diff --git a/scripts/setup/officer-setup.sh b/scripts/setup/officer-setup.sh
index 5f299a8b..ae0f853e 100755
--- a/scripts/setup/officer-setup.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup/officer-setup.sh
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ if ! skip; then
   echo "     The ecosystem file is GENERATED, not checked in. It describes this"
   echo "     install and nothing else, so nothing in git can drift from it."
   echo ""
-  echo "     six processes:"
+  echo "     ${#CORE_PROCESSES[@]} processes:"
   for entry in "${CORE_PROCESSES[@]}"; do
     IFS='|' read -r _name _script _args <<<"$entry"
     printf "       %-24s %s %s\n" "$_name" "$_script" "$_args"
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ if ! skip; then
   if confirm "Write it and start them?"; then
     write_ecosystem
     ok "written — $(ecosystem_file)"
-    report_changed "wrote $(ecosystem_file) — six pm2 apps: $(printf '%s ' "${CORE_PROCESSES[@]%%|*}")"
+    report_changed "wrote $(ecosystem_file) — ${#CORE_PROCESSES[@]} pm2 apps: $(printf '%s ' "${CORE_PROCESSES[@]%%|*}")"
 
     # Starting against a database that is not answering is not fatal — the server
     # waits and the agent retries forever — but it makes the Verify section below
@@ -792,13 +792,13 @@ if ! skip; then
         if pm2_enable_startup; then
           ok "pm2 will resurrect them at boot"
           report_ran "pm2 startup systemd — installed a systemd unit so pm2 resurrects these at boot"
-          SUMMARY+=("Services: 6 processes started, enabled at boot")
+          SUMMARY+=("Services: ${#CORE_PROCESSES[@]} processes started, enabled at boot")
         else
           warn "could not enable the boot hook — run 'pm2 startup' yourself and follow it"
-          SUMMARY+=("Services: 6 processes started; boot hook NOT enabled")
+          SUMMARY+=("Services: ${#CORE_PROCESSES[@]} processes started; boot hook NOT enabled")
         fi
       else
-        SUMMARY+=("Services: 6 processes started; not enabled at boot")
+        SUMMARY+=("Services: ${#CORE_PROCESSES[@]} processes started; not enabled at boot")
       fi
     else
       warn "pm2 did not start cleanly"
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ fi
 #
 # Root, and that surprises people — reasonably, because everything this script just
 # installed belongs to somebody else. The platform runs as ${USERNAME}: the checkout,
-# node_modules, .env, the secret store and all six pm2 processes are theirs. Root was
+# node_modules, .env, the secret store and every pm2 process are theirs. Root was
 # the installer's privilege, never the platform's.
 #
 # Saying so matters for two things that are invisible until they bite:
diff --git a/scripts/setup/officer-setup/lib/preflight.sh b/scripts/setup/officer-setup/lib/preflight.sh
index 4f359ac6..d41b240a 100644
--- a/scripts/setup/officer-setup/lib/preflight.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup/officer-setup/lib/preflight.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ tool_why() {
   case "$1" in
     git) echo "to clone and update the platform" ;;
     node) echo "pm2 runs on it, and the terminal sidecar builds node-pty against it" ;;
-    bun) echo "the platform itself and nineteen of the twenty processes" ;;
+    bun) echo "the platform itself and every process except the pty sidecar" ;;
     pm2) echo "supervises every process; the ecosystem files are written for it" ;;
     docker) echo "Postgres, and anything the app store provisions" ;;
     *) echo "" ;;