diff --git a/src/pages/BrandDiscoveryPanel.jsx b/src/pages/BrandDiscoveryPanel.jsx
index efaf024..46643e8 100644
--- a/src/pages/BrandDiscoveryPanel.jsx
+++ b/src/pages/BrandDiscoveryPanel.jsx
@@ -9,15 +9,21 @@ import { api } from '../api/client';
  * A brand NAME -> the same 11-stage pipeline the spreadsheet uploader drives.
  *
  * Two steps, and the gap between them is the feature. Discover reads Open Food
- * Facts and (optionally) the local language model and shows what it found,
- * writing nothing. The operator unticks whatever looks wrong. Only then is the
- * selection staged, as an ordinary catalog batch.
+ * Facts and the brand's own shop and shows what it found, writing nothing. The
+ * operator unticks whatever looks wrong. Only then is the selection staged, as
+ * an ordinary catalog batch.
  *
- * That gap is not ceremony. Open Food Facts rows are real products with real
- * GTINs, but the language model can produce a well-formed product that does not
- * exist, and nothing downstream can catch one: it resolves a category, gets a
- * price band and an SKU, and passes the validation gate. A person reading the
- * list is the only check there is, so the list is shown.
+ * GROUNDED SOURCES ONLY. Discovery used to offer the local language model as a
+ * third source, behind a "Language model" tick box. It was removed: asked to
+ * enumerate a brand, a small model invents plausible products, and nothing
+ * downstream can catch one - a well-formed fiction resolves a category, gets a
+ * price band and an SKU, and clears the validation gate. The catalog is meant
+ * to hold products that actually exist, so the only rows offered now are ones
+ * Open Food Facts or the brand's own storefront can vouch for. `use_llm: false`
+ * is sent explicitly below; see the note there.
+ *
+ * The review step stays regardless. A person reading the list is still the last
+ * check before anything is written, so the list is shown.
  *
  * There is no progress UI here on purpose. Ingest returns a BatchOut, and
  * AdminPage hands it to BatchCatalogPanel through the `adoptBatch` prop it
@@ -74,7 +80,6 @@ export function BrandDiscoveryPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
   const [selected, setSelected] = useState(() => new Set());
 
   const [useOpenfacts, setUseOpenfacts] = useState(true);
-  const [useLlm, setUseLlm] = useState(true);
   const [requireEvidence, setRequireEvidence] = useState(true);
   const [fetchImages, setFetchImages] = useState(true);
   // Set by the 409 the ingest route answers with when the brand sits outside
@@ -99,13 +104,16 @@ export function BrandDiscoveryPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
       const body = await api.previewBrandDiscovery({
         brand: brand.trim(),
         use_openfacts: useOpenfacts,
-        use_llm: useLlm,
+        // SENT, NOT OMITTED. DiscoveryPreviewRequest.use_llm defaults to True
+        // on the server, so leaving the key out would quietly re-enable the
+        // source this panel no longer exposes.
+        use_llm: false,
         require_evidence: requireEvidence,
       });
       setResult(body);
-      // Pre-tick what discovery judged confident. An uncorroborated row from
-      // the language model arrives unticked rather than hidden, so the operator
-      // decides rather than the default deciding for them.
+      // Pre-tick what discovery judged confident. A row nothing corroborates
+      // arrives unticked rather than hidden, so the operator decides rather
+      // than the default deciding for them.
       setSelected(
         new Set(
           (body.products || [])
@@ -174,10 +182,11 @@ export function BrandDiscoveryPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
           <h2 className="text-sm font-bold text-ink-950">Brand Discovery</h2>
         </div>
         <p className="text-xs text-slate-600 max-w-3xl">
-          Enter any brand - one already in the catalog or a new one. Products are
-          found in Open Food Facts first, which supplies real names, pack sizes
-          and barcodes, and the local language model fills the gaps. Nothing is
-          written until you review the list and press Ingest.
+          Enter any brand - one already in the catalog or a new one. Products
+          come from Open Food Facts, which supplies real names, pack sizes and
+          barcodes, and from the brand's own online shop where one is
+          registered. Nothing is written until you review the list and press
+          Ingest.
         </p>
 
         <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2">
@@ -205,19 +214,13 @@ export function BrandDiscoveryPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
           </button>
         </div>
 
-        <div className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-4">
+        <div className="grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3">
           <Toggle
             checked={useOpenfacts}
             onChange={setUseOpenfacts}
             label="Open Food Facts"
             hint="Real products, with barcodes"
           />
-          <Toggle
-            checked={useLlm}
-            onChange={setUseLlm}
-            label="Language model"
-            hint="Adds breadth; can invent products"
-          />
           <Toggle
             checked={requireEvidence}
             onChange={setRequireEvidence}
@@ -360,10 +363,11 @@ export function BrandDiscoveryPanel({ onBatchStarted }) {
 
           {products.length === 0 && (
             <p className="text-xs text-slate-500">
-              Nothing was found for this brand. Open Food Facts may not carry it -
-              non-food brands are thin there - and with "Require evidence" on, any
-              uncorroborated model suggestions were dropped. Try turning that off
-              to see them, unticked.
+              Nothing was found for this brand. Open Food Facts may not carry
+              it - non-food brands are thin there - and no verified storefront
+              may be registered for it. Discovery only offers products a real
+              source can vouch for, so an empty list means nothing was found,
+              not that something was hidden.
             </p>
           )}
         </div>