diff --git a/messages/de.json b/messages/de.json
index 9e1c94730..14c3eda42 100644
--- a/messages/de.json
+++ b/messages/de.json
@@ -3824,7 +3824,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "Knowhow - Guides, Blog, Workshops | evig",
+      "title": "Knowhow — Guides, Blog und Workshops",
       "description": "Lerne Linux, offene Software und den praktischen Umgang mit KI. Guides, Workshops, Blog und kuratierte Ressourcen."
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/messages/en.json b/messages/en.json
index aace242c6..aa4adcc9d 100644
--- a/messages/en.json
+++ b/messages/en.json
@@ -3981,7 +3981,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "Knowhow - Guides, Blog, Workshops | evig",
+      "title": "Knowhow — guides, blog and workshops",
       "description": "Learn Linux, open software and the practical use of AI. Guides, workshops, blog and curated resources."
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/messages/es.json b/messages/es.json
index cb87f38f7..0384392cb 100644
--- a/messages/es.json
+++ b/messages/es.json
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "Knowhow - Guías, Blog, Talleres | evig",
+      "title": "Conocimiento: guías, blog y talleres",
       "description": "Aprende Linux, software abierto y el uso práctico de la IA. Guías, talleres, blog y recursos seleccionados."
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/messages/fr.json b/messages/fr.json
index 537246429..bcb5d87a0 100644
--- a/messages/fr.json
+++ b/messages/fr.json
@@ -3981,7 +3981,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "Knowhow - Guides, Blog, Ateliers | evig",
+      "title": "Savoir-faire — guides, blog et ateliers",
       "description": "Apprenez Linux, les logiciels libres et l'usage concret de l'IA. Guides, ateliers, blog et ressources sélectionnées."
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/messages/it.json b/messages/it.json
index 6d06e498e..468e4f75e 100644
--- a/messages/it.json
+++ b/messages/it.json
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "Knowhow - Guide, Blog, Workshop | evig",
+      "title": "Know-how — guide, blog e laboratori",
       "description": "Impara Linux, il software aperto e l'uso pratico dell'IA. Guide, laboratori, blog e risorse selezionate."
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/messages/ja.json b/messages/ja.json
index cce8ca135..36dadddfe 100644
--- a/messages/ja.json
+++ b/messages/ja.json
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "ノウハウ — ガイド、ブログ、ワークショップ | evig",
+      "title": "ナレッジ — ガイド、ブログ、ワークショップ",
       "description": "Linux、オープンなソフトウェア、AI の実践的な使い方を学ぶ。ガイド、ワークショップ、ブログ、厳選した資料。"
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/messages/ko.json b/messages/ko.json
index aac492258..4ae5704e8 100644
--- a/messages/ko.json
+++ b/messages/ko.json
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "노하우 - 가이드, 블로그, 워크숍 | evig",
+      "title": "노하우 — 가이드, 블로그, 워크숍",
       "description": "리눅스와 열린 소프트웨어, 그리고 AI의 실질적인 활용을 배우세요. 가이드, 워크숍, 블로그, 선별된 자료."
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/messages/ru.json b/messages/ru.json
index dcd56cbe6..e4591d2f1 100644
--- a/messages/ru.json
+++ b/messages/ru.json
@@ -3827,7 +3827,7 @@
   },
   "knowhow": {
     "meta": {
-      "title": "Knowhow — гайды, блог, воркшопы | evig",
+      "title": "Знания — руководства, блог и мастерские",
       "description": "Осваивайте Linux, открытые программы и практическое применение ИИ. Руководства, мастерские, блог и отобранные материалы."
     },
     "hero": {
diff --git a/src/app/[locale]/abos/page.tsx b/src/app/[locale]/abos/page.tsx
index d4ec75874..0e58097f9 100644
--- a/src/app/[locale]/abos/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/[locale]/abos/page.tsx
@@ -3,8 +3,31 @@
 // null during parallel static generation workers, causing hooks to throw.
 export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic'
 
+import type { Metadata } from 'next'
+import { getTranslations } from 'next-intl/server'
 import AbosPageClient from './AbosPageClient'
 
+/**
+ * This page had no metadata at all, so the browser tab fell through to the
+ * layout's default — "evig — Intelligenz, für alle bezahlbar. | evig", the
+ * homepage's own title, with the org name twice. A live product page was
+ * indistinguishable from the homepage in a tab, in search, and in a shared
+ * link.
