diff --git a/src/components/Findings.tsx b/src/components/Findings.tsx
index ca73aea..ae5c5b0 100644
--- a/src/components/Findings.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Findings.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import type { Slice } from '../api/charts';
 import { affectedClaimsHref, recoverableClaimsHref } from '../lib/claimsLink';
 import { Badge, Card, Facts } from './core';
 import type { AvaDecision, AvaTraceStep, Row } from '../api/types';
-import { firstDeadline, headline, money, num, pct, prose, recommendations, shortDate, splitRecommendation, sqlSteps, str } from '../format';
+import { firstDeadline, headline, money, num, pct, prose, recommendations, sentences, shortDate, splitRecommendation, sqlSteps, str, workStatement } from '../format';
 
 /**
  * Ava's findings, laid out for a person who has ninety seconds.
@@ -63,12 +63,7 @@ export function Verdict({
           )}
           <span className="ml-auto">AI analysis · Ava</span>
         </div>
-        {scanned && (
-          <p className="mt-3 border-t border-ai-edge/60 pt-3 text-[13px] leading-relaxed text-muted">
-            <span className="font-semibold text-ink">What Ava reviewed. </span>
-            {scanned}
-          </p>
-        )}
+        {scanned && <WorkStatement text={scanned} />}
       </div>
 
       <div className="grid gap-px bg-line sm:grid-cols-3">
@@ -96,6 +91,41 @@ export function Verdict({
   );
 }
 
+/** What was covered, as rows of short facts — not a paragraph. Ava writes it
+ *  as labelled lines; older cases wrote prose, which falls back to sentence
+ *  bullets so nothing renders as a wall of text. */
+function WorkStatement({ text }: { text: string }) {
+  const rows = workStatement(text);
+  const TONE: Record<string, string> = { FOUND: 'text-warn', WATCHED: 'text-muted', CLEAR: 'text-good', REVIEWED: 'text-ink' };
+  return (
+    <div className="mt-3 border-t border-ai-edge/60 pt-3">
+      <p className="text-[11px] font-semibold tracking-wide text-faint uppercase">Review coverage</p>
+      {rows ? (
+        <dl className="mt-2 grid gap-y-2 text-[13px] sm:grid-cols-[9.5rem_1fr] sm:gap-x-4">
+          {rows.map((r) => (
+            <div key={r.key} className="contents">
+              <dt className={`font-semibold ${TONE[r.key] ?? 'text-ink'}`}>{r.label}</dt>
+              <dd className="flex flex-wrap gap-x-1.5 gap-y-1">
+                {r.items.map((it, i) => (
+                  <span key={i} className="rounded-md bg-panel px-2 py-0.5 text-ink ring-1 ring-line ring-inset">
+                    {it}
+                  </span>
+                ))}
+              </dd>
+            </div>
+          ))}
+        </dl>
+      ) : (
+        <ul className="mt-2 list-disc space-y-1 pl-4 text-[13px] text-muted">
+          {sentences(text).map((s, i) => (
+            <li key={i}>{s}</li>
+          ))}
+        </ul>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
 /** The decision list. Rendered directly above the Approve / Send back / Reject buttons. */
 export function Recommendations({ row }: { row: Row }) {
   const recs = recommendations(row.recommendations).map(prose);
diff --git a/src/format.ts b/src/format.ts
index 934e252..0779d21 100644
--- a/src/format.ts
+++ b/src/format.ts
@@ -184,6 +184,28 @@ export function firstDeadline(recs: unknown): string | null {
 }
 
 /** 2026-10-02 → "Oct 2" */
+/** Ava's work statement: labelled lines ("REVIEWED: a; b; c"). Returns the
+ *  rows in her order, items split on ";" — or null when the text is an older
+ *  free-form paragraph, in which case the caller falls back to sentences. */
+export const WORK_LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
+  REVIEWED: 'Reviewed',
+  FOUND: 'Found',
+  WATCHED: 'Watched, below the bar',
+  CLEAR: 'Checked, nothing',
+};
+export function workStatement(v: unknown): Array<{ key: string; label: string; items: string[] }> | null {
+  const lines = str(v).split(/\n+/).map((l) => l.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+  const rows: Array<{ key: string; label: string; items: string[] }> = [];
+  for (const line of lines) {
+    const m = line.match(/^([A-Z][A-Z ]{2,20}):\s*(.*)$/);
+    if (!m) continue;
+    const key = m[1].trim();
+    const items = m[2].split(/;\s*/).map((x) => x.trim().replace(/[.]$/, '')).filter(Boolean);
+    rows.push({ key, label: WORK_LABELS[key] ?? key.charAt(0) + key.slice(1).toLowerCase(), items });
+  }
+  return rows.length >= 2 ? rows : null;
+}
+
 /** 2026-07-26 → "Jul 26, 2026". For prose; shortDate is for axes and chips. */
 export function longDate(iso: string | null): string {
   if (!iso) return '';
diff --git a/src/screens/QueueScreen.tsx b/src/screens/QueueScreen.tsx
index e498fb5..8a1496b 100644
--- a/src/screens/QueueScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/screens/QueueScreen.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { useQuery, useZino } from '../api/provider';
 import { FINDING_KIND, QUEUES, RECORD_VIEW, STAGE_TONE } from '../api/config';
 import { Badge, Button, Empty, ErrorNote, Spinner } from '../components/core';
 import type { Row } from '../api/types';
-import { dateTime, headline, money, num, prose, str } from '../format';
+import { dateTime, headline, money, num, prose, sentences, str, workStatement } from '../format';
 
 /**
  * A queue, as a morning briefing.
@@ -157,7 +157,11 @@ function CaseCard({ row, onOpen }: { row: Row; onOpen: () => void }) {
         )}
         <ChevronRight className="mt-1 h-4 w-4 shrink-0 text-faint" />
       </div>
-      {quiet && scanned && <p className="mt-1.5 line-clamp-2 text-xs text-muted">{scanned}</p>}
+      {quiet && scanned && (
+        <p className="mt-1.5 line-clamp-2 text-xs text-muted">
+          {(workStatement(scanned)?.find((r) => r.key === 'REVIEWED')?.items ?? sentences(scanned).slice(0, 1)).join(' · ')}
+        </p>
+      )}
     </button>
   );
 }