diff --git a/landing-astro/astro.config.mjs b/landing-astro/astro.config.mjs
index 19c2326..78838de 100644
--- a/landing-astro/astro.config.mjs
+++ b/landing-astro/astro.config.mjs
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import { readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
 
 // Mirrors fleet/sarthakagrawal/astro.config.mjs, the reference 360 ms-LCP
 // Astro setup. Pure static output (no SSR adapter) — the rolepatch.com
-// landing is fully static markup. Inline styles to avoid a render-blocking
-// request after the document; the overlay copies /_astro assets alongside it.
+// landing is fully static markup. The postbuild critical-CSS pass splits the
+// inlined home styles; the overlay copies /_astro assets alongside it.
 //
 // Tailwind v4 via the official Vite plugin (fleet web stack standard,
 // VoidZero ecosystem). Lightning CSS replaces the default PostCSS
diff --git a/landing-astro/package.json b/landing-astro/package.json
index 4c03c57..eab5b1a 100644
--- a/landing-astro/package.json
+++ b/landing-astro/package.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   "description": "Static Astro port of the rolepatch.com landing page. Deploys to Cloudflare Pages and (post-cutover) serves the `/` route in front of the Next.js Worker.",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "astro dev",
-    "build": "astro build",
+    "build": "astro build && node ../scripts/run-inline-critical-css.mjs --astro",
     "preview": "astro preview",
     "astro": "astro",
     "deploy": "wrangler pages deploy dist/ --project-name resume-tailor-landing --commit-dirty=true"
diff --git a/landing-astro/scripts/inline-critical-css.mjs b/landing-astro/scripts/inline-critical-css.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d9985f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/landing-astro/scripts/inline-critical-css.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,334 @@
+import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
+import { readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { transform } from 'lightningcss';
+import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom';
+
+// Home alone uses the Workbench bundle. Keep static-page styles (including layout
+// below the fold, so an early scroll never exposes unstyled content), while the
+// library's other blocks, themes and dynamic states load asynchronously.
+export async function runAstroInlineCss() {
+  const file = new URL('../dist/index.html', import.meta.url);
+  const source = await readFile(file, 'utf8');
+  const styles = /<style[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/style>/g;
+  // Use the same font policy in both CSS stages: a late font download must not
+  // rewrap text when the deferred stylesheet becomes active.
+  const css = transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    minify: true,
+    code: Buffer.from(
+      [...source.matchAll(styles)]
+        .map((match) => match[1])
+        .join('\n')
+        .replaceAll('font-display:swap', 'font-display:optional')
+    ),
+  }).code.toString();
+  // Restrict first paint to the header and complete hero at every breakpoint.
+  let html = source.replace(styles, '');
+  const boundary = html.search(/<section\b[^>]*\bid="proof"/);
+  if (boundary < 0) throw new Error('Expected the Workbench proof section');
+  const initial = html.slice(0, boundary);
+  // Match the browser's decoded class tokens, not serialized HTML. In particular,
+  // max-sm:[&>*]:w-full is emitted as max-sm:[&amp;&gt;*]:w-full. Missing that
+  // rule paints the CTAs in one row, then adds 60px when deferred CSS stacks them.
+  const classNames = (markup) => new Set(
+    [...parseHTML(markup).document.querySelectorAll('[class]')].flatMap((element) =>
+      [...element.classList]
+    )
+  );
+  const allClasses = classNames(html);
+  const classes = classNames(initial);
+  const types = new Set([...initial.matchAll(/<([\w-]+)/g)].map((match) => match[1]));
+
+  function matches(selector, aboveFold = true) {
+    return selector.every((part) => {
+      if (part.type === 'class') return (aboveFold ? classes : allClasses).has(part.name);
+      if (part.type === 'type') return !aboveFold || types.has(part.name);
+      if (part.type === 'id') return (aboveFold ? initial : html).includes(`id="${part.name}"`);
+      if (part.type === 'attribute' && part.name.startsWith('data-')) {
+        // This static page has no theme-switch bootstrap; keep its shipped mode.