+ */
+export async function generateMetadata({
+  params,
+}: {
+  params: Promise<{ locale: string }>
+}): Promise<Metadata> {
+  const { locale } = await params
+  const t = await getTranslations({ locale, namespace: 'abos' })
+  return {
+    title: t('title'),
+    description: t('subtitle'),
+    openGraph: { title: t('title'), description: t('subtitle'), type: 'website' },
+  }
+}
+
 export default function AbosPage() {
   return <AbosPageClient />
 }
diff --git a/src/app/[locale]/about/page.tsx b/src/app/[locale]/about/page.tsx
index 2e8ce90cc..f6ddf5270 100644
--- a/src/app/[locale]/about/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/[locale]/about/page.tsx
@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@ import { getTranslations } from 'next-intl/server'
 export async function generateMetadata({ params }: { params: Promise<{ locale: string }> }): Promise<Metadata> {
   const { locale } = await params
   const t = await getTranslations({ locale, namespace: 'about' })
-  const title = `${t('meta.title')} - ${ORG.name}`
+  // The layout's title template already appends "| evig", so adding the org
+  // name here produced "Über uns - evig | evig" in the browser tab. The
+  // template owns the name; a page title is the descriptive half only.
+  // openGraph gets the full form, because a shared card has no template.
+  const title = t('meta.title')
   const description = t('meta.description')
   return {
     title,
     description,
-    openGraph: { title, description, type: 'website' },
+    openGraph: { title: `${title} | ${ORG.name}`, description, type: 'website' },
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/app/[locale]/blog/layout.tsx b/src/app/[locale]/blog/layout.tsx
index c5f12c623..5e5f73594 100644
--- a/src/app/[locale]/blog/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/[locale]/blog/layout.tsx
@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ export async function generateMetadata({
   params: Promise<{ locale: string }>
 }): Promise<Metadata> {
   const { locale } = await params
+  // No `title` here on purpose. Both this layout and the index page below it
+  // set one, and the tab ended up reading a bare "Blog" with no "| evig" —
+  // the only page on the site missing the suffix. The page owns its title;
+  // the layout contributes the description and the OG defaults.
   const t = await getTranslations({ locale, namespace: 'blog.meta' })
-  const title = t('layoutTitle')
   const description = t('description')
   return {
-    title,
     description,
     openGraph: {
-      title,
       description,
       type: 'website',
     },
diff --git a/src/app/[locale]/services/layout.tsx b/src/app/[locale]/services/layout.tsx
index 9b3e3a945..c2e2f0331 100644
--- a/src/app/[locale]/services/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/[locale]/services/layout.tsx
@@ -8,14 +8,23 @@ export async function generateMetadata({
   params: Promise<{ locale: string }>
 }): Promise<Metadata> {
   const { locale } = await params
+  // No `title` here on purpose, and specifically no `title.absolute`.
+  //
+  // This layout used to set `{ absolute: `${layoutTitle} | evig` }`, which
+  // hand-rolled the suffix for the hub AND replaced the inherited
+  // `title.template` for the ENTIRE /services subtree. Every child page
+  // therefore shipped with no brand suffix at all — including
+  // /services/ai-robotics, which rendered a bare "KI und Robotik im Betrieb".
+  // Measured on the live site; no gate could see it, because `absolute` is a
+  // perfectly valid metadata field.
+  //
+  // Dropping it lets the root template apply to every page below, and the hub
+  // now sets its own title in page.tsx like any other page.
   const t = await getTranslations({ locale, namespace: 'services.meta' })
-  const title = `${t('layoutTitle')} | ${ORG.name}`
   const description = t('description')
   return {
-    title: { absolute: title },
     description,
     openGraph: {
-      title,
       description,
       type: 'website',
       url: `${ORG.website}/services`,
diff --git a/src/app/[locale]/services/page.tsx b/src/app/[locale]/services/page.tsx
index a10d092a2..0652d9dee 100644
--- a/src/app/[locale]/services/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/[locale]/services/page.tsx
@@ -2,5 +2,27 @@
 // due to React-null circular dep in SSR bundle during parallel static generation workers.
 export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic'
 
+import type { Metadata } from 'next'
+import { getTranslations } from 'next-intl/server'
 import ServicesPageClient from './ServicesPageClient'
+
+/**
+ * The hub's title used to come from the layout's `title.absolute`, which also
+ * killed the brand suffix for every page under /services. The layout no longer
+ * sets a title, so the hub declares its own here — like every other page — and
+ * the root template appends "| evig" exactly once.
