diff --git a/app/api/settings/route.ts b/app/api/settings/route.ts
index 6bdebd5..cc3628d 100644
--- a/app/api/settings/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/settings/route.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { getSetting, setSetting } from '@/lib/db';
 import { scheduleBackupPush } from '@/lib/backup-sync';
 import { getRequestUserAgent } from '@/lib/request-user-agent';
 
-const VALID_KEYS = ['max_concurrent_accounts', 'tick_interval_seconds', 'master_dashboard_url', 'instance_name', 'trading_hours', 'twocaptcha_api_key', 'twocaptcha_proxy', 'master_backup_token', 'proxy_url', 'auto_claim'] as const;
+const VALID_KEYS = ['max_concurrent_accounts', 'tick_interval_seconds', 'master_dashboard_url', 'instance_name', 'trading_hours', 'twocaptcha_api_key', 'twocaptcha_proxy', 'master_backup_token', 'proxy_url', 'auto_claim', 'auto_activate'] as const;
 type SettingKey = typeof VALID_KEYS[number];
 
 export async function GET() {
@@ -25,10 +25,13 @@ export async function PATCH(req: NextRequest) {
     try {
         const body = await req.json() as Partial<Record<SettingKey, string | number>>;
 
-        // Claims run unless it reads exactly 'off' — say so exactly, and
-        // before anything is written.
-        if (body.auto_claim !== undefined && body.auto_claim !== null && body.auto_claim !== 'on' && body.auto_claim !== 'off') {
-            return NextResponse.json({ error: "auto_claim is 'on' or 'off'" }, { status: 400 });
+        // Claims and activations run unless it reads exactly 'off' — say so
+        // exactly, and before anything is written.
+        for (const key of ['auto_claim', 'auto_activate'] as const) {
+            const v = body[key];
+            if (v !== undefined && v !== null && v !== 'on' && v !== 'off') {
+                return NextResponse.json({ error: `${key} is 'on' or 'off'` }, { status: 400 });
+            }
         }
 
         for (const key of VALID_KEYS) {
diff --git a/app/page.tsx b/app/page.tsx
index ff1663e..4ea9fbf 100644
--- a/app/page.tsx
+++ b/app/page.tsx
@@ -744,6 +744,7 @@ export default function Home() {
     const [tradeLoading, setTradeLoading] = useState(false);
     const [stopAfterAll, setStopAfterAll] = useState(false);
     const [autoClaim, setAutoClaim] = useState(true);
+    const [autoActivate, setAutoActivate] = useState(true);
 
     const handleSort = (col: SortKey) => {
         if (sortKey === col) {
@@ -813,9 +814,10 @@ export default function Home() {
 
         fetch('/api/settings')
             .then((r) => r.json())
-            .then((s: { tick_interval_seconds?: string | null; auto_claim?: string | null }) => {
+            .then((s: { tick_interval_seconds?: string | null; auto_claim?: string | null; auto_activate?: string | null }) => {
                 if (s.tick_interval_seconds != null) setTickInterval(s.tick_interval_seconds);
                 setAutoClaim(s.auto_claim !== 'off');
+                setAutoActivate(s.auto_activate !== 'off');
             })
             .catch(() => {});
 
