diff --git a/src/app/api/insights/targets/__tests__/route.test.ts b/src/app/api/insights/targets/__tests__/route.test.ts
index d9fe9db14..9338f928d 100644
--- a/src/app/api/insights/targets/__tests__/route.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/insights/targets/__tests__/route.test.ts
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/targets/glucose-read", async (importOriginal) => ({
 vi.mock("@/lib/analytics/resting-pulse-read", () => ({
   readRestingPulseProxy: vi.fn(),
 }));
-// The verdict's basis: the dashboard's summary slice. Empty here, so every
-// item is placed with its own value (`targetVerdictReference`).
+// The verdict's basis: the dashboard's seven-day means. Empty here, so every
+// item is placed with its newest reading, else its own value.
 vi.mock("@/lib/analytics/summaries-slice", () => ({
-  computeSummariesSlice: vi.fn(async () => ({ summaries: {} })),
+  readSevenDayMeans: vi.fn(async () => ({})),
 }));
 
 vi.mock("@/lib/db", () => ({
diff --git a/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts b/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts
index 9766410a9..b1a5519a2 100644
--- a/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts
+++ b/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts
@@ -500,6 +500,47 @@ async function withSleepNightTotals(
   return slice;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The seven-day mean per type, exactly as the slice computes `avg7` (the same
+ * canonical-source CTE, the same day weighting, the same rounding), without
+ * the rest of the slice. Sleep is absent: the slice summarises it per night. For a reader that needs only the dashboard's basis,
+ * such as the target verdicts: one aggregate query, no reading ever leaves
+ * the database as a row.
+ */
+export async function readSevenDayMeans(
+  userId: string,
+): Promise<Record<string, number | null>> {
+  const priorityJson = await loadUserSourcePriority(userId);
+  const rankUnqualified = buildSourceRankCase(
+    priorityJson,
+    '"type"',
+    '"source"',
+  );
+  const rows = await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe<
+    Array<{ type: string; avg7: number | null }>
+  >(
+    `
+      WITH cm AS (${canonicalMeasurementsCte(rankUnqualified, "90 days")}
+      )
+      SELECT
+        m."type"::text                    AS type,
+        ${AVG7_SQL}::double precision     AS avg7
+      FROM ${dayWeightedRows("cm", SESSION_DAY_FRAME)} m
+      GROUP BY m."type"
+    `,
+    userId,
+  );
+  const out: Record<string, number | null> = {};
+  for (const row of rows) {
+    // Stored per stage, summarised per night by `withSleepNightTotals`: a
+    // mean over stage rows is not the slice's sleep figure, so it is left
+    // out rather than served wrong. Callers fold the nights themselves.
+    if (row.type === "SLEEP_DURATION") continue;
+    out[row.type] = round2(row.avg7);
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 /**
  * Happy path — DAY buckets carry `count / min / max / mean`; a narrow
  * `$queryRaw` carries only the windowed avgs + regression columns the
diff --git a/src/lib/targets/build-response.ts b/src/lib/targets/build-response.ts
index 73a0e162f..7b0ddc569 100644
--- a/src/lib/targets/build-response.ts
+++ b/src/lib/targets/build-response.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ import {
   readMoodDayRollups,
 } from "@/lib/rollups/mood-rollups";
 import { readRestingPulseProxy } from "@/lib/analytics/resting-pulse-read";
-import { computeSummariesSlice } from "@/lib/analytics/summaries-slice";
+import { readSevenDayMeans } from "@/lib/analytics/summaries-slice";
+import {
+  summarizeSleepNights,
+  type SleepStageRow,
+} from "@/lib/analytics/sleep-night";
 import { buildGlucoseTargets } from "./glucose-builder";
 import { readGlucoseTargetSummaries } from "./glucose-read";
 import { buildMedicationTarget } from "./medication-builder";
@@ -113,7 +117,7 @@ export async function buildTargetsResponse(user: AuthedUser) {
     latestMoodEntry,
     glucoseSummaries,
     restingPulseProxy,
-    dashboardSummaries,
+    sevenDayMeans,
   ] = await Promise.all([
     limit(() =>
       prisma.user.findUnique({
@@ -250,10 +254,9 @@ export async function buildTargetsResponse(user: AuthedUser) {
       }),
     ),
     // The verdict is placed with the value the dashboard tile places it
-    // with (the seven-day mean, else the latest reading), read from the same
-    // summary slice, so a target and its tile never disagree on which way a
-    // change counts.
-    limit(() => computeSummariesSlice(userId)),
+    // with: the seven-day mean, computed by the summary slice's own query,
+    // so a target and its tile never disagree on which way a change counts.
+    limit(() => readSevenDayMeans(userId)),
   ]);
 