+        return part.operation?.operator === 'equal'
+          ? html.includes(`${part.name}="${part.operation.value}"`)
+          : html.includes(part.name);
+      }
+      if (part.type === 'pseudo-class' && ['where', 'is'].includes(part.kind)) {
+        return part.selectors.some((nested) => matches(nested, aboveFold));
+      }
+      return true;
+    });
+  }
+
+  // Keep below-fold geometry, then reveal its decoration when the full CSS is ready.
+  const layoutProperty =
+    /^(display|position|inset|top|right|bottom|left|float|clear|box-sizing|width|height|min-|max-|margin|padding|gap|row-gap|column-gap|grid|flex|align|justify|order|font|line-height|letter-spacing|text-(align|wrap|transform|indent|overflow)|white-space|word|overflow|border(?!.*(?:color|radius))|aspect-ratio|columns|column-width|column-count|list-style|vertical-align|writing-mode)/;
+  function isVariable(declaration) {
+    // Lightning CSS also represents unsupported standard properties (text-wrap,
+    // font-optical-sizing, font-synthesis, etc.) as `custom` declarations.
+    return declaration.property === 'custom' && declaration.value.name.startsWith('--');
+  }
+
+  function keepLayout(declaration) {
+    const property =
+      declaration.property === 'unparsed'
+        ? declaration.value.propertyId.property
+        : declaration.property === 'custom'
+          ? declaration.value.name
+          : declaration.property;
+    return isVariable(declaration) || layoutProperty.test(property);
+  }
+
+  const faces = new Set();
+  const faceKey = (rule) => JSON.stringify(rule.value.properties, (key, value) =>
+    key === 'loc' ? undefined : value
+  );
+  const ruleContexts = [];
+  let layoutOnly = false;
+  const selected = transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(css),
+    minify: true,
+    visitor: {
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (
+          rule.type === 'style' &&
+          !rule.value.selectors.some((selector) => matches(selector, false))
+        )
+          return [];
+        if (rule.type === 'font-face') {
+          const face = faceKey(rule);
+          if (!face.includes('Geist') || faces.has(face)) return [];
+          faces.add(face);
+        }
+        ruleContexts.push(layoutOnly);
+        layoutOnly =
+          rule.type === 'style' && !rule.value.selectors.some((selector) => matches(selector));
+      },
+      RuleExit() {
+        layoutOnly = ruleContexts.pop();
+      },
+      Declaration(declaration) {
+        if (layoutOnly && !keepLayout(declaration)) return [];
+      },
+    },
+  }).code.toString();
+
+  // Follow variable dependencies rather than inlining every library token.
+  const variables = new Map();
+  const referenced = new Set();
+  transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(selected),
+    visitor: {
+      Declaration(declaration) {
+        const value = JSON.stringify(declaration.value);
+        const names = [...value.matchAll(/--[\w-]+/g)].map((match) => match[0]);
+        if (isVariable(declaration)) {
+          variables.set(declaration.value.name, [
+            ...(variables.get(declaration.value.name) ?? []),
+            ...names.filter((name) => name !== declaration.value.name),
+          ]);
+        } else {
+          for (const name of names) referenced.add(name);
+        }
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  for (const match of html.matchAll(/var\((--[\w-]+)/g)) referenced.add(match[1]);
+  for (const name of referenced) {
+    for (const dependency of variables.get(name) ?? []) referenced.add(dependency);
+  }
+  const minimal = transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(selected),
+    minify: true,
+    visitor: {
+      Declaration(declaration) {
+        if (isVariable(declaration) && !referenced.has(declaration.value.name)) return [];
+      },
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (rule.type === 'property' && !referenced.has(rule.value.name)) return [];
+      },
+    },
+  }).code.toString();
+  const critical = transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(minimal),
+    minify: true,
+    visitor: {
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (rule.type === 'style' && !rule.value.selectors.some((selector) => matches(selector)))
+          return [];
+      },
+    },
+  }).code.toString();
+
+  // Independently guard the mobile stacking rule: the declaration-parity audit
+  // below uses matches() in both stages and cannot detect its own false negatives.
+  let hasMobileCtaRule = false;
+  transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(critical),
+    visitor: {
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (rule.type === 'style' && rule.value.selectors.some((selector) =>
+          selector.some((part) => part.type === 'class' && part.name === 'max-sm:[&>*]:w-full')
+        )) hasMobileCtaRule = true;
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  if (!hasMobileCtaRule) throw new Error('Critical CSS is missing the mobile CTA stacking rule');
+
+  // Register initial fonts only once. Repeating @font-face in a late stylesheet
+  // creates new FontFace objects with fresh display timelines: even `optional`
+  // can then select an already-cached Geist and rewrap the painted hero.
