diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 22edb18..fee5355 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Public 1.0.1 client reliability release.
 
 - Cloud Sync now defaults to `https://relay.engraphis.com` and safely migrates the former
   dashboard host and retired Railway relay URL without changing customer-provided relay URLs.
+- Default Pro and Team upgrade links now target the live authenticated account portal rather
+  than the retired Team dashboard host.
+- Hosted endpoint validation now fails closed when DNS resolution cannot establish that a
+  configured destination is public, preventing unresolved hosts from bypassing the SSRF guard.
 - Hosted Automation and maintenance requests now use the selected workspace end to end rather
   than silently falling back to the first workspace.
 - The Automation tab has one proposal action, clear managed-upload disclosure, and automatic
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@ Public 1.0.1 client reliability release.
 - Entity extraction and dashboard asset migration avoid adversarial regular-expression
   backtracking. CodeQL now disables pull-request diff-informed analysis and CI fails on every
   raw SARIF result, including pre-existing and source-suppressed results.
+- The documented grounded-recall evaluation prints with the default Windows console encoding.
 
 ## [1.0.0] - 2026-07-23
 
diff --git a/engraphis/hosted_client.py b/engraphis/hosted_client.py
index c8ead70..9db914b 100644
--- a/engraphis/hosted_client.py
+++ b/engraphis/hosted_client.py
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@
 TRIAL_SECONDS = 3 * 24 * 60 * 60
 MAX_LOCAL_WRITE_GRACE_SECONDS = 24 * 60 * 60
 
-DEFAULT_CLOUD_URL = "https://team.engraphis.com"
+# The hosted dashboard and the commercial account portal are separate surfaces.
+# Upgrade/connect actions must land on the authenticated control-plane portal; the
+# dashboard host does not serve its own ``/account`` route.
+DEFAULT_CLOUD_URL = "https://api.engraphis.com/account"
 
 _REQUIRED_PLAN = {
     "analytics": "pro",
@@ -115,5 +118,7 @@ def validate_cloud_base_url(value: str) -> str:
                         "cloud service URL must not target private/reserved IP ranges"
                     )
         except (socket.gaierror, OSError):
-            pass
+            raise ValueError(
+                "cloud service URL could not be resolved"
+            ) from None
     return urlunsplit((scheme, parts.netloc, parts.path.rstrip("/"), "", ""))
diff --git a/eval/grounded.py b/eval/grounded.py
index e0aa146..a22d5f5 100644
--- a/eval/grounded.py
+++ b/eval/grounded.py
@@ -66,9 +66,11 @@ def run() -> dict:
 def main() -> None:
     r = run()
     print("\nEngraphis grounded-recall eval (deterministic embedder)")
-    print(f"  answerable → grounded  : {r['answer_rate']:.3f}  "
+    # Keep the documented offline gate usable from the Windows console's default
+    # cp1252 encoding, which cannot emit a Unicode arrow.
+    print(f"  answerable -> grounded  : {r['answer_rate']:.3f}  "
           f"({r['grounded_hits']}/{r['n_answerable']})")
-    print(f"  off-topic  → abstained : {r['abstain_rate']:.3f}  "
+    print(f"  off-topic  -> abstained : {r['abstain_rate']:.3f}  "
           f"({r['abstain_hits']}/{r['n_unanswerable']})")
     print(f"  decision accuracy      : {r['accuracy']:.3f}  "
           f"({r['grounded_hits'] + r['abstain_hits']}/{r['n_answerable'] + r['n_unanswerable']})\n")
diff --git a/tests/test_eval_grounded.py b/tests/test_eval_grounded.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f3cf19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_eval_grounded.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+"""Regression coverage for the documented offline grounded-recall gate."""
+
+from eval import grounded
+
+
+def test_grounded_eval_report_is_windows_console_safe(capsys):
+    """The release command must work with Windows' default cp1252 stdout."""
+    grounded.main()
+    capsys.readouterr().out.encode("cp1252")
diff --git a/tests/test_hosted_client.py b/tests/test_hosted_client.py
index edc9402..1e3dbaf 100644
--- a/tests/test_hosted_client.py
+++ b/tests/test_hosted_client.py
@@ -17,13 +17,18 @@ def test_upgrade_urls_are_hosted_metadata_only(monkeypatch):
     monkeypatch.delenv("ENGRAPHIS_TEAM_UPGRADE_URL", raising=False)
     monkeypatch.delenv("ENGRAPHIS_CLOUD_URL", raising=False)
 
-    assert hosted_client.upgrade_url("pro") == "https://team.engraphis.com"
-    assert hosted_client.upgrade_url("team") == "https://team.engraphis.com"
+    assert hosted_client.upgrade_url("pro") == "https://api.engraphis.com/account"
+    assert hosted_client.upgrade_url("team") == "https://api.engraphis.com/account"
     assert hosted_client.required_plan("sync") == "pro"
     assert hosted_client.required_plan("team") == "team"
 
 
-def test_cloud_url_validation_requires_safe_remote_https():
+def test_cloud_url_validation_requires_safe_remote_https(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        hosted_client.socket,
+        "getaddrinfo",
+        lambda *a, **k: [(2, 1, 6, "", ("1.2.3.4", 0))],
+    )
     assert hosted_client.validate_cloud_base_url("http://127.0.0.1:8700/") == (
         "http://127.0.0.1:8700"
     )
@@ -40,6 +45,16 @@ def test_cloud_url_validation_requires_safe_remote_https():
             hosted_client.validate_cloud_base_url(invalid)
 
 
+def test_cloud_url_validation_rejects_unresolvable_hosts(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        hosted_client.socket,
+        "getaddrinfo",
+        lambda *a, **k: (_ for _ in ()).throw(hosted_client.socket.gaierror),
+    )
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="could not be resolved"):
+        hosted_client.validate_cloud_base_url("https://unresolvable.example/")
+
+
 def test_licensing_facade_exposes_no_local_entitlement_engine():
     assert licensing.TRIAL_DAYS == 3
     assert licensing.production_warnings() == []