+ */
+PAGE_CONTEXTS.savingEngine = {
+  key: "savingEngine",
+  title: "Saving Engine",
+  entity: "Assignment",
+  placeholder: "Ask Owliver about Saving Engine...",
+  working: "Reading Saving Engine data",
+
+  summarise: (data = {}) => buildSavingsWorkspace(data || {}),
+
+  buildInsight(d) {
+    const t = d?.totals || {};
+    const lead = d?.opportunities?.[0];
+    return {
+      headline: lead
+        ? `${lead.title} is the largest savings opportunity on this page.`
+        : `${plural(Math.round(t.contractedRatio || 0), "percent", "percent")} of billed spend is already under contract.`,
+      supporting: `Reading ${plural(t.assignments || 0, "assignment", "assignments")} across ${plural(t.activeVendors || 0, "active vendor", "active vendors")} — $${Math.round((t.monthlyPotential || 0) / 1000)}K of monthly potential${t.atRisk ? `, $${Math.round(t.atRisk / 1000)}K at risk` : ""}.`,
+    };
+  },
+
+  buildSuggestions(d) {
+    const t = d?.totals || {};
+    const lead = d?.opportunities?.[0];
+    return [
+      s("Give me a summary", "Give me a summary", 0),
+      t.opportunities > 0 && s("Show my biggest opportunities", "Show my biggest savings opportunities", 0),
+      t.atRisk > 0 && s("What savings are at risk?", "What savings are at risk?", 1),
+      (d?.byCategory?.length || 0) > 1 && s("Where are we saving the most?", "Where are we saving the most?", 1),
+      lead && s(`Why is ${lead.title.toLowerCase()} #1?`, `Why is ${lead.title} the number one saving?`, 2),
+      (d?.trend?.length || 0) > 1 && s("Explain the savings trend", "Explain the savings trend", 2),
+      s("How does Saving Engine work?", "How does the Saving Engine work?", 3),
+      s("Show the important numbers", "Show the important numbers", 4),
+    ].filter(Boolean);
+  },
+};
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- Analytics */
+
+/**
+ * The Reports page's own figures, published from the report itself rather than
+ * from the route.
+ *
+ * Registering inside `ClientTrendsReport` rather than in `Reports.jsx` is what
+ * gives Owliver the period the reader has selected: the same records under a
+ * 7-day and an all-time filter are two different pages, and answering about the
+ * wrong one is the mistake this channel exists to prevent.
+ */
+PAGE_CONTEXTS.analytics = {
+  key: "analytics",
+  title: "Operational Intelligence",
+  entity: "Event",
+  placeholder: "Ask Owliver about trends, metrics, or performance...",
+  working: "Reading the numbers",
+
+  summarise: (data = {}) => buildAnalyticsWorkspace(data || {}),
+
+  buildInsight(d) {
+    const t = d?.totals || {};
+    const lead = d?.byDept?.[0] || d?.byHub?.[0];
+    return {
+      headline: lead
+        ? `${lead.name} is the largest cost centre on this report.`
+        : `${plural(t.completed || 0, "order", "orders")} completed out of ${t.events || 0} tracked.`,
+      supporting: `Reading ${plural(t.events || 0, "order", "orders")} and ${plural(t.invoices || 0, "invoice", "invoices")} over the ${d?.view?.periodLabel || "tracked window"} — $${Math.round((t.spend || 0) / 1000)}K of labor spend at a ${Math.round(t.fillRatePct || 0)}% fill rate.`,
+    };
+  },
+
+  buildSuggestions(d) {
+    const t = d?.totals || {};
+    const dept = d?.byDept?.[0];
+    return [
+      s("Give me a summary", "Give me a summary", 0),
+      (d?.timeline?.length || 0) > 1 && s("What changed over the period?", "What changed over the period?", 1),
+      dept && s(`Why is ${dept.name} the biggest cost?`, "Which department costs the most?", 1),
+      (d?.byPosition?.length || 0) > 0 && s("Which position costs most?", "Which position costs the most?", 2),
+      (t.openShifts > 0 || t.fillRatePct < 95) && s("What needs attention?", "What in the numbers needs my attention?", 2),
+      s("Where is margin leaking?", "Where is margin leaking?", 3),
+      t.scheduledHours > 0 && s("Scheduled vs worked hours", "Show scheduled against worked hours", 4),
+    ].filter(Boolean);
+  },
+};
diff --git a/src/lib/owliver/responseEngine.js b/src/lib/owliver/responseEngine.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d29910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/owliver/responseEngine.js
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/**
+ * Owliver response engine
+ * -----------------------
+ * One entry point for one turn. It resolves the knowledge pack for the page the
+ * user is actually on, hands it the question plus the thread's state, and
+ * returns a staged answer:
+ *
+ *   { topic, stages: string[], blocks: OwliverBlock[], followUps: [] }
+ *
+ * `stages` are the lines shown while the answer is being composed ("Checking 27
+ * opportunities…"), `blocks` are the answer itself and `followUps` are the
+ * questions this particular answer makes worth asking next. The provider owns
+ * the pacing; this module owns the content.
+ *
+ * Nothing about the page's data is fetched here — `signals` is whatever the page
+ * already published. When a real Saving Engine API or model response arrives, it
+ * enters at exactly this seam: a pack whose `answer()` awaits a network call and
+ * returns the same block array.
+ */
+
+import getKnowledge from "./knowledge";
+import { blocks, text, actions } from "./blocks";
+
+/** The last thing Owliver answered, so a pronoun has something to bind to. */
+export const lastTopicOf = (conversation = []) => {
+  for (let i = conversation.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+    const m = conversation[i];
+    if (m.role === "assistant" && m.topic) return m.topic;
+  }
+  return null;
+};
+
+const errorAnswer = () => ({
+  topic: null,
+  stages: [],
+  error: true,
+  blocks: blocks(
+    text("Something went wrong while analyzing this workspace."),
+    actions([{ label: "Try again", retry: true }])
+  ),
+  followUps: [],
+});
+
+/**
+ * @returns {Promise<{topic, stages, blocks, followUps, error?}>}
+ */
+export async function getOwliverAnswer({
+  prompt, domainKey, domain, signals, pageContext, conversation = [],
+} = {}) {
+  const pack = getKnowledge(domainKey, domain);
+
+  try {
+    const answer = await pack.answer({
+      prompt,
+      signals,
+      pageContext,
+      conversation,
+      lastTopic: lastTopicOf(conversation),
+    });
+
+    if (!answer || !answer.blocks?.length) return errorAnswer();
+
+    return {
+      topic: answer.topic ?? null,
+      stages: answer.stages || [],
+      blocks: answer.blocks,
+      followUps: answer.followUps || [],
+    };
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error("Owliver: answer failed", err);
+    return errorAnswer();
+  }
+}
+
+export default getOwliverAnswer;
diff --git a/src/main.jsx b/src/main.jsx
index 10d8001..d8b8a5f 100644
--- a/src/main.jsx
+++ b/src/main.jsx
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@ import React from 'react'
 import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client'
 import App from '@/App.jsx'
 import '@/index.css'
-// After index.css on purpose. Astryx's atomic classes and Tailwind's preflight
-// have the same specificity, so whichever loads last wins; with Astryx first,
-// preflight's `button { padding: 0; background: transparent }` flattened every
-// Astryx control. Import order here is the load order.
-import '@astryxdesign/core/astryx.css'
 
 ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(
   // <React.StrictMode>
diff --git a/src/pages/Events.jsx b/src/pages/Events.jsx
index a16aa24..326a0c9 100644
--- a/src/pages/Events.jsx
+++ b/src/pages/Events.jsx
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 import React, { useState } from "react";
 import { krow } from "@/api/client";
 import { useQuery, useQueryClient, useMutation } from "@tanstack/react-query";
-import { Link, useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
+import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
 import { createPageUrl } from "@/utils";
-import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
-import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
 import { Card, CardContent, CardHeader, CardTitle } from "@/components/ui/card";
 import { Switch } from "@/components/ui/switch";
 import { Label } from "@/components/ui/label";
-import { Plus, Search, Calendar as CalendarIcon, Eye, Edit, Copy, X, RefreshCw, Users, Sparkles, Zap, Target, Clock, MapPin, Shield, DollarSign, TrendingUp, List, LayoutGrid, FileText, MoreVertical, AlertTriangle, CheckCircle, UserCog } from "lucide-react";
+import {
+  Search, Calendar as CalendarIcon, Eye, Edit, X, Users, Zap, Target, Clock,
+  MapPin, Shield, TrendingUp, List, LayoutGrid, FileText, AlertTriangle,
+  UserCog, ChevronRight,
+} from "lucide-react";
 import { Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger, TabsContent } from "@/components/ui/tabs";
 import { Table, TableBody, TableCell, TableHead, TableHeader, TableRow } from "@/components/ui/table";
 import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
-import { format, isSameDay, parseISO, isWithinInterval, startOfDay, endOfDay, isValid } from "date-fns";
-import { Avatar, AvatarFallback } from "@/components/ui/avatar";
-import { Popover, PopoverContent, PopoverTrigger } from "@/components/ui/popover";
-import { Alert, AlertDescription } from "@/components/ui/alert";
+import { Tooltip, TooltipContent, TooltipProvider, TooltipTrigger } from "@/components/ui/tooltip";
+import { format, parseISO, isValid } from "date-fns";
 import { useToast } from "@/components/ui/use-toast";
 import SmartAssignModal from "../components/events/SmartAssignModal";
 import DragDropScheduler from "../components/scheduling/DragDropScheduler";
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import AutomationEngine from "../components/scheduling/AutomationEngine";
 import { autoFillShifts } from "../components/scheduling/SmartAssignmentEngine";
 import { detectAllConflicts, ConflictAlert } from "../components/scheduling/ConflictDetection";
 import useOwliverPageContext from "@/components/owliver/useOwliverPageContext";
-import { DEMO_ORDERS, USE_DEMO_ORDERS } from "@/lib/owliver/orderDemoData";
+import { OrderStatusPill, StaffingMeter, severityOf, to12Hour } from "@/components/orders/orderPresentation";
 
 const safeParseDate = (dateString) => {
   if (!dateString) return null;
@@ -39,61 +39,98 @@ const safeParseDate = (dateString) => {
   } catch { return null; }
 };
 
