diff --git a/src/fgai/dashboard.py b/src/fgai/dashboard.py
index 4c9d511..a3d2bb8 100644
--- a/src/fgai/dashboard.py
+++ b/src/fgai/dashboard.py
@@ -245,6 +245,16 @@ function mcpCapability(mcp, configuration, pollRunningSeconds=0) {
   }
   return {state: 'warn', detail: status};
 }
+function llmCapability(llm, configuration) {
+  const enabled = Boolean(llm.enabled || configuration.llm_enabled);
+  if (!enabled) return {state: 'warn', detail: 'disabled'};
+  const status = String(llm.status || 'starting');
+  if (status === 'ok') return {state: 'on', detail: 'ok'};
+  if (status === 'cached') return {state: 'on', detail: 'cached'};
+  if (status === 'error' && String(llm.text || '').trim()) return {state: 'warn', detail: 'cached, assessment error'};
+  if (status === 'error') return {state: 'warn', detail: 'assessment error'};
+  return {state: 'warn', detail: status};
+}
 function actionItem(severity, title, detail, action) {
   return `<div class="action-item ${esc(severity)}"><strong>${esc(title)}</strong><div>${esc(detail)}</div><div class="muted">Next: ${esc(action)}</div></div>`;
 }
@@ -415,9 +425,10 @@ function sharedFieldLabel(item) {
 }
 function profileAdvisorLabel(row, advisor) {
   const rowAdvisor = row.profile_advisor || {};
-  if (rowAdvisor.status === 'heuristic' && rowAdvisor.error) return 'heuristic (advisor error)';
+  if (rowAdvisor.status === 'heuristic' && rowAdvisor.error) return 'heuristic fallback';
   if (rowAdvisor.status) return rowAdvisor.status;
-  if (advisor.enabled && advisor.status === 'error') return 'heuristic (advisor error)';
+  if (advisor.enabled && advisor.status === 'heuristic_fallback') return 'heuristic fallback';
+  if (advisor.enabled && advisor.status === 'error') return 'advisor error';
   return advisor.enabled ? (advisor.status || 'checking') : 'heuristic';
 }
 function drawTrend(history) {
@@ -590,9 +601,10 @@ async function refresh() {
   const llm = data.llm_assessment || {};
   const llmEnabled = Boolean(llm.enabled || configuration.llm_enabled);
   const mcpBadge = mcpCapability(mcp, configuration, pollRunningSeconds);
+  const llmBadge = llmCapability(llm, configuration);
   document.getElementById('capabilities').innerHTML = [
     capability('Baseline', baseline.enabled ? 'on' : 'warn', baseline.enabled ? `${baseline.sources_ready || 0} sources ready` : 'disabled'),
-    capability('Ollama', llmEnabled && llm.status !== 'error' ? 'on' : 'warn', llmEnabled ? (llm.status || 'starting') : 'disabled'),
+    capability('Ollama', llmBadge.state, llmBadge.detail),
     capability('Threat Intel', threat.enabled && threat.configured ? 'on' : 'warn', threat.enabled ? `${threat.provider || 'unknown'}${threat.configured ? '' : ', key missing'}` : 'disabled'),
     capability('Graylog MCP', mcpBadge.state, mcpBadge.detail)
   ].join('');
@@ -607,6 +619,7 @@ async function refresh() {
     `Baseline DB size: ${esc(bytes((data.baseline || {}).size_bytes || 0))}`,
     `Discovery fields recorded: ${esc((data.baseline || {}).discovery_fields_recorded || 0)}`,
     `Discovery cache events: ${esc((data.baseline || {}).discovery_cache_events || 0)}`,
+    llm.status === 'error' ? `<span class="sev-high">Ollama assessment error: ${esc(llm.error || 'unknown error')}</span>` : '',
     `MCP status: ${esc(mcp.status || 'unknown')}`,
     mcp.status === 'refreshing' && pollStartedAt ? `MCP poll running: ${esc(pollRunningSeconds)}s` : '',
     pollCompletedAt ? `Last completed MCP poll: ${esc(pollCompletedAge)}s ago` : '',
diff --git a/tests/test_dashboard.py b/tests/test_dashboard.py
index b78c470..2070879 100644
--- a/tests/test_dashboard.py
+++ b/tests/test_dashboard.py
@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ class DashboardTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_dashboard_shows_profile_advisor_fallback_as_notice(self):
         self.assertIn("heuristic_fallback", HTML)
         self.assertIn("Profile advisor: heuristic fallback", HTML)
+        self.assertIn("heuristic fallback", HTML)
+
+    def test_dashboard_labels_ollama_assessment_errors(self):
+        self.assertIn("function llmCapability", HTML)
+        self.assertIn("assessment error", HTML)
+        self.assertIn("Ollama assessment error", HTML)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":