diff --git a/src/components/Findings.tsx b/src/components/Findings.tsx
index 7d79493..b5a89f6 100644
--- a/src/components/Findings.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Findings.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { useState } from 'react';
 import { AlertTriangle, CheckCircle2, ChevronDown, FileSearch } from 'lucide-react';
 import { Badge, Card, Facts } from './core';
-import type { Row } from '../api/types';
+import type { AvaTraceStep, Row } from '../api/types';
 import {
   firstDeadline,
   headline,
@@ -148,11 +148,22 @@ export function FullStory({ row }: { row: Row }) {
   );
 }
 
-/** Every SQL statement she ran. For the sceptic in the room. Collapsed. */
-export function SqlEvidence({ row }: { row: Row }) {
+/**
+ * Every SQL statement she ran. For the sceptic in the room. Collapsed.
+ *
+ * SOURCE OF TRUTH IS THE TRACE, not her sql_log field. The platform records
+ * every statement the agentic tool sent, verbatim, with Databricks' own
+ * SUCCEEDED/FAILED and the row count — so that is what is shown. Her sql_log
+ * is now a one-line-per-step index ("3c: department cut -> Cardiology +13
+ * pts") and is used only as the note beside each statement. Asking her to
+ * paste 16 full queries into a form field was what blew the tool call past
+ * the output cap and lost a whole investigation.
+ */
+export function SqlEvidence({ row, steps }: { row: Row; steps: AvaTraceStep[] }) {
   const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
-  const steps = sqlSteps(row.sql_log);
-  if (steps.length === 0) return null;
+  const queries = steps.filter((s) => s.type === 'api' && s.detail);
+  const notes = sqlSteps(row.sql_log);
+  if (queries.length === 0 && notes.length === 0) return null;
 
   return (
     <Disclosure
@@ -160,19 +171,40 @@ export function SqlEvidence({ row }: { row: Row }) {
       onToggle={() => setOpen(!open)}
       icon={<CheckCircle2 className="h-4 w-4 text-good" />}
       title="Her evidence"
-      hint={`${steps.length} database queries, exactly as she ran them — anyone can re-run these`}
+      hint={
+        queries.length
+          ? `${queries.length} database queries, exactly as she ran them — anyone can re-run these`
+          : `${notes.length} steps, in her own words`
+      }
     >
-      <ol className="divide-y divide-line">
-        {steps.map((s, i) => (
-          <li key={i} className="px-5 py-3">
-            {s.label && (
-              <p className="text-[11px] font-semibold tracking-wide text-faint uppercase">{s.label}</p>
-            )}
-            <pre className="sql mt-1 text-muted">{s.sql}</pre>
-            {s.note && <p className="mt-1.5 text-xs text-ink">{s.note}</p>}
-          </li>
-        ))}
-      </ol>
+      {queries.length > 0 ? (
+        <ol className="divide-y divide-line">
+          {queries.map((q, i) => (
+            <li key={`${q.seq}-${i}`} className="px-5 py-3">
+              <p className="flex items-center gap-2 text-[11px] font-semibold tracking-wide text-faint uppercase">
+                Query {i + 1}
+                {q.query_state === 'FAILED' ? (
+                  <Badge tone="amber">error — corrected next</Badge>
+                ) : q.rows_returned != null ? (
+                  <span className="tnum font-normal normal-case">{q.rows_returned} row{q.rows_returned === 1 ? '' : 's'}</span>
+                ) : null}
+              </p>
+              <pre className="sql mt-1 text-muted">{q.detail}</pre>
+              {notes[i]?.note && <p className="mt-1.5 text-xs text-ink">{notes[i].note}</p>}
+            </li>
+          ))}
+        </ol>
+      ) : (
+        <ol className="divide-y divide-line">
+          {notes.map((s, i) => (
+            <li key={i} className="px-5 py-3">
+              {s.label && <p className="text-[11px] font-semibold tracking-wide text-faint uppercase">{s.label}</p>}
+              <p className="mt-1 text-sm text-ink">{s.sql}</p>
+              {s.note && <p className="mt-1 text-xs text-muted">{s.note}</p>}
+            </li>
+          ))}
+        </ol>
+      )}
     </Disclosure>
   );
 }
diff --git a/src/screens/CaseScreen.tsx b/src/screens/CaseScreen.tsx
index ecf5e0b..1007d1a 100644
--- a/src/screens/CaseScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/screens/CaseScreen.tsx
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ export function CaseScreen() {
       {hasFindings && (
         <>
           <FullStory row={row} />
-          <SqlEvidence row={row} />
+          <SqlEvidence row={row} steps={trace.data ?? []} />
           {!aiOwned && (
             <Disclosure
               open={showWork}
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ export function CaseScreen() {
       )}
       {quiet && (
         <>
-          <SqlEvidence row={row} />
+          <SqlEvidence row={row} steps={trace.data ?? []} />
           <Disclosure
             open={showWork}
             onToggle={() => setShowWork(!showWork)}