diff --git a/docs/ADOPTION.md b/docs/ADOPTION.md
index c15243b..25d6748 100644
--- a/docs/ADOPTION.md
+++ b/docs/ADOPTION.md
@@ -168,5 +168,7 @@ sitting in one place, verified, with a receipt.)
 **What does it cost?** Detection scopes are mostly toolchain work (fast, cheap even on a local
 model). Each run makes one small change, so review time stays near zero.
 
-**How do I show this to my team?** `qodex maintain-demo` (interactive page) ·
-`--markdown` (README-ready writeup) · `--pdf` (one-page PDF for the meeting).
+**How do I show this to my team?** The *story*: `qodex maintain-demo` (interactive page) ·
+`--markdown` (README-ready writeup) · `--pdf` (one-page PDF for the meeting). The *numbers*:
+`qodex maintain-report --markdown` (paste the live receipt-backed report into a PR or standup
+thread) · `--pdf` (one-pager with the 8-week trend as a real bar chart).
diff --git a/src/cli/maintain-report-export.ts b/src/cli/maintain-report-export.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e40796
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cli/maintain-report-export.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/**
+ * Self-Improvement Report exporters — the REAL maintain numbers (not the demo story) as:
+ *   - Markdown: paste-ready for a PR description / team update / docs.
+ *   - PDF blocks: a shareable one-pager via pdf-lite, with the 8-week trend as a real bar chart
+ *     (vector rects — sparkline glyphs aren't in the Latin-1 base fonts).
+ *
+ * PURE (data in, artifact out; caller supplies generatedAt) — both renderers share one data
+ * struct so the report can never disagree with itself across formats.
+ */
+import type { MaintainStats, MaintainWeekly, MaintainForecast } from './maintain-stats.js';
+import type { PdfBlock } from './pdf-lite.js';
+
+export interface MaintainReportData {
+  generatedAt: string;          // e.g. '2026-07-02'
+  project?: string;
+  stats: MaintainStats;
+  weekly: MaintainWeekly;
+  trend: number[];              // opened/week, oldest→newest
+  forecast: MaintainForecast;
+  projection: { cleanupsPerMonth: number; minutesPerMonth: number };
+  next?: { scope: string; why: string } | null;
+}
+
+const dirWord = (d: MaintainForecast['direction']): string =>
+  d === 'rising' ? 'rising ↑' : d === 'falling' ? 'cooling ↓' : 'steady →';
+
+function sparkline(trend: number[]): string {
+  const max = Math.max(1, ...trend);
+  const b = '▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█';
+  return trend.map(n => b[Math.min(7, Math.round((n / max) * 7))]).join('');
+}
+
+/** Markdown report — paste into a PR / issue / team chat. PURE. */
+export function buildMaintainReportMarkdown(d: MaintainReportData): string {
+  const s = d.stats;
+  const lines = [
+    `## 🔧 Self-Improvement Report${d.project ? ` — ${d.project}` : ''}`,
+    '',
+    `*Generated ${d.generatedAt} by [QodeX](https://github.com/QodeXcli/QodeX) \`maintain\` — every number below comes from verified-run receipts, not model claims.*`,
+    '',
+    '| | |',
+    '|---|---|',
+    `| **Cleanup PRs shipped** | ${s.opened} |`,
+    `| **Safely blocked** (guardrail declined) | ${s.blocked} |`,
+    `| **Files cleaned** | ${s.filesCleaned} |`,
+    `| **Est. minutes saved** | ~${s.estMinutesSaved} |`,
+    `| **Success rate** | ${Math.round(s.successRate * 100)}% of ${s.totalRuns} runs |`,
+    '',
+    `**This week:** ${d.weekly.opened} PR(s) · ${d.weekly.filesCleaned} files · ${d.weekly.openedDelta >= 0 ? '▲' : '▼'}${Math.abs(d.weekly.openedDelta)} vs last week`,
