diff --git a/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx b/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
index 1e8c66e8a..0cf6ef296 100644
--- a/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
+++ b/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ import {
 } from "../new-chat/document-mention-picker";
 
 const COMPOSER_PLACEHOLDER =
-	"Track competitors, scrape platforms, automate briefs — / for prompts, @ for docs";
+	"Track competitors, scrape platforms, automate briefs. Use / for prompts, @ for docs";
 
 type ComposerSuggestionAnchorPoint = {
 	left: number;
diff --git a/surfsense_web/components/homepage/hero-chat-demo.tsx b/surfsense_web/components/homepage/hero-chat-demo.tsx
index ef4b7cfc1..e617cd51e 100644
--- a/surfsense_web/components/homepage/hero-chat-demo.tsx
+++ b/surfsense_web/components/homepage/hero-chat-demo.tsx
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export type HeroChatDemoScript = {
 
 type Stage = "typing" | "steps" | "answer" | "done";
 
-const PLACEHOLDER = "Track competitors, scrape platforms, automate briefs — / for prompts, @ for docs";
+const PLACEHOLDER = "Track competitors, scrape platforms, automate briefs. Use / for prompts, @ for docs";
 
 /** Blinking caret for the typewriter (overlay only, never inside the real input). */
 function Caret() {