diff --git a/fetch-other.ts b/fetch-other.ts
index cf1ed2f..8b68ec6 100644
--- a/fetch-other.ts
+++ b/fetch-other.ts
@@ -291,6 +291,16 @@ function stripTracking(url: string): string {
 
 export async function fetchJobRoom(): Promise<Job[]> {
   const ads = new Map<string, JobRoomAd>();
+  // The search API returns a short keyword-anchored teaser per hit, not the
+  // full posting — the same ad re-appears across keyword sweeps with a
+  // different teaser each time, and `ads.set()` above only keeps the latest.
+  // A genuinely German ad (Consult & Pepper's recurring "Senior Fullstack
+  // Software Engineer" — full text: "In Deutsch bist du verhandlungssicher")
+  // slipped through repeatedly because whichever keyword ran last happened to
+  // anchor on an English-reading fragment of it. Collecting every variant and
+  // checking them together means one clean-looking teaser can no longer
+  // override another teaser that actually shows the German.
+  const descVariants = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
 
   for (const keyword of JOBROOM_KEYWORDS) {
     process.stdout.write(`  ${keyword} … `);
@@ -313,7 +323,11 @@ export async function fetchJobRoom(): Promise<Job[]> {
 
       const hits = (await res.json()) as Array<{ jobAdvertisement?: JobRoomAd }>;
       for (const h of hits) {
-        if (h.jobAdvertisement?.id) ads.set(h.jobAdvertisement.id, h.jobAdvertisement);
+        const id = h.jobAdvertisement?.id;
+        if (!id) continue;
+        ads.set(id, h.jobAdvertisement!);
+        const d = h.jobAdvertisement!.jobContent?.jobDescriptions?.[0]?.description;
+        if (d) (descVariants.get(id) ?? descVariants.set(id, new Set()).get(id)!).add(d);
       }
       total += hits.length;
       if (hits.length < 100) break;
@@ -341,8 +355,11 @@ export async function fetchJobRoom(): Promise<Job[]> {
 
     // A handful of ads ship without a description. isViableDescription passes
     // those through by design, so leave contentChecked unset and let index.ts
-    // fall back to fetching the page.
-    const body = desc.description ?? "";
+    // fall back to fetching the page. When we do have variants, join every
+    // one seen across keyword sweeps rather than just the last teaser stored
+    // on `ad` (see comment above) — more text only adds detection signal, it
+    // never removes any.
+    const body = [...(descVariants.get(ad.id) ?? [])].join(" \n ") || desc.description || "";
     const hasBody = body.trim().length > 40;
     if (hasBody && !isViableDescription(body).ok) { langDropped++; continue; }
 
diff --git a/fetch.ts b/fetch.ts
index 7fc6338..f74a7e4 100644
--- a/fetch.ts
+++ b/fetch.ts
@@ -295,10 +295,21 @@ export async function fetchDescription(id: string): Promise<string | null> {
   return null;
 }
 
-/** English-language AND not demanding German above B1. */
-export async function isViableContent(id: string): Promise<{ ok: boolean; reason?: string }> {
+/**
+ * English-language AND not demanding German above B1.
+ *
+ * `retry: true` means the description couldn't be read at all (rate-limited,
+ * stub page) — index.ts leaves the job out of the CSV entirely rather than
+ * defaulting to "keep", so it's picked up fresh and re-checked next run
+ * instead of ever being judged sight-unseen. The old default-to-keep here is
+ * what let a fully-German HRM Systems/Consult & Pepper posting ("In Deutsch
+ * bist du verhandlungssicher") through on 2026-09-10 — same failure mode as
+ * the CLEEVEN case above, just on the "keep" side of isViableContent instead
+ * of isEnglishContent.
+ */
+export async function isViableContent(id: string): Promise<{ ok: boolean; reason?: string; retry?: boolean }> {
   const text = await fetchDescription(id);
-  if (text === null) return { ok: true }; // keep when we genuinely can't read it
+  if (text === null) return { ok: false, reason: "unreadable — retrying next run", retry: true };
   if (hasNonEnglishUmlaut(text)) return { ok: false, reason: "non-English (umlaut)" };
   const de = (text.match(DE_CONTENT_RE) ?? []).length;
   const fr = (text.match(FR_CONTENT_RE) ?? []).length;
@@ -344,11 +355,13 @@ export async function isEnglishUrl(url: string): Promise<boolean> {
 }
 
 /** As isViableContent, but for an arbitrary job URL (non-LinkedIn sources). */
-export async function isViableUrl(url: string): Promise<{ ok: boolean; reason?: string }> {
+export async function isViableUrl(url: string): Promise<{ ok: boolean; reason?: string; retry?: boolean }> {
   try {
     await Bun.sleep(350);
     const res = await fetch(url, { headers: HEADERS });
-    if (!res.ok) return { ok: true };
+    // Same reasoning as isViableContent: an unreadable page shouldn't default
+    // to "keep" — defer it and let next run's fresh fetch actually judge it.
+    if (!res.ok) return { ok: false, reason: "unreadable — retrying next run", retry: true };
     const text = (await res.text()).replace(/<[^>]+>/g, " ");
     if (hasNonEnglishUmlaut(text)) return { ok: false, reason: "non-English (umlaut)" };
     const de = (text.match(DE_CONTENT_RE) ?? []).length;
@@ -357,7 +370,7 @@ export async function isViableUrl(url: string): Promise<{ ok: boolean; reason?:
     if (requiresGerman(text)) return { ok: false, reason: "requires German > B1" };
     return { ok: true };
   } catch {
-    return { ok: true };
+    return { ok: false, reason: "unreadable — retrying next run", retry: true };
   }
 }