+    `**8-week trend:** \`${sparkline(d.trend)}\` (opened/week)`,
+    `**Forecast:** ${dirWord(d.forecast.direction)} · avg ~${d.forecast.weeklyAvg}/wk · next week ≈ ${d.forecast.nextWeek}`,
+    `**Projected:** ~${d.projection.cleanupsPerMonth} cleanups/mo · ~${d.projection.minutesPerMonth} min/mo`,
+    '',
+    `**By scope:** ${s.byScope.map(x => `\`${x.scope}\` ${x.opened}/${x.runs}`).join(' · ') || '—'}`,
+  ];
+  if (d.next) lines.push('', `**Suggested next:** \`${d.next.scope}\` — ${d.next.why}`);
+  return lines.join('\n');
+}
+
+/** PDF report blocks (feed to pdf-lite buildPdf). PURE. */
+export function buildMaintainReportPdfBlocks(d: MaintainReportData): PdfBlock[] {
+  const s = d.stats;
+  const kv = (k: string, v: string): PdfBlock => ({ text: `${k}:  ${v}`, size: 11, indent: 10 });
+  const blocks: PdfBlock[] = [
+    { text: `Self-Improvement Report${d.project ? ` — ${d.project}` : ''}`, size: 18, bold: true },
+    { text: `Generated ${d.generatedAt} by QodeX maintain. Every number comes from verified-run receipts — filesChanged from real git diffs, verification from checkers that actually ran.`, size: 9, spaceBefore: 4 },
+    { text: 'All time', size: 13, bold: true, spaceBefore: 12 },
+    kv('Cleanup PRs shipped', String(s.opened)),
+    kv('Safely blocked (guardrail declined)', String(s.blocked)),
+    kv('Files cleaned', String(s.filesCleaned)),
+    kv('Est. minutes saved', `~${s.estMinutesSaved}`),
+    kv('Success rate', `${Math.round(s.successRate * 100)}% of ${s.totalRuns} runs`),
+    { text: 'This week', size: 13, bold: true, spaceBefore: 10 },
+    kv('Opened', `${d.weekly.opened} PR(s) · ${d.weekly.filesCleaned} file(s) · ${d.weekly.openedDelta >= 0 ? '+' : '-'}${Math.abs(d.weekly.openedDelta)} vs last week`),
+    { text: '8-week trend (opened/week)', size: 13, bold: true, spaceBefore: 10 },
+    { text: '', bars: d.trend, size: 9 },
+    kv('Forecast', `${dirWord(d.forecast.direction)} - avg ~${d.forecast.weeklyAvg}/wk - next week ~ ${d.forecast.nextWeek}`),
+    kv('Projected', `~${d.projection.cleanupsPerMonth} cleanups/mo - ~${d.projection.minutesPerMonth} min/mo`),
+    { text: 'By scope', size: 13, bold: true, spaceBefore: 10 },
+    ...(s.byScope.length ? s.byScope.map(x => kv(x.scope, `${x.opened} opened / ${x.runs} runs`)) : [{ text: 'no runs yet', size: 10, indent: 10 }]),
+  ];
+  if (d.next) blocks.push({ text: 'Suggested next', size: 13, bold: true, spaceBefore: 10 }, kv(d.next.scope, d.next.why));
+  return blocks;
+}
diff --git a/src/cli/pdf-lite.ts b/src/cli/pdf-lite.ts
index 3163ae6..9b9b9e1 100644
--- a/src/cli/pdf-lite.ts
+++ b/src/cli/pdf-lite.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ export interface PdfBlock {
   indent?: number;
   /** Extra space above the block, in points. */
   spaceBefore?: number;
+  /** Render a mini bar chart (values normalized to the max) instead of text — real vector
+   *  rectangles, since sparkline glyphs (▁▂▃…) aren't in the Latin-1 base fonts. `text` is
+   *  used as the row label to the left of the bars. */
+  bars?: number[];
 }
 
 const PAGE_W = 595;   // A4 portrait, points
@@ -68,20 +72,29 @@ function wrap(text: string, size: number, mono: boolean, widthPts: number): stri
  * with `Buffer.from(pdf, 'latin1')`. PURE + deterministic (no clock, no randomness).
  */
 export function buildPdf(blocks: PdfBlock[]): string {
-  // 1. Lay blocks out into pages of positioned lines.
