diff --git a/app/(shell)/focus/WalkthroughBanner.tsx b/app/(shell)/focus/WalkthroughBanner.tsx
index 405949667..b2291f753 100644
--- a/app/(shell)/focus/WalkthroughBanner.tsx
+++ b/app/(shell)/focus/WalkthroughBanner.tsx
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ function getSteps(clientNoun: string): WalkthroughStep[] {
     {
       icon: <Check className="h-4 w-4 text-teal" />,
       title: "Approve, skip, or dismiss",
-      description: "Tap Approve to send outreach on your behalf. Skip to revisit later. Dismiss to remove it. You stay in control. Nothing sends without your OK.",
+      description: "Tap Approve and Relay sends the outreach for you — never before you approve. Skip to revisit later, or Dismiss to remove it. You stay in control.",
     },
     {
       icon: <Eye className="h-4 w-4 text-amber-400" />,
diff --git a/components/focus/SingleActionQueue.tsx b/components/focus/SingleActionQueue.tsx
index d228ae610..6afe89d16 100644
--- a/components/focus/SingleActionQueue.tsx
+++ b/components/focus/SingleActionQueue.tsx
@@ -330,6 +330,14 @@ export function SingleActionQueue({
             <Check className="h-4 w-4" aria-hidden />
             Approve
           </button>
+          {/* Answer the owner's scariest question AT her thumb, not three rows
+              up in the TrustStrip. Driven off the same canonical provenance.sends
+              boolean so it can never overclaim a send. */}
+          <p className="text-center text-xs text-stone-400">
+            {provenance.sends
+              ? `Approving sends this to ${current.target?.name ?? "your client"}.`
+              : "Approving drafts this for your review — nothing is sent yet."}
+          </p>
           <div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-2">
             <button
               type="button"