diff --git a/src/express/results.ts b/src/express/results.ts
index 56e45bc..3a8f3dc 100644
--- a/src/express/results.ts
+++ b/src/express/results.ts
@@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ export async function settleLimited<T, R>(items: T[], limit: number, fn: (item:
 
 const PER_SCHEDULE_LIMIT = 4
 
+// Results cost one request per schedule (every video schedule's drafts), so they are read once a
+// minute, and a page opened or refocused within that minute reuses what was read. An action on a
+// result or schedule still refreshes them at once.
+export const RESULTS_POLL = { refetchInterval: 60_000, staleTime: 60_000 }
+
 export async function listResults(): Promise<{ materials: Material[]; sources: FoundSource[] }> {
   const schedules = await expressAgents({ archived: true })
   const content = schedules.filter(s => s.rule.type === 'content')
diff --git a/src/pages/Production.tsx b/src/pages/Production.tsx
index f71d27e..37b9b83 100644
--- a/src/pages/Production.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/Production.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { Icon } from '../components/Icon'
 import { PageHead, Skeleton, SkeletonCards } from '../components/Page'
 import { buildGraph, CLUSTERS, type Cluster, type Graph, type GraphNode } from '../express/graph'
 import { describeRule } from '../express/parse'
-import { isWorking, listResults, materialKey, titleOf, type Material } from '../express/results'
+import { isWorking, listResults, materialKey, RESULTS_POLL, titleOf, type Material } from '../express/results'
 import { listSchedules } from '../express/schedules'
 import { locale, t, type Key } from '../i18n'
 import { ContentCard, Preview } from './Results'
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ export function ProductionPage() {
   const results = useQuery({
     queryKey: ['results'],
     queryFn: listResults,
-    // Polled more often than on Results so a run that just started shows up under content in progress.
-    refetchInterval: q => (q.state.data?.materials.some(isWorking) ? 10_000 : 20_000),
+    ...RESULTS_POLL,
   })
   const schedules = useQuery({ queryKey: ['schedules'], queryFn: listSchedules, refetchInterval: 30_000 })
 
diff --git a/src/pages/Results.tsx b/src/pages/Results.tsx
index b592944..f72c025 100644
--- a/src/pages/Results.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/Results.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { Empty, PageHead, SkeletonCards, SkeletonLines, SkeletonRows } from '../
 import { toast } from '../components/Toast'
 import { describeRule, kindLabel, type ContentKind } from '../express/parse'
 import {
-  decideMaterial, download, exportPptx, fileName, isWorking, printPdf, listOf, listResults, materialContent, materialKey, questionsOf, retryMaterial, reviewSource, slidesOf, textOf,
+  decideMaterial, download, exportPptx, fileName, isWorking, printPdf, listOf, listResults, materialContent, RESULTS_POLL, materialKey, questionsOf, retryMaterial, reviewSource, slidesOf, textOf,
   titleOf, toMarkdown, type FoundSource, type Material, type MaterialContent, type MaterialStatus,
 } from '../express/results'
 import { MASTERY, scormPackage } from '../express/scorm'
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export function ResultsPage() {
   const results = useQuery({
     queryKey: ['results'],
     queryFn: listResults,
-    refetchInterval: q => (q.state.data?.materials.some(isWorking) ? 10_000 : 60_000),
+    ...RESULTS_POLL,
   })
   const [tab, setTab] = useState<'content' | 'research'>('content')
   const [query, setQuery] = useState('')