   // Rollup coverage fallback stays an explicit repository read here rather
@@ -386,7 +389,15 @@ export async function buildTargetsResponse(user: AuthedUser) {
       },
       thresholdsJson: dbUser?.thresholdsJson ?? null,
     },
-    dashboardSummaries.summaries,
+    verdictSummaries(sevenDayMeans, latestByType, {
+      // Sleep the way the dashboard summarises it: per night, from the
+      // same stage rows and source ladder.
+      SLEEP_DURATION: summarizeSleepNights(
+        sleepStageRows as SleepStageRow[],
+        timezone,
+        dbUser?.sourcePriorityJson ?? null,
+      ).summary,
+    }),
   );
   targets.splice(0, targets.length, ...verdictTargets);
 
@@ -446,6 +457,32 @@ type VerdictSummaries = Readonly<
   Record<string, { avg7: number | null; latest: number | null } | undefined>
 >;
 
+/**
+ * The dashboard's `{ avg7, latest }` per type: the slice's seven-day mean,
+ * and the newest reading where there is none in the last seven days.
+ */
+function verdictSummaries(
+  sevenDayMeans: Readonly<Record<string, number | null>>,
+  latestByType: TargetValueByType,
+  folded: Readonly<
+    Record<string, { avg7: number | null; latest: number | null }>
+  >,
+): VerdictSummaries {
+  const out: Record<string, { avg7: number | null; latest: number | null }> =
+    {};
+  const types = new Set([
+    ...Object.keys(sevenDayMeans),
+    ...Object.keys(latestByType),
+  ]);
+  for (const type of types) {
+    out[type] = {
+      avg7: sevenDayMeans[type] ?? null,
+      latest: latestByType[type as keyof TargetValueByType] ?? null,
+    };
+  }
+  return { ...out, ...folded };
+}
+
 /**
  * The value a target's verdict is placed with, in the stored unit: the same
  * basis as the dashboard tile (`resolveSummaryVerdicts`), the seven-day mean
diff --git a/tests/integration/dense-targets-reads.test.ts b/tests/integration/dense-targets-reads.test.ts
index 5cad59b59..f2bf0c2ce 100644
--- a/tests/integration/dense-targets-reads.test.ts
+++ b/tests/integration/dense-targets-reads.test.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ import { beforeAll, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 
 import { getPrismaClient, truncateAllTables } from "./setup";
 import { deriveRestingProxyFromPulse } from "@/lib/analytics/resting-pulse";
+import {
+  computeSummariesSlice,
+  readSevenDayMeans,
+} from "@/lib/analytics/summaries-slice";
 import { buildTargetsResponse } from "@/lib/targets/build-response";
 import { buildGlucoseTargets } from "@/lib/targets/glucose-builder";
 import {
@@ -294,3 +298,22 @@ describe("targets fold equals the raw-reading fold", () => {
     });
   }
 });
+
+// The target verdict is placed with the dashboard tile's basis. Proven on
+// the database, not assumed: the seven-day means the targets read equal the
+// `avg7` the dashboard slice serves, type for type, on both accounts.
+describe("target verdict basis equals the dashboard's", () => {
+  for (const userId of [SPARSE, DENSE]) {
+    it(`reads the slice's seven-day mean (${userId})`, async () => {
+      const [means, slice] = await Promise.all([
+        readSevenDayMeans(userId),
+        computeSummariesSlice(userId),
+      ]);
+      const withData = Object.keys(means);
+      expect(withData.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      for (const type of withData) {
+        expect(means[type], type).toBe(slice.summaries[type]?.avg7 ?? null);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+});