-  interface Line { x: number; y: number; size: number; font: 'F1' | 'F2' | 'F3'; text: string }
-  const pages: Line[][] = [[]];
+  // 1. Lay blocks out into pages of positioned elements (text lines + bar-chart rows).
+  interface Line { kind: 'text'; x: number; y: number; size: number; font: 'F1' | 'F2' | 'F3'; text: string }
+  interface BarsRow { kind: 'bars'; x: number; y: number; values: number[]; label: string; size: number }
+  type El = Line | BarsRow;
+  const BAR_H = 36; const BAR_W = 14; const BAR_GAP = 4;
+  const pages: El[][] = [[]];
   let y = PAGE_H - MARGIN;
   for (const b of blocks) {
     const size = b.size ?? 11;
-    const gap = Math.round(size * 1.45);
     const x = MARGIN + (b.indent ?? 0);
     y -= b.spaceBefore ?? 0;
+    if (b.bars) {
+      if (y < MARGIN + BAR_H + size) { pages.push([]); y = PAGE_H - MARGIN; }
+      y -= BAR_H + Math.round(size * 0.6);
+      pages[pages.length - 1]!.push({ kind: 'bars', x, y, values: b.bars, label: pdfSanitize(b.text), size });
+      continue;
+    }
+    const gap = Math.round(size * 1.45);
     const font = b.mono ? 'F3' : b.bold ? 'F2' : 'F1';
     for (const lineText of wrap(pdfSanitize(b.text), size, !!b.mono, PAGE_W - x - MARGIN)) {
       if (y < MARGIN + size) { pages.push([]); y = PAGE_H - MARGIN; }
       y -= gap;
-      pages[pages.length - 1]!.push({ x, y, size, font, text: lineText });
+      pages[pages.length - 1]!.push({ kind: 'text', x, y, size, font, text: lineText });
     }
   }
 
@@ -103,7 +116,18 @@ export function buildPdf(blocks: PdfBlock[]): string {
       `/Resources << /Font << /F1 3 0 R /F2 4 0 R /F3 5 0 R >> >> /Contents ${contentNum} 0 R >>\nendobj\n`,
     );
     const stream = lines
-      .map(l => `BT /${l.font} ${l.size} Tf 1 0 0 1 ${l.x} ${l.y} Tm (${pdfEscape(l.text)}) Tj ET`)
+      .map(l => {
+        if (l.kind === 'text') return `BT /${l.font} ${l.size} Tf 1 0 0 1 ${l.x} ${l.y} Tm (${pdfEscape(l.text)}) Tj ET`;
+        // Bar row: label text, then normalized filled rects (q/Q so the gray fill never leaks into text).
+        const max = Math.max(1, ...l.values);
+        const label = l.label ? `BT /F1 ${l.size} Tf 1 0 0 1 ${l.x} ${l.y + 2} Tm (${pdfEscape(l.label)}) Tj ET\n` : '';
+        const bx0 = l.x + (l.label ? Math.min(150, l.label.length * l.size * 0.55 + 12) : 0);
+        const rects = l.values.map((v, i) => {
+          const h = Math.max(1, Math.round((v / max) * BAR_H));
+          return `${bx0 + i * (BAR_W + BAR_GAP)} ${l.y} ${BAR_W} ${h} re f`;
+        }).join(' ');
+        return `${label}q 0.45 g ${rects} Q`;
+      })
       .join('\n');
     objects.push(`${contentNum} 0 obj\n<< /Length ${stream.length} >>\nstream\n${stream}\nendstream\nendobj\n`);
   });
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index ee5d373..2c5f28e 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -727,8 +727,11 @@ program
 
 program
   .command('maintain-report')
-  .description('Self-Improvement Report — the maintain recipe\'s cleanups, files cleaned, and time saved')
-  .action(async () => {
+  .description('Self-Improvement Report — real receipt-backed numbers; --markdown for PRs, --pdf for a shareable one-pager')
+  .option('--markdown', 'emit the report as Markdown (paste into a PR / issue / team chat)')
+  .option('--pdf', 'write the report as a one-page PDF (real bar chart for the 8-week trend)')
+  .option('-o, --out <file>', 'with --markdown/--pdf, write to this file (PDF default: ~/.qodex/maintain-report.pdf)')
+  .action(async (opts: { markdown?: boolean; pdf?: boolean; out?: string }) => {
     const { getScheduleStore } = await import('./schedule/store.js');
     const { parseMaintainScope, MAINTAIN_SCOPES } = await import('./schedule/recipes.js');
     const { buildMaintainStats, weeklyReport, recommendNextScope, trendByWeek, projectMonthly, forecastTrend } = await import('./cli/maintain-stats.js');
@@ -747,13 +750,40 @@ program
     const wk = weeklyReport(runs, now);
     const next = recommendNextScope(runs, stats, MAINTAIN_SCOPES);
     const proj = projectMonthly(runs, now);
-    const spark = (() => { const t = trendByWeek(runs, now); const max = Math.max(1, ...t); const b = '▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█'; return t.map(n => b[Math.min(7, Math.round((n / max) * 7))]).join(''); })();
+    const fc = forecastTrend(runs, now);
+    const trend = trendByWeek(runs, now);
+
+    // Export paths: the SAME data through the PURE exporters — report can't disagree across formats.
