diff --git a/scripts/download-frank-small.sh b/scripts/download-frank-small.sh
index 1d69ead..e8ca5bf 100755
--- a/scripts/download-frank-small.sh
+++ b/scripts/download-frank-small.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # Download the frank-small payload for llama.cpp on the RTX 3090:
-# bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF:Q6_K plus its vision projector
+# ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF:Q8_0 plus its vision projector
 # (the GGUF carries no `v.*` tensors — the tower lives only in the mmproj, so
 # without this file the endpoint is text-only by construction). Public repo —
 # no auth header, and never a token on the command line (it is world-readable
@@ -11,9 +11,12 @@
 # then byte count and the Hub LFS sha256. Idempotent: complete files are
 # skipped.
 #
-# 2026-10-03: the rung is Q6_K again — the freed third slot funds exact f16 V
-# AND the higher quant. The Q5_K_M file this script served from 2026-10-02
-# stays on disk at /home/dank/models/MiMo-Q5KM/ (6876124704 B, LFS oid
+# 2026-10-05 (Frank): the rung is Ornith-1.5-9B Q8_0. The payload moved off
+# MiMo-V2.6 (Q6_K) to Ornith because it is the fleet's own model and it is the
+# only one the harness's own prompt recipes were written against; Q8_0 was the
+# rung chosen so the quant does not cost the throughput this endpoint already
+# runs at. The Q5_K_M file this script served from 2026-10-02 stays on disk at
+# /home/dank/models/MiMo-Q5KM/ (6876124704 B, LFS oid
 # 04cf46f2b5584ef922697d6c063f94879434fb86c467f1a09e52daf0cddaf35f) as the
 # rollback target; re-fetch it from the same repo with the same recipe.
 #
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@
 #   scripts/download-frank-small.sh [DEST_DIR] [--verify-only]
 set -euo pipefail
 
-REPO="bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF"
+REPO="ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF"
 BASE="https://huggingface.co/${REPO}/resolve/main"
 
 DEST=""
@@ -32,12 +35,12 @@ for arg in "$@"; do
         *) DEST="$arg" ;;
     esac
 done
-DEST="${DEST:-/home/dank/models/MiMo-Q6K}"
+DEST="${DEST:-/home/dank/models/Ornith-Q8}"
 
-# name bytes sha256
+# name bytes sha256 (the sha256 is the LFS oid in the repo's pointer file)
 FILES=(
-  "MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-Q6_K.gguf 7793710624 ef96d05a2ddf2cbb450d1af1ac3860ec769d3575bafa70692ee5609bda3fad7d"
-  "mmproj-MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-f16.gguf 918166048 ff348f3180a63188aa7285db85f550fe38acb61dd013c599eb8bad08d2cc2576"
+  "Ornith-1.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf 9786060384 22086870b009dbe9815ee752c48a82de930118a7c5ce5599590892ae03b8b010"
+  "mmproj-Ornith-1.5-9B-BF16.gguf 921704672 626f9f90627402a6bf4a999111d0fbd69b5fcca7aa8ba089d69e5f10e8858e1d"
 )
 
 mkdir -p "$DEST"