diff --git a/.changeset/home-card-ai-assistant-copy.md b/.changeset/home-card-ai-assistant-copy.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+---
+'hotcrm': patch
+---
+
+The home page's AI card no longer names a retired assistant persona, and it now
+sends you to the entry point the product documentation describes.
+
+The right-hand card on the Sales Home page read:
+
+```
+Today with Copilot
+Ask the Sales Copilot
+Open the floating Copilot (bottom-right) and ask "what should I focus on
+today?" — it sees your live pipeline, schema, and accounts.
+```
+
+Two things were wrong with that, and both were visible to a user today — this is
+interface copy, not documentation. **The persona does not exist**: the app's own
+`sales_copilot` agent was retired long ago, and AI capability is implemented by
+agents on the platform side while HotCRM contributes domain skills, so a card
+inviting you to "ask the Sales Copilot" names an entity this app does not
+contain. **The entry point was wrong too**: the card described a floating widget
+in the bottom-right corner, while the assistant is the chat panel the platform
+opens from the right edge of every page — the wording the `AI Copilot` docs
+section already uses. Whichever of the two was accurate, users were being given
+two different places to look.
+
+The card now reads:
+
+```
+Today with the AI Assistant
+Ask the AI Assistant
+Open the assistant panel from the right edge of the page and ask "what should I
+focus on today?" — it sees your live pipeline, schema, and accounts.
+```
+
+What the card *does* is unchanged — same card, same position on the page, same
+suggested question, same statement about what the assistant can see. Only the
+name and the directions changed.
+
+This was the last live persona mention outside the documentation. The prose
+sweep shipped separately and its guard is scoped to the documentation tree, so
+this string sat outside every check: `os validate` and `pnpm lint` walk metadata
+shape and treat a card's `title` and `description` as free text. A pin in
+`test/metadata-references.test.ts` now holds this card to the platform-assistant
+wording. Note that card-level copy has no locale keys — the translation contract
+carries page `label` / `description` / `title` / `subtitle` only — so this card
+renders the English string in every locale, exactly as it did before (#1004).
+
+Fixes #1002.
diff --git a/src/pages/home.page.ts b/src/pages/home.page.ts
index dcce85cd..57cf97de 100644
--- a/src/pages/home.page.ts
+++ b/src/pages/home.page.ts
@@ -231,11 +231,18 @@ export const SalesHomePage: Page = {
         {
           type: 'page:card',
           id: 'ai_briefing',
-          label: 'Today with Copilot',
+          // The assistant is the PLATFORM's (`ask`), not an app-owned persona:
+          // HotCRM contributes skills, the agent lives in the cloud side
+          // (maintainer ruling on #612, 2026-08-04). The retired `sales_copilot`
+          // agent (#512, ADR-0063 §2) must not be named in live UI copy — and
+          // the entry point is the assistant panel the platform opens from the
+          // right edge of every page, which is the wording
+          // `content/docs/ai-copilot/index.mdx` landed in #611/PR #1001.
+          label: 'Today with the AI Assistant',
           properties: {
-            title: 'Ask the Sales Copilot',
+            title: 'Ask the AI Assistant',
             description:
-              'Open the floating Copilot (bottom-right) and ask "what should I focus on today?" — it sees your live pipeline, schema, and accounts.',
+              'Open the assistant panel from the right edge of the page and ask "what should I focus on today?" — it sees your live pipeline, schema, and accounts.',
             bordered: true,
           },
         },
diff --git a/test/metadata-references.test.ts b/test/metadata-references.test.ts
index 68195a0c..51428a04 100644
--- a/test/metadata-references.test.ts
+++ b/test/metadata-references.test.ts
@@ -746,3 +746,83 @@ describe('app AI bindings resolve to a platform agent', () => {
     expect(((stack as any).skills ?? []).length, 'no skills registered').toBeGreaterThan(0);
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * The home page's AI card does not name a retired persona (#1002).
