diff --git a/lib/ai/ollama.js b/lib/ai/ollama.js
index fd5dcf4..f485587 100644
--- a/lib/ai/ollama.js
+++ b/lib/ai/ollama.js
@@ -22,3 +22,40 @@ export function padTo(vector, dim) {
   while (out.length < dim) out.push(0);
   return out;
 }
+
+// Split text into chunks of at most `size` chars, breaking on line boundaries
+// where possible (never mid-word-loss): accumulate lines until adding the next
+// would exceed `size`. A single over-long line is hard-split. Returns [] for empty.
+export function chunkText(text, size = 1500) {
+  const s = (text || '').trim();
+  if (!s) return [];
+  const chunks = [];
+  let cur = '';
+  for (const line of s.split('\n')) {
+    if (line.length > size) {
+      if (cur) { chunks.push(cur); cur = ''; }
+      for (let i = 0; i < line.length; i += size) chunks.push(line.slice(i, i + size));
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (cur.length + line.length + 1 > size) { if (cur) chunks.push(cur); cur = line; }
+    else { cur = cur ? cur + '\n' + line : line; }
+  }
+  if (cur) chunks.push(cur);
+  return chunks;
+}
+
+// Embed possibly-long text by chunking, embedding each chunk, and mean-pooling
+// the resulting vectors element-wise. Returns a single embedding vector.
+// 1 chunk => identical to embedText. Caps the number of chunks to bound cost.
+export async function embedTextPooled(text, { model = 'nomic-embed-text', timeoutMs = 60_000, maxChunks = 64, chunkSize = 1500 } = {}) {
+  let chunks = chunkText(text, chunkSize);
+  if (chunks.length === 0) chunks = [''];
+  if (chunks.length > maxChunks) chunks = chunks.slice(0, maxChunks);
+  const vecs = [];
+  for (const c of chunks) vecs.push(await embedText(c, { model, timeoutMs }));
+  const dim = vecs[0].length;
+  const pooled = new Array(dim).fill(0);
+  for (const v of vecs) for (let i = 0; i < dim; i++) pooled[i] += (v[i] || 0);
+  for (let i = 0; i < dim; i++) pooled[i] /= vecs.length;
+  return pooled;
+}
diff --git a/lib/jobs/workers/embed.js b/lib/jobs/workers/embed.js
index 3f596b0..2ce415b 100644
--- a/lib/jobs/workers/embed.js
+++ b/lib/jobs/workers/embed.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { embedText, padTo } from '../../ai/ollama.js';
+import { embedTextPooled, padTo } from '../../ai/ollama.js';
 import { pool } from '../../db/pool.js';
 import { recordAudit } from '../../db/repos/audit.js';
 
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ export async function handler(job) {
   if (!table) throw new Error(`unknown entity_type: ${entity_type}`);
   const { rows: [row] } = await pool.query(`SELECT * FROM ${table} WHERE id=$1`, [entity_id]);
   if (!row) return { skipped: 'gone' };
-  const text = STRING_BUILDERS[entity_type](row).slice(0, 6_000);
-  const v = await embedText(text);
+  const text = STRING_BUILDERS[entity_type](row);
+  const v = await embedTextPooled(text);
   const padded = padTo(v, 1024);
   const literal = '[' + padded.join(',') + ']';
   await pool.query(`UPDATE ${table} SET embedding=$1::vector WHERE id=$2`, [literal, entity_id]);
diff --git a/tests/ai/embed_chunking.test.js b/tests/ai/embed_chunking.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2069cdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ai/embed_chunking.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { chunkText, embedTextPooled } from '../../lib/ai/ollama.js';
+
+afterEach(() => { vi.unstubAllGlobals(); });
+
+describe('chunkText', () => {
+  it('returns [] for empty', () => { expect(chunkText('')).toEqual([]); });
+  it('keeps short text as one chunk', () => { expect(chunkText('hello\nworld', 1500)).toEqual(['hello\nworld']); });
+  it('splits long text into <=size chunks covering all chars', () => {
+    const text = Array.from({length: 50}, (_,i)=>`line ${i} ${'x'.repeat(40)}`).join('\n');
+    const chunks = chunkText(text, 200);
+    expect(chunks.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    for (const c of chunks) expect(c.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(200);
+  });
+  it('hard-splits a single over-long line', () => {
+    const chunks = chunkText('y'.repeat(500), 100);
+    expect(chunks.length).toBe(5);
+    expect(chunks.every(c => c.length <= 100)).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('embedTextPooled', () => {
+  it('mean-pools chunk vectors', async () => {
+    // two chunks (size 5 forces split), fetch returns embedding = [callCount, callCount]
+    let n = 0;
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', vi.fn(async () => { n++; return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ embedding: [n, n] }) }; }));
+    const v = await embedTextPooled('aaaaa\nbbbbb', { chunkSize: 5 });
+    // chunks: ['aaaaa','bbbbb'] -> vectors [1,1],[2,2] -> mean [1.5,1.5]
+    expect(v).toEqual([1.5, 1.5]);
+  });
+  it('single chunk equals single embed', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', vi.fn(async () => ({ ok: true, json: async () => ({ embedding: [7, 8, 9] }) })));
+    const v = await embedTextPooled('short', { chunkSize: 1500 });
+    expect(v).toEqual([7, 8, 9]);
+  });
+});