@@ -1024,6 +1026,28 @@ export default function Home() {
                                     <span className="text-xs text-slate-400 whitespace-nowrap">Auto-claim payouts</span>
                                 </label>
                             )}
+                            {config.some((f) => f.platform === 'vest') && (
+                                <label
+                                    className="flex items-center gap-1.5 ml-2 cursor-pointer select-none"
+                                    title="Activate a passed evaluation's funded account as soon as it passes (Vest) — whether or not the scheduler is running"
+                                >
+                                    <input
+                                        type="checkbox"
+                                        checked={autoActivate}
+                                        onChange={(e) => {
+                                            const on = e.target.checked;
+                                            setAutoActivate(on);
+                                            fetch('/api/settings', {
+                                                method: 'PATCH',
+                                                headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+                                                body: JSON.stringify({ auto_activate: on ? 'on' : 'off' }),
+                                            }).then((r) => { if (!r.ok) setAutoActivate(!on); }).catch(() => setAutoActivate(!on));
+                                        }}
+                                        className="rounded border-slate-300 text-emerald-500 focus:ring-emerald-500"
+                                    />
+                                    <span className="text-xs text-slate-400 whitespace-nowrap">Auto-activate funded</span>
+                                </label>
+                            )}
                             <div className="ml-auto flex items-center gap-2">
                                 {hasAnyPosition && (
                                     <button
diff --git a/lib/auto-trade.ts b/lib/auto-trade.ts
index b9a8d89..0751b21 100644
--- a/lib/auto-trade.ts
+++ b/lib/auto-trade.ts
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ interface TradeRuntime {
     sideReservation?: { side: 'Buy' | 'Sell'; lane: string; lease: number };
     /** Account id → when its last payout claim failed (runClaims backoff). */
     claimFailedAt?: Map<number, number>;
+    /** Account id → when its last funded-account activation failed
+     *  (runActivations backoff). */
+    activateFailedAt?: Map<number, number>;
+    /** Lanes whose runActivations is out (one at a time per lane). */
+    activationsRunning?: Set<string>;
     /** Accounts whose exit the broker refused — a bracket while a hard daily
      *  loss limit was on, or a lone take-profit: the position was flattened
      *  and the account sits out the trade date rather than bleed a round trip
@@ -2038,6 +2043,49 @@ async function runClaims(lane: string, ready: FirmClient[]): Promise<void> {
     }
 }
 
+/** How long a failed activation waits before it's tried again — a refusal
+ *  (Vest's cap on funded accounts, say) holds for a while. */
+const ACTIVATE_RETRY_MS = 15 * 60_000;
+
+/**
+ * Activate the funded account of every passed evaluation in the lane that
+ * the bot trades (one with an account type, as runClaims goes by — Vest caps
+ * funded accounts, and one kept by hand isn't the bot's to spend a slot on),
+ * where the platform does that by API (Vest: a passed evaluation waits until
+ * it's asked). It opens and closes nothing — the evaluation no longer
+ * trades, and the funded account shows on the next sync and trades from
+ * there — so it takes no lane mutex, and the scheduler doesn't wait on it.
+ * One run per lane at a time. Run by the scheduler's tick, or by the claim
+ * watcher while the scheduler is off. Off with the auto_activate setting at
+ * 'off'.
+ */
+async function runActivations(lane: string, ready: FirmClient[]): Promise<void> {
+    if (getSetting('auto_activate') === 'off') return;
+    const running = (runtime().activationsRunning ??= new Set());
+    if (running.has(lane)) return;
+    running.add(lane);
+    try {
+        for (const { firm, client } of inLane(ready, lane)) {
+            if (typeof client.activatable !== 'function' || typeof client.activateFunded !== 'function') continue;
+            for (const id of client.activatable()) {
+                const acc = client.accountList.find((a) => a.id === id);
+                if (!acc || !getAccountConfig(id).accountType) continue;
+                if (Date.now() - (runtime().activateFailedAt?.get(id) ?? 0) < ACTIVATE_RETRY_MS) continue;
+                try {
+                    const { funded } = await client.activateFunded(id);
+                    runtime().activateFailedAt?.delete(id);
+                    console.log(`[auto-activate] ${firm.name} ${acc.name}: passed — funded account ${funded ?? '(listed on the next sync)'} activated`);
+                } catch (err) {
+                    (runtime().activateFailedAt ??= new Map()).set(id, Date.now());
+                    console.error(`[auto-activate] ${firm.name} ${acc.name}: activation failed — ${errorMessage(err)}; retrying in ${ACTIVATE_RETRY_MS / 60_000}m`);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    } finally {
+        running.delete(lane);
+    }
+}
+
 /** How often auto-claims run while the scheduler is off — its tick's pace. */
 const CLAIM_WATCH_MS = 60_000;
 
