On our PulseBoard FAQ, template synth hit R@5 0.87 vs handwritten 0.47 — lift +0.40 at 43% answer-leakage

Author 120 PulseBoard chunks (80 FAQ + 40 near-dupe distractors) × fixed MiniLM index (seed 20260928, API $0). Same index, two query sets: 15 handwritten hard paraphrases vs 30 template-synth from chu