diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 6bcbc5f..72cc9b2 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -91,10 +91,17 @@ protocol; the config in `deploy/mavend.json` (with `${VAR}` env expansion from g
 decision, not an oversight** (Vikunja #463, `docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md`).
 homesrv has a microphone — it is a laptop — but it is in the wrong room, so a wake-word
 daemon there listens to nobody. They belong on a client machine where the owner is standing.
-`ipc.Dial` already takes `tcp://host:port?token=...` through the netaddr seam, so nothing
-needs building to allow it, but no such machine exists yet. **The consequence: the wake
-word and the VAD gate are covered by unit tests and by nothing else, and no amount of
-sitting at the box changes that.** Push-to-talk through `/dash` is what QA actually covers.
+
+**That machine is workpc** (owner's correction, 2026-08-05). This section used to say no
+such machine existed, which was written when the workstation was only a model host. It is
+where he sits most of the day and it has the microphone. `ipc.Dial` already takes
+`tcp://host:port?token=...` through the netaddr seam, so the two daemons need deploying,
+not building. V-515 is that deployment.
+
+Until they are deployed, **the wake word and the VAD gate are covered by unit tests and by
+nothing else**, and push-to-talk through `/dash` is what QA actually covers. Note that
+deploying them does not by itself prove a wake word: `mavwaked` gates on energy and has no
+keyword model (V-487), so the loop runs open until that lands.
 
 ## The ecosystem: Nexus, Praxis, Hexis
 
diff --git a/docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md b/docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md
index e79fd6c..eafbd83 100644
--- a/docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md
+++ b/docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md
@@ -47,7 +47,13 @@ for.
 
 QA session 1 step 2 should say what it actually covers, which is push-to-talk through
 `/dash`. It should not read as though it covers the voice loop. The wake path is checked
-on the client machine or it is not checked, and today there is no client machine.
+on the client machine or it is not checked.
+
+**Correction, 2026-08-05.** This plan said there was no client machine. There is: workpc,
+where he sits most of the day and where the microphone is. The sentence was written when
+the workstation was only a model host. The verdict above is unchanged, and so is
+everything about the seam. What changes is the size of the remaining work: deploying two
+daemons and asking mavend to listen on TCP, not acquiring hardware.
 
 That is the honest state, and it is worse than the task suggests: this is not a
 configuration gap that a compose entry closes. Until a machine with a microphone runs
diff --git a/docs/qa.md b/docs/qa.md
index f9073f4..cd1c808 100644
--- a/docs/qa.md
+++ b/docs/qa.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # QA plan: checking Maven properly
 
-*Last verified: 2026-08-04 @ 8d816f4. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+*Last verified: 2026-08-05 @ 12667fd. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
 
 Written 2026-08-01, after the 35-PR stack landed and the box came back up.
 Refreshed 2026-08-02 against the live list, after PRs #85-#90.
@@ -255,8 +255,13 @@ room — **463**, written up in `docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md`.
 So the wake word and the VAD gate are covered by their unit tests and by
 nothing else, and no session at this box changes that. Checking them needs a
 machine with a microphone running both binaries against a TCP-listening mavend.
-`ipc.Dial` already speaks `tcp://host:port?token=...`, so the work is a machine
-and a config line, not protocol work. Until then, **287** can only be
+`ipc.Dial` already speaks `tcp://host:port?token=...`, so the work is not
+protocol work.
+
+That machine is workpc (owner's correction, 05-08-2026). This section used to
+call it a machine Maven does not have. That was written when the workstation
+was only a model host. So the remaining work is deploying two daemons and
+asking mavend to listen on TCP. Until that is done, **287** can only be
 half-answered, and step 2 above is push-to-talk, not the voice loop.
 
 **319's single-token bug is fixed** (01-08-2026). Single-word Russian utterances no longer come