+    if (opts.markdown || opts.pdf) {
+      const { buildMaintainReportMarkdown, buildMaintainReportPdfBlocks } = await import('./cli/maintain-report-export.js');
+      const data = {
+        generatedAt: new Date(now).toISOString().slice(0, 10),
+        project: process.cwd().split(/[\\/]/).filter(Boolean).pop(),
+        stats, weekly: wk, trend, forecast: fc, projection: proj, next,
+      };
+      if (opts.markdown) {
+        const md = buildMaintainReportMarkdown(data);
+        if (opts.out) { const { promises: fs } = await import('fs'); await fs.writeFile(opts.out, md); console.log(`\n📝 Report → ${opts.out}\n`); }
+        else console.log(md);
+        process.exit(0);
+      }
+      const { buildPdf } = await import('./cli/pdf-lite.js');
+      const { QODEX_HOME } = await import('./config/defaults.js');
+      const path = await import('path');
+      const { promises: fs } = await import('fs');
+      const out = opts.out ?? path.join(QODEX_HOME, 'maintain-report.pdf');
+      await fs.mkdir(path.dirname(out), { recursive: true }).catch(() => {});
+      await fs.writeFile(out, Buffer.from(buildPdf(buildMaintainReportPdfBlocks(data)), 'latin1'));
+      console.log(`\n📄 Report → ${out}\n`);
+      process.exit(0);
+    }
+
+    const spark = (() => { const t = trend; const max = Math.max(1, ...t); const b = '▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█'; return t.map(n => b[Math.min(7, Math.round((n / max) * 7))]).join(''); })();
     console.log('\n🔧 QodeX Self-Improvement Report\n');
     if (stats.totalRuns === 0) { console.log('  No maintain runs yet. `qodex schedule add --recipe maintain --prompt "unused-imports"`.\n'); process.exit(0); }
     console.log(`  All time:   ${stats.opened} cleanup PR(s) · ${stats.blocked} safely blocked · ${stats.filesCleaned} files cleaned · ~${stats.estMinutesSaved} min saved`);
     console.log(`  This week:  ${wk.opened} PR(s) · ${wk.filesCleaned} files · ${wk.openedDelta >= 0 ? '▲' : '▼'}${Math.abs(wk.openedDelta)} vs last week`);
     console.log(`  8-wk trend: ${spark}  (opened/week)`);
-    const fc = forecastTrend(runs, now);
     const arrow = fc.direction === 'rising' ? 'rising ↑' : fc.direction === 'falling' ? 'cooling ↓' : 'steady →';
     console.log(`  Forecast:   ${arrow} · avg ~${fc.weeklyAvg}/wk · next week ≈ ${fc.nextWeek} cleanup(s)`);
     console.log(`  Projected:  ~${proj.cleanupsPerMonth} cleanups/mo · ~${proj.minutesPerMonth} min/mo at the current rate`);
diff --git a/test/maintain-report-export.test.ts b/test/maintain-report-export.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4017177
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/maintain-report-export.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { buildMaintainReportMarkdown, buildMaintainReportPdfBlocks, type MaintainReportData } from '../src/cli/maintain-report-export.ts';
+import { buildPdf } from '../src/cli/pdf-lite.ts';
+
+const DATA: MaintainReportData = {
+  generatedAt: '2026-07-02',
+  project: 'qodex',
+  stats: {