+  const deferred = transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(css),
+    minify: true,
+    visitor: {
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (rule.type === 'font-face' && faces.has(faceKey(rule))) return [];
+      },
+    },
+  }).code.toString();
+
+  // Audit the generated page, not just a fixed list of typography properties.
+  // Expand grouped selectors and retain conditional contexts so every initial
+  // rule has the same declarations and values in both CSS stages.
+  function initialDeclarations(code) {
+    const found = new Map();
+    const contexts = [];
+    transform({
+      filename: 'home.css',
+      code: Buffer.from(code),
+      visitor: {
+        Rule(rule) {
+          const { rules, loc, ...condition } = rule.value;
+          if (rule.type !== 'style') {
+            contexts.push(JSON.stringify({ type: rule.type, ...condition }));
+            return;
+          }
+          for (const selector of rule.value.selectors.filter((value) => matches(value))) {
+            for (const key of ['declarations', 'importantDeclarations']) {
+              for (const declaration of rule.value.declarations[key]) {
+                if (isVariable(declaration) && !referenced.has(declaration.value.name)) continue;
+                const property =
+                  declaration.property === 'custom'
+                    ? declaration.value.name
+                    : declaration.property === 'unparsed'
+                      ? declaration.value.propertyId.property
+                      : declaration.property;
+                found.set(
+                  JSON.stringify([contexts, selector, key, property]),
+                  JSON.stringify(declaration, (name, value) => (name === 'loc' ? undefined : value))
+                );
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        RuleExit(rule) {
+          if (rule.type !== 'style') contexts.pop();
+        },
+      },
+    });
+    return found;
+  }
+  const initialFull = initialDeclarations(css);
+  const initialCritical = initialDeclarations(critical);
+  for (const [key, value] of initialFull) {
+    if (initialCritical.get(key) !== value) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Critical CSS differs from full CSS for initial declaration ${key}: ${value}`
+      );
+    }
+  }
+  // Declaration parity alone misses font registration changes. Keep every
+  // initial face (including the metric fallback) exactly once in critical CSS
+  // and ensure activating the deferred sheet cannot replace it.
+  const initialFaces = new Set();
+  transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(critical),
+    visitor: {
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (rule.type !== 'font-face') return;
+        const face = faceKey(rule);
+        if (initialFaces.has(face)) throw new Error('Duplicate critical font face');
+        initialFaces.add(face);
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  for (const face of faces) {
+    if (!initialFaces.has(face)) throw new Error(`Critical CSS is missing font face ${face}`);
+  }
+  transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(deferred),
+    visitor: {
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (rule.type === 'font-face' && initialFaces.has(faceKey(rule))) {
+          throw new Error('Deferred CSS re-registers an initial font face');
+        }
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  const layout = transform({
+    filename: 'home.css',
+    code: Buffer.from(minimal),
+    minify: true,
+    visitor: {
+      Rule(rule) {
+        if (['property', 'font-face', 'keyframes'].includes(rule.type)) return [];
+        if (rule.type === 'style' && rule.value.selectors.some((selector) => matches(selector)))
+          return [];
+      },
+    },
+  }).code.toString();
+  const hash = createHash('sha256').update(deferred).digest('hex').slice(0, 12);
+  const href = `/_astro/home-rest.${hash}.css`;
+  await writeFile(new URL(`../dist${href}`, import.meta.url), deferred);
+  const footerScripts = [];
+  // Shared Base has no deferral controls. Retain its exact footer handler and
+  // script attributes, but keep these downloads out of the hero's request window.
