diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5e5cada..2f0d9a5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ version heading for the full notes.
   base-level sliders and a single play/pause button, so a reader can watch the
   long profile adjust in real time -- Lane's balance, played out dynamically. It
   runs GRLP entirely in the browser via Pyodide (WebAssembly) -- no install, no
-  server -- and is compiled from `interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py` with Panel
-  (`panel convert`) at documentation build time, self-hosting the wheels it needs
-  beside the app (referenced by relative URLs) so it depends on no external
-  services at run time. A Jupyter-notebook version of the same demo is kept in
-  `interactive_demo/` for classroom or notebook use.
+  server -- and is compiled from `interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py` by
+  [artesian](https://github.com/MNiMORPH/artesian) at documentation build time.
+  The grlp, panel and bokeh wheels are self-hosted beside the app and referenced
+  by relative URLs, so no wheel CDN is needed at run time; the Pyodide runtime
+  itself is still fetched from a CDN on first load. A Jupyter-notebook version of
+  the same demo is kept in `interactive_demo/` for classroom or notebook use.
 - **Second-order-in-time integration (BDF2)** -- now the **default** (see
   *Changed*). `set_time_integration(1)` selects the previous first-order backward
   Euler. BDF2 makes the final-profile error scale like Δt² rather than Δt, so
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index b258a44..9b2e791 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@
 environment first.
 """
 
-import glob
 import os
-import subprocess
 import sys
 
 # Make the package importable for autodoc when GRLP is not pip-installed
@@ -36,48 +34,13 @@
     shutil.copyfile(os.path.join(_here, "..", "examples", _nb),
                     os.path.join(_tutorial_dst, _nb))
 
-# Build the interactive browser demo (docs/interactive.md). `panel convert`
-# compiles interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py into a standalone WebAssembly app that
-# runs GRLP entirely in the reader's browser via Pyodide. The app and the wheels
-# it loads (grlp, built fresh here; panel + bokeh, self-hosted from PyPI) live
-# together in _static/interactive/ and are referenced by *relative* URLs, so the
-# demo works wherever the docs are served with no external CDN. interactive.md
+# The interactive browser demo (docs/interactive.md) is built by artesian,
+# which compiles interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py into a standalone WebAssembly
+# app running GRLP entirely in the reader's browser via Pyodide. It wheels
+# grlp fresh from this source tree, self-hosts the panel and bokeh wheels
+# beside the app, and rewrites their CDN URLs to those local copies (the
+# holoviz CDN's bokeh wheel 403s). See artesian_apps below; interactive.md
 # embeds _static/interactive/grlp_panel.html in an <iframe>.
-import re
-
-import bokeh
-import panel
-
-_demo_src = os.path.join(_here, "..", "interactive_demo", "grlp_panel.py")
-_demo_out = os.path.join(_here, "_static", "interactive")
-os.makedirs(_demo_out, exist_ok=True)
-for _old in glob.glob(os.path.join(_demo_out, "*.whl")):
-    os.remove(_old)
-# Fresh grlp wheel (matches the current source) + self-hosted panel/bokeh wheels.
-subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "wheel", os.path.join(_here, ".."),
-                "--no-deps", "-w", _demo_out], check=True)
-subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "download",
-                f"panel=={panel.__version__}", f"bokeh=={bokeh.__version__}",
-                "--no-deps", "-d", _demo_out], check=True)
-_grlp_whl = os.path.basename(glob.glob(os.path.join(_demo_out, "grlp-*.whl"))[0])
-subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "panel", "convert", _demo_src,
-                "--to", "pyodide-worker", "--out", _demo_out,
-                "--requirements", _grlp_whl, "numpy", "scipy", "networkx"],
-               check=True, cwd=_demo_out)
-# Point the panel + bokeh wheel URLs at the co-located copies (the holoviz CDN's
-# bokeh wheel 403s; self-hosting also removes the run-time CDN dependency).
-for _f in ("grlp_panel.js", "grlp_panel.html"):
-    _fp = os.path.join(_demo_out, _f)
-    if not os.path.exists(_fp):
-        continue
-    with open(_fp) as _fh:
-        _txt = _fh.read()
-    _txt = re.sub(r"https://cdn\.holoviz\.org/\S*?/(bokeh-[\d.]+-py3-none-any\.whl)",
-                  r"\1", _txt)
-    _txt = re.sub(r"https://cdn\.holoviz\.org/\S*?/(panel-[\d.]+-py3-none-any\.whl)",
-                  r"\1", _txt)
-    with open(_fp, "w") as _fh:
-        _fh.write(_txt)
 
 # -- Project information ------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -102,6 +65,7 @@
 # -- General configuration ----------------------------------------------------
 
 extensions = [
+    "artesian.sphinxext",      # build the interactive WASM demo (see below)
     "myst_nb",                 # Markdown source + executable notebooks
     "sphinx.ext.autodoc",      # pull docstrings from grlp
     "sphinx.ext.autosummary",  # summary tables
@@ -111,6 +75,18 @@
     "sphinx.ext.intersphinx",  # cross-link to numpy/scipy docs
 ]
 
+# Compile the interactive demo into _static/interactive/ at build time. The
+# grlp wheel is built from this checkout, so the demo always matches the source
+# it is documenting; numpy, scipy and networkx come from Pyodide in the browser.
+artesian_apps = [
+    {
+        "app": "../interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py",
+        "packages": [".."],
+        "requirements": ["numpy", "scipy", "networkx"],
+        "outdir": "_static/interactive",
+    },
+]
+
 autosummary_generate = True
 autodoc_member_order = "bysource"
 autodoc_default_options = {
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index a263005..861cd7e 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ sphinx>=7
 myst-nb>=1
 furo>=2024.1
 
