diff --git a/data/menuItems.ts b/data/menuItems.ts
index a5f228ee..5ad18e5e 100644
--- a/data/menuItems.ts
+++ b/data/menuItems.ts
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export const menuItems: MenuItem[] = [
       header: {
         title: 'AI Professionals',
         subtitle: 'Expert advisors for every need',
-        gradient: 'bg-gradient-to-r from-blue-50 to-purple-50',
+        gradient: 'bg-action-tint',
       },
     },
   },
diff --git a/data/professionals.ts b/data/professionals.ts
index 58155130..5d125be1 100644
--- a/data/professionals.ts
+++ b/data/professionals.ts
@@ -334,64 +334,21 @@ export const professionalCategories = {
 } as const;
 
 /**
- * Get accent color class for Tailwind
+ * Accent classes for a first-party professional.
+ *
+ * There is one scheme, because there is one brand. These six ARE Botsmann, so
+ * they wear the identity defined in app/globals.css rather than a per-person
+ * colour -- a blue Lex beside an ochre CTA was the whole problem.
+ *
+ * The `color` argument is kept so callers and the data shape stay unchanged;
+ * it no longer selects a palette.
  */
-export const getAccentColorClasses = (color: ProfessionalAccentColor) => {
-  const colors = {
-    blue: {
-      bg: 'bg-blue-500',
-      bgLight: 'bg-blue-100',
-      bgGradient: 'from-blue-500 to-blue-600',
-      text: 'text-blue-600',
-      border: 'border-blue-500',
-      hover: 'hover:bg-blue-600',
-      groupHoverText: 'group-hover:text-blue-600',
-    },
-    green: {
-      bg: 'bg-green-500',
-      bgLight: 'bg-green-100',
-      bgGradient: 'from-green-500 to-green-600',
-      text: 'text-green-600',
-      border: 'border-green-500',
-      hover: 'hover:bg-green-600',
-      groupHoverText: 'group-hover:text-green-600',
-    },
-    indigo: {
-      bg: 'bg-indigo-500',
-      bgLight: 'bg-indigo-100',
-      bgGradient: 'from-indigo-500 to-indigo-600',
-      text: 'text-indigo-600',
-      border: 'border-indigo-500',
-      hover: 'hover:bg-indigo-600',
-      groupHoverText: 'group-hover:text-indigo-600',
-    },
-    red: {
-      bg: 'bg-red-500',
-      bgLight: 'bg-red-100',
-      bgGradient: 'from-red-500 to-red-600',
-      text: 'text-red-600',
-      border: 'border-red-500',
-      hover: 'hover:bg-red-600',
-      groupHoverText: 'group-hover:text-red-600',
-    },
-    amber: {
-      bg: 'bg-amber-500',
-      bgLight: 'bg-amber-100',
-      bgGradient: 'from-amber-500 to-amber-600',
-      text: 'text-amber-600',
-      border: 'border-amber-500',
-      hover: 'hover:bg-amber-600',
-      groupHoverText: 'group-hover:text-amber-600',
-    },
-    purple: {
-      bg: 'bg-purple-500',
-      bgLight: 'bg-purple-100',
-      bgGradient: 'from-purple-500 to-purple-600',
-      text: 'text-purple-600',
-      border: 'border-purple-500',
-      hover: 'hover:bg-purple-600',
-      groupHoverText: 'group-hover:text-purple-600',
-    },
-  };
-  return colors[color];
-};
+export const getAccentColorClasses = (_color?: ProfessionalAccentColor) => ({
+  bg: 'bg-action',
+  bgLight: 'bg-action-tint',
+  bgGradient: 'from-action to-action-hover',
+  text: 'text-action',
+  border: 'border-action',
+  hover: 'hover:bg-action-hover',
+  groupHoverText: 'group-hover:text-action',
+});
diff --git a/tests/__tests__/lib/design-tokens.test.ts b/tests/__tests__/lib/design-tokens.test.ts
index e0be795f..b2b539c7 100644
--- a/tests/__tests__/lib/design-tokens.test.ts
+++ b/tests/__tests__/lib/design-tokens.test.ts
@@ -37,8 +37,19 @@ const CUSTOM_BOT_SURFACES = [
   join('lib', 'config', 'colors.ts'),
 ];
 
-/** Semantic status colours are a separate scale from the brand accent. */
-const SEMANTIC_FILES = [join('components', 'knowledge', 'Callout.tsx')];
+/**
+ * Categorical and semantic scales, which are NOT the brand accent.
+ *
+ * A status scale has to stay mutually distinguishable: recolouring
+ * "processing" to ochre would make it read as brand chrome rather than state.
+ * Same for provider identity, which exists so you can tell Ollama from OpenAI
+ * at a glance. Each entry is an exception with a reason, not a to-do.
+ */
+const SEMANTIC_FILES = [
+  join('components', 'knowledge', 'Callout.tsx'), // info / warning / error
+  join('lib', 'constants.ts'), // document status: pending / processing / ready / error
+  join('lib', 'infrastructure', 'providers.ts'), // per-provider identity colours
+];
 
 function tsxFiles(dir: string): string[] {
   const out: string[] = [];
@@ -59,7 +70,15 @@ function isAllowed(rel: string): boolean {
 }
 
 describe('design tokens', () => {
-  const files = [...tsxFiles(join(ROOT, 'app')), ...tsxFiles(join(ROOT, 'components'))];
+  // data/ and lib/ too: the palette hid in data/professionals.ts for a whole
+  // sweep because the first version of this guard only looked at app/ and
+  // components/. A scanner is blind in exactly the shapes it forgets to read.
+  const files = [
+    ...tsxFiles(join(ROOT, 'app')),
+    ...tsxFiles(join(ROOT, 'components')),
+    ...tsxFiles(join(ROOT, 'data')),
+    ...tsxFiles(join(ROOT, 'lib')),
+  ];
 
   it('scans a meaningful number of files', () => {
     expect(files.length).toBeGreaterThan(100);