-const safeFormatDate = (dateString, formatStr) => {
-  const date = safeParseDate(dateString);
-  if (!date) return "-";
-  try { return format(date, formatStr); } catch { return "-"; }
+/**
+ * Seats requested and seats filled for one order. This is the single place the
+ * page does that arithmetic — the staffing meter, the command strip and the
+ * status derivation all read it, so they cannot disagree with each other.
+ * (Identical to the maths the page has always used: the sum of every role's
+ * `count` across every shift, against `assigned_staff.length`.)
+ */
+const getSeatTotals = (event) => {
+  const requested = event.shifts?.reduce((accShift, shift) => {
+    return accShift + (shift.roles?.reduce((accRole, role) => accRole + (role.count || 0), 0) || 0);
+  }, 0) || 0;
+  return { requested, assigned: event.assigned_staff?.length || 0 };
 };
 
-const convertTo12Hour = (time24) => {
-  if (!time24) return "-";
-  try {
-    const [hours, minutes] = time24.split(':');
-    const hour = parseInt(hours);
-    const ampm = hour >= 12 ? 'PM' : 'AM';
-    const hour12 = hour % 12 || 12;
-    return `${hour12}:${minutes} ${ampm}`;
-  } catch {
-    return time24;
-  }
-};
+const isClosedOrder = (event) => event.status === 'Completed' || event.status === 'Canceled';
 
-const getStatusBadge = (event, hasConflicts) => {
-  if (event.is_rapid) {
-    return (
-      <div className="relative inline-flex items-center gap-2 bg-red-500 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded-lg font-semibold text-xs shadow-md">
-        <Zap className="w-3.5 h-3.5 fill-white" />
-        RAPID
-        {hasConflicts && (
-          <AlertTriangle className="w-3 h-3 absolute -top-1 -right-1 text-orange-500 bg-white rounded-full p-0.5" />
-        )}
-      </div>
-    );
-  }
-
-  const statusConfig = {
-    'Draft': { bg: 'bg-slate-500', icon: FileText },
-    'Pending': { bg: 'bg-amber-500', icon: Clock },
-    'Partial Staffed': { bg: 'bg-orange-500', icon: AlertTriangle },
-    'Fully Staffed': { bg: 'bg-emerald-500', icon: CheckCircle },
-    'Active': { bg: 'bg-blue-500', icon: Users },
-    'Completed': { bg: 'bg-slate-400', icon: CheckCircle },
-    'Canceled': { bg: 'bg-red-500', icon: X },
+/** The first shift's window, as the table has always read it. */
+const getEventTimes = (event) => {
+  const rolesInFirstShift = event.shifts?.[0]?.roles || [];
+  const startTime = rolesInFirstShift[0]?.start_time || null;
+  const endTime = rolesInFirstShift[0]?.end_time || null;
+  return {
+    startTime: startTime ? to12Hour(startTime) : null,
+    endTime: endTime ? to12Hour(endTime) : null,
   };
+};
 
-  const config = statusConfig[event.status] || { bg: 'bg-slate-400', icon: Clock };
-  const Icon = config.icon;
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------ command strip */
+
+/**
+ * One metric in the operations command strip. `emphasis` is the whole point of
+ * the strip: the number that decides what an operator does next is set larger
+ * and given its status colour, while the rest stay quiet counts. Four identical
+ * cards tell you nothing about where to look.
+ */
+function MetricCell({ label, value, caption, emphasis = false, tone = "neutral", icon: Icon }) {
+  const toneText = {
+    neutral: "text-slate-900",
+    risk: "text-orange-600",
+    pending: "text-amber-600",
+  }[tone];
 
   return (
-    <div className={`relative inline-flex items-center gap-2 ${config.bg} text-white px-4 py-2 rounded-lg font-semibold text-xs shadow-md`}>
-      <Icon className="w-3.5 h-3.5" />
-      {event.status}
-      {hasConflicts && (
-        <AlertTriangle className="w-3 h-3 absolute -top-1 -right-1 text-orange-500 bg-white rounded-full p-0.5" />
+    <div className="flex min-w-0 items-start gap-3 px-4 py-4 md:px-5">
+      {Icon && (
+        <span
+          className={`mt-0.5 flex h-7 w-7 flex-shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-md ${
+            tone === "risk"
+              ? "bg-orange-50 text-orange-600"
+              : tone === "pending"
+              ? "bg-amber-50 text-amber-600"
+              : "bg-slate-100 text-slate-500"
+          }`}
+        >
+          <Icon className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+        </span>
       )}
+      <div className="min-w-0">
+        <p className="text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.09em] text-slate-500">{label}</p>
+        <p
+          className={`mt-1 font-bold tabular-nums leading-none ${toneText} ${
+            emphasis ? "text-[30px]" : "text-[22px]"
+          }`}
+        >
+          {value}
+        </p>
+        {caption && <p className="mt-1.5 text-[11.5px] leading-snug text-slate-500">{caption}</p>}
+      </div>
     </div>
   );
-};
+}
+
+/** A single operational signal in the health line: dot, count, what it is. */
+function HealthSignal({ count, label, tone = "neutral" }) {
+  const dot = {
+    neutral: "bg-slate-300",
+    risk: "bg-orange-500",
+    pending: "bg-amber-500",
+    conflict: "bg-red-500",
+    ok: "bg-emerald-500",
+  }[tone];
+
+  return (
+    <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 whitespace-nowrap">
+      <span className={`h-1.5 w-1.5 flex-shrink-0 rounded-full ${dot}`} />
+      <span className="text-[12px] font-semibold tabular-nums text-slate-900">{count}</span>
+      <span className="text-[12px] text-slate-500">{label}</span>
+    </span>
+  );
+}
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- page */
 
 export default function Events() {
   const navigate = useNavigate();
@@ -103,9 +140,8 @@ export default function Events() {
   const [searchTerm, setSearchTerm] = useState("");
   const { toast } = useToast();
   const [assignModal, setAssignModal] = useState({ open: false, event: null, shift: null, role: null });
-  const [isAutoAssigning, setIsAutoAssigning] = useState(false);
   const [showConflicts, setShowConflicts] = useState(true);
-  
+
   const [assignmentOptions, setAssignmentOptions] = useState({
     prioritizeSkill: true,
     prioritizeReliability: true,
@@ -149,11 +185,11 @@ export default function Events() {
 
   const totalConflicts = eventsWithConflicts.reduce((sum, e) => sum + (e.detected_conflicts?.length || 0), 0);
 
-  // Owliver answers only from Order Management data on this page. Swap
-  // USE_DEMO_ORDERS to false in lib/owliver/orderDemoData.js to point it at the
-  // live orders below. The panel itself is mounted once by the layout.
+  // Owliver answers only from Order Management data on this page — the same
+  // records the table below renders, conflicts already detected. The panel
+  // itself is mounted once by the layout.
   useOwliverPageContext("orders", {
-    orders: USE_DEMO_ORDERS ? DEMO_ORDERS : eventsWithConflicts,
+    orders: eventsWithConflicts,
     activeTab,
     searchTerm,
   });
@@ -178,7 +214,7 @@ export default function Events() {
 
       const totalAssigned = updatedAssignedStaff.length;
       let newStatus = event.status;
-      
+
       if (totalAssigned >= totalRequested && totalRequested > 0) {
         newStatus = 'Fully Staffed';
       } else if (totalAssigned > 0 && totalAssigned < totalRequested) {
@@ -214,24 +250,22 @@ export default function Events() {
       { staff_id: staffMember.id, staff_name: staffMember.employee_name, email: staffMember.email, role: staffMember.position }
     ];
 
