diff --git a/.github/workflows/refresh.yml b/.github/workflows/refresh.yml
index 426bb43..67c1354 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/refresh.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/refresh.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,21 @@
 name: refresh
 
+# ORDERING MATTERS. This workflow mirrors the *served* payload
+# (https://smmscout.com/api/panels.json), which the source repo
+# RelayStack/smmscout republishes from its weekly run
+# (.github/workflows/weekly-maintenance.yml, `cron: '0 4 * * 1'`, new data
+# ~15 min into the run). GitHub fires scheduled runs hours late on this
+# account (source starts observed 2026-10-12T11:29Z and 2026-10-05T11:01Z for
+# that 04:00 schedule), so a mirror slot only an hour later always pulled the
+# payload the source was about to supersede — on 2026-10-13 this dataset
+# carried data_built_at 2026-10-12T01:51:34Z while live was
+# 2026-10-12T11:36:05Z, and 59 of 129 published scores differed. The mirror
+# therefore has to run *after* the source's Monday refresh, with margin for the
+# schedule delay. Keep this slot strictly later than the source's cron.
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 3 * * 1'
+    # Mondays 20:00 UTC — ~8 h after the latest observed source run, not 1 h before it.
+    - cron: '0 20 * * 1'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
@@ -52,6 +65,31 @@ jobs:
           except Exception as e:
               print('probe snapshot skipped:', e)
           PY
+      # A mirror run that fires before the source refreshed re-publishes the build it
+      # already had: no diff, "no changes", green — the silent staleness that hid the
+      # ordering bug for weeks. State which build was mirrored on every run, and flag it
+      # when the pull is not newer than the committed copy.
+      - name: Report which build was mirrored
+        run: |
+          python3 - <<'PY'
+          import json, subprocess
+          live = json.load(open('data/panels.json'))
+          built = live.get('data_built_at')
+          prev = subprocess.run(['git', 'show', 'HEAD:data/panels.json'],
+                                capture_output=True, text=True)
+          was = None
+          if prev.returncode == 0:
+              try:
+                  was = json.loads(prev.stdout).get('data_built_at')
+              except Exception:
+                  was = None
+          if was and built and built <= was:
+              print('::warning title=Stale mirror pull::mirrored data_built_at %s is not newer than the '
+                    'committed %s - the source weekly run may not have landed yet; check this workflow\'s '
+                    'schedule against RelayStack/smmscout weekly-maintenance.yml' % (built, was))
+          else:
+              print('::notice::mirrored data_built_at %s (committed copy was %s)' % (built, was))
+          PY
       - name: Validate and derive stats
         run: |
           node scripts/validate.mjs
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9915420..4530287 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ counts and API probes from a single vantage point, dated on every panel page.
 
 ## 🔄 Refreshing
 
-Weekly via `.github/workflows/refresh.yml` (Mondays 03:00 UTC). Manual trigger:
+Weekly via `.github/workflows/refresh.yml` (Mondays 20:00 UTC — deliberately *after*
+[`smmscout`'s weekly run](https://github.com/RelayStack/smmscout/blob/main/.github/workflows/weekly-maintenance.yml),
+which is scheduled for 04:00 UTC and, like every scheduled run on this account, starts
+hours late; the later slot means the mirror picks up the build the source just published
+instead of the one it is about to supersede). Manual trigger:
 **Actions → Refresh data → Run workflow**.
 
 Every push and pull request is checked by `.github/workflows/verify.yml`, so a