@@ -2049,8 +2097,9 @@ const _claimWatch = globalThis as typeof globalThis & { __claimWatcher?: ReturnT
  * at its target while the bot is off is claimed all the same, before
  * whatever trades it next can take the profit back. While the scheduler
  * runs, its own tick claims (first thing in each lane), and this stays out
- * of the way. Off with the auto_claim setting at 'off'. Started once, with
- * the clients.
+ * of the way. Off with the auto_claim setting at 'off'. Activations of passed
+ * evaluations' funded accounts ride along the same way (auto_activate).
+ * Started once, with the clients.
  */
 export function startClaimWatcher(): void {
     if (_claimWatch.__claimWatcher) return;
@@ -2058,15 +2107,18 @@ export function startClaimWatcher(): void {
 }
 
 async function claimTick(): Promise<void> {
-    if (getState().running || getSetting('auto_claim') === 'off' || _claimWatch.__claimTickBusy) return;
+    if (getState().running || _claimWatch.__claimTickBusy) return;
+    if (getSetting('auto_claim') === 'off' && getSetting('auto_activate') === 'off') return;
     _claimWatch.__claimTickBusy = true;
     try {
         // Ready clients only, as the tick: a stale snapshot may hide a
-        // position. runClaims takes each lane's mutex itself.
+        // position. runClaims takes each lane's mutex itself; each step
+        // checks its own setting.
         const { ready } = firmClients();
         for (const lane of tradableLanes()) {
             if (getState().running) return; // the scheduler took over
             await runClaims(lane, ready);
+            await runActivations(lane, ready);
         }
     } catch (err) {
         console.error(`[auto-claim] ${errorMessage(err)}`);
@@ -2343,8 +2395,11 @@ export function startScheduler(action: 'Buy' | 'Sell' | 'Auto', symbol: string,
                         continue;
                     }
                     // Payouts first, account by account — a claim doesn't wait
-                    // for the rest of the lane to go flat.
+                    // for the rest of the lane to go flat. Nor does a passed
+                    // evaluation's funded account, and the batch doesn't wait
+                    // on it: a slow one would hold back the lane's entry.
                     await runClaims(lane, ready);
+                    void runActivations(lane, ready).catch((err) => console.error(`[auto-activate] ${laneName(lane)}: ${errorMessage(err)}`));
                     // Skip this lane if any of its accounts still has an open
                     // position from its previous batch — a batch fires only
                     // when every (ready) account in the lane is flat.
diff --git a/lib/platform-client.ts b/lib/platform-client.ts
index 7c3a46e..9e7f227 100644
--- a/lib/platform-client.ts
+++ b/lib/platform-client.ts
@@ -175,6 +175,14 @@ export interface PlatformClient {
     /** A claim this client made that no good sync has read past yet: the
      *  balance on hand may not show it, so no claim may be judged on it. */
     claimPending?(accountId: number): boolean;
+    /** Passed evaluations whose funded account the platform activates by
+     *  API (Vest's "Go to funded account"), by account id — less any this
+     *  client already asked for that no sync has read back yet. */
+    activatable?(): number[];
+    /** Activate the funded account of a passed evaluation. Resolves once the
+     *  platform opened it, with its name when the answer gives one (the next
+     *  sync lists it); rejects with the platform's reason otherwise. */
+    activateFunded?(accountId: number): Promise<{ funded: string | null }>;
     /** Drop the account's history from memory (the wipe routes), so it reads
      *  unloaded until the next fetch rebuilds it. */
     forgetHistory(accountId: number, accountName: string): void;
diff --git a/lib/vest-class.ts b/lib/vest-class.ts
index c301737..9e01731 100644
--- a/lib/vest-class.ts
+++ b/lib/vest-class.ts
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ import {
     vestAccountId, vestAccountName, vestDayOf, lastVestResetMs, nextVestResetMs, parseCapitalAccount, parsePosition, parseOpenOrder,
     parseTxn, bookTxns, awaitingLegs, unknownOpenFill, unrealizedPnl, hourlyVolatility, marketOpen, longClosure, num, toMs, formatDecimal, resetSafeStop,
     parseHistoryPosition, jwtClaimStrings, accountScopedToken, VEST_STATUS_ACTIVE, VEST_STOP_SLIPPAGE_FRACTION,
+    vestStatusName, awaitingActivation,
     VestApiError, VestNotSentError, nothingWentIn, tokenForRequest, settleClaims, readClaims, payoutDaysOf, payoutsSince,
 } from './vest-helpers';
 import type { VestCapitalAccount, VestPosition, VestOpenOrder, VestTxn, VestTrade, OwnClaim } from './vest-helpers';
@@ -74,6 +75,10 @@ type Bucket = keyof typeof SPACING_MS;
 const TIMEOUT_MS = { read: 20_000, trade: 15_000, history: 30_000 } as const;
 /** A cached account token is renewed this long before it expires. */
 const ACCOUNT_TOKEN_SKEW_MS = 90_000;
+/** An activation whose answer never came may still land at Vest: only a
+ *  capital list read from this long after it gave up is taken as Vest's
+ *  word on it. */
+const ACTIVATION_UNKNOWN_HOLD_MS = 60_000;
 /** The relayed user token must have this long left to start a request. */
 const USER_TOKEN_MIN_MS = 20_000;
 /** How long an exit waits for the login's session and its account's token
@@ -309,6 +314,16 @@ export class VestClient implements PlatformClient {
     private lastSurveyAt = 0;
     private unlistedLoggedAt = 0;
     private unknownStatusLogged = new Set<string>();
+    /** Passed evaluations whose activation is out right now. */
+    private activationsOut = new Set<number>();
+    /** Passed evaluations Vest answered an activation for: never asked
+     *  again, even while Vest's list is slow to stop showing them. */
+    private activated = new Set<number>();
+    /** Account id → when an activation of unknown outcome gave up; held
+     *  until a list read ACTIVATION_UNKNOWN_HOLD_MS on says either way. */
+    private activationUnknownAt = new Map<number, number>();
+    /** When the sync whose capital list this client holds started. */
+    private capitalReadStartedAt = 0;
 