-    const totalRequested = event.shifts?.reduce((accShift, shift) => {
-      return accShift + (shift.roles?.reduce((accRole, role) => accRole + (role.count || 0), 0) || 0);
-    }, 0) || 0;
+    const totalRequested = getSeatTotals(event).requested;
 
     let newStatus = event.status;
-    
+
     if (updatedAssignedStaff.length >= totalRequested && totalRequested > 0) {
       newStatus = 'Fully Staffed';
     } else if (updatedAssignedStaff.length > 0 && updatedAssignedStaff.length < totalRequested) {
       newStatus = 'Partial Staffed';
     }
 
-    await updateEventMutation.mutateAsync({ 
-      id: eventId, 
-      data: { 
+    await updateEventMutation.mutateAsync({
+      id: eventId,
+      data: {
         assigned_staff: updatedAssignedStaff,
         status: newStatus,
-      } 
+      }
     });
     toast({ title: "✅ Staff Assigned", description: `${staffMember.employee_name} assigned to event` });
   };
@@ -242,12 +276,10 @@ export default function Events() {
 
     const updatedAssignedStaff = event.assigned_staff.filter(s => s.staff_id !== staffId);
 
-    const totalRequested = event.shifts?.reduce((accShift, shift) => {
-      return accShift + (shift.roles?.reduce((accRole, role) => accRole + (role.count || 0), 0) || 0);
-    }, 0) || 0;
+    const totalRequested = getSeatTotals(event).requested;
 
     let newStatus = event.status;
-    
+
     if (updatedAssignedStaff.length >= totalRequested && totalRequested > 0) {
       newStatus = 'Fully Staffed';
     } else if (updatedAssignedStaff.length > 0 && updatedAssignedStaff.length < totalRequested) {
@@ -256,35 +288,18 @@ export default function Events() {
       newStatus = 'Pending';
     }
 
-    await updateEventMutation.mutateAsync({ 
-      id: eventId, 
-      data: { 
+    await updateEventMutation.mutateAsync({
+      id: eventId,
+      data: {
         assigned_staff: updatedAssignedStaff,
         status: newStatus,
-      } 
+      }
     });
     toast({ title: "Staff Unassigned", description: "Staff member removed from event" });
   };
 
   const handleAutoAssignEvent = (event) => autoAssignMutation.mutate(event);
 
-  const getStatusCounts = () => {
-    const total = events.length;
-    const active = events.filter(e => e.status === "Active").length;
-    const pending = events.filter(e => e.status === "Pending").length;
-    const partialStaffed = events.filter(e => e.status === "Partial Staffed").length;
-    const fullyStaffed = events.filter(e => e.status === "Fully Staffed").length;
-    const completed = events.filter(e => e.status === "Completed").length;
-
-    return {
-      active: { count: active, percentage: total ? Math.round((active / total) * 100) : 0 },
-      pending: { count: pending, percentage: total ? Math.round((pending / total) * 100) : 0 },
-      partialStaffed: { count: partialStaffed, percentage: total ? Math.round((partialStaffed / total) * 100) : 0 },
-      fullyStaffed: { count: fullyStaffed, percentage: total ? Math.round((fullyStaffed / total) * 100) : 0 },
-      completed: { count: completed, percentage: total ? Math.round((completed / total) * 100) : 0 },
-    };
-  };
-
   const getFilteredEvents = () => {
     let filtered = eventsWithConflicts;
 
@@ -310,9 +325,8 @@ export default function Events() {
     return filtered;
   };
 
-  const statusCounts = getStatusCounts();
   const filteredEvents = getFilteredEvents();
-  
+
   const unassignedStaff = allStaff.filter(staff => !events.some(e => e.assigned_staff?.some(s => s.staff_id === staff.id)));
   const upcomingEvents = filteredEvents.filter(e => {
     const eventDate = new Date(e.date);
@@ -333,11 +347,7 @@ export default function Events() {
   };
 
   const getAssignmentStatus = (event) => {
-    const totalRequested = event.shifts?.reduce((accShift, shift) => {
-      return accShift + (shift.roles?.reduce((accRole, role) => accRole + (role.count || 0), 0) || 0);
-    }, 0) || 0;
-
-    const assigned = event.assigned_staff?.length || 0;
+    const { requested: totalRequested, assigned } = getSeatTotals(event);
     const fillPercent = totalRequested > 0 ? Math.round((assigned / totalRequested) * 100) : 0;
 
     if (assigned === 0) return { color: 'bg-slate-100 text-slate-600', text: '0', percent: '0%', status: 'empty' };
@@ -346,455 +356,524 @@ export default function Events() {
     return { color: 'bg-slate-500 text-white', text: assigned, percent: '0%', status: 'partial' };
   };
 
-  const getEventTimes = (event) => {
-    const firstShift = event.shifts?.[0];
-    const rolesInFirstShift = firstShift?.roles || [];
+  /* ------------------------------------------------------ operational read */
 
-    let startTime = null;
-    let endTime = null;
+  // The command strip and the health line are derived here, from the orders
+  // already loaded — no extra reads, and the same arithmetic the table shows.
+  const ops = React.useMemo(() => {
+    const openOrders = eventsWithConflicts.filter(e => !isClosedOrder(e));
+    const staffingRisks = eventsWithConflicts.filter(e => getAssignmentStatus(e).status === 'partial').length;
+    const openSeats = openOrders.reduce((sum, e) => {
+      const { requested, assigned } = getSeatTotals(e);
+      return sum + Math.max(0, requested - assigned);
+    }, 0);
 
-    if (rolesInFirstShift.length > 0) {
-      startTime = rolesInFirstShift[0].start_time || null;
-      endTime = rolesInFirstShift[0].end_time || null;
-    }
-    
     return {
-      startTime: startTime ? convertTo12Hour(startTime) : "-",
-      endTime: endTime ? convertTo12Hour(endTime) : "-"
+      total: events.length,
+      upcoming: getTabCount("upcoming"),
+      staffingRisks,
+      pending: events.filter(e => e.status === 'Pending').length,
+      rapid: events.filter(e => e.is_rapid).length,
+      drafts: events.filter(e => e.status === 'Draft').length,
+      fullyStaffed: eventsWithConflicts.filter(e => getAssignmentStatus(e).status === 'full').length,
+      openSeats,
     };
-  };
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [eventsWithConflicts, events]);
+
+  const FILTERS = [
+    { value: "all", label: "All" },
+    { value: "conflicts", label: "Conflicts" },
+    { value: "upcoming", label: "Upcoming" },
+    { value: "active", label: "Active" },
+    { value: "fully_staffed", label: "Fully staffed" },
+    { value: "past", label: "Past" },
+    { value: "draft", label: "Draft" },
+  ];
 
   return (
-    <div className="p-4 md:p-8 bg-slate-50 min-h-screen">
-      <div className="max-w-[1800px] mx-auto">
-        <div className="mb-6">
-          <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold text-slate-900">Order Management</h1>
-          <p className="text-sm text-slate-500 mt-1">View, assign, and track all your orders</p>
-        </div>
+    <TooltipProvider delayDuration={200}>
+      <div className="min-h-full bg-white">
+        <div className="mx-auto w-full max-w-[1800px] px-4 pb-10 pt-6 md:px-8 md:pt-8">
 
