diff --git a/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.spec.ts b/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.spec.ts
index 47e4e84e6..c3bf5a303 100644
--- a/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.spec.ts
@@ -80,9 +80,10 @@ describe('timeAt', () => {
   it('pins time at the interrupt through the hold and resumes past the threshold', () => {
     const a = beatWindows()[2];
     const at = (f: number) => timeAt(a.from + (a.to - a.from) * f, READY);
-    expect(at(APPROVE_HOLD.from)).toBe(READY.hold.startMs);
-    expect(at(0.5)).toBe(READY.hold.startMs);
-    expect(at(APPROVE_HOLD.to - 1e-6)).toBe(READY.hold.startMs);
+    // Pinned one millisecond inside the hold, so the frame reports `pause`.
+    expect(at(APPROVE_HOLD.from)).toBe(READY.hold.startMs + 1);
+    expect(at(0.5)).toBe(READY.hold.startMs + 1);
+    expect(at(APPROVE_HOLD.to - 1e-6)).toBe(READY.hold.startMs + 1);
     expect(at(APPROVE_HOLD.to)).toBe(READY.hold.endMs);
     expect(at(1)).toBe(READY.beats[2].endMs);
   });
diff --git a/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.ts b/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.ts
index 7afeaa852..e661945e2 100644
--- a/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.ts
+++ b/apps/website/src/lib/stage-beats.ts
@@ -110,11 +110,13 @@ export function timeAt(p: number, ready: StageReadyMessage): number {
         : Math.round(lerp(mid, b.endMs, (f - 0.5) / 0.5));
     }
     case 'approve': {
+      const holdPin = Math.min(ready.hold.startMs + 1, ready.hold.endMs);
       if (f < APPROVE_HOLD.from)
-        return Math.round(
-          lerp(b.startMs, ready.hold.startMs, f / APPROVE_HOLD.from)
-        );
-      if (f < APPROVE_HOLD.to) return ready.hold.startMs;
+        return Math.round(lerp(b.startMs, holdPin, f / APPROVE_HOLD.from));
+      // One millisecond INSIDE the hold: the frame treats a boundary instant as
+      // belonging to the outgoing run (phaseReachedAt subtracts an epsilon), so
+      // pinning at hold.startMs exactly would report `stream`, not `pause`.
+      if (f < APPROVE_HOLD.to) return holdPin;
       return Math.round(
         lerp(
           ready.hold.endMs,