+ */
+export async function generateMetadata({
+  params,
+}: {
+  params: Promise<{ locale: string }>
+}): Promise<Metadata> {
+  const { locale } = await params
+  const t = await getTranslations({ locale, namespace: 'services.meta' })
+  return {
+    title: t('layoutTitle'),
+    description: t('description'),
+  }
+}
+
 export default ServicesPageClient
diff --git a/src/app/[locale]/services/web-design-development/layout.tsx b/src/app/[locale]/services/web-design-development/layout.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index f5ebbf063..000000000
--- a/src/app/[locale]/services/web-design-development/layout.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-import { Metadata } from 'next'
-import { ORG } from '@/config/org'
-
-export const metadata: Metadata = {
-  title: { absolute: `Web Design & Development | ${ORG.name}` },
-  description: 'Professional web design and development services using open source technologies. Modern, responsive websites built with sustainability and performance in mind.',
-  openGraph: {
-    title: `Web Design & Development | ${ORG.name}`,
-    description: 'Professional web design and development services using open source technologies. Modern, responsive websites built with sustainability and performance in mind.',
-    type: 'website',
-    url: `${ORG.website}/services/web-design-development`,
-  },
-}
-
-export default function WebDesignDevelopmentLayout({
-  children,
-}: {
-  children: React.ReactNode
-}) {
-  return <>{children}</>
-} 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/config/__tests__/inventory-routes-match-services.test.ts b/src/config/__tests__/inventory-routes-match-services.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..52f7e33c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config/__tests__/inventory-routes-match-services.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/**
+ * The E2E inventory smoke must not assert service pages that do not exist.
+ *
+ * `tests/e2e/helpers/inventory-routes.ts` hand-lists the `/services/*` paths
+ * it smoke-tests for a non-404. When #389 retired two services and deleted the
+ * `[service]/repair` route, that list kept asserting four dead paths —
+ * `/services/hardware-recycling` and three `/services/<slug>/repair` pages.
+ *
+ * What made it expensive is WHERE that smoke runs: against the LIVE site, not
+ * the branch. So it stayed green until the deletion actually deployed, and
+ * then turned red on every subsequent PR, for a reason having nothing to do
+ * with the PR being reviewed. A dead assertion in a live-site smoke is a trap
+ * that springs on whoever comes next.
+ *
+ * This runs in jest, on the branch, before any of that: every `/services/...`
+ * path the smoke expects to be live must correspond to an available entry in
+ * SERVICE_CONFIGS. Redirect assertions (which carry a `urlPattern`) are
+ * exempt — a retired service keeps its URL alive on purpose.
+ */
+
+import { PUBLIC_ROUTES } from '../../../tests/e2e/helpers/inventory-routes'
+import { SERVICE_CONFIGS } from '@/app/[locale]/services/data'
+
+describe('E2E inventory service routes match SERVICE_CONFIGS', () => {
+  const liveServiceRoutes = PUBLIC_ROUTES.filter(
+    (r) => r.path.startsWith('/services/') && !r.urlPattern,
+  )
+
+  it('sweeps a non-empty set', () => {
+    // A filter that matches nothing would pass the assertion below trivially.
+    expect(liveServiceRoutes.length).toBeGreaterThan(1)
+    expect(SERVICE_CONFIGS.length).toBeGreaterThan(1)
+  })
+
+  it('every smoke-tested service page is an available service', () => {
+    const live = new Set(SERVICE_CONFIGS.filter((s) => s.available).map((s) => s.href))
+    const orphans = liveServiceRoutes
+      .filter((r) => !live.has(r.path))
+      .map((r) => `${r.path} is smoke-tested for a non-404 but is not an available service`)
+    expect(orphans).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('every available service page is smoke-tested', () => {
+    const smoked = new Set(liveServiceRoutes.map((r) => r.path))
+    const missing = SERVICE_CONFIGS.filter((s) => s.available && !smoked.has(s.href))
+      .map((s) => `${s.href} is an available service but nothing smoke-tests it`)
+    expect(missing).toEqual([])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/config/__tests__/page-titles-not-doubled.test.ts b/src/config/__tests__/page-titles-not-doubled.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dde2ec6af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config/__tests__/page-titles-not-doubled.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/**
+ * A page title must not carry the org name — the layout template adds it.
+ *
+ * `src/app/[locale]/layout.tsx` sets `title.template = '%s | evig'`, so every
+ * page title gets " | evig" appended automatically. Three separate places
+ * added it a second time anyway, and each produced a real duplicate in the
+ * browser tab, in search results and in shared links:
+ *
+ *   /            "evig – evig — Intelligenz, für alle bezahlbar … | evig"
+ *                (a page prefix AND a message value that opened with "evig —")
+ *   /about       "Über uns - evig | evig"   (page appended `${ORG.name}`)
+ *   /knowhow     "Knowhow - … | evig | evig" (the MESSAGE VALUE ended "| evig")
+ *
+ * The homepage one was fixed, then /about and /knowhow turned up later by
+ * reading rendered titles. Three instances of one mistake is where the class
+ * gets closed rather than the instance.