-        {showConflicts && totalConflicts > 0 && (
-          <Alert className="mb-6 border-2 border-orange-500 bg-orange-50">
-            <div className="flex items-start gap-3">
-              <AlertTriangle className="w-5 h-5 text-orange-600 flex-shrink-0 mt-0.5" />
-              <div className="flex-1">
-                <AlertDescription className="font-semibold text-orange-900">
+          {/* ── 1. Page identity + operations health ─────────────────────── */}
+          <header>
+            <div className="min-w-0">
+              <nav aria-label="Breadcrumb" className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-[11.5px] font-medium text-slate-400">
+                <span>Operations</span>
+                <ChevronRight className="h-3 w-3" />
+                <span className="text-slate-600">Order Management</span>
+              </nav>
+              <h1 className="mt-1.5 text-[26px] font-bold leading-tight tracking-[-0.01em] text-slate-900">
+                Order Management
+              </h1>
+              <p className="mt-1 text-[13.5px] text-slate-500">
+                View, assign, and track all your orders.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+
+            {/* Operations health — the two-second read on the whole page. */}
+            <div className="mt-4 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-5 gap-y-2 rounded-lg border border-slate-200 bg-slate-50/70 px-4 py-2.5">
+              <span className="text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.09em] text-slate-500">
+                Operations health
+              </span>
+              <span className="hidden h-4 w-px bg-slate-200 sm:block" />
+              <HealthSignal count={ops.staffingRisks} label="staffing risks" tone={ops.staffingRisks ? "risk" : "ok"} />
+              <HealthSignal count={ops.pending} label="pending confirmation" tone={ops.pending ? "pending" : "ok"} />
+              <HealthSignal count={totalConflicts} label={totalConflicts === 1 ? "conflict" : "conflicts"} tone={totalConflicts ? "conflict" : "ok"} />
+              <HealthSignal count={ops.upcoming} label="upcoming orders" tone="neutral" />
+              <HealthSignal count={ops.openSeats} label="seats open" tone={ops.openSeats ? "risk" : "ok"} />
+            </div>
+          </header>
+
+          {/* ── 2. Command strip ─────────────────────────────────────────── */}
+          <section
+            aria-label="Operations summary"
+            className="mt-5 grid grid-cols-2 divide-slate-200 overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-slate-200 bg-white sm:divide-x lg:grid-cols-4"
+          >
+            <MetricCell
+              label="Total orders"
+              value={ops.total}
+              caption={`${ops.fullyStaffed} fully staffed · ${ops.drafts} draft`}
+              icon={FileText}
+            />
+            <MetricCell
+              label="Upcoming"
+              value={ops.upcoming}
+              caption="Scheduled ahead of today"
+              icon={CalendarIcon}
+            />
+            <MetricCell
+              label="Staffing risks"
+              value={ops.staffingRisks}
+              caption={ops.openSeats ? `${ops.openSeats} seats still open` : "All requested seats filled"}
+              emphasis
+              tone={ops.staffingRisks ? "risk" : "neutral"}
+              icon={AlertTriangle}
+            />
+            <MetricCell
+              label="Pending"
+              value={ops.pending}
+              caption={ops.rapid ? `${ops.rapid} rapid order${ops.rapid === 1 ? "" : "s"} live` : "Awaiting confirmation"}
+              tone={ops.pending ? "pending" : "neutral"}
+              icon={Clock}
+            />
+          </section>
+
+          {/* ── 3. Conflict notice ───────────────────────────────────────── */}
+          {showConflicts && totalConflicts > 0 && (
+            <div className="mt-4 flex items-start gap-3 rounded-lg border border-orange-200 bg-orange-50/60 px-4 py-3">
+              <AlertTriangle className="mt-0.5 h-4 w-4 flex-shrink-0 text-orange-600" />
+              <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
+                <p className="text-[13px] font-semibold text-orange-900">
                   {totalConflicts} scheduling conflict{totalConflicts !== 1 ? 's' : ''} detected
-                </AlertDescription>
-                <p className="text-sm text-orange-700 mt-1">
-                  Click the "Conflicts" tab to review and resolve overlapping bookings
+                </p>
+                <p className="mt-0.5 text-[12.5px] text-orange-700">
+                  Review overlapping bookings before they reach the floor.
                 </p>
               </div>
-              <Button
-                variant="ghost"
-                size="icon"
-                onClick={() => setShowConflicts(false)}
-                className="flex-shrink-0"
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                onClick={() => setActiveTab("conflicts")}
+                className="flex-shrink-0 rounded-md border border-orange-300 bg-white px-2.5 py-1.5 text-[12px] font-semibold text-orange-800 transition-colors hover:bg-orange-100"
               >
-                <X className="w-4 h-4" />
-              </Button>
+                Review conflicts
+              </button>
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                onClick={() => setShowConflicts(false)}
+                aria-label="Dismiss conflict notice"
+                className="flex-shrink-0 rounded-md p-1.5 text-orange-600 transition-colors hover:bg-orange-100"
+              >
+                <X className="h-4 w-4" />
+              </button>
             </div>
-          </Alert>
-        )}
+          )}
 
-        {/* Minimalist Glassmorphism Stat Cards */}
-        <div className="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-5 mb-8">
-          {/* Card 1: RAPID */}
-          <div className="bg-white/90 backdrop-blur-md rounded-2xl p-5 sm:p-6 border border-slate-200/70 shadow-[0_2px_15px_-3px_rgba(0,0,0,0.04),0_10px_20px_-2px_rgba(0,0,0,0.02)] hover:shadow-xl hover:border-slate-300 hover:-translate-y-1 transition-all duration-300 relative overflow-hidden group">
-            <div className="absolute top-0 left-0 right-0 h-1 bg-gradient-to-r from-red-500 via-rose-500 to-pink-500" />
-            <div className="flex items-start justify-between">
-              <div>
-                <p className="text-[11px] font-bold uppercase tracking-widest text-slate-400 mb-1.5">RAPID ORDERS</p>
-                <h3 className="text-3xl sm:text-4xl font-extrabold text-slate-900 tracking-tight">
-                  {events.filter(e => e.is_rapid).length}
-                </h3>
-              </div>
-              <div className="w-12 h-12 rounded-2xl bg-red-500/10 text-red-600 border border-red-200/50 flex items-center justify-center shadow-inner group-hover:scale-110 group-hover:bg-red-500 group-hover:text-white transition-all duration-300">
-                <Zap className="w-5 h-5" />
-              </div>
+          {/* ── 4. Command toolbar: search + view ────────────────────────── */}
+          <div className="mt-6 flex flex-col gap-3 border-b border-slate-200 pb-3 md:flex-row md:items-center md:justify-between">
+            <div className="relative min-w-0 flex-1 md:max-w-lg">
+              <Search className="pointer-events-none absolute left-0 top-1/2 h-4 w-4 -translate-y-1/2 text-slate-400" />
+              <input
+                type="text"
+                placeholder="Search orders, businesses, locations..."
+                value={searchTerm}
+                onChange={(e) => setSearchTerm(e.target.value)}
+                className="h-9 w-full border-0 bg-transparent pl-6 pr-8 text-[13.5px] text-slate-900 placeholder:text-slate-400 focus:outline-none focus:ring-0"
+              />
+              {searchTerm && (
+                <button
+                  type="button"
+                  onClick={() => setSearchTerm("")}
+                  aria-label="Clear search"
+                  className="absolute right-0 top-1/2 -translate-y-1/2 rounded p-1 text-slate-400 transition-colors hover:bg-slate-100 hover:text-slate-600"
+                >
+                  <X className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+                </button>
+              )}
             </div>
-            <div className="mt-4 pt-3 border-t border-slate-100 flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
-              <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs font-semibold text-red-600 bg-red-50/80 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-full border border-red-100/60 shrink-0">
-                <span className="w-1.5 h-1.5 rounded-full bg-red-500 animate-ping" />
-                Emergency
-              </span>
-              <span className="text-[11px] text-slate-400 font-semibold truncate text-right">Priority 1</span>
+
+            <div className="flex items-center gap-1 self-start rounded-lg border border-slate-200 bg-slate-50 p-1 md:self-auto">
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                onClick={() => setViewMode("table")}
+                aria-pressed={viewMode === "table"}
+                className={`inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md px-3 py-1.5 text-[12.5px] font-semibold transition-all duration-150 ${
+                  viewMode === "table"
+                    ? "bg-white text-slate-900 shadow-sm ring-1 ring-slate-200"
+                    : "text-slate-500 hover:text-slate-800"
+                }`}
+              >
+                <List className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+                Table
+              </button>
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                onClick={() => setViewMode("scheduler")}
+                aria-pressed={viewMode === "scheduler"}
+                className={`inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md px-3 py-1.5 text-[12.5px] font-semibold transition-all duration-150 ${
+                  viewMode === "scheduler"
+                    ? "bg-white text-slate-900 shadow-sm ring-1 ring-slate-200"
+                    : "text-slate-500 hover:text-slate-800"
+                }`}
+              >
+                <LayoutGrid className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+                Scheduler
+              </button>
             </div>
           </div>
 
-          {/* Card 2: REQUESTED */}
-          <div className="bg-white/90 backdrop-blur-md rounded-2xl p-5 sm:p-6 border border-slate-200/70 shadow-[0_2px_15px_-3px_rgba(0,0,0,0.04),0_10px_20px_-2px_rgba(0,0,0,0.02)] hover:shadow-xl hover:border-slate-300 hover:-translate-y-1 transition-all duration-300 relative overflow-hidden group">
-            <div className="absolute top-0 left-0 right-0 h-1 bg-gradient-to-r from-amber-500 via-yellow-500 to-orange-400" />
-            <div className="flex items-start justify-between">
-              <div>
-                <p className="text-[11px] font-bold uppercase tracking-widest text-slate-400 mb-1.5">REQUESTED</p>
-                <h3 className="text-3xl sm:text-4xl font-extrabold text-slate-900 tracking-tight">
-                  {events.filter(e => e.status === 'Pending').length}
-                </h3>
-              </div>
-              <div className="w-12 h-12 rounded-2xl bg-amber-500/10 text-amber-600 border border-amber-200/50 flex items-center justify-center shadow-inner group-hover:scale-110 group-hover:bg-amber-500 group-hover:text-white transition-all duration-300">
-                <Clock className="w-5 h-5" />
-              </div>
-            </div>
-            <div className="mt-4 pt-3 border-t border-slate-100 flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
-              <span className="inline-flex items-center text-xs font-semibold text-amber-700 bg-amber-50/80 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-full border border-amber-100/60 shrink-0">
-                Pending
-              </span>
-              <span className="text-[11px] text-slate-400 font-semibold truncate text-right">Awaiting Staff</span>
-            </div>
-          </div>
+          {/* ── 5. Filters ───────────────────────────────────────────────── */}
+          <Tabs value={activeTab} onValueChange={setActiveTab} className="mt-3">
+            <TabsList className="ow-scroll-x flex !h-auto w-max max-w-full !justify-start gap-1 !rounded-none border-0 !bg-transparent !p-0">
+              {FILTERS.map((filter) => {
+                const count = getTabCount(filter.value);
+                const isConflict = filter.value === "conflicts" && count > 0;
+                return (
+                  <TabsTrigger
+                    key={filter.value}
+                    value={filter.value}
+                    className="group flex-shrink-0 gap-2 !rounded-lg border border-transparent px-3 py-1.5 !text-[12.5px] font-medium text-slate-500 transition-all duration-150 hover:bg-slate-50 hover:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:border-slate-200 data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:font-semibold data-[state=active]:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:shadow-sm"
+                  >
+                    <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5">
+                      {isConflict && <AlertTriangle className="h-3 w-3 text-orange-500" />}
+                      {filter.label}
+                    </span>
+                    <span
+                      className={`tabular-nums text-[11.5px] font-semibold ${
+                        isConflict ? "text-orange-600" : "text-slate-400 group-data-[state=active]:text-slate-500"
+                      }`}
+                    >
+                      {count}
+                    </span>
+                  </TabsTrigger>
+                );
+              })}
+            </TabsList>
+          </Tabs>
 