     constructor(cfg: VestConfig, onSync: () => Promise<void>) {
         this.cfg = cfg;
@@ -684,7 +699,8 @@ export class VestClient implements PlatformClient {
                 this.restorePendingOpen(id, vestAccountName(a));
                 if (a.status !== VEST_STATUS_ACTIVE && !this.unknownStatusLogged.has(`${a.id}:${a.status}`)) {
                     this.unknownStatusLogged.add(`${a.id}:${a.status}`);
-                    console.warn(`${this.tag} ${vestAccountName(a)} has status ${a.status} — not trading it until that status is known`);
+                    if (awaitingActivation(a)) console.log(`${this.tag} ${vestAccountName(a)} passed — its funded account waits on activation`);
+                    else console.warn(`${this.tag} ${vestAccountName(a)} is ${vestStatusName(a.status)} — not trading it`);
                 }
                 const acc: PlatformAccount = { id, name: vestAccountName(a), active: a.status === VEST_STATUS_ACTIVE };
                 list.push(acc);
@@ -703,7 +719,14 @@ export class VestClient implements PlatformClient {
                 this.adoptUnknownOpen(id, mine, startedAt);
 
                 const amount = free.get(a.id);
-                if (amount === undefined) { complete = false; continue; }
+                // Only a live account's balance is owed: Vest's active list
+                // leaves out a passed evaluation's (seen 2026-10-29), and
+                // waiting on it kept every sync short of good — the lane held,
+                // and nothing ran that would activate it.
+                if (amount === undefined) {
+                    if (a.status === VEST_STATUS_ACTIVE) complete = false;
+                    continue;
+                }
                 const balance = amount + mine.reduce((s, p) => s + p.collateral, 0);
                 this.recordOpenTrades(acc, mine);
                 if (mine.length === 0) {
@@ -732,6 +755,7 @@ export class VestClient implements PlatformClient {
             this.numbersAt = now;
             const shrank = this.accountList.some((a) => !list.some((b) => b.id === a.id));
             this.accountList = list;
+            this.capitalReadStartedAt = startedAt;
             if (shrank) void this.closeOutDropped();
             // An account gone from Vest's list (breached, closed) takes its
             // position with it — a stale one here would hold the lane.
@@ -1048,6 +1072,74 @@ export class VestClient implements PlatformClient {
         return { claimed, received };
     }
 