+ *
+ * This catches the message-file half — a translator or a bulk edit
+ * reintroducing "| evig" into a title string. The component half (appending
+ * ORG.name in generateMetadata) is not statically checkable here; the note in
+ * each page explains why the template owns the name.
+ */
+
+import de from '../../../messages/de.json'
+
+/** Any title-ish key: `meta.title`, `hero.title`, `layoutTitle`, … */
+const TITLE_KEY = /(^|\.)(meta\.)?(title|layoutTitle|metaTitle)$/i
+/** "… | evig", "evig | …", "evig — …" at the start — the brand as decoration. */
+const CARRIES_BRAND = /\|\s*evig\b|\bevig\s*\||^\s*evig\s*[—–-]/i
+
+function walk(node: unknown, trail: string[] = []): Array<{ path: string; value: string }> {
+  if (typeof node === 'string') return [{ path: trail.join('.'), value: node }]
+  if (Array.isArray(node)) return node.flatMap((v, i) => walk(v, [...trail, String(i)]))
+  if (node && typeof node === 'object') {
+    return Object.entries(node).flatMap(([k, v]) => walk(v, [...trail, k]))
+  }
+  return []
+}
+
+describe('page titles do not repeat the org name', () => {
+  const all = walk(de)
+  const titles = all.filter((e) => TITLE_KEY.test(e.path))
+
+  it('sweeps a non-trivial number of titles', () => {
+    // A sweep that matched nothing would pass the assertion below trivially.
+    expect(titles.length).toBeGreaterThan(20)
+  })
+
+  it('no title string carries the brand — the layout template appends it', () => {
+    const offenders = titles
+      .filter((e) => CARRIES_BRAND.test(e.value))
+      .map((e) => `${e.path} :: "${e.value}" — the layout already appends "| evig"`)
+    expect(offenders).toEqual([])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/tests/e2e/helpers/inventory-routes.ts b/tests/e2e/helpers/inventory-routes.ts
index cdd05650e..90772a746 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/helpers/inventory-routes.ts
+++ b/tests/e2e/helpers/inventory-routes.ts
@@ -5,11 +5,21 @@
 
 import { ROUTES } from '@/config/routes'
 
-/** Service slugs that expose `/services/[slug]/repair` booking pages. */
-const SERVICE_REPAIR_SLUGS = [
-  'computer-repair-upgrades',
-  'data-recovery-transfer',
-  'linux-open-source',
+/**
+ * Public service pages, smoke-tested for a non-404.
+ *
+ * Kept in step with SERVICE_CONFIGS by
+ * `src/config/__tests__/inventory-routes-match-services.test.ts` — this list
+ * asserted `/services/hardware-recycling` and three `/services/<slug>/repair`
+ * pages for weeks after they were deleted, and because this smoke runs
+ * against the LIVE site it only went red once the deletion deployed, turning
+ * every later PR red for a reason unrelated to that PR.
+ */
+const SERVICE_PAGE_PATHS = [
+  '/services/ai-robotics',
+  '/services/web-design-development',
+  '/services/linux-open-source',
+  '/services/open-source-solutions',
 ] as const
 
 export interface InventoryRoute {
@@ -63,14 +73,14 @@ export const PUBLIC_ROUTES: InventoryRoute[] = [
   { id: 51, label: 'Workshop catalog', path: ROUTES.public.workshops },
   { id: 56, label: 'Propose workshop', path: ROUTES.public.workshopsPropose },
   { id: 68, label: 'Services landing', path: ROUTES.public.services },
-  { id: 69, label: 'Service category', path: '/services/hardware-recycling' },
-  ...SERVICE_REPAIR_SLUGS.map(slug => ({
-    id: 70,
-    label: `Book repair (${slug})`,
-    path: `/services/${slug}/repair`,
-    urlPattern: /\/services\/[^/]+\/repair/,
+  ...SERVICE_PAGE_PATHS.map(path => ({
+    id: 69,
+    label: `Service page (${path.split('/').pop()})`,
+    path,
   })),
-  { id: 71, label: 'Open-source solutions', path: '/services/open-source-solutions' },
+  // Retired services keep their URLs alive as redirects into IT-Hilfe, so the
+  // old inbound links still land somewhere useful.
+  { id: 70, label: 'Retired service redirect', path: '/services/computer-repair-upgrades', urlPattern: /\/it-hilfe/ },
   // Route #116 (the /projects/upcycling/* mini-site) was intentionally removed
   // with the /projects purge (commit 10c1b8adf); its config lingers but the pages
   // 404, so it is no longer smoke-tested here.