diff --git a/src/components/Timeline.css b/src/components/Timeline.css
index 8b3591a..7ded4ba 100644
--- a/src/components/Timeline.css
+++ b/src/components/Timeline.css
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
   font-size: var(--fs-sm);
   line-height: var(--lh-normal);
   color: var(--zk-muted);
-  max-width: 76ch;
+  max-width: 82ch;
 }
 
 .tl__figs {
diff --git a/src/screens/screens.css b/src/screens/screens.css
index 77e1f8f..300c7cb 100644
--- a/src/screens/screens.css
+++ b/src/screens/screens.css
@@ -593,13 +593,14 @@
 /* ---- lead: the file beside the story ---- */
 .lead {
   display: grid;
-  /* THE STORY GETS THE WIDE COLUMN. The trail used to sit in a 384px gutter
-     with its own scrollbar while a panel of reference fields had the whole
-     width — exactly backwards for a product whose point is the record of
-     work nobody watched. Now the narrative has the measure prose needs and
-     the reference rail is narrow, because short key/value pairs are the one
-     thing a narrow column is good for. */
-  grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) 340px;
+  /* 60 / 40. The story is the point, so it takes the larger share — but a
+     fixed 340px rail left the main column ballooning far wider than the feed
+     text, so a dead gap opened between the narrative and the facts. A
+     proportional split closes it: the AI decision stream gets ~60%, the
+     customer/vehicle/document facts ~40% (capped so it does not sprawl on an
+     ultra-wide monitor). The facts breathe now too — the PDF names stop
+     wrapping. */
+  grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 3fr) minmax(320px, 2fr);
   gap: var(--sp-6);
   align-items: start;
 }