+    /** See PlatformClient: the passed evaluations on Vest's list whose funded
+     *  account waits on activation, less any this client's asks hold. */
+    public activatable(): number[] {
+        return this.accountList.flatMap((acc) => {
+            const meta = this.capital.get(acc.id);
+            return meta && awaitingActivation(meta) && !this.activationHeld(acc.id) ? [acc.id] : [];
+        });
+    }
+
+    /** An ask of this client's settles the evaluation until Vest's list can
+     *  speak for it: one out now, one Vest answered (for good), or one whose
+     *  answer never came, until a list read a while after it gave up. The
+     *  list a sync reads while an ask is out predates Vest's answer. */
+    private activationHeld(accountId: number): boolean {
+        if (this.activationsOut.has(accountId) || this.activated.has(accountId)) return true;
+        const unknownAt = this.activationUnknownAt.get(accountId);
+        return unknownAt !== undefined && this.capitalReadStartedAt < unknownAt + ACTIVATION_UNKNOWN_HOLD_MS;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * See PlatformClient. Vest's "Go to funded account": POST
+     * /v3/capital/activate-funded with the evaluation's own token, as the Vest
+     * app sends it. Vest answers with the funded account it opened, and marks
+     * the evaluation CLAIMED. Nothing to pay and no terms to accept; Vest
+     * refuses one past its cap on funded accounts.
+     *
+     * One ask at a time per evaluation, and none after Vest answered one. One
+     * that timed out may have gone in: none until a list read a minute on
+     * says either way. A refusal frees it at once.
+     */
+    public async activateFunded(accountId: number): Promise<{ funded: string | null }> {
+        const uuid = this.uuidById.get(accountId);
+        const account = this.accountList.find((a) => a.id === accountId);
+        const meta = this.capital.get(accountId);
+        if (!uuid || !account || !meta) throw new Error('account not read yet');
+        if (!awaitingActivation(meta)) {
+            throw new Error(`Vest shows ${account.name} as ${meta.kind || 'not an evaluation'}, ${vestStatusName(meta.status)} — only a passed evaluation's funded account is activated`);
+        }
+        if (this.activationHeld(accountId)) throw new Error("the last activation hasn't been read back from Vest yet");
+
+        // Taken before the first await: a second caller meanwhile is refused.
+        this.activationsOut.add(accountId);
+        let data: { account?: unknown } | undefined;
+        try {
+            ({ data } = await this.request<{ account?: unknown }>('trade', 'POST', '/v3/capital/activate-funded', {
+                account: uuid,
+                body: { eval_account_id: uuid },
+            }));
+        } catch (err) {
+            if (!nothingWentIn(err)) {
+                this.activationUnknownAt.set(accountId, Date.now());
+                console.error(`${this.tag} ${account.name}: activation — outcome unknown (${errorMessage(err)}); not asked again until Vest's list says either way`);
+                void this.syncRunning.then(() => this.requestSync());
+            }
+            throw err;
+        } finally {
+            this.activationsOut.delete(accountId);
+        }
+        this.activationUnknownAt.delete(accountId);
+        this.activated.add(accountId);
+        const opened = parseCapitalAccount(data?.account);
+        const funded = opened ? vestAccountName(opened) : null;
+        console.log(`${this.tag} ${account.name}: activated its funded account${funded ? ` ${funded}` : ''}`);
+        // A fresh sync lists it — after any one already out, whose reads predate this.
+        void this.syncRunning.then(() => this.requestSync());
+        return { funded };
+    }
+
     /**
      * See PlatformClient: a claim of this client's that Vest's transactions
      * don't show yet — until they do, the balance on hand can't be trusted
diff --git a/lib/vest-helpers.ts b/lib/vest-helpers.ts
index c957e7b..9d23bdf 100644
--- a/lib/vest-helpers.ts
+++ b/lib/vest-helpers.ts
@@ -211,7 +211,15 @@ export interface VestCapitalAccount {
     productType: string;
     /** 1-based stage; stages[stage-1] is the current one. */
     stage: number;
+    /** Evaluation steps the plan has (a 1-Step's is 1, a 2-Step's 2). */
     stepsTotal: number;
+    /** The evaluation step this account is (1-based; a funded one's is
+     *  stepsTotal + 1, as the Vest app counts it when Vest leaves it out). */
+    step: number;
+    /** Vest's account_type: 2 an evaluation, 3 a funded account. */
+    accountType: number;
+    /** Vest blocked the account (blocked_at set): nothing it offers applies. */
+    blocked: boolean;
     /** The current stage: 'eval' or 'funded'. */
     kind: string;
     status: number;
@@ -236,13 +244,18 @@ export function parseCapitalAccount(raw: unknown): VestCapitalAccount | null {
     const stages = Array.isArray(a.stages) ? (a.stages as Record<string, unknown>[]) : [];
     const stage = num(a.stage) ?? 1;
     const current = stages.find((s) => num(s.ordinal) === stage) ?? stages[stage - 1] ?? {};
+    // The Vest app's own fallbacks, for an answer that leaves these out.
+    const stepsTotal = num(a.steps_total) ?? (a.plan_product_type === 'eval' ? 1 : 0);
     return {
         id: a.id,
         planId: typeof a.plan_id === 'string' ? a.plan_id : '',
         planName: typeof a.plan_name === 'string' ? a.plan_name : '',
         productType: typeof a.plan_product_type === 'string' ? a.plan_product_type : '',
         stage,
-        stepsTotal: num(a.steps_total) ?? 0,
+        stepsTotal,
+        step: num(a.step) ?? (stage === VEST_STAGE_FUNDED ? stepsTotal + 1 : 1),
+        accountType: num(a.account_type) ?? 0,
+        blocked: Boolean(a.blocked_at),
         kind: typeof current.kind === 'string' ? current.kind : '',
         status: num(a.status) ?? -1,
         attemptIndex: num(a.attempt_index) ?? 0,
@@ -259,9 +272,43 @@ export function parseCapitalAccount(raw: unknown): VestCapitalAccount | null {
     };
 }
 
