diff --git a/internal/web/uploads.go b/internal/web/uploads.go
index f4638f6..8ef6a43 100644
--- a/internal/web/uploads.go
+++ b/internal/web/uploads.go
@@ -273,12 +273,30 @@ func titleFromFilename(name string) string {
 // cloudProvider names the cloud service that produced a transcript, or false when it was
 // served locally (or by an unknown endpoint). "Local" is config.IsLocalModel: the same
 // definition the start-up validation uses, not a second string match here (#52).
+//
+// The endpoint is one alias, except for the two-engine path (ADR-034), which writes
+// "<base> + <alt>, reconciled by <model>". Every alias in it is judged on its own, so a
+// composite of local models is local and one naming a cloud alias names that provider.
 func cloudProvider(endpoint string) (string, bool) {
-	if endpoint == "" || config.IsLocalModel(endpoint) {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(endpoint) == "" {
 		return "", false
 	}
-	provider, _, _ := strings.Cut(endpoint, "/")
-	return provider, true
+	aliases := []string{}
+	for _, tok := range strings.Fields(endpoint) {
+		if tok = strings.Trim(tok, ","); strings.Contains(tok, "/") {
+			aliases = append(aliases, tok)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(aliases) == 0 {
+		aliases = append(aliases, strings.TrimSpace(endpoint))
+	}
+	for _, a := range aliases {
+		if !config.IsLocalModel(a) {
+			provider, _, _ := strings.Cut(a, "/")
+			return provider, true
+		}
+	}
+	return "", false
 }
 
 // hasNote reports whether any phase carries a note. A note is the only warning for a
diff --git a/internal/web/uploads_cloud_note_test.go b/internal/web/uploads_cloud_note_test.go
index f6ebf76..7e68187 100644
--- a/internal/web/uploads_cloud_note_test.go
+++ b/internal/web/uploads_cloud_note_test.go
@@ -53,3 +53,32 @@ func TestUploadStatus_AnEndpointThatOnlyLooksLocalIsStillNamedAsCloud(t *testing
 
 	assert.Contains(t, b, "left the homelab")
 }
+
+// The two-engine path (ADR-034) writes one composite endpoint string. Every name in it is
+// a local model, so the audio never left the homelab and the note must not say it did.
+func TestUploadStatus_AReconciledAllLocalEndpointCarriesNoCloudNote(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, endpoint := range []string{
+		"iguana/kb-whisper + koala/whisper, reconciled by iguana/gemma4-26b",
+		"iguana/kb-whisper + koala/whisper, reconciled by iguana/gemma4-26b\n",
+	} {
+		t.Run(endpoint, func(t *testing.T) {
+			app, _ := newUploadApp(t, audioOK, 200<<20)
+			id := seedUpload(t, userID, "m", "done", "Synthetic transcript text.")
+			setEndpoint(t, id, endpoint)
+
+			b := body(t, do(t, app, get("/uploads/"+id+"/status")))
+
+			assert.NotContains(t, b, "left the homelab")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUploadStatus_AReconciledEndpointNamingACloudEngineStillNamesTheCloudProvider(t *testing.T) {
+	app, _ := newUploadApp(t, audioOK, 200<<20)
+	id := seedUpload(t, userID, "m", "done", "Synthetic transcript text.")
+	setEndpoint(t, id, "iguana/kb-whisper + berget/kb-whisper, reconciled by iguana/gemma4-26b")
+
+	b := body(t, do(t, app, get("/uploads/"+id+"/status")))
+
+	assert.Contains(t, b, "cloud service (berget)")
+}