diff --git a/scripts/deploy-remote.sh b/scripts/deploy-remote.sh
index 6a94350..e389a3f 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy-remote.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy-remote.sh
@@ -1207,12 +1207,12 @@ deploy_llm_large() {
 #
 # It is a SEPARATE endpoint on port 7771; frank-large keeps 7770. The 3090 is
 # not shared: frank-large's engine runs on the gfx1151 iGPU.
-LLM_SMALL_MODEL_FILE="${LLM_SMALL_MODEL_FILE:-/home/dank/models/MiMo-Q6K/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-Q6_K.gguf}"
+LLM_SMALL_MODEL_FILE="${LLM_SMALL_MODEL_FILE:-/home/dank/models/Ornith-Q8/Ornith-1.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf}"
 LLM_SMALL_RUNTIME="${LLM_SMALL_RUNTIME:-/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-master/build-cuda/bin/llama-server}"
-# The projector IS the vision capability here: the Q6_K GGUF ships no `v.*`
-# tensors, so a deploy that starts without this file silently ships a
+# The projector IS the vision capability here: the Ornith GGUF ships no
+# `v.*` tensors, so a deploy that starts without this file silently ships a
 # text-only endpoint. Checked unconditionally, like frank-large's.
-LLM_SMALL_MMPROJ="${LLM_SMALL_MMPROJ:-/home/dank/models/MiMo-Q6K/mmproj-MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-f16.gguf}"
+LLM_SMALL_MMPROJ="${LLM_SMALL_MMPROJ:-/home/dank/models/Ornith-Q8/mmproj-Ornith-1.5-9B-BF16.gguf}"
 
 deploy_llm_small() {
     # Refuse rather than restart-loop: a unit whose runtime or payload is
diff --git a/tests/frank_small_unit.bats b/tests/frank_small_unit.bats
index e9e3a9c..cf6c4b2 100755
--- a/tests/frank_small_unit.bats
+++ b/tests/frank_small_unit.bats
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bats
 # Seam: the frank-small llama.cpp root unit on dankclaw.
-# frank-small is the RTX 3090 endpoint; since 2026-10-01 night it serves
-# bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF:Q6_K via a CUDA (sm_86) build of
+# frank-small is the RTX 3090 endpoint; since 2026-10-05 it serves
+# ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF:Q8_0 via a CUDA (sm_86) build of
 # llama.cpp master, chosen because it is the only runtime here that moves K and
 # V independently. Since 2026-10-03 it runs TWO unquantized contexts of
 # 200,704 tokens each and carries a vision projector, and the card must keep
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ SERVE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/serve-frank-small.sh"
 ENV_FILE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/frank-small.env"
 REMOTE_DEPLOY="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh"
 ENV_LARGE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/frank-large.env"
-TARGET_STUB="MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-Q6_K.gguf"
+TARGET_STUB="Ornith-1.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf"
 # Same basename as the shipped projector: the test env repoints it into $STAGE.
-MM_STUB="mmproj-MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-f16.gguf"
+MM_STUB="mmproj-Ornith-1.5-9B-BF16.gguf"
 
 setup() {
     STAGE="$(mktemp -d)"
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ argv_value() {
     grep -q 'FRANK_SMALL_ENV_FILE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/frank-small.env' "$UNIT"
 }
 
-@test "the shipped env points at the llama.cpp runtime and the Q6_K GGUF" {
+@test "the shipped env points at the llama.cpp runtime and the Ornith-1.5-9B Q8_0 GGUF" {
     grep -qE '^LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-master/build-cuda/bin/llama-server$' "$ENV_FILE"
-    grep -qE "^MODEL_FILE=/home/dank/models/MiMo-Q6K/$TARGET_STUB$" "$ENV_FILE"
+    grep -qE "^MODEL_FILE=/home/dank/models/Ornith-Q8/$TARGET_STUB$" "$ENV_FILE"
 }
 
 @test "the deployer gates on exactly the payload paths the env file ships" {