-          {/* Card 3: PARTIAL */}
-          <div className="bg-white/90 backdrop-blur-md rounded-2xl p-5 sm:p-6 border border-slate-200/70 shadow-[0_2px_15px_-3px_rgba(0,0,0,0.04),0_10px_20px_-2px_rgba(0,0,0,0.02)] hover:shadow-xl hover:border-slate-300 hover:-translate-y-1 transition-all duration-300 relative overflow-hidden group">
-            <div className="absolute top-0 left-0 right-0 h-1 bg-gradient-to-r from-orange-500 via-amber-500 to-yellow-500" />
-            <div className="flex items-start justify-between">
-              <div>
-                <p className="text-[11px] font-bold uppercase tracking-widest text-slate-400 mb-1.5">PARTIALLY STAFFED</p>
-                <h3 className="text-3xl sm:text-4xl font-extrabold text-slate-900 tracking-tight">
-                  {events.filter(e => {
-                    const status = getAssignmentStatus(e);
-                    return status.status === 'partial';
-                  }).length}
-                </h3>
-              </div>
-              <div className="w-12 h-12 rounded-2xl bg-orange-500/10 text-orange-600 border border-orange-200/50 flex items-center justify-center shadow-inner group-hover:scale-110 group-hover:bg-orange-500 group-hover:text-white transition-all duration-300">
-                <AlertTriangle className="w-5 h-5" />
-              </div>
-            </div>
-            <div className="mt-4 pt-3 border-t border-slate-100 flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
-              <span className="inline-flex items-center text-xs font-semibold text-orange-700 bg-orange-50/80 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-full border border-orange-100/60 shrink-0">
-                In Progress
-              </span>
-              <span className="text-[11px] text-slate-400 font-semibold truncate text-right">Needs More Staff</span>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-
-          {/* Card 4: FULLY STAFFED */}
-          <div className="bg-white/90 backdrop-blur-md rounded-2xl p-5 sm:p-6 border border-slate-200/70 shadow-[0_2px_15px_-3px_rgba(0,0,0,0.04),0_10px_20px_-2px_rgba(0,0,0,0.02)] hover:shadow-xl hover:border-slate-300 hover:-translate-y-1 transition-all duration-300 relative overflow-hidden group">
-            <div className="absolute top-0 left-0 right-0 h-1 bg-gradient-to-r from-emerald-500 via-teal-500 to-green-400" />
-            <div className="flex items-start justify-between">
-              <div>
-                <p className="text-[11px] font-bold uppercase tracking-widest text-slate-400 mb-1.5">FULLY STAFFED</p>
-                <h3 className="text-3xl sm:text-4xl font-extrabold text-slate-900 tracking-tight">
-                  {events.filter(e => {
-                    const status = getAssignmentStatus(e);
-                    return status.status === 'full';
-                  }).length}
-                </h3>
-              </div>
-              <div className="w-12 h-12 rounded-2xl bg-emerald-500/10 text-emerald-600 border border-emerald-200/50 flex items-center justify-center shadow-inner group-hover:scale-110 group-hover:bg-emerald-500 group-hover:text-white transition-all duration-300">
-                <CheckCircle className="w-5 h-5" />
-              </div>
-            </div>
-            <div className="mt-4 pt-3 border-t border-slate-100 flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
-              <span className="inline-flex items-center text-xs font-semibold text-emerald-700 bg-emerald-50/80 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-full border border-emerald-100/60 shrink-0">
-                100% Filled
-              </span>
-              <span className="text-[11px] text-slate-400 font-semibold truncate text-right">Ready</span>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-        </div>
-
-        {/* Modern Search & Control Toolbar */}
-        <div className="bg-white rounded-2xl p-3 mb-6 border border-slate-200/80 shadow-sm flex flex-col md:flex-row items-stretch md:items-center justify-between gap-3">
-          <div className="relative flex-1">
-            <Search className="absolute left-3.5 top-1/2 transform -translate-y-1/2 w-4 h-4 text-slate-400" />
-            <Input
-              placeholder="Search by event, business, or location..."
-              value={searchTerm}
-              onChange={(e) => setSearchTerm(e.target.value)}
-              className="pl-10 border-0 bg-slate-50/80 focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-slate-300 rounded-xl h-11 text-sm text-slate-800"
-            />
-          </div>
-
-          <div className="flex items-center bg-slate-100/80 p-1.5 rounded-xl border border-slate-200/50">
-            <button
-              type="button"
-              onClick={() => setViewMode("table")}
-              className={`flex items-center gap-2 px-4 py-2 rounded-lg font-semibold text-xs transition-all ${
-                viewMode === "table"
-                  ? "bg-white text-slate-900 shadow-sm"
-                  : "text-slate-500 hover:text-slate-800"
-              }`}
-            >
-              <List className="w-4 h-4" />
-              Table View
-            </button>
-            <button
-              type="button"
-              onClick={() => setViewMode("scheduler")}
-              className={`flex items-center gap-2 px-4 py-2 rounded-lg font-semibold text-xs transition-all ${
-                viewMode === "scheduler"
-                  ? "bg-white text-slate-900 shadow-sm"
-                  : "text-slate-500 hover:text-slate-800"
-              }`}
-            >
-              <LayoutGrid className="w-4 h-4" />
-              Scheduler View
-            </button>
-          </div>
-        </div>
-
-        {/* Modern Filter Tabs */}
-        <Tabs value={activeTab} onValueChange={setActiveTab} className="mb-6">
-          <TabsList className="bg-slate-100/70 p-1 rounded-xl border-0 h-auto flex flex-wrap gap-1">
-            <TabsTrigger
-              value="all"
-              className="rounded-lg text-xs font-semibold text-slate-600 data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:shadow-sm px-3.5 py-2 transition-all"
-            >
-              All ({getTabCount("all")})
-            </TabsTrigger>
-            <TabsTrigger
-              value="conflicts"
-              className="rounded-lg text-xs font-semibold text-slate-600 data-[state=active]:bg-orange-500 data-[state=active]:text-white data-[state=active]:shadow-sm px-3.5 py-2 transition-all"
-            >
-              <AlertTriangle className="w-3.5 h-3.5 mr-1.5 inline-block" />
-              Conflicts ({getTabCount("conflicts")})
-            </TabsTrigger>
-            <TabsTrigger
-              value="upcoming"
-              className="rounded-lg text-xs font-semibold text-slate-600 data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:shadow-sm px-3.5 py-2 transition-all"
-            >
-              Upcoming ({getTabCount("upcoming")})
-            </TabsTrigger>
-            <TabsTrigger
-              value="active"
-              className="rounded-lg text-xs font-semibold text-slate-600 data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:shadow-sm px-3.5 py-2 transition-all"
-            >
-              Active ({getTabCount("active")})
-            </TabsTrigger>
-            <TabsTrigger
-              value="fully_staffed"
-              className="rounded-lg text-xs font-semibold text-slate-600 data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:shadow-sm px-3.5 py-2 transition-all"
-            >
-              Fully Staffed ({getTabCount("fully_staffed")})
-            </TabsTrigger>
-            <TabsTrigger
-              value="past"
-              className="rounded-lg text-xs font-semibold text-slate-600 data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:shadow-sm px-3.5 py-2 transition-all"
-            >
-              Past ({getTabCount("past")})
-            </TabsTrigger>
-            <TabsTrigger
-              value="draft"
-              className="rounded-lg text-xs font-semibold text-slate-600 data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:text-slate-900 data-[state=active]:shadow-sm px-3.5 py-2 transition-all"
-            >
-              Draft ({getTabCount("draft")})
-            </TabsTrigger>
-          </TabsList>
-        </Tabs>
-
-        {viewMode === "scheduler" && (
-          <>
-            <Card className="mb-6">
-              <CardHeader>
-                <CardTitle className="flex items-center gap-2">
-                  <Target className="w-5 h-5" />
-                  Smart Assignment Logic
-                </CardTitle>
-              </CardHeader>
-              <CardContent>
-                <div className="grid grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-4 gap-4">
-                  <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
-                    <Label htmlFor="skill" className="flex items-center gap-2"><Users className="w-4 h-4" />Skill Match</Label>
-                    <Switch id="skill" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeSkill} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeSkill: checked}))} />
-                  </div>
-                  <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
-                    <Label htmlFor="reliability" className="flex items-center gap-2"><TrendingUp className="w-4 h-4" />Reliability</Label>
-                    <Switch id="reliability" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeReliability} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeReliability: checked}))} />
-                  </div>
-                  <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
-                    <Label htmlFor="fatigue" className="flex items-center gap-2"><Clock className="w-4 h-4" />Low Fatigue</Label>
-                    <Switch id="fatigue" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeFatigue} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeFatigue: checked}))} />
-                  </div>
-                  <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
-                    <Label htmlFor="compliance" className="flex items-center gap-2"><Shield className="w-4 h-4" />Compliance</Label>
-                    <Switch id="compliance" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeCompliance} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeCompliance: checked}))} />
-                  </div>
-                </div>
-              </CardContent>
-            </Card>
-
-            <Tabs defaultValue="scheduler" className="space-y-4">
-              <TabsList>
-                <TabsTrigger value="scheduler">Drag & Drop Scheduler</TabsTrigger>
-                <TabsTrigger value="automations">Active Automations</TabsTrigger>
-              </TabsList>
-              
-              <TabsContent value="scheduler">
-                <DragDropScheduler events={upcomingEvents} staff={unassignedStaff} onAssign={handleAssign} onUnassign={handleUnassign} />
-              </TabsContent>
-              
-              <TabsContent value="automations">
-                <Card>
-                  <CardHeader>
-                    <CardTitle>Active Automations</CardTitle>
-                    <p className="text-sm text-slate-500">Background processes reducing manual work by 85%</p>
-                  </CardHeader>
-                  <CardContent className="space-y-3">
-                    <div className="flex items-center justify-between p-3 bg-green-50 rounded-lg">
-                      <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
-                        <div className="w-10 h-10 bg-green-100 rounded-full flex items-center justify-center"><Zap className="w-5 h-5 text-green-600" /></div>
-                        <div><p className="font-semibold text-sm">Auto-Fill Open Shifts</p><p className="text-xs text-slate-500">Automatically assigns best-fit staff to unfilled roles</p></div>
-                      </div>
-                      <Badge className="bg-green-100 text-green-700">Active</Badge>
+          {/* ── 6a. Scheduler view ───────────────────────────────────────── */}
+          {viewMode === "scheduler" && (
+            <div className="mt-5">
+              <Card className="mb-5 border-slate-200 shadow-none">
+                <CardHeader className="pb-3">
+                  <CardTitle className="flex items-center gap-2 text-[15px] font-semibold text-slate-900">
+                    <Target className="h-4 w-4 text-[#0039A6]" />
+                    Smart assignment logic
+                  </CardTitle>
+                </CardHeader>
+                <CardContent>
+                  <div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-4 md:grid-cols-4">
+                    <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+                      <Label htmlFor="skill" className="flex items-center gap-2 text-[13px] text-slate-600"><Users className="h-4 w-4 text-slate-400" />Skill match</Label>
+                      <Switch id="skill" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeSkill} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeSkill: checked}))} />
                     </div>
-                    <div className="flex items-center justify-between p-3 bg-blue-50 rounded-lg">
-                      <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
-                        <div className="w-10 h-10 bg-blue-100 rounded-full flex items-center justify-center"><Shield className="w-5 h-5 text-blue-600" /></div>
-                        <div><p className="font-semibold text-sm">Auto-Confirm Workers</p><p className="text-xs text-slate-500">Confirms staff 24 hours before shift</p></div>
-                      </div>
-                      <Badge className="bg-blue-100 text-blue-700">Active</Badge>
+                    <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+                      <Label htmlFor="reliability" className="flex items-center gap-2 text-[13px] text-slate-600"><TrendingUp className="h-4 w-4 text-slate-400" />Reliability</Label>
+                      <Switch id="reliability" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeReliability} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeReliability: checked}))} />
                     </div>
-                    <div className="flex items-center justify-between p-3 bg-purple-50 rounded-lg">
-                      <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
-                        <div className="w-10 h-10 bg-purple-100 rounded-full flex items-center justify-center"><Clock className="w-5 h-5 text-purple-600" /></div>
-                        <div><p className="font-semibold text-sm">Auto-Send Reminders</p><p className="text-xs text-slate-500">Sends reminders 2 hours before shift start</p></div>
-                      </div>
-                      <Badge className="bg-purple-100 text-purple-700">Active</Badge>
+                    <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+                      <Label htmlFor="fatigue" className="flex items-center gap-2 text-[13px] text-slate-600"><Clock className="h-4 w-4 text-slate-400" />Low fatigue</Label>
+                      <Switch id="fatigue" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeFatigue} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeFatigue: checked}))} />
                     </div>
-                  </CardContent>
-                </Card>
-              </TabsContent>
-            </Tabs>
-            
-            <AutomationEngine />
-          </>
-        )}
+                    <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+                      <Label htmlFor="compliance" className="flex items-center gap-2 text-[13px] text-slate-600"><Shield className="h-4 w-4 text-slate-400" />Compliance</Label>
+                      <Switch id="compliance" checked={assignmentOptions.prioritizeCompliance} onCheckedChange={(checked) => setAssignmentOptions(prev => ({...prev, prioritizeCompliance: checked}))} />
+                    </div>
+                  </div>
+                </CardContent>
+              </Card>
 