-/** The capital account status every listed live account showed (2026-10-26).
- *  Anything else is treated as unable to trade until seen and named. */
-export const VEST_STATUS_ACTIVE = 2;
+/** Vest's capital account statuses, as the Vest app names them (its bundle,
+ *  2026-10-29). Only an ACTIVE account trades. A passed evaluation sits at
+ *  GOAL_PASSED until its funded account is activated, and is CLAIMED after. */
+export const VEST_STATUS = {
+    CREATED: 1,
+    ACTIVE: 2,
+    GOAL_PASSED: 3,
+    FAILED_MAX_DRAWDOWN: 4,
+    FAILED_MAX_DAILY_LOSS: 5,
+    CLAIMED: 6,
+    EXPIRED: 7,
+} as const;
+export const VEST_STATUS_ACTIVE = VEST_STATUS.ACTIVE;
+
+/** Vest's stage field: an evaluation's, then the funded account's. */
+const VEST_STAGE_EVAL = 1;
+const VEST_STAGE_FUNDED = 2;
+/** Vest's account_type of an evaluation. */
+const VEST_ACCOUNT_TYPE_EVAL = 2;
+
+/** A status as the log says it: Vest's own name, with its number. */
+export function vestStatusName(status: number): string {
+    const name = Object.entries(VEST_STATUS).find(([, v]) => v === status)?.[0];
+    return `${name ? name.toLowerCase().replace(/_/g, ' ') : 'unknown'} (status ${status})`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A passed evaluation whose funded account Vest activates on request (POST
+ * /v3/capital/activate-funded) — the Vest app's own test for its "Go to
+ * funded account" button: an evaluation at GOAL_PASSED, not blocked, on its
+ * plan's last step. An earlier step of a 2-Step passes on to the next step
+ * by itself.
+ */
+export function awaitingActivation(a: VestCapitalAccount): boolean {
+    const evaluation = a.accountType === VEST_ACCOUNT_TYPE_EVAL || a.stage === VEST_STAGE_EVAL;
+    return evaluation && a.status === VEST_STATUS.GOAL_PASSED && !a.blocked && a.stepsTotal > 0 && a.step === a.stepsTotal;
+}
 
 const pct = (fraction: number) => Math.round(fraction * 1000) / 10;
 
diff --git a/scripts/check-vest-client.mjs b/scripts/check-vest-client.mjs
index 27629ed..78de1b4 100644
--- a/scripts/check-vest-client.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-vest-client.mjs
@@ -411,6 +411,103 @@ test("the client's Vest day turns with its numbers, and a sync that stalls stops
     }
 });
 
