diff --git a/web/sections/AboutPanel.tsx b/web/sections/AboutPanel.tsx
index 1b1167b..6846c9f 100644
--- a/web/sections/AboutPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/AboutPanel.tsx
@@ -137,22 +137,13 @@ export const AboutPanel = () => {
 
   return (
     <div className="flex size-full flex-col gap-4 overflow-auto p-4">
-      <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
-        <p className="flex-1 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-          The About page, in the order it is shown: a header, the text about you, the product, and the
-          manifesto.
-        </p>
-        {/* Confirmation lives with the content rather than in the bar, because the bar's own button
-            has already gone back to saying "Save" by the time anybody looks up. */}
-        {saved && <span className="text-xs text-success">Saved</span>}
-      </div>
+      {/* Confirmation only. The order of the bands is the order of the page, which the bands
+          themselves already say — a sentence explaining that was a caption for something visible. */}
+      {saved && <p className="text-xs text-success">Saved</p>}
 
       {/* ── HEADER: a photograph and a phrase over it ─────────────────────────────────────────── */}
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-        <div>
-          <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Header</h3>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">The photograph at the top, and the line over it.</p>
-        </div>
+        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Header</h3>
 
         {/* 21/9 because that is what the page uses — `aspect-[21/9]` in about/partials.tsx. The two
             have to agree or the admin shows a shape the site does not have, which is worse than showing
@@ -179,19 +170,13 @@ export const AboutPanel = () => {
 
       {/* ── ABOUT US ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */}
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-        <div>
-          <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">About us</h3>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">Who you are.</p>
-        </div>
+        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">About us</h3>
         <RichText value={aboutText} onChange={setAboutText} placeholder="Tell people who you are." />
       </section>
 
       {/* ── PRODUTO: a video beside its text ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── */}
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-        <div>
-          <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Product</h3>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">What you make, and a video of it being made.</p>
-        </div>
+        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Product</h3>
 
         {/* 16/9, matching the `aspect-video` the product block draws. */}
         <MediaField
@@ -207,10 +192,7 @@ export const AboutPanel = () => {
 
       {/* ── MANIFESTO ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */}
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-        <div>
-          <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Manifesto</h3>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">What you stand for.</p>
-        </div>
+        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Manifesto</h3>
         <RichText value={manifesto} onChange={setManifesto} placeholder="The manifesto." />
       </section>
 
diff --git a/web/sections/GalleriesPanel.tsx b/web/sections/GalleriesPanel.tsx
index 9a3caab..8e47deb 100644
--- a/web/sections/GalleriesPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/GalleriesPanel.tsx
@@ -142,12 +142,7 @@ export const GalleriesPanel = () => {
   return (
     <div className="flex size-full flex-col gap-4 overflow-auto p-5">
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-        <div className="space-y-1">
-          <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Galleries</h3>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-            A named set of media, in an order. Any page can use one, and they all change together.
-          </p>
-        </div>
+        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Galleries</h3>
 
         {error && <p className="text-xs text-destructive">{error}</p>}
 
diff --git a/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx b/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx
index 7e92474..2902d9e 100644
--- a/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/HomePanel.tsx
@@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
         <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-3">
           <div className="space-y-1">
             <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Intro</h3>
-            <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">The paragraph under the hero.</p>
           </div>
           {saved && (
             <span className="flex shrink-0 items-center gap-1 text-xs text-success">
@@ -173,7 +172,6 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
         <div className="space-y-1">
           <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Hero</h3>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">The video or image across the top of the page.</p>
         </div>
 
         {/*
@@ -213,13 +211,7 @@ export const HomePanel = () => {
       </section>
 
       <section className="flex flex-col gap-3 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-        <div className="space-y-1">
-          <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Gallery</h3>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-            Which gallery the carousel shows. Edit its contents in the Galleries section — every page
-            using it changes with it.
-          </p>
-        </div>
+        <h3 className="text-sm font-medium">Gallery</h3>
 
         {/*
           A picker, not a list.
diff --git a/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx b/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx
index 7bbc1b6..86019f4 100644
--- a/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/RecordsPanel.tsx
@@ -226,8 +226,6 @@ export const RecordsPanel = ({ config }: { config: RecordsConfig }) => {
 
   return (
     <div className="flex size-full flex-col gap-4 overflow-auto p-4">
-      <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{config.blurb}</p>
-
       {/* The list, and the one field that makes another. A record is created with a title alone and
           filled in afterwards — asking for six fields before anything exists is a form nobody
           finishes. */}
diff --git a/web/sections/records.ts b/web/sections/records.ts
index 3d05d6f..4662297 100644
--- a/web/sections/records.ts
+++ b/web/sections/records.ts
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ export type RecordsConfig = {
   singular: string;
   /** What this section calls its title. Collabs say "Project name" and that is the client's word. */
   titleLabel: string;
-  /** Shown once at the top, so a screen explains itself without a manual. */
-  blurb: string;
   fields: FieldSpec[];
 };
 
@@ -47,7 +45,6 @@ export const GALLERY_CONFIG: RecordsConfig = {
   path: '/fofos-admin/gallery',
   singular: 'piece',
   titleLabel: 'Title',
-  blurb: 'Standalone pieces, each with its own page and its own photographs.',
   fields: [
     { key: 'descriptive_text', label: 'Description', long: true },
     { key: 'measurement', label: 'Measurements', hint: '120 × 80 cm' },
@@ -62,7 +59,6 @@ export const DROPS_CONFIG: RecordsConfig = {
   path: '/fofos-admin/drops',
   singular: 'drop',
   titleLabel: 'Title',
-  blurb: 'Releases, in the order they should appear.',
   fields: [{ key: 'description', label: 'Description', long: true }],
 };
 
@@ -77,6 +73,5 @@ export const COLLABS_CONFIG: RecordsConfig = {
   path: '/fofos-admin/collabs',
   singular: 'collab',
   titleLabel: 'Project name',
-  blurb: 'Projects with other people.',
   fields: [{ key: 'project_description', label: 'Description', long: true }],
 };