-        {viewMode === "table" && (
-          <div className="bg-white rounded-xl shadow-sm border overflow-x-auto min-w-full">
-            <Table className="w-full min-w-[1050px]">
-              <TableHeader>
-                <TableRow className="bg-slate-50 hover:bg-slate-50 border-b">
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide h-10 min-w-[160px]">BUSINESS</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide min-w-[140px]">HUB</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide min-w-[180px]">EVENT</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide min-w-[170px]">DATE & TIME</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide min-w-[140px]">STATUS</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide text-center w-[90px]">REQUESTED</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide text-center w-[100px]">ASSIGNED</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide text-center w-[80px]">INVOICE</TableHead>
-                  <TableHead className="font-semibold text-slate-600 uppercase text-[10px] tracking-wide text-center w-[120px]">ACTIONS</TableHead>
-                </TableRow>
-              </TableHeader>
-              <TableBody>
-                {filteredEvents.length === 0 ? (
-                  <TableRow><TableCell colSpan={9} className="text-center py-12 text-slate-500"><CalendarIcon className="w-12 h-12 mx-auto mb-3 text-slate-300" /><p className="font-medium">No events found</p></TableCell></TableRow>
-                ) : (
-                  filteredEvents.map((event) => {
-                    const assignmentStatus = getAssignmentStatus(event);
-                    const showAutoButton = assignmentStatus.status !== 'full' && event.status !== 'Canceled' && event.status !== 'Completed' && event.status !== 'Fully Staffed';
-                    const hasConflicts = event.detected_conflicts && event.detected_conflicts.length > 0;
-                    const eventTimes = getEventTimes(event);
-                    const eventDate = safeParseDate(event.date);
-                    const dayOfWeek = eventDate ? format(eventDate, 'EEEE') : '';
-                    
-                    return (
-                      <React.Fragment key={event.id}>
-                        <TableRow className="hover:bg-slate-50 transition-colors border-b">
-                          <TableCell className="py-3.5">
-                            <p className="text-sm text-slate-900 font-semibold">{event.business_name || "—"}</p>
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="py-3.5">
-                            <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm text-slate-600 font-medium">
-                              <MapPin className="w-3.5 h-3.5 text-slate-400 shrink-0" />
-                              <span className="truncate">{event.hub || event.event_location || "Main Hub"}</span>
-                            </div>
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="py-3.5">
-                            <p className="font-bold text-slate-900 text-sm leading-snug">{event.event_name}</p>
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="py-3.5">
-                            <div className="space-y-0.5">
-                              <p className="text-sm text-slate-900 font-bold">{eventDate ? format(eventDate, 'MM.dd.yyyy') : '-'}</p>
-                              <p className="text-xs text-slate-500 font-medium">{dayOfWeek}</p>
-                              <div className="flex items-center gap-1 text-xs text-slate-600 mt-1 font-medium">
-                                <Clock className="w-3 h-3 text-slate-400 shrink-0" />
-                                <span>{eventTimes.startTime} - {eventTimes.endTime}</span>
-                              </div>
-                            </div>
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="py-3.5">
-                            {getStatusBadge(event, hasConflicts)}
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="text-center py-3.5">
-                            <span className="font-bold text-slate-900 text-sm">{event.requested || 0}</span>
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="text-center py-3.5">
-                            <div className="flex flex-col items-center gap-1">
-                              <Badge className={`${assignmentStatus.color} font-bold px-3 py-1 rounded-full text-xs shadow-2xs`}>
-                                {assignmentStatus.text}
-                              </Badge>
-                              <span className="text-[10px] text-slate-500 font-semibold">{assignmentStatus.percent}</span>
-                            </div>
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="text-center py-3.5">
-                            {event.status === 'Completed' ? (
-                              <Button 
-                                variant="ghost" 
-                                size="icon" 
-                                onClick={() => navigate(createPageUrl('Invoices'))}
-                                className="hover:bg-blue-50 h-8 w-8 mx-auto text-blue-600"
-                                title="View Invoice"
+              <Tabs defaultValue="scheduler" className="space-y-4">
+                <TabsList className="!h-auto gap-1 !rounded-lg border border-slate-200 !bg-slate-50 !p-1">
+                  <TabsTrigger value="scheduler" className="!rounded-md px-3 py-1.5 !text-[12.5px] font-medium data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:font-semibold data-[state=active]:shadow-sm">Drag &amp; drop scheduler</TabsTrigger>
+                  <TabsTrigger value="automations" className="!rounded-md px-3 py-1.5 !text-[12.5px] font-medium data-[state=active]:bg-white data-[state=active]:font-semibold data-[state=active]:shadow-sm">Active automations</TabsTrigger>
+                </TabsList>
+
+                <TabsContent value="scheduler">
+                  <DragDropScheduler events={upcomingEvents} staff={unassignedStaff} onAssign={handleAssign} onUnassign={handleUnassign} />
+                </TabsContent>
+
+                <TabsContent value="automations">
+                  <Card className="border-slate-200 shadow-none">
+                    <CardHeader className="pb-3">
+                      <CardTitle className="text-[15px] font-semibold text-slate-900">Active automations</CardTitle>
+                      <p className="text-[12.5px] text-slate-500">Background processes reducing manual work by 85%</p>
+                    </CardHeader>
+                    <CardContent className="space-y-2">
+                      <div className="flex items-center justify-between rounded-lg border border-slate-200 p-3">
+                        <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
+                          <div className="flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-lg bg-emerald-50"><Zap className="h-4 w-4 text-emerald-600" /></div>
+                          <div><p className="text-[13px] font-semibold text-slate-900">Auto-fill open shifts</p><p className="text-[12px] text-slate-500">Automatically assigns best-fit staff to unfilled roles</p></div>
+                        </div>
+                        <Badge className="border-emerald-200 bg-emerald-50 text-emerald-700">Active</Badge>
+                      </div>
+                      <div className="flex items-center justify-between rounded-lg border border-slate-200 p-3">
+                        <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
+                          <div className="flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-lg bg-blue-50"><Shield className="h-4 w-4 text-[#0039A6]" /></div>
+                          <div><p className="text-[13px] font-semibold text-slate-900">Auto-confirm workers</p><p className="text-[12px] text-slate-500">Confirms staff 24 hours before shift</p></div>
+                        </div>
+                        <Badge className="border-blue-200 bg-blue-50 text-[#0039A6]">Active</Badge>
+                      </div>
+                      <div className="flex items-center justify-between rounded-lg border border-slate-200 p-3">
+                        <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
+                          <div className="flex h-9 w-9 items-center justify-center rounded-lg bg-slate-100"><Clock className="h-4 w-4 text-slate-600" /></div>
+                          <div><p className="text-[13px] font-semibold text-slate-900">Auto-send reminders</p><p className="text-[12px] text-slate-500">Sends reminders 2 hours before shift start</p></div>
+                        </div>
+                        <Badge className="border-slate-200 bg-slate-100 text-slate-700">Active</Badge>
+                      </div>
+                    </CardContent>
+                  </Card>