-# Interactive browser demo (docs/interactive.md). `panel convert` compiles
+# Interactive browser demo (docs/interactive.md). artesian compiles
 # interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py into a standalone WebAssembly app at build time
-# (conf.py); GRLP then runs entirely in the reader's browser via Pyodide. Panel
-# pulls bokeh. The panel + bokeh wheels are self-hosted next to the app (the
-# holoviz CDN's bokeh wheel 403s), so no external CDN is required at run time.
-panel>=1.9
+# (see artesian_apps in conf.py); GRLP then runs entirely in the reader's
+# browser via Pyodide. artesian pulls panel, which pulls bokeh; the panel and
+# bokeh wheels are self-hosted next to the app because the holoviz CDN's bokeh
+# wheel 403s. Pinned to a git ref: artesian is not yet released to PyPI.
+artesian @ git+https://github.com/MNiMORPH/artesian@main
diff --git a/interactive_demo/README.md b/interactive_demo/README.md
index 939a6bd..2d51478 100644
--- a/interactive_demo/README.md
+++ b/interactive_demo/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,23 @@
-# Standalone interactive GRLP demos (experimental)
+# Interactive GRLP demos
 
 Browser-based, slider-driven demos of a single gravel-bed river responding to its
 **water input**, **sediment input**, and **base level** — GRLP running entirely
-in your browser via Pyodide / JupyterLite. Two notebooks:
+in your browser via Pyodide.
+
+**`grlp_panel.py` is the published demo.** It is a Panel app compiled to a
+standalone WebAssembly page by [artesian](https://github.com/MNiMORPH/artesian),
+which the documentation build drives through `artesian_apps` in `docs/conf.py`;
+the result is embedded in
+[docs/interactive.md](https://grlp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactive.html).
+To build it by hand:
+
+```sh
+artesian build interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py -o _build -p . \
+    -r numpy -r scipy -r networkx --serve
+```
+
+The two notebooks below are the earlier JupyterLite versions, kept for
+classroom and notebook use. They are **not** part of the documentation site.
 
 - **`interactive_single_segment.ipynb`** — *equilibrium* response: each slider
   change recomputes the steady-state profile (Lane's balance).
@@ -10,10 +25,7 @@ in your browser via Pyodide / JupyterLite. Two notebooks:
   continuously; drag the sliders and watch the profile aggrade/incise toward the
   new boundary conditions in real time.
 
-Deliberately kept **out of the ReadTheDocs site** for now: standalone, until
-tested enough.
-
-## Run it
+## Run the notebooks
 
 One-time toolchain install (the **frontends** — `jupyterlab_widgets` for the
 sliders, `ipympl` for the live canvas — must be in this env so `jupyter lite
@@ -52,6 +64,7 @@ notebook, run all cells, and use the sliders.
 
 ## Files
 
+- `grlp_panel.py` — the published Panel demo, compiled by artesian (above).
 - `interactive_single_segment.ipynb` — equilibrium demo (sliders + GRLP compute).
 - `interactive_single_segment_live.ipynb` — live transient demo (async run loop).
 - `run_demo.sh` — build the wheel + launch JupyterLite.
@@ -62,12 +75,13 @@ notebook, run all cells, and use the sliders.
 ## Status / notes
 
 - **Verified natively:** the compute logic (correct Lane's-balance response,
-  ~9 ms/update) and the pure-Python `grlp` wheel. **Not yet verified:** the
-  in-browser (WASM) execution and slider responsiveness — that is what this
-  standalone package is for.
+  ~9 ms/update) and the pure-Python `grlp` wheel. In-browser execution is now
+  verified for the **Panel** demo, which is published on Read the Docs; it
+  remains unverified for these **notebooks**.
 - If `%pip install grlp` does not resolve, confirm the freshly built wheel is in
   `pypi/` (the auto-discovered wheelhouse) and that the JupyterLite build indexed
   it (look for `piplite:copy:whl` in the build log).
-- Once tested and trusted, the route to embed this in RTD is `jupyterlite-sphinx`
-  (a `{jupyterlite}`/`{voici}` directive). We are intentionally not doing that
-  yet.
+- The route into RTD was expected to be `jupyterlite-sphinx` (a
+  `{jupyterlite}`/`{voici}` directive). That is not what we did: the published
+  demo is the Panel app, compiled by artesian at documentation build time. The
+  notebooks stay standalone.
diff --git a/interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py b/interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py
index f925e43..1006aea 100644
--- a/interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py
+++ b/interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 Interactive GRLP demo — a single gravel river adjusting in real time.
 
 This is the source for the live, in-browser demo embedded in the documentation.
-It is compiled to a standalone WebAssembly app (no server, no install) with::
+It is compiled to a standalone WebAssembly app (no server, no install) by
+artesian, which the docs build drives through ``artesian_apps`` in
+docs/conf.py. To build it by hand::
 
-    panel convert grlp_panel.py --to pyodide-worker --out <dir> \\
-        --requirements <grlp wheel> numpy scipy networkx
+    artesian build interactive_demo/grlp_panel.py -o <dir> \\
+        -p . -r numpy -r scipy -r networkx --serve
 
 GRLP then runs entirely in the browser via Pyodide. Press play and drag the
 sliders while it runs to change the boundary conditions and watch the long