diff --git a/frontend/src/admin/Admin.tsx b/frontend/src/admin/Admin.tsx
index 00a3745..0b115ac 100755
--- a/frontend/src/admin/Admin.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/admin/Admin.tsx
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import Settings from './Settings';
 import Categories from './Categories';
 import Tags from './Tags';
 import UploadLinks from './UploadLinks';
+import DraftQueue from './DraftQueue';
 import BuildStamp from './BuildStamp';
 import CategoryTreeSelect from './CategoryTreeSelect';
 import ItemCard from '../components/ItemCard';
@@ -393,6 +394,7 @@ export default function Admin() {
             { key: 'categories', label: 'Categories', children: <Categories /> },
             { key: 'tags', label: 'Tags', children: <Tags /> },
             { key: 'upload-links', label: 'Upload links', children: <UploadLinks /> },
+            { key: 'review-queue', label: 'Review queue', children: <DraftQueue /> },
             { key: 'customers', label: 'Customers', children: <Customers /> },
             { key: 'emails', label: 'Emails', children: <Emails /> },
             { key: 'settings', label: 'Settings', children: <Settings /> }
diff --git a/frontend/src/admin/DraftQueue.tsx b/frontend/src/admin/DraftQueue.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d271ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/admin/DraftQueue.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import Card from 'antd/es/card';
+import Button from 'antd/es/button';
+import Input from 'antd/es/input';
+import InputNumber from 'antd/es/input-number';
+import Space from 'antd/es/space';
+import Tag from 'antd/es/tag';
+import Select from 'antd/es/select';
+import Empty from 'antd/es/empty';
+import Alert from 'antd/es/alert';
+import Modal from 'antd/es/modal';
+import message from 'antd/es/message';
+import { Draft, PriceSource, actOnDraft, fetchDrafts, publishDraft } from './draftsApi';
+
+const { TextArea } = Input;
+
+/** Mirrors isUnconfirmed on the server: anything a person did not choose. */
+function isUnconfirmed(source: PriceSource): boolean {
+  return source !== 'admin';
+}
+
+function priceLabel(source: PriceSource): string {
+  if (source === 'admin') return 'you set this price';
+  if (source === 'ai') return 'suggested by the model — nobody chose this';
+  return 'default price — nobody chose this';
+}
+
+/**
+ * One submission, with everything needed to judge it.
+ *
+ * The price is why this screen exists. Items are priced on arrival, so nothing
+ * stops a number nobody chose from reaching the storefront except this saying
+ * so — and 80.00 is a plausible price rather than an obvious sentinel, which is
+ * exactly why it has to be called out rather than left to be noticed.
+ */
+function DraftCard({ draft, onChanged }: Readonly<{ draft: Draft; onChanged: () => void }>) {
+  const [name, setName] = useState(draft.ai_name ?? draft.item_name);
+  const [description, setDescription] = useState(
+    draft.ai_description ?? draft.item_description ?? ''
+  );
+  const [priceCents, setPriceCents] = useState(draft.price_cents);
+  const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false);
+
+  // Unconfirmed until the number is actually changed. Opening the field and
+  // leaving it alone is not a decision and must not be recorded as one — the
+  // server applies the same rule, this only has to agree with it.
+  const unconfirmed = isUnconfirmed(draft.price_source) && priceCents === draft.price_cents;
+
+  const run = async (work: () => Promise<void>) => {
+    setBusy(true);
+    try {
+      await work();
+      onChanged();
+    } catch (err) {
+      message.error(err instanceof Error ? err.message : 'that did not work');
+    } finally {
+      setBusy(false);
+    }
+  };
+
+  const publish = () => {
+    const go = () => run(() => publishDraft(draft.item_id, { name, description, priceCents }));
+    if (!unconfirmed) {
+      void go();
+      return;
+    }
+    // Said before, not after. Publishing at an unconfirmed price is allowed —
+    // it is a decision someone is entitled to make — but not by accident.