+  html = html.replace(/<script\b([^>]*)>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>/g, (tag, attributes, body) => {
+    const external = /\bsrc="[^"]+"/.test(attributes);
+    const footer = body.includes('const api = "https://api.sassmaker.com"');
+    if (!external && !footer) return tag;
+    if (footer) {
+      const footerHash = createHash('sha256').update(body).digest('hex').slice(0, 12);
+      const footerHref = `/_astro/home-footer.${footerHash}.js`;
+      footerScripts.push([footerHref, body]);
+      attributes += ` src="${footerHref}"`;
+    }
+    const type = attributes.match(/\btype="([^"]+)"/);
+    attributes = attributes.replace(/\s*type="[^"]+"/, '');
+    return `<script type="text/plain" data-after-load${type ? ` data-script-type="${type[1]}"` : ''}${attributes}></script>`;
+  });
+  if (footerScripts.length !== 1) throw new Error('Expected exactly one shared footer handler');
+  for (const [path, body] of footerScripts)
+    await writeFile(new URL(`../dist${path}`, import.meta.url), body);
+  const cloak =
+    'html:not([data-home-css-ready]) main>section:not(:first-child),html:not([data-home-css-ready]) footer{visibility:hidden}';
+  const links = `<link data-home-rest-css data-href="${href}" onload="document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-home-css-ready','')"><noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="${href}"><style>${cloak.replaceAll('hidden', 'visible')}</style></noscript>`;
+  // Use identical responsive attributes on preload and img. The viewport picks
+  // one candidate for both; no mobile/full-size duplicate download.
+  const hero = html.match(/<img\b[^>]*\bsrc="\/images\/patch-stage\.webp"[^>]*>/)?.[0];
+  if (!hero) throw new Error('Expected the responsive Workbench hero');
+  const attribute = (name) => hero.match(new RegExp(`\\b${name}="([^"]+)"`, 'i'))?.[1];
+  if (!attribute('srcset') || !attribute('sizes')) {
+    throw new Error('Workbench hero is missing responsive attributes');
+  }
+  const preload = `<link rel="preload" as="image" href="${attribute('src')}" imagesrcset="${attribute('srcset')}" imagesizes="${attribute('sizes')}" fetchpriority="high">`;
+  const result = html
+    .replace(/(?=<section[^>]*id="proof")/, `<style>${layout}</style>`)
+    .replace('<link rel="preload"', `${preload}<link rel="preload"`)
+    .replace('</head>', `<style>${critical}${cloak}</style>${links}</head>`);
+  if (Buffer.byteLength(result.split('</head>')[0]) >= 40_000) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Home head exceeds the 40 KB critical-CSS budget: ${Buffer.byteLength(result.split('</head>')[0])} bytes (${critical.length} CSS)`
+    );
+  }
+  await writeFile(file, result);
+  console.log(
+    `[inline-critical-css] Astro home: ${Buffer.byteLength(source)} → ${Buffer.byteLength(result)} bytes; head ${Buffer.byteLength(result.split('</head>')[0])} bytes`
+  );
+}
diff --git a/landing-astro/src/components/DeferredScripts.astro b/landing-astro/src/components/DeferredScripts.astro
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..885cc2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/landing-astro/src/components/DeferredScripts.astro
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+<script is:inline>
+  (() => {
+    // Keep early CTA events while the tracker waits for load/idle. Do not stub
+    // appHealth: the tracker treats an existing object as already initialized.
+    const events = [];
+    document.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
+      if (window.appHealth) return;
+      const link = event.target.closest?.('[data-app-health-event],a[href]');
+      const name = link?.getAttribute('data-app-health-event') || {
+        '/dashboard': 'workspace_opened',
+        '/pricing': 'pricing_opened',
+        '/tools': 'free_tools_opened',
+      }[link?.getAttribute('href')];
+      if (name) events.push(name);
+    });
+    const activate = () => {
+      document.querySelectorAll('script[data-after-load]').forEach((placeholder) => {
+        const script = document.createElement('script');
+        for (const attribute of placeholder.attributes) {
+          if (!['type', 'data-after-load', 'data-script-type'].includes(attribute.name)) {
+            script.setAttribute(attribute.name, attribute.value);
+          }
+        }
+        if (placeholder.dataset.scriptType) script.type = placeholder.dataset.scriptType;
+        script.async = false;
+        if (script.src.includes('health.sassmaker.com/tracker.js')) {
+          script.addEventListener('load', () => {
+            events.splice(0).forEach((name) => window.appHealth?.track(name));
+          }, { once: true });
+        }
+        placeholder.replaceWith(script);
+      });
+    };
+    const afterLoad = () => {
+      if ('requestIdleCallback' in window) requestIdleCallback(activate, { timeout: 1000 });
+      else setTimeout(activate, 0);
+    };
+    if (document.readyState === 'complete') afterLoad();
+    else addEventListener('load', afterLoad, { once: true });
+
+    const start = () => {
+      const stylesheet = document.querySelector('link[data-home-rest-css]');
+      const hero = document.querySelector('img[fetchpriority="high"][srcset]');
+      if (!stylesheet) return;
+      const reveal = () => document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-home-css-ready', '');
+      stylesheet.addEventListener('load', reveal, { once: true });
+      stylesheet.addEventListener('error', reveal, { once: true });
+      const loadCss = () => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+        stylesheet.rel = 'stylesheet';
+        stylesheet.href = stylesheet.dataset.href;
+      }));
+      // Decode the real responsive img; never guess a different preload candidate.