+    totalRuns: 8, opened: 5, blocked: 2, failed: 1, successRate: 0.625, filesCleaned: 14, estMinutesSaved: 25,
+    byScope: [{ scope: 'unused-imports', runs: 4, opened: 3 }, { scope: 'unused-locals', runs: 4, opened: 2 }],
+    lastRun: { when: '2h ago', status: 'opened', scope: 'unused-imports' },
+  },
+  weekly: { opened: 2, blocked: 1, filesCleaned: 5, minutesSaved: 10, priorOpened: 1, openedDelta: 1 },
+  trend: [0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2],
+  forecast: { weeklyAvg: 0.88, slope: 0.12, direction: 'steady', nextWeek: 1, weeks: 8 },
+  projection: { cleanupsPerMonth: 5, minutesPerMonth: 25 },
+  next: { scope: 'extract-helper', why: 'never run here yet — try it' },
+};
+
+describe('buildMaintainReportMarkdown', () => {
+  const md = buildMaintainReportMarkdown(DATA);
+  it('is a paste-ready PR block with the receipt-backed framing and all key numbers', () => {
+    expect(md.startsWith('## 🔧 Self-Improvement Report — qodex')).toBe(true);
+    expect(md).toContain('verified-run receipts, not model claims');
+    expect(md).toContain('| **Cleanup PRs shipped** | 5 |');
+    expect(md).toContain('| **Safely blocked** (guardrail declined) | 2 |');
+    expect(md).toContain('63% of 8 runs');
+    expect(md).toMatch(/`[▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█]{8}`/);                // unicode sparkline is fine in Markdown
+    expect(md).toContain('`unused-imports` 3/4');
+    expect(md).toContain('**Suggested next:** `extract-helper`');
+  });
+  it('omits the suggestion line when next is null', () => {
+    expect(buildMaintainReportMarkdown({ ...DATA, next: null })).not.toContain('Suggested next');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('buildMaintainReportPdfBlocks → buildPdf', () => {
+  const pdf = buildPdf(buildMaintainReportPdfBlocks(DATA));
+  it('renders a structurally valid PDF with the real numbers', () => {
+    expect(pdf.startsWith('%PDF-1.4\n')).toBe(true);
+    expect(pdf).toContain('(Self-Improvement Report - qodex) Tj');
+    expect(pdf).toContain('Cleanup PRs shipped: 5');      // pdfSanitize collapses double spaces
+    expect(pdf).toContain('63% of 8 runs');
+    expect(pdf).toContain('extract-helper');
+  });
+  it('draws the 8-week trend as REAL vector bars (re f rects), normalized, gray-scoped with q/Q', () => {
+    expect(pdf).toMatch(/q 0\.45 g( \d+ \d+ 14 \d+ re f){8} Q/);   // 8 bars, width 14
+    const heights = [...pdf.matchAll(/(\d+) (\d+) 14 (\d+) re f/g)].map(m => Number(m[3]));
+    expect(Math.max(...heights)).toBe(36);                          // max value → full BAR_H
+    expect(Math.min(...heights)).toBe(1);                           // zero weeks → 1pt floor (visible baseline)
+    expect(pdf).not.toContain('▁');                                 // no sparkline glyphs leak into the PDF
+  });
+  it('all-zero trend does not divide by zero (flat 1pt bars)', () => {
+    const flat = buildPdf(buildMaintainReportPdfBlocks({ ...DATA, trend: [0, 0, 0, 0] }));
+    const heights = [...flat.matchAll(/\d+ \d+ 14 (\d+) re f/g)].map(m => Number(m[1]));
+    expect(heights).toEqual([1, 1, 1, 1]);
+  });
+});