+    Modal.confirm({
+      title: 'Publish at a price nobody chose?',
+      content: `This will go on sale at $${(priceCents / 100).toFixed(2)}, which is ${
+        draft.price_source === 'ai' ? "the model's suggestion" : 'the default'
+      } rather than a price you set.`,
+      okText: 'Publish anyway',
+      okButtonProps: { danger: true },
+      onOk: go
+    });
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Card title={draft.item_name} extra={<Tag>{draft.state}</Tag>} style={{ marginBottom: 16 }}>
+      <Space direction="vertical" style={{ width: '100%' }} size="middle">
+        {draft.ai_error && <Alert type="warning" message={`Drafting failed: ${draft.ai_error}`} />}
+
+        <Space wrap>
+          {draft.images.map((image) => (
+            <img
+              key={image.id}
+              src={image.image_path}
+              alt=""
+              style={{ width: 120, height: 120, objectFit: 'cover' }}
+            />
+          ))}
+        </Space>
+
+        {draft.submitter_note && (
+          <Alert type="info" message={`Sender's note: ${draft.submitter_note}`} />
+        )}
+        {draft.upload_link_label && <Tag>via {draft.upload_link_label}</Tag>}
+
+        <Input value={name} onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)} aria-label="Name" />
+        <TextArea
+          value={description}
+          onChange={(e) => setDescription(e.target.value)}
+          rows={4}
+          aria-label="Description"
+        />
+
+        <Space direction="vertical" size={4}>
+          <InputNumber
+            value={priceCents / 100}
+            min={0}
+            step={0.01}
+            prefix="$"
+            aria-label="Price"
+            onChange={(value) => setPriceCents(Math.round((value ?? 0) * 100))}
+          />
+          <Tag color={unconfirmed ? 'orange' : 'green'}>
+            {unconfirmed ? priceLabel(draft.price_source) : 'you set this price'}
+          </Tag>
+        </Space>
+
+        <Space>
+          <Button type="primary" loading={busy} onClick={publish}>
+            Publish
+          </Button>
+          <Button loading={busy} onClick={() => void run(() => actOnDraft(draft.item_id, 'regenerate'))}>
+            Regenerate
+          </Button>
+          {draft.state === 'discarded' ? (
+            <Button loading={busy} onClick={() => void run(() => actOnDraft(draft.item_id, 'restore'))}>
+              Restore
+            </Button>
+          ) : (
+            <Button
+              danger
+              loading={busy}
+              onClick={() => void run(() => actOnDraft(draft.item_id, 'discard'))}
+            >
+              Discard
+            </Button>
+          )}
+        </Space>
+      </Space>
+    </Card>
+  );
+}
+
+export default function DraftQueue() {
+  const [drafts, setDrafts] = useState<Draft[]>([]);
+  const [state, setState] = useState<string | undefined>(undefined);
+  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const load = useCallback(async () => {
+    try {
+      setDrafts(await fetchDrafts(state));
+      setError(null);
+    } catch {
+      setError('Could not load the review queue.');
+    }
+  }, [state]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/set-state-in-effect
+    void load();
+  }, [load]);
+
+  return (
+    <div>
+      <Space style={{ marginBottom: 16 }}>
+        <Select
+          value={state}
+          onChange={setState}
+          style={{ width: 220 }}
+          placeholder="All except discarded"
+          allowClear
+          aria-label="State"
+          options={[
+            { value: 'queued', label: 'Queued' },
+            { value: 'ready', label: 'Ready' },
+            { value: 'failed', label: 'Failed' },
+            { value: 'discarded', label: 'Discarded' }
+          ]}
+        />
+        <Button onClick={() => void load()}>Refresh</Button>
+      </Space>
+
+      {error && <Alert type="error" message={error} />}
+      {!error && drafts.length === 0 && <Empty description="Nothing waiting for review" />}
+      {drafts.map((draft) => (
+        <DraftCard key={draft.item_id} draft={draft} onChanged={() => void load()} />
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/admin/draftsApi.ts b/frontend/src/admin/draftsApi.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8b6e49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/admin/draftsApi.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+export type PriceSource = 'default' | 'ai' | 'admin';
+
+export interface DraftImage {
+  id: number;
+  image_path: string;
+}
+
+export interface Draft {
+  item_id: number;
+  state: string;
+  attempts: number;
+  submitter_note: string | null;
+  ai_error: string | null;
+  ai_name: string | null;
+  ai_description: string | null;
+  ai_suggested_price_cents: number | null;
+  price_source: PriceSource;
+  model: string | null;
+  item_name: string;
+  item_description: string | null;
+  price_cents: number;
+  status: string;
+  upload_link_label: string | null;
+  images: DraftImage[];
+}
+
+async function send(path: string, init?: RequestInit): Promise<Response> {
+  return fetch(`/api/admin/item-drafts${path}`, {
+    ...init,
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', ...(init?.headers ?? {}) }
+  });
+}
+
+export async function fetchDrafts(state?: string): Promise<Draft[]> {
+  const query = state ? `?state=${encodeURIComponent(state)}` : '';
+  const res = await send(query);
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error('could not load the review queue');
+  return (await res.json()).drafts;
+}
+
+export interface PublishInput {
+  name: string;
+  description: string;
+  priceCents: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The server's message is preferred over a generic one because its refusals are
+ * specific and actionable — a missing name, a fractional price — and replacing
+ * them with "could not publish" would throw away the only thing that says how
+ * to fix it.
+ */
+export async function publishDraft(itemId: number, input: PublishInput): Promise<void> {
+  const res = await send(`/${itemId}/publish`, { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify(input) });
+  if (res.ok) return;
+
+  let message = 'could not publish';
+  try {
+    message = (await res.json()).error ?? message;
+  } catch {
+    // A non-JSON body is a proxy or gateway error rather than the app refusing.
+    // The generic message above is the honest thing to show in that case.
+  }
+  throw new Error(message);
+}
+
+export async function actOnDraft(
+  itemId: number,
+  action: 'regenerate' | 'discard' | 'restore'
+): Promise<void> {
+  const res = await send(`/${itemId}/${action}`, { method: 'POST' });
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`could not ${action} this draft`);
+}
diff --git a/frontend/tests/e2e/pages/AdminPage.ts b/frontend/tests/e2e/pages/AdminPage.ts
index 3500c3d..c700f2d 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/e2e/pages/AdminPage.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/e2e/pages/AdminPage.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ export type AdminTab =
   | 'Tags'
   | 'Customers'
   | 'Emails'
-  | 'Settings';
+  | 'Settings'
+  | 'Review queue';
 
 /**
  * The admin shell: the tab strip and the panel it swaps.