diff --git a/src/Http/Controllers/Internal/v1/UserController.php b/src/Http/Controllers/Internal/v1/UserController.php
index fe6a416e..241046ba 100644
--- a/src/Http/Controllers/Internal/v1/UserController.php
+++ b/src/Http/Controllers/Internal/v1/UserController.php
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ public function queryRecord(Request $request)
      */
     public function onQueryRecord($query, Request $request): void
     {
+        // Eager-load what the `role` / `roles` / `policies` / `permissions` accessors
+        // read. Without this each row costs a fresh query per accessor; with it the
+        // whole page costs a fixed number of queries regardless of row count.
+        $query->with(['companyUser.roles', 'companyUser.policies', 'companyUser.permissions']);
+
         if ($this->canAccessUsersAcrossCompanies($request)) {
             return;
         }
diff --git a/src/Http/Resources/User.php b/src/Http/Resources/User.php
index c8af56cb..f01b108d 100644
--- a/src/Http/Resources/User.php
+++ b/src/Http/Resources/User.php
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ class User extends FleetbaseResource
      */
     public function toArray($request)
     {
+        // Read the `role` accessor once. It is not memoised — every read re-queries
+        // through `companyUser` — and this resource previously evaluated it four times
+        // per row (twice below, twice for `role_name`).
+        $role = Http::isInternalRequest() ? $this->role : null;
+
         $data = [
             'id'                                                                       => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $this->id, $this->public_id),
             'uuid'                                                                     => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $this->uuid),
@@ -31,10 +36,10 @@ public function toArray($request)
             'timezone'                                                                 => $this->timezone,
             'avatar_url'                                                               => $this->avatar_url,
             'meta'                                                                     => data_get($this, 'meta', Utils::createObject()),
-            'role'                                                                     => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $this->role ? new Role($this->role) : null, null),
+            'role'                                                                     => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $role ? new Role($role) : null, null),
             'policies'                                                                 => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), Policy::collection($this->policies), []),
             'permissions'                                                              => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $this->serializePermissions($this->permissions), []),
-            'role_name'                                                                => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $this->role ? $this->role->name : null),
+            'role_name'                                                                => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $role ? $role->name : null),
             'type'                                                                     => $this->type,
             'locale'                                                                   => $this->getLocale(),
             'types'                                                                    => $this->when(Http::isInternalRequest(), $this->types ?? []),
diff --git a/src/Models/User.php b/src/Models/User.php
index 0ff6b829..213fe593 100644
--- a/src/Models/User.php
+++ b/src/Models/User.php
@@ -622,7 +622,13 @@ public function getRoleAttribute(): ?Role
             return null;
         }
 
-        return $this->companyUser->roles()->first();
+        // Prefer the eager-loaded relation when the caller has loaded it, so a list
+        // query that eager-loads `companyUser.roles` pays no per-row query. Falls back
+        // to the query for callers that have not, and for a `companyUser` that is not
+        // an Eloquent model (the suite's UserModelAuthorizationPivotFake is duck-typed).
+        return $this->companyUser instanceof Model && $this->companyUser->relationLoaded('roles')
+            ? $this->companyUser->roles->first()
+            : $this->companyUser->roles()->first();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -639,7 +645,9 @@ public function getRolesAttribute(): Collection
             return collect();
         }
 
-        return $this->companyUser->roles()->get();
+        return $this->companyUser instanceof Model && $this->companyUser->relationLoaded('roles')
+            ? $this->companyUser->roles
+            : $this->companyUser->roles()->get();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -656,7 +664,9 @@ public function getPoliciesAttribute(): Collection
             return collect();
         }
 
-        return $this->companyUser->policies()->get();
+        return $this->companyUser instanceof Model && $this->companyUser->relationLoaded('policies')
+            ? $this->companyUser->policies
+            : $this->companyUser->policies()->get();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -673,7 +683,9 @@ public function getPermissionsAttribute(): Collection
             return collect();
         }
 
-        return $this->companyUser->permissions()->get();
+        return $this->companyUser instanceof Model && $this->companyUser->relationLoaded('permissions')
+            ? $this->companyUser->permissions
+            : $this->companyUser->permissions()->get();
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Models/UserModelTest.php b/tests/Unit/Models/UserModelTest.php
index 428fff3d..880b5a6f 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Models/UserModelTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Models/UserModelTest.php
@@ -22,6 +22,29 @@
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;
 
+/**
+ * A `companyUser` pivot whose relations are already eager-loaded, and whose relation
+ * QUERY methods throw. If an authorization accessor falls back to querying when the
+ * relation is present, these throws are what surfaces it.
+ */
+class UserModelEagerLoadedPivotFake extends Model
+{
+    public function roles(): object
+    {
+        throw new RuntimeException('roles() was queried despite an eager-loaded relation');
+    }
+
+    public function policies(): object
+    {
+        throw new RuntimeException('policies() was queried despite an eager-loaded relation');
+    }
+
+    public function permissions(): object
+    {
+        throw new RuntimeException('permissions() was queried despite an eager-loaded relation');
+    }
+}
+
 class UserModelSaveSpy extends User
 {
     public int $saves = 0;
@@ -825,6 +848,41 @@ public function save(): bool
         ->and($userWithoutRoles->getRoleName())->toBeNull();
 });
 
+it('reads eager-loaded authorization relations without re-querying them', function () {
+    user_model_container();
+    config([
+        'auth.defaults.guard' => 'web',
+        'auth.guards.web'     => [
+            'driver'   => 'session',
+            'provider' => 'users',
+        ],
+    ]);
+
+    $role = new Role();
+    $role->setRawAttributes(['name' => 'Dispatcher'], true);
+
+    $policy = new Policy();
+    $policy->setRawAttributes(['name' => 'Orders Read'], true);
+
+    $permission = new Permission();
+    $permission->setRawAttributes(['name' => 'orders.read'], true);
+
+    // The pivot's roles()/policies()/permissions() QUERY methods throw, so this test
+    // fails loudly if an accessor ignores the loaded relation and queries anyway.
+    $pivot = new UserModelEagerLoadedPivotFake();
+    $pivot->setRelation('roles', collect([$role]));
+    $pivot->setRelation('policies', collect([$policy]));
+    $pivot->setRelation('permissions', collect([$permission]));
+
+    $user = new UserModelSaveSpy();
+    $user->setRelation('companyUser', $pivot);
+
+    expect($user->role)->toBe($role)
+        ->and($user->roles)->toEqual(collect([$role]))
+        ->and($user->policies)->toEqual(collect([$policy]))
+        ->and($user->permissions)->toEqual(collect([$permission]));
+});
+
 it('enriches new and existing users from request timezone data without calling missing helpers', function () {
     user_model_container();