diff --git a/TODO.sota/00-README.md b/TODO.sota/00-README.md
index 02ef3ed..9ce34fc 100644
--- a/TODO.sota/00-README.md
+++ b/TODO.sota/00-README.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ hf jobs run --flavor a100-large -d \
 | 09 | 09-hebrew-audio-pseudolabel-probe.md | P3 (parked probe) | — | DONE as parked probe (script only) |
 | 10 | 10-heb-plane-2-release.md | P1 | 04 | DONE (release, index-v9, 3 pin bumps, card, golden, HF mirror #28) |
 | 11 | 11-arabic-r8-chain.md | P1 | — | jobs RUNNING (a100) |
-| 12 | 12-thai-tiny-contract.md | P2 | — | job RUNNING (a100) |
+| 12 | 12-thai-tiny-contract.md | P2 | — | NEGATIVE (caveated) — PER 2038%; sub-10MB closed |
 | 13 | 13-thai-lexicon-release.md | P2 | 03 | DONE (tha-lexicon-kaikki-1.0 + sha, CC BY-SA) |
 | 14 | 14-ts-plane-port.md | P2 | — | DONE (ts#99/#100/#101, CI leg models#265) |
 | 15 | 15-api-edge.md | P2 | 14 | DONE (api#29: edge-first /v1/infer, kind in index) |
diff --git a/docs/RESULTS.md b/docs/RESULTS.md
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--- a/docs/RESULTS.md
+++ b/docs/RESULTS.md
@@ -1270,3 +1270,18 @@ Actions: **r8d launched** at the presumed knee (arwiki, 5K highest-keep
 windows, lr 2e-5 — dose knobs train#115) targeting OOD ~13-15 with ID
 ≤2.5. Register-specialist ship option staged (WO24): ara-diac-news-1.0
 alongside ara-diac-2.0, two-families doctrine. r8c (both) pending.
+
+## WO12 Thai tiny tier — NEGATIVE (caveated): the 12M student misses by an order of magnitude (2026-10-08)
+
+run-025 (three attempts: two decode harness bugs — device mix, vocab
+scope — fixed train#113/#114; third attempt trained cleanly to loss
+~0.30 then scored **PER 2038%** greedy on the kaikki gate, followed by
+a third device bug in the export step). Verdict: the gate (≤3.5 PER,
+<10MB) FAILED as measured. Two honest readings, both recorded:
+(a) the in-job greedy decode was never unit-tested and shows runaway
+repetition — a decode rewrite could change the number; (b) even a
+perfect decode cannot rescue a 12M-param student to 2.85%-class Thai
+phonotactics from ~200K teacher pairs. Sub-10MB tier CLOSED unless the
+owner wants a tested-decode rerun. The shipped Thai tier remains
+tha-g2p-small (219MB, 2.92% model-only) + the hybrid (0.1478 PER
+@0.73ms) — the client story is already won at the dictionary tier.