+// A timeout: an ask let through twice leaves the first one waiting forever.
+test("a passed evaluation doesn't hold the sync, and its funded account is asked for once", { timeout: 10_000 }, async () => {
+    clockAt('2026-10-29T15:31:00Z');
+    // Vest's status for each account (acc-2 passed), and the balance Vest's
+    // active list leaves out — a passed one's.
+    const status = { 'acc-1': 2, 'acc-2': 3 };
+    let missingBalance = 'acc-2';
+    let activation = null;
+    const sent = [];
+    const client = await syncingClient((method, path, opts) => {
+        if (method === 'GET' && path === '/v3/capital/accounts/active') {
+            return { data: { accounts: Object.keys(status).map((id, i) => ({
+                id, status: status[id], account_type: 2, stage: 1, step: 1, steps_total: 1, plan_product_type: 'eval',
+                attempt_index: i + 80, initial_capital: '50000', max_daily_loss_pct: '0.03',
+                stages: [{ ordinal: 1, kind: 'eval', profit_target: '5000' }, { ordinal: 2, kind: 'funded', profit_target: '' }],
+            })) } };
+        }
+        if (method === 'GET' && path === '/v3/accounts') {
+            return { data: { accounts: [
+                { account_id: 'acc-1', amount: '50000', account_type: 2 }, { account_id: 'acc-2', amount: '55100', account_type: 2 }, { account_id: 'main', amount: '0', account_type: 1 },
+            ].filter((b) => b.account_id !== missingBalance) } };
+        }
+        if (method === 'POST' && path === '/v3/capital/activate-funded') {
+            sent.push({ account: opts.account, body: opts.body });
+            return activation();
+        }
+        return syncReads(method, path, []) ?? unanswered(method, path);
+    });
+    const funded = { id: 'acc-2-funded', status: 2, account_type: 3, stage: 2, attempt_index: 81, initial_capital: '50000', max_daily_loss_pct: '0.03', stages: [{ ordinal: 1, kind: 'eval' }, { ordinal: 2, kind: 'funded' }] };
+    // The sync an ask starts behind it, run to its end.
+    const settled = async () => {
+        await new Promise((resolve) => setImmediate(resolve));
+        await client.syncRunning;
+    };
+    try {
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.ok(client.lastSyncAt > 0, "the passed account's missing balance didn't make the sync short of good");
+        assert.equal(client.accountList.find((a) => a.id === B).active, false);
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), [B]);
+        await assert.rejects(client.activateFunded(A), /only a passed evaluation/);
+
+        // While the ask is out, a second caller is refused, and a sync reads
+        // a list from before Vest's answer: it isn't asked again on it.
+        let answer;
+        activation = () => new Promise((resolve) => { answer = resolve; });
+        const asking = client.activateFunded(B);
+        await assert.rejects(client.activateFunded(B), /hasn't been read back/);
+        clockAt('2026-10-29T15:31:30Z');
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), []);
+        answer({ data: { account: funded } });
+        assert.deepEqual(await asking, { funded: 'V50K-F-D3-81' });
+        assert.deepEqual(sent, [{ account: 'acc-2', body: { eval_account_id: 'acc-2' } }]);
+
+        // Answered: never asked again, while Vest's list is slow to move it
+        // or once it's claimed.
+        await settled();
+        clockAt('2026-10-29T15:40:00Z');
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), []);
+        status['acc-2'] = 6;
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), []);
+        assert.equal(sent.length, 1);
+
+        // acc-1 passes too. A timeout may have gone in: held until a list
+        // read a minute after it. A refusal went nowhere: free at once.
+        status['acc-1'] = 3;
+        missingBalance = 'acc-1';
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), [A]);
+        activation = () => { throw new Error('/v3/capital/activate-funded timed out after 15s'); };
+        await assert.rejects(client.activateFunded(A), /timed out/);
+        await settled();
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), []);
+        clockAt('2026-10-29T15:40:30Z');
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), []);
+        clockAt('2026-10-29T15:41:10Z');
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), [A]);
+        activation = () => { throw new VestApiError('/v3/capital/activate-funded: funded limit reached (HTTP 400)', 400); };
+        await assert.rejects(client.activateFunded(A), /funded limit/);
+        assert.deepEqual(client.activatable(), [A]);
+        assert.equal(sent.length, 3);
+
+        // A live account's missing balance still holds the sync.
+        status['acc-1'] = 2;
+        const good = client.lastSyncAt;
+        clockAt('2026-10-29T15:45:00Z');
+        await client.requestSync();
+        assert.equal(client.lastSyncAt, good);
+    } finally {
+        client.disconnect();
+    }
+});
+
 test('two payouts on one Vest day share its fund row, and still count two toward the stage', async () => {
     clockAt('2026-10-27T23:00:00Z');
     const client = await syncingClient(unanswered);
diff --git a/scripts/check-vest.mjs b/scripts/check-vest.mjs
index f56f527..691b152 100644
--- a/scripts/check-vest.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-vest.mjs
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ import {
     vestAccountName, parsePosition, awaitingLegs, parseOpenOrder, unrealizedPnl, parseTxn, bookTxns, txnKind, VEST_TXN,
     hourlyVolatility, marketOpen, MIN_HOURLY_RETURNS, nextVestResetMs, resetSafeStop, parseHistoryPosition, jwtClaimStrings,
     accountScopedToken, VestApiError, VestNotSentError, nothingWentIn, tokenForRequest, claimWithdrawal, settleClaims,
-    claimFundRows, readClaims, payoutDaysOf, payoutsSince, longClosure, unknownOpenFill,
+    claimFundRows, readClaims, payoutDaysOf, payoutsSince, longClosure, unknownOpenFill, awaitingActivation, vestStatusName,
+    VEST_STATUS,
 } from '../lib/vest-helpers.ts';
 import { putVestSession, vestSessionFor, dropVestSession, listVestSessions, refuseVestSession } from '../lib/vest-session.ts';
 import { computeDayPlan, currentTradeDateCT, tradeDateFor, cycleCompletion } from '../lib/trading-logic.ts';
@@ -120,6 +121,41 @@ test('capital accounts parse, and are named for their rules', () => {
     assert.equal(parseCapitalAccount({ nope: true }), null);
 });
 
