diff --git a/advocate.php b/advocate.php
index 4049f9c..6171ebd 100644
--- a/advocate.php
+++ b/advocate.php
@@ -52,13 +52,13 @@ require_once __DIR__ . '/includes/layout.php';
 
                     <div class="control-row" id="advEngineControl">
                         <span class="control-label">Engine</span>
-                        <label><input type="radio" name="advEngine" value="azure_mini" checked> Azure gpt-4o-mini &#9733; <small class="control-hint">(~15-45s)</small></label>
+                        <label><input type="radio" name="advEngine" value="azure_mini" checked> &#x2601;&#xFE0F; Claude Haiku 4.5 (fast) <small class="control-hint">(~20-50s)</small></label>
                         <label><input type="radio" name="advEngine" value="azure_full"> Azure gpt-4o <small class="control-hint">(best · ~60-180s)</small></label>
                         <label><input type="radio" name="advEngine" value="gpu"> GPU (cuttlefish) <small class="control-hint">(local · ~30-90s)</small></label>
                         <label><input type="radio" name="advEngine" value="dbn_legal_v3"> &#x1F1F3;&#x1F1F4;&#9876;&#65039; DBN Legal Agent &#9733; <small class="control-hint">(dbn-legal-agent-v3 fine-tune · ~20-60s)</small></label>
-                        <label><input type="radio" name="advEngine" value="claude_sonnet"> &#x2601;&#xFE0F; Claude Sonnet 4.6 (AWS Bedrock) &#9733;&#9733; <small class="control-hint">(best · ~30-90s)</small></label>
+                        <label><input type="radio" name="advEngine" value="claude_sonnet"> &#x2601;&#xFE0F; Claude Sonnet 4.6 (thorough) &#9733;&#9733; <small class="control-hint">(best · ~60-120s)</small></label>
                     </div>
-                    <p class="upload-hint">Azure mini finishes fastest. Claude Sonnet 4.6 via AWS Bedrock produces the most thorough advocate brief — superior at multi-party legal reasoning, ECHR precedent weighting, and long-form argumentation. Norwegian specialist v3 is a Qwen2.5 fine-tune trained on barnevernsloven, ECHR, and forvaltningsloven — highest precision for § 4-25, Strand Lobben, and procedural red flags.</p>
+                    <p class="upload-hint">Claude Haiku 4.5 is fast and accurate for most cases. Claude Sonnet 4.6 produces the most thorough advocate brief — superior at multi-party legal reasoning, ECHR precedent weighting, and long-form argumentation. Norwegian specialist v3 is a Qwen2.5 fine-tune trained on barnevernsloven, ECHR, and forvaltningsloven — highest precision for § 4-25, Strand Lobben, and procedural red flags.</p>
 
                     <div class="dr-slice-section">
                         <p class="control-label">Corpus slices</p>
diff --git a/includes/DeepResearchAgent.php b/includes/DeepResearchAgent.php
index e5db729..eab2f5f 100644
--- a/includes/DeepResearchAgent.php
+++ b/includes/DeepResearchAgent.php
@@ -501,8 +501,11 @@ PROMPT;
                 ]);
                 $raw = (string)($resp['choices'][0]['message']['content'] ?? '');
             } else {
-                $raw = $this->azure->chatText([$sysMsg, $userMsg],
-                    ['json' => true, 'temperature' => 0.1, 'max_tokens' => 500, 'timeout' => 30]);
+                $interpGateway = ($this->azure instanceof DbnBedrockGateway)
+                    ? $this->azure->withDeployment(DbnBedrockModelRouter::LITELLM_HAIKU)
+                    : $this->azure;
+                $raw = $interpGateway->chatText([$sysMsg, $userMsg],
+                    ['json' => true, 'temperature' => 0.1, 'max_tokens' => 500, 'timeout' => 60]);
             }
             $json = $this->azure->decodeJsonObject($raw);
             if (is_array($json) && !empty($json['brief'])) {
@@ -532,6 +535,10 @@ PROMPT;
             ? "\nKey retrieval anchors (incorporate these terms into your sub-questions where relevant):\n" . implode(', ', $keySignals) . "\n"
             : '';
 
+        // Truncate seed to 2000 chars — $brief already captures the key context;
+        // the full upload text (up to 192K chars) would push past the 60s timeout.
+        $seedExcerpt = mb_strimwidth($seedDescription, 0, 2000, '…', 'UTF-8');
+
         if ($advocateRole !== '') {
             $prompt = <<<PROMPT
 You are a Norwegian family-law research assistant building a case for: {$advocateRole}.
@@ -546,7 +553,7 @@ Research brief:
 {$brief}
 {$anchorsLine}
 Raw input:
-{$seedDescription}
+{$seedExcerpt}
 
 Return JSON only in {$locale}:
 {
@@ -571,7 +578,7 @@ Research brief:
 {$brief}
 {$anchorsLine}
 Raw input:
-{$seedDescription}
+{$seedExcerpt}
 
 Return JSON only:
 {
@@ -600,8 +607,11 @@ PROMPT;
                 ]);
                 $raw = (string)($resp['choices'][0]['message']['content'] ?? '');
             } else {
-                $raw = $this->azure->chatText([$sysMsg, $userMsg],
-                    ['json' => true, 'temperature' => 0.2, 'max_tokens' => 700, 'timeout' => 35]);
+                $expGateway = ($this->azure instanceof DbnBedrockGateway)
+                    ? $this->azure->withDeployment(DbnBedrockModelRouter::LITELLM_HAIKU)
+                    : $this->azure;
+                $raw = $expGateway->chatText([$sysMsg, $userMsg],
+                    ['json' => true, 'temperature' => 0.2, 'max_tokens' => 700, 'timeout' => 60]);
             }
             $json = $this->azure->decodeJsonObject($raw);
             $items = is_array($json['sub_questions'] ?? null) ? $json['sub_questions'] : [];
@@ -1142,6 +1152,12 @@ PROMPT;
             } elseif ($engine === 'azure_full') {
                 $raw = $this->azure->withDeployment('gpt-4o')->chatText($messages, $opts);
                 $deployLabel = 'gpt-4o';
+            } elseif ($engine === 'azure_mini' && $this->azure instanceof DbnBedrockGateway) {
+                // When Bedrock enabled, azure_mini → Haiku (fast, ~20-40s synthesis)
+                $haiku = $this->azure->withDeployment(DbnBedrockModelRouter::LITELLM_HAIKU);
+                $raw = $haiku->chatText($messages, array_merge($opts, ['max_tokens' => 2500, 'timeout' => 90]));
+                $deployLabel = 'Claude Haiku 4.5 (AWS Bedrock)';
+                $thinkingTrace = null;
             } elseif ($engine === 'claude_sonnet' || ($this->azure instanceof DbnBedrockGateway)) {
                 if (
                     $this->azure instanceof DbnBedrockGateway