+      if (hero) hero.decode().catch(() => {}).then(loadCss);
+      else loadCss();
+    };
+    if (document.readyState === 'loading') {
+      document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', start, { once: true });
+    } else start();
+  })();
+</script>
diff --git a/landing-astro/src/pages/index.astro b/landing-astro/src/pages/index.astro
index c237791..685a513 100644
--- a/landing-astro/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/landing-astro/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { baseProps } from '@saas-maker/templates/page';
 import { workbenchContent } from '@saas-maker/templates/schema';
 import { APP_HEALTH_CLICK_SCRIPT, PRODUCT_FAQS, productJsonLd, REDIRECT_AUTHENTICATED_SCRIPT } from '@/lib/product';
 import home from '../content/home.json';
+import DeferredScripts from '../components/DeferredScripts.astro';
 
 const content = workbenchContent.parse(home);
 const faqs = PRODUCT_FAQS.slice(0, 4);
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ content.page.jsonLd = [jsonLd, {
       data-vitals-routes="changelog,docs,faq"
     ></script>
     <script is:inline>
-      (function(c,l,a,r,i){c[a]=c[a]||function(){(c[a].q=c[a].q||[]).push(arguments)};var done=0,ev=["pointerdown","keydown","touchstart","scroll"];function go(){if(done)return;done=1;ev.forEach(function(e){removeEventListener(e,go)});var t=l.createElement(r);t.async=1;t.src="https://www.clarity.ms/tag/"+i;var y=l.getElementsByTagName(r)[0];y.parentNode.insertBefore(t,y)}ev.forEach(function(e){addEventListener(e,go,{passive:true,once:true})});setTimeout(go,90000)})(window,document,"clarity","script","y6buz6rkot");
+      (function(c,l,a,r,i){c[a]=c[a]||function(){(c[a].q=c[a].q||[]).push(arguments)};var done=0,ev=["pointerdown","keydown","touchstart","scroll"];function go(){if(done)return;done=1;ev.forEach(function(e){removeEventListener(e,go)});var t=l.createElement(r);t.async=1;t.src="https://www.clarity.ms/tag/"+i;var y=l.getElementsByTagName(r)[0];y.parentNode.insertBefore(t,y)}ev.forEach(function(e){addEventListener(e,go,{passive:true,once:true})})})(window,document,"clarity","script","y6buz6rkot");
       window.clarity("set","project_id","rolepatch");
     </script>
     <script is:inline set:html={APP_HEALTH_CLICK_SCRIPT}></script>
@@ -89,4 +90,5 @@ content.page.jsonLd = [jsonLd, {
     </script>
   </Fragment>
   <WorkbenchPage content={content} />
+  <DeferredScripts />
 </Base>
diff --git a/scripts/run-inline-critical-css.mjs b/scripts/run-inline-critical-css.mjs
index c8e4201..b6ab961 100644
--- a/scripts/run-inline-critical-css.mjs
+++ b/scripts/run-inline-critical-css.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 import { runInlineCss } from './inline-critical-css.mjs';
 
-await runInlineCss({ strict: process.argv.includes('--strict') });
+if (process.argv.includes('--astro')) {
+  const { runAstroInlineCss } = await import('../landing-astro/scripts/inline-critical-css.mjs');
+  await runAstroInlineCss();
+} else {
+  await runInlineCss({ strict: process.argv.includes('--strict') });
+}