diff --git a/models/face/README.md b/models/face/README.md
index 8e1712d..ddb9674 100644
--- a/models/face/README.md
+++ b/models/face/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ every reader treats "never read" as unknown, never as closed. They are found in
 directory as the pair, so a hand-placed pair does not pick up a package's eye models from a
 directory it otherwise outranks.
 
+    scrfd_500m_640.int8.onnx   0.8 MB   the same three, in the form the Hexagon NPU takes
+    scrfd_2.5g_640.int8.onnx   0.9 MB   (docs/inference.md §5) — opset 17, per-channel int8
+    scrfd_10g_640.int8.onnx    4.3 MB   weights, uint8 activations, calibrated on 96 photographs
+
+The int8 files are **derived** by `tools/quantise-models.sh` from the f32 ones beside them and
+travel with them: the engine loads the `.int8.onnx` sibling when the device's backend wants it and
+the canonical file otherwise, and a library indexed on the int8 form records it as a different
+detector (`scrfd_500m_i8+w600k_mbf`), because it finds a different set of faces. Every other
+platform ignores them. The embedder has no int8 form and never will (§7 of the same document).
+
 **A clone without git-lfs gets a ~130-byte pointer where each model should be.** Both packagers check
 for exactly that and refuse, rather than shipping the pointer and failing inside tract on the user's
 machine. Fix it with `git lfs pull`.
diff --git a/models/face/scrfd_10g_640.int8.onnx b/models/face/scrfd_10g_640.int8.onnx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..675c4a4
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+++ b/models/face/scrfd_10g_640.int8.onnx
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diff --git a/models/face/scrfd_2.5g_640.int8.onnx b/models/face/scrfd_2.5g_640.int8.onnx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..992802b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/face/scrfd_2.5g_640.int8.onnx
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diff --git a/models/face/scrfd_500m_640.int8.onnx b/models/face/scrfd_500m_640.int8.onnx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95486a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/face/scrfd_500m_640.int8.onnx
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diff --git a/tools/quantise-models.py b/tools/quantise-models.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a0ad23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/quantise-models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+"""The body of quantise-models.sh; see there. Run through it, not directly."""
+
+import glob
+import os
+import sys
+
+import numpy as np
+import onnx
+from onnx import version_converter
+from onnxruntime.quantization import (
+    CalibrationDataReader,
+    CalibrationMethod,
+    QuantFormat,
+    QuantType,
+    quantize_static,
+)
+from onnxruntime.quantization.shape_inference import quant_pre_process
+from PIL import Image, ImageOps
+
+PHOTOS = 96  # enough for a stable range; more only costs time
+
+
+def letterbox(img, edge, pad, norm):
+    """The app's Letterbox::sample: fit the long side to `edge`, centre, pad."""
+    img = ImageOps.exif_transpose(img).convert("RGB")
+    w, h = img.size
+    scale = edge / max(w, h)
+    nw, nh = max(1, round(w * scale)), max(1, round(h * scale))
+    img = img.resize((nw, nh), Image.BILINEAR)
+    canvas = Image.new("RGB", (edge, edge), (pad, pad, pad))
+    canvas.paste(img, ((edge - nw) // 2, (edge - nh) // 2))
+    x = np.asarray(canvas, dtype=np.float32)  # HWC, 0..255
+    x = norm(x)
+    return np.ascontiguousarray(x.transpose(2, 0, 1))[None]  # NCHW
+
+
+def preprocessing(name, shape):
+    """Which normalisation this model is fed in the app.
+
+    SCRFD (`dr-face::detect`): `(v - 127.5) / 128`, padded with 114.
+    ArcFace (`dr-face::embed`): the same, on an aligned 112 crop — a
+    letterboxed photograph is the wrong distribution, but the embedder is
+    never quantised (§7), so this is only ever a fallback.
+    YOLO (`dr-segment`): `v / 255`, padded with 0.5.
+    """
+    edge = shape[-1]
+    if name.startswith("scrfd") or name.startswith("arcface"):
+        return edge, 114, lambda x: (x - 127.5) / 128.0
+    return edge, 128, lambda x: x / 255.0
+
+
+class Photos(CalibrationDataReader):
+    """The photographs, fed a stride at a time.
