diff --git a/src/components/onboarding/__tests__/confirm-screen.test.tsx b/src/components/onboarding/__tests__/confirm-screen.test.tsx
index 274a05b74..1b77b9c6c 100644
--- a/src/components/onboarding/__tests__/confirm-screen.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/onboarding/__tests__/confirm-screen.test.tsx
@@ -89,6 +89,25 @@ describe("<ConfirmScreen> — modules leaving the navigation (C4)", () => {
     });
     expect(html).not.toContain('data-slot="onboarding-confirm-modules-off"');
   });
+
+  it("says nothing to a guardian, whose own record the answers never touch", () => {
+    // These answers describe the record being set up for somebody else. The
+    // completion applies the derivation to THAT record and stamps the
+    // guardian's own without deriving, so no module of the guardian's is
+    // going anywhere — and the sentence must not say one is.
+    const html = render(
+      state(
+        {},
+        {
+          recordTarget: "someone-else",
+          areas: ["blood-pressure"],
+          medication: "no",
+        },
+      ),
+      { medications: true, workouts: true, documents: true },
+    );
+    expect(html).not.toContain('data-slot="onboarding-confirm-modules-off"');
+  });
 });
 
 describe("<ConfirmScreen> — Settings links on a first run (C5)", () => {
diff --git a/src/components/onboarding/confirm-screen.tsx b/src/components/onboarding/confirm-screen.tsx
index dae55b0c8..83c9b1349 100644
--- a/src/components/onboarding/confirm-screen.tsx
+++ b/src/components/onboarding/confirm-screen.tsx
@@ -124,11 +124,18 @@ export function ConfirmScreen({ state }: { state: OnboardingStateDto }) {
   const settingsReachable =
     isOnboardingSettled(state) || state.completedAt !== null;
   const forSomeoneElse = needs.recordTarget === "someone-else";
-  // v1.39 (Wave C, C4) — `user.modules` is the map the navigation reads, so
-  // the screen can only name a module the person actually has today.
+  // `user.modules` is the map the navigation reads, so the screen can only
+  // name a module the person actually has today — and only when the answers
+  // are about that record. In the "someone I look after" arm they are not:
+  // `POST /api/onboarding/complete` applies the derivation to the managed
+  // record (or, when none was created, to nothing at all) and stamps the
+  // guardian's own record without deriving. Reading the actor's map there
+  // would name modules that are staying exactly where they are — the same
+  // guardian-derivation confusion v1.38.18 closed in the write, re-entering
+  // through the copy. An empty map makes the list empty.
   const { chosen, alwaysOn, wouldSwitchOff } = confirmedModules(
     needs,
-    user?.modules ?? {},
+    forSomeoneElse ? {} : (user?.modules ?? {}),
   );
   const back = previousScreen(state, "confirm");