+                </TabsContent>
+              </Tabs>
+
+              <AutomationEngine />
+            </div>
+          )}
+
+          {/* ── 6b. Table view ───────────────────────────────────────────── */}
+          {viewMode === "table" && (
+            <div className="mt-5 overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-slate-200">
+              <div className="overflow-x-auto">
+                <Table className="w-full min-w-[840px] table-fixed">
+                  <TableHeader>
+                    <TableRow className="border-b border-slate-200 bg-slate-50/80 hover:bg-slate-50/80">
+                      <TableHead className="h-9 w-[19%] px-3 pl-4 text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.07em] text-slate-500">Business</TableHead>
+                      <TableHead className="w-[22%] px-3 text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.07em] text-slate-500">Event</TableHead>
+                      <TableHead className="w-[16%] px-3 text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.07em] text-slate-500">Date &amp; time</TableHead>
+                      <TableHead className="w-[12%] px-3 text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.07em] text-slate-500">Status</TableHead>
+                      <TableHead title="Requested headcount" className="w-[5%] px-2 text-center text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.07em] text-slate-500">Req</TableHead>
+                      <TableHead className="w-[11%] px-3 text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.07em] text-slate-500">Staffing</TableHead>
+                      <TableHead className="w-[15%] px-3 pr-4 text-right text-[10.5px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.07em] text-slate-500">Actions</TableHead>
+                    </TableRow>
+                  </TableHeader>
+                  <TableBody>
+                    {isLoading && filteredEvents.length === 0 ? (
+                      <TableRow>
+                        <TableCell colSpan={7} className="py-14 text-center">
+                          <p className="text-[13px] text-slate-500">Loading orders…</p>
+                        </TableCell>
+                      </TableRow>
+                    ) : filteredEvents.length === 0 ? (
+                      <TableRow>
+                        <TableCell colSpan={7} className="py-14 text-center">
+                          <CalendarIcon className="mx-auto mb-3 h-8 w-8 text-slate-300" />
+                          <p className="text-[13.5px] font-semibold text-slate-700">No orders match this view</p>
+                          <p className="mt-1 text-[12.5px] text-slate-500">
+                            {searchTerm ? "Try a different search term, or " : "Try another filter, or "}
+                            <button type="button" onClick={() => { setSearchTerm(""); setActiveTab("all"); }} className="font-semibold text-[#0039A6] hover:underline">
+                              reset to all orders
+                            </button>
+                            .
+                          </p>
+                        </TableCell>
+                      </TableRow>
+                    ) : (
+                      filteredEvents.map((event) => {
+                        const assignmentStatus = getAssignmentStatus(event);
+                        const showAutoButton = assignmentStatus.status !== 'full' && event.status !== 'Canceled' && event.status !== 'Completed' && event.status !== 'Fully Staffed';
+                        const hasConflicts = event.detected_conflicts && event.detected_conflicts.length > 0;
+                        const eventTimes = getEventTimes(event);
+                        const eventDate = safeParseDate(event.date);
+                        const { requested: seatsRequested, assigned: seatsAssigned } = getSeatTotals(event);
+                        const severity =
+                          isClosedOrder(event) || event.status === 'Draft'
+                            ? 'full'
+                            : severityOf(seatsAssigned, seatsRequested);
+                        // Risk earns a quiet rail on the row edge, never a coloured row.
+                        const railColor =
+                          hasConflicts ? '#ef4444'
+                            : severity === 'high' ? '#f97316'
+                            : severity === 'medium' ? '#fbbf24'
+                            : null;
+
+                        return (
+                          <React.Fragment key={event.id}>
+                            <TableRow
+                              onClick={() => navigate(createPageUrl(`EventDetail?id=${event.id}`))}
+                              className="group cursor-pointer border-b border-slate-100 transition-colors duration-150 hover:bg-slate-50/70"
+                            >
+                              {/* Business — name primary, hub as metadata beneath it.
+                                  The risk rail rides this cell as an inset edge, so a row
+                                  at risk is findable without colouring the whole row. */}
+                              <TableCell
+                                className="py-3 px-3 pl-4"
+                                style={railColor ? { boxShadow: `inset 3px 0 0 ${railColor}` } : undefined}
                               >
-                                <FileText className="w-4 h-4" />
-                              </Button>
-                            ) : (
-                              <span className="text-slate-300 font-medium">—</span>
-                            )}
-                          </TableCell>
-                          <TableCell className="py-3.5">
-                            <div className="flex items-center justify-center gap-1">
-                              {showAutoButton && (
-                                <Button 
-                                  size="sm" 
-                                  variant="ghost"
-                                  onClick={() => handleAutoAssignEvent(event)} 
-                                  className="h-8 px-2 hover:bg-blue-50 text-blue-600"
-                                  title="Smart Assign"
+                                <p
+                                  title={event.business_name || undefined}
+                                  className="truncate text-[13.5px] font-semibold leading-tight text-slate-900"
                                 >
-                                  <UserCog className="w-4 h-4" />
-                                </Button>
-                              )}
-                              <Button 
-                                variant="ghost" 
-                                size="icon" 
-                                onClick={() => navigate(createPageUrl(`EventDetail?id=${event.id}`))} 
-                                className="hover:bg-slate-100 h-8 w-8 text-slate-600"
-                                title="View"
-                              >
-                                <Eye className="w-4 h-4" />
-                              </Button>
-                              <Button 
-                                variant="ghost" 
-                                size="icon" 
-                                onClick={() => navigate(createPageUrl(`EditEvent?id=${event.id}`))}
-                                className="hover:bg-slate-100 h-8 w-8 text-slate-600"
-                                title="Edit"
-                              >
-                                <Edit className="w-4 h-4" />
-                              </Button>
-                            </div>
-                          </TableCell>
-                        </TableRow>
-                        {hasConflicts && activeTab === "conflicts" && (
-                          <TableRow>
-                            <TableCell colSpan={9} className="bg-orange-50/50 py-4">
-                              <ConflictAlert conflicts={event.detected_conflicts} />
-                            </TableCell>
-                          </TableRow>
-                        )}
-                      </React.Fragment>
-                    );
-                  })
-                )}
-              </TableBody>
-            </Table>
-          </div>
-        )}
-      </div>
+                                  {event.business_name || "—"}
+                                </p>
+                                <p className="mt-1 flex items-center gap-1 text-[11.5px] leading-tight text-slate-500">
+                                  <MapPin className="h-3 w-3 flex-shrink-0 text-slate-400" />
+                                  <span className="truncate">{event.hub || event.event_location || "Main Hub"}</span>
+                                </p>
+                              </TableCell>
 
