diff --git a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Compute.tsx b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Compute.tsx
index 33d171c1..2111b6f3 100644
--- a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Compute.tsx
+++ b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Compute.tsx
@@ -419,7 +419,9 @@ const Compute: Component = () => {
       <div class="settings-page-header">
         <div class="settings-page-header__inner">
           <h2 class="text-16-medium text-text-strong">Compute</h2>
-          <p class="text-13-regular text-text-weak">Choose where kernels and research jobs can run safely.</p>
+          <p class="text-13-regular text-text-weak">
+            Run close to home or head to the cloud when the work gets bigger.
+          </p>
         </div>
       </div>
 
@@ -435,7 +437,7 @@ const Compute: Component = () => {
         <CredentialServices
           category="compute"
           title="Cloud credentials"
-          description="AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and NVIDIA credentials are encrypted locally and exposed only to the tools that use them."
+          description="Connect a cloud once. Credentials stay encrypted locally and go only to the tools that need them."
         />
 
         <Section title="Modal" subtitle="Run explicitly approved jobs in isolated Modal sandboxes using your account.">
diff --git a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/CredentialServices.tsx b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/CredentialServices.tsx
index a6cb92e4..40db92ee 100644
--- a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/CredentialServices.tsx
+++ b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/CredentialServices.tsx
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ export const CredentialServices: Component<{
                 <ProviderLogo id={service.id} label={service.label} connected={service.connected} />
                 <div class="settings-list-copy">
                   <strong>{service.label}</strong>
-                  <span>{service.connected ? "Connected" : service.description}</span>
+                  <span>{service.connected ? "Connected and ready" : service.description}</span>
                 </div>
                 <div class="settings-list-actions">
                   <Show when={service.connected}>
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ export const CredentialServices: Component<{
                   </For>
                   <div class="credential-form-actions">
                     <Button type="submit" size="small" variant="primary" disabled={saving() || !ready(service)}>
-                      {saving() ? "Saving…" : "Save"}
+                      {saving() ? "Saving…" : "Save credential"}
                     </Button>
                     <Button type="button" size="small" variant="ghost" onClick={() => setEditing(undefined)}>
                       Cancel
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ export const CredentialServices: Component<{
               placeholder="Paste secret"
               onInput={setSecret}
             />
-            <p>The agent receives this as SERVICE_NAME_ENVIRONMENT_FIELD.</p>
+            <p>OpenScience will make this available as SERVICE_NAME_ENVIRONMENT_FIELD.</p>
             <div class="credential-form-actions">
               <Button
                 type="submit"
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ export const CredentialServices: Component<{
                 variant="primary"
                 disabled={saving() || !name().trim() || !secret().trim()}
               >
-                {saving() ? "Saving…" : "Save"}
+                {saving() ? "Saving…" : "Save credential"}
               </Button>
               <Button type="button" size="small" variant="ghost" onClick={() => setCustom(false)}>
                 Cancel
diff --git a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Credentials.tsx b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Credentials.tsx
index 1fbe748c..7fb9fd2a 100644
--- a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Credentials.tsx
+++ b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Credentials.tsx
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ export const Credentials: Component = () => (
   <div class="flex h-full flex-col overflow-y-auto no-scrollbar">
     <header class="settings-page-header">
       <h2>Credentials</h2>
-      <p>Connect research services that do not belong to Models or Compute.</p>
+      <p>Bring the rest of your research stack along. Add a service once, and it is ready when your tools need it.</p>
     </header>
     <div class="settings-page-body">
       <CredentialServices
         category="integration"
         title="Integrations"
-        description="These encrypted values are available to the tools and agents that need them."
+        description="A quiet home for GitHub, OpenAlex, Hugging Face, Weights & Biases, and everything in between."
         custom
       />
     </div>
diff --git a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Models.tsx b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Models.tsx
index fb255c40..d8682367 100644
--- a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Models.tsx
+++ b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/Models.tsx
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ export default function Models() {
         <div class="settings-page-header__inner">
           <h2 class="text-16-medium text-text-strong">Models</h2>
           <p class="text-13-regular text-text-weak">
-            Choose the models used for research and which ones appear in the composer.
+            Pick the models you like working with and keep your everyday choices close at hand.
           </p>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ export default function Models() {
               Managed inference
             </h3>
             <p class="text-12-regular text-text-weak">
-              Route model calls through OpenScience credits, your own keys, or automatic credential detection.
+              Use OpenScience credits, bring your own key, or let us spot one that is already configured.
             </p>
           </div>
           <ManagedInference onError={setError} />
@@ -145,8 +145,7 @@ export default function Models() {
               ChatGPT / Codex
             </h3>
             <p class="text-12-regular text-text-weak">
-              Use supported OpenAI models through your existing ChatGPT plan. OAuth tokens stay in owner-only local
-              storage.
+              Already have ChatGPT? Connect it once and use supported OpenAI models here. OAuth tokens stay local.
             </p>
           </div>
           <CodexConnection onError={setError} />
@@ -158,8 +157,8 @@ export default function Models() {
               Provider keys
             </h3>
             <p class="text-12-regular text-text-weak">
-              Bring your own model-provider key. Keys stay in an owner-only local auth file, not the system keychain,
-              and the provider bills you directly.
+              Prefer your own account? Add a provider key here. It stays in your owner-only local auth file, and the
+              provider bills you directly.
             </p>
           </div>
           <ProviderKeys onError={setError} />
diff --git a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/ProviderLogo.tsx b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/ProviderLogo.tsx
index 2639b75c..b116d298 100644
--- a/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/ProviderLogo.tsx
+++ b/frontend/workspace/src/components/settings/ProviderLogo.tsx
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ export const ProviderLogo: Component<{
 }> = (props) => {
   const label = () => props.label ?? props.id
   const small = () => props.size === "small"
+  const source = () => providerLogoSource(props.id)
   return (
     <span
       class="relative flex shrink-0 items-center justify-center overflow-hidden border border-border-weak-base bg-surface-base text-text-strong"
@@ -134,8 +135,9 @@ export const ProviderLogo: Component<{
       role="img"
       aria-label={`${label()} logo`}
       data-provider-logo={props.id}
+      data-provider-logo-source={source().kind}
     >
-      <Mark source={providerLogoSource(props.id)} label={label()} small={small()} />
+      <Mark source={source()} label={label()} small={small()} />
       <Show when={props.connected}>
         <span
           aria-hidden="true"