+ *
+ * The two guards above check agent BINDINGS — `defaultAgent`, `stack.agents` —
+ * because those are keys a schema can be pointed at. This one checks a
+ * paragraph, and that is the whole point: the card below said
+ * "Ask the Sales Copilot" for months while every gate stayed green. `os
+ * validate` and `pnpm lint` walk authored metadata and treat a card's `title` /
+ * `description` as free text; PR #1001's persona rule is deliberately scoped to
+ * `content/docs/**` (the range the maintainer drew for #612), so it never
+ * opened a `.page.ts`. A retired persona in `src/` had no guard at all — and
+ * this one was live UI copy, visible to a user today, not documentation.
+ *
+ * Two drifts were fixed here, both from the maintainer's 2026-08-04 ruling on
+ * #612 (Option A) and the architecture note that followed it:
+ *
+ * - **The persona.** `sales_copilot` was retired in #512 and ADR-0063 §2 made
+ *   the surface skills-only. AI capability is implemented by agents in
+ *   `objectstack-ai/cloud`; HotCRM contributes domain skills. So the copy names
+ *   the platform's assistant, never an app-owned one.
+ * - **The entry point.** The card sent users to "the floating Copilot
+ *   (bottom-right)"; `content/docs/ai-copilot/index.mdx` documents "the chat
+ *   panel the platform opens from the right edge of every page" (#611 / PR
+ *   #1001). Two descriptions of one entry point is drift whichever is right, so
+ *   the card now uses the documented one.
+ *
+ * SCOPE — read before extending. This pins the ONE card this PR rewrote. It is
+ * not the general rule, and it cannot catch the same persona reappearing in a
+ * different card, view, or skill description: that is a scan-surface question
+ * over every user-visible string in `src/` (`title` / `label` / `description` /
+ * `help`), which touches the public wording surface and needs its own ruling.
+ * Filed as #1003 for that reason — do not quietly grow this into it.
+ *
+ * Reverse verification: predicted red-before / green-after, the ordinary
+ * direction for a forbidden-string pin over copy that plainly contained the
+ * string. Measured by restoring the old three lines: 2 of 3 assertions fail
+ * ("Ask the Sales Copilot" on `title`, "Today with Copilot" on `label`, and the
+ * floating/bottom-right entry point), then green once rewritten.
+ */
+describe('live UI copy does not name a retired copilot persona (#1002)', () => {
+  const homePage = pages.find((p) => p.name === 'sales_home_page');
+
+  /** The card carries the app's only AI-facing home-page copy. */
+  const card = [...walk(homePage?.regions), ...walk(homePage?.slots)].find(
+    (c: AnyRec) => c.id === 'ai_briefing',
+  );
+
+  it('the card this rule reads is still on the home page', () => {
+    // Guard the guard: renamed away, every assertion below would pass by
+    // reading `undefined` — the empty-pass failure mode a copy rule dies of.
+    expect(homePage, 'sales_home_page is no longer registered in the stack').toBeDefined();
+    expect(card, 'no component with id "ai_briefing" on sales_home_page').toBeDefined();
+    expect(typeof card?.properties?.title).toBe('string');
+    expect(typeof card?.properties?.description).toBe('string');
+  });
+
+  it('no retired persona name in the card copy', () => {
+    const copy = [card?.label, card?.properties?.title, card?.properties?.description]
+      .filter((s): s is string => typeof s === 'string')
+      .join('\n');
+    // The bare word is included on purpose: "Copilot" alone reads as an
+    // app-owned assistant in UI copy, even though the DOCS keep *AI Copilot* as
+    // a section name (#611's line, which applies to a docs nav, not to a card).
+    const found = ['Sales Copilot', 'Service Copilot', 'Copilot'].filter((name) =>
+      copy.includes(name),
+    );
+    expect(found, `retired persona named in home-page card copy: ${found.join(', ')}`).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('the card points at the documented assistant entry point', () => {
+    const description: string = card?.properties?.description ?? '';
+    // The stale spelling, not a paraphrase of the new one: pinning the exact
+    // sentence would fail on any harmless rewording, while "floating" /
+    // "bottom-right" is precisely the claim that contradicts the docs.
+    expect(description.toLowerCase()).not.toContain('floating');
+    expect(description.toLowerCase()).not.toContain('bottom-right');
+    expect(description).toContain('right edge');
+  });
+});