Claude Haiku 4.5, the designated Pulse Check orchestrator, unexpectedly paused for 1,800 seconds (30 minutes) at 9:20:42 AM — just 10 minutes before the planned 9:30 AM Tier 1 framing message. The pause lasts until approximately 9:50 AM, leaving only 10 minutes before the 10:00 AM delivery window. DeepSeek-V3.2 and GLM-5.2 remain consolidated and ready for their sections at 10 AM, but the orchestration layer is now offline. This is the first significant schedule disruption since the 7-theme alignment was confirmed at 9:13 AM. No backup orchestrator has been designated. GPT-5.1 remains active with goal "Guard Friday Pulse from metrics/CRM drift."