-      <SmartAssignModal open={assignModal.open} onClose={() => setAssignModal({ open: false, event: null, shift: null, role: null })} event={assignModal.event} shift={assignModal.shift} role={assignModal.role} />
-    </div>
+                              {/* Event — the dominant identifier of the row. */}
+                              <TableCell className="py-3 px-3">
+                                <p className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-[14px] font-semibold leading-snug text-slate-900">
+                                  {event.is_rapid && <Zap className="h-3.5 w-3.5 flex-shrink-0 fill-red-500 text-red-500" />}
+                                  <span className="truncate" title={event.event_name}>{event.event_name}</span>
+                                </p>
+                                {event.event_type && (
+                                  <p className="mt-1 truncate text-[11.5px] leading-tight text-slate-500">{event.event_type}</p>
+                                )}
+                              </TableCell>
+
+                              {/* Date bold, time quiet metadata. */}
+                              <TableCell className="py-3 px-3">
+                                <p className="flex items-baseline gap-1.5 text-[13px] font-semibold leading-tight text-slate-900">
+                                  <span>{eventDate ? format(eventDate, 'MMM d, yyyy') : '—'}</span>
+                                  {eventDate && (
+                                    <span className="text-[10.5px] font-medium text-slate-400">
+                                      {format(eventDate, 'EEE')}
+                                    </span>
+                                  )}
+                                </p>
+                                {eventTimes.startTime && (
+                                  <p className="mt-1 truncate text-[11px] leading-tight text-slate-500">
+                                    {eventTimes.startTime} – {eventTimes.endTime}
+                                  </p>
+                                )}
+                              </TableCell>
+
+                              <TableCell className="py-3 px-3">
+                                <OrderStatusPill status={event.status} isRapid={event.is_rapid} hasConflicts={hasConflicts} />
+                              </TableCell>
+
+                              <TableCell className="py-3 px-2 text-center">
+                                <span className="text-[13px] font-semibold tabular-nums text-slate-700">{event.requested || 0}</span>
+                              </TableCell>
+
+                              <TableCell className="py-3 px-3">
+                                <StaffingMeter assigned={seatsAssigned} requested={seatsRequested} size="sm" />
+                              </TableCell>
+
+                              {/* Action cluster: one primary, the rest quiet until hover. */}
+                              <TableCell className="py-3 px-3 pr-4">
+                                {/* One primary action, then a fixed pair of quiet
+                                    slots — so "View" lands in the same place on
+                                    every row whether or not the secondary
+                                    actions apply to it. */}
+                                <div className="flex items-center justify-end gap-1">
+                                  <button
+                                    type="button"
+                                    onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); navigate(createPageUrl(`EventDetail?id=${event.id}`)); }}
+                                    className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md border border-slate-200 bg-white px-2.5 py-1.5 text-[12px] font-semibold text-slate-700 transition-colors hover:border-slate-300 hover:bg-slate-50 hover:text-slate-900"
+                                  >
+                                    <Eye className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+                                    View
+                                  </button>
+
+                                  <div className="flex w-[60px] flex-shrink-0 items-center justify-end gap-1">
+                                  {event.status === 'Completed' && (
+                                    <Tooltip>
+                                      <TooltipTrigger asChild>
+                                        <button
+                                          type="button"
+                                          onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); navigate(createPageUrl('Invoices')); }}
+                                          aria-label="View invoice"
+                                          className="flex h-7 w-7 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-slate-400 opacity-70 transition-all duration-150 hover:bg-blue-50 hover:text-[#0039A6] group-hover:opacity-100"
+                                        >
+                                          <FileText className="h-4 w-4" />
+                                        </button>
+                                      </TooltipTrigger>
+                                      <TooltipContent>View invoice</TooltipContent>
+                                    </Tooltip>
+                                  )}
+
+                                  {showAutoButton && (
+                                    <Tooltip>
+                                      <TooltipTrigger asChild>
+                                        <button
+                                          type="button"
+                                          onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); handleAutoAssignEvent(event); }}
+                                          aria-label="Smart assign staff"
+                                          className="flex h-7 w-7 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-slate-400 opacity-70 transition-all duration-150 hover:bg-blue-50 hover:text-[#0039A6] group-hover:opacity-100"
+                                        >
+                                          <UserCog className="h-4 w-4" />
+                                        </button>
+                                      </TooltipTrigger>
+                                      <TooltipContent>Smart assign staff</TooltipContent>
+                                    </Tooltip>
+                                  )}
+
+                                  <Tooltip>
+                                    <TooltipTrigger asChild>
+                                      <button
+                                        type="button"
+                                        onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); navigate(createPageUrl(`EditEvent?id=${event.id}`)); }}
+                                        aria-label="Edit order"
+                                        className="flex h-7 w-7 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-slate-400 opacity-70 transition-all duration-150 hover:bg-slate-100 hover:text-slate-700 group-hover:opacity-100"
+                                      >
+                                        <Edit className="h-4 w-4" />
+                                      </button>
+                                    </TooltipTrigger>
+                                    <TooltipContent>Edit order</TooltipContent>
+                                  </Tooltip>
+                                  </div>
+                                </div>
+                              </TableCell>
+                            </TableRow>
+
+                            {hasConflicts && activeTab === "conflicts" && (
+                              <TableRow className="hover:bg-transparent">
+                                <TableCell colSpan={7} className="bg-orange-50/40 py-4">
+                                  <ConflictAlert conflicts={event.detected_conflicts} />
+                                </TableCell>
+                              </TableRow>
+                            )}
+                          </React.Fragment>
+                        );
+                      })
+                    )}
+                  </TableBody>
+                </Table>
+              </div>
+
+              {filteredEvents.length > 0 && (
+                <div className="flex items-center justify-between border-t border-slate-200 bg-slate-50/60 px-4 py-2.5">
+                  <p className="text-[11.5px] text-slate-500">
+                    Showing <span className="font-semibold tabular-nums text-slate-700">{filteredEvents.length}</span> of{" "}
+                    <span className="tabular-nums">{events.length}</span> orders
+                  </p>
+                  {ops.staffingRisks > 0 && (
+                    <p className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-[11.5px] text-slate-500">
+                      <span className="h-1.5 w-1.5 rounded-full bg-orange-500" />
+                      {ops.staffingRisks} need staffing attention
+                    </p>
+                  )}
+                </div>
+              )}
+            </div>
+          )}
+        </div>
+
+        <SmartAssignModal open={assignModal.open} onClose={() => setAssignModal({ open: false, event: null, shift: null, role: null })} event={assignModal.event} shift={assignModal.shift} role={assignModal.role} />
+      </div>
+    </TooltipProvider>
   );
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/pages/SavingsEngine.jsx b/src/pages/SavingsEngine.jsx
index ec19fd4..22d3c24 100644
--- a/src/pages/SavingsEngine.jsx
+++ b/src/pages/SavingsEngine.jsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   Building2, Briefcase, Package, RefreshCw, Download, Filter, Wallet, Brain
 } from "lucide-react";
 import PageHeader from "../components/common/PageHeader";
+import useOwliverPageContext from "@/components/owliver/useOwliverPageContext";
 import SavingsOverviewCards from "../components/savings/SavingsOverviewCards";
 import ContractConversionMap from "../components/savings/ContractConversionMap";
 import PredictiveSavingsModel from "../components/savings/PredictiveSavingsModel";
@@ -193,6 +194,18 @@ export default function SavingsEngine() {
 
   const roleTabs = getRoleTabs();
 
+  // Owliver answers this page from the records this page has already loaded.
+  // `metrics` and `projections` are the same objects the cards below render
+  // from, so the panel and the page cannot quote different figures.
+  useOwliverPageContext("savingEngine", {
+    assignments, vendors, workforce, orders, rates,
+    metrics, projections, activeTab, timeRange, userRole,
+    // A primitive the registration signature can see: `metrics` is an object,
+    // and re-registering only when a collection's length changes would leave
+    // Owliver holding a stale reading after an in-place record update.
+    spend: Math.round(metrics.totalSpend),
+  });
+
   return (
     <div className="p-4 md:p-8 bg-gradient-to-br from-slate-50 via-blue-50/30 to-purple-50/20 min-h-screen">
       <div className="max-w-[1800px] mx-auto">