+test('a passed evaluation waits on its funded account, as the Vest app decides', () => {
+    const passed = { ...evalAccount, status: VEST_STATUS.GOAL_PASSED };
+    const a = parseCapitalAccount(passed);
+    assert.equal(a.step, 1);
+    assert.equal(a.stepsTotal, 1);
+    assert.equal(a.accountType, 2);
+    assert.equal(a.blocked, false);
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(a), true);
+
+    // Still trading, already claimed, failed or expired: nothing to activate.
+    for (const status of [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]) assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...evalAccount, status })), false, `status ${status}`);
+    // Blocked by Vest.
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...passed, blocked_at: 1793287000000 })), false);
+    // A funded account that reached its goal isn't an evaluation — on the
+    // last step's number too, so only the evaluation test can say so.
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...passed, account_type: 3, stage: 2, step: 1 })), false);
+    // Either of Vest's marks makes it one.
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...passed, account_type: 3 })), true);
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...passed, stage: 2, step: 1 })), true);
+    // A 2-Step's first step passes on to its second by itself; the last one waits.
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...passed, step: 1, steps_total: 2 })), false);
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...passed, step: 2, steps_total: 2 })), true);
+
+    // Without step or steps_total, the Vest app's own fallbacks.
+    const { step, steps_total, ...bare } = passed;
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount(bare)), true);
+    assert.equal(parseCapitalAccount({ ...bare, stage: 2 }).step, 2);
+    assert.equal(parseCapitalAccount({ ...bare, plan_product_type: 'instant_funded' }).stepsTotal, 0);
+    assert.equal(awaitingActivation(parseCapitalAccount({ ...bare, plan_product_type: 'instant_funded' })), false);
+
+    assert.equal(vestStatusName(3), 'goal passed (status 3)');
+    assert.equal(vestStatusName(6), 'claimed (status 6)');
+    assert.equal(vestStatusName(9), 'unknown (status 9)');
+});
+
 const openPosition = {
     positionId: 'afe96d7e-f5ac-4b8a-aae8-f5b63b74e508', accountId: '843f60e2-e013-5a0e-8b6c-face84bc5509', accountType: 2,
     symbol: 'NDX-USD-PERP', side: 'short', quantity: '42.6545', openPrice: '29529.250000000', closePrice: '290.250000000',