diff --git a/src/app/(staff)/staff/clients/page.tsx b/src/app/(staff)/staff/clients/page.tsx
index 11a214c..d610ec4 100644
--- a/src/app/(staff)/staff/clients/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/(staff)/staff/clients/page.tsx
@@ -31,14 +31,29 @@ export default async function StaffClientsPage({
 
   // Scoped via the appointment relation, not "every CustomerProfile row" —
   // a real business boundary even though this is a single-business v1 app
-  // (see docs/phase-5-summary.md). `select`-scoped rather than the full
-  // row + full appointment `include` this used to fetch — the card only
-  // ever reads status/startAt off each appointment, never the service
-  // lines/notes/discount that a full include would also pull down for
-  // every appointment of every client on every page view (see the Phase 7
-  // performance pass).
+  // (see docs/phase-5-summary.md). A registered client with NO appointment
+  // anywhere yet (freshly added via /staff/clients/add, or self-registered
+  // but never booked) is also included — otherwise a client staff just
+  // added would be invisible here until their first booking, which reads
+  // as "did that even work?". A registered client with appointments only
+  // at some other business (not reachable in this single-business-per-
+  // deployment app, but kept as a real predicate rather than an assumption)
+  // is correctly excluded either way. Guests are never included by this
+  // second branch — a guest profile is only ever created alongside an
+  // appointment (see resolveGuestCustomer), so one with zero appointments
+  // shouldn't exist, but isGuest: false is there as a real guard, not a
+  // guess. `select`-scoped rather than the full row + full appointment
+  // `include` this used to fetch — the card only ever reads status/startAt
+  // off each appointment, never the service lines/notes/discount that a
+  // full include would also pull down for every appointment of every
+  // client on every page view (see the Phase 7 performance pass).
   const customers = await prisma.customerProfile.findMany({
-    where: { appointments: { some: { businessId: context.businessId } } },
+    where: {
+      OR: [
+        { appointments: { some: { businessId: context.businessId } } },
+        { isGuest: false, appointments: { none: {} } },
+      ],
+    },
     select: {
       id: true,
       firstName: true,
@@ -72,7 +87,7 @@ export default async function StaffClientsPage({
   const now = new Date();
 
   return (
-    <div className="pb-8 lg:max-w-5xl">
+    <div className="pb-8">
       <TopNav
         title="Clients"
         sticky
@@ -141,7 +156,7 @@ export default async function StaffClientsPage({
             }
           />
         ) : (
-          <div className="grid gap-3 lg:grid-cols-2">
+          <div className="grid gap-3 lg:grid-cols-2 xl:grid-cols-3 2xl:grid-cols-4">
             {sorted.map((customer) => {
               const completedVisits = customer.appointments.filter(
                 (a) => a.status === "COMPLETED",
diff --git a/src/features/staff/components/add-client-form.tsx b/src/features/staff/components/add-client-form.tsx
index 28ab352..bdfce2b 100644
--- a/src/features/staff/components/add-client-form.tsx
+++ b/src/features/staff/components/add-client-form.tsx
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ export function AddClientForm() {
       <div className="space-y-4 rounded-md border-line border bg-white p-6">
         <p className="text-sm font-bold">{added.name} has been added.</p>
         <p className="text-muted text-sm">
-          They can sign in anytime with just their email — no password, no invite email sent. They&apos;ll show up
-          in Clients once they have an appointment.
+          They can sign in anytime with just their email — no password, no invite email sent.
         </p>
         <div className="flex gap-3">
           <Button variant="secondary" className="flex-1" onClick={() => router.push("/staff/clients")}>