diff --git a/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts b/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts
index 833c4a2..4954413 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Router, Request, Response } from 'express';
 import { pool } from '../db';
 import { asyncRoute } from '../asyncRoute';
+import { draftQueued } from '../intake/draftingWorker';
 import { nextPriceSource, PriceSource } from '../intake/priceSource';
 
 const router = Router();
@@ -148,6 +149,15 @@ router.post(
       [req.params.itemId]
     );
     if (rowCount === 0) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'no draft for this item' });
+
+    // Wake the worker rather than leaving the row for the five-minute sweeper.
+    // Both this and the submission path put a row into 'queued'; only that one
+    // asked for it to be drafted, which made this button indistinguishable from
+    // a dead one (#272). Fire and forget with a logged catch, exactly as there:
+    // a slow or failing model call must not become a failed request for the
+    // admin, and the sweeper is still the backstop if this misses.
+    void draftQueued(1).catch((err) => console.error('[drafting] after regenerate:', err));
+
     res.json({ state: 'queued' });
   })
 );
diff --git a/backend/src/routes/intakeActions.ts b/backend/src/routes/intakeActions.ts
index 7e60867..b6e5be8 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/intakeActions.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/intakeActions.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Router, Request, Response } from 'express';
 import { pool } from '../db';
 import { asyncRoute } from '../asyncRoute';
+import { draftQueued } from '../intake/draftingWorker';
 import { IntakeAction, verifyAction } from '../intake/actionLinks';
 
 const router = Router();
@@ -96,6 +97,15 @@ router.post(
         [checked.itemId]
       );
       if (rowCount === 0) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'no draft for this item' });
+
+      // Wake the worker rather than leaving the row for the five-minute sweeper.
+      // Both this and the submission path put a row into 'queued'; only that one
+      // asked for it to be drafted, which made this button indistinguishable from
+      // a dead one (#272). Fire and forget with a logged catch, exactly as there:
+      // a slow or failing model call must not become a failed request for the
+      // admin, and the sweeper is still the backstop if this misses.
+      void draftQueued(1).catch((err) => console.error('[drafting] after regenerate:', err));
+
       return res.json({ state: 'queued' });
     }