+
+    `__len__` and `set_range` are what `CalibStridedMinMax` asks of a
+    reader: the calibrator folds each stride's activations into the running
+    range before asking for the next, so memory is one stride's worth and
+    not the whole set's.
+    """
+
+    STRIDE = 4
+
+    def __init__(self, model_path, photos):
+        import onnxruntime as ort
+
+        s = ort.InferenceSession(model_path, providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"])
+        i = s.get_inputs()[0]
+        shape = [d if isinstance(d, int) else 1 for d in i.shape]
+        name = os.path.basename(model_path)
+        self.edge, self.pad, self.norm = preprocessing(name, shape)
+        self.name = i.name
+        self.photos = photos[: len(photos) - len(photos) % self.STRIDE]
+        self.set_range(0, len(self.photos))
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self.photos)
+
+    def set_range(self, start_index, end_index):
+        self.items = iter(
+            letterbox(Image.open(p), self.edge, self.pad, self.norm)
+            for p in self.photos[start_index:end_index]
+        )
+
+    def get_next(self):
+        x = next(self.items, None)
+        return None if x is None else {self.name: x}
+
+
+def main():
+    photo_dir, models = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2:]
+    photos = sorted(
+        p
+        for ext in ("jpg", "jpeg", "JPG", "JPEG", "png")
+        for p in glob.glob(os.path.join(photo_dir, "**", f"*.{ext}"), recursive=True)
+    )[:PHOTOS]
+    if len(photos) < 20:
+        sys.exit(f"only {len(photos)} photographs under {photo_dir}; calibration wants dozens")
+    print(f"==> calibrating on {len(photos)} photographs")
+
+    for src in models:
+        stem, _ = os.path.splitext(src)
+        out = f"{stem}.int8.onnx"
+        m = onnx.load(src)
+        opset = next((o.version for o in m.opset_import if o.domain in ("", "ai.onnx")), 0)
+        work = f"{stem}.quant-work.onnx"
+        if opset < 13:
+            print(f"    {os.path.basename(src)}: opset {opset} -> 17")
+            m = version_converter.convert_version(m, 17)
+            m.ir_version = 8
+        onnx.save(m, work)
+        pre = f"{stem}.quant-pre.onnx"
+        quant_pre_process(work, pre)
+        quantize_static(
+            pre,
+            out,
+            Photos(pre, photos),
+            quant_format=QuantFormat.QDQ,
+            per_channel=True,
+            activation_type=QuantType.QUInt8,
+            weight_type=QuantType.QInt8,
+            # Min/max with a moving average across photographs, so one
+            # saturated highlight in one image does not set the range for
+            # every activation. Every calibrator keeps each image's whole
+            # set of activations until it folds them into a range, which
+            # for the 10g detector at 640² is a gigabyte an image and, left
+            # to fold once at the end, an OOM kill with no message. The
+            # stride folds every four (`CalibMaxIntermediateOutputs` looks
+            # like the same thing and is not: in this version it clears
+            # without folding). The percentile method has no such bound and
+            # is not usable on these graphs.
+            calibrate_method=CalibrationMethod.MinMax,
+            extra_options={"CalibMovingAverage": True, "CalibStridedMinMax": Photos.STRIDE},
+        )
+        os.remove(work)
+        os.remove(pre)
+        print(f"    {out}: {os.path.getsize(out) // 1024} KB")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/tools/quantise-models.sh b/tools/quantise-models.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..91703c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/quantise-models.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Produce the int8 form of a model for the Hexagon (docs/inference.md §5).
+#
+#   ./tools/quantise-models.sh PHOTO_DIR MODEL.onnx [MODEL.onnx ...]
+#
+# Writes `MODEL.int8.onnx` beside each input: a QDQ graph, per-channel int8
+# weights, uint8 activations — the form QNN's HTP backend takes whole. The
+# activations' ranges come from running the f32 model over the photographs in
+# PHOTO_DIR, fed exactly as the app feeds them (letterboxed to the model's
+# input, the detector's `(x - 127.5) / 128` normalisation), which is why
+# this is a release-time step and not something the device does: it needs
+# real photographs and, after it, a person reading §10 M2's numbers.
+#
+# The SCRFD and ArcFace exports are opset 11; per-channel QDQ needs 13, so a
+# model below 13 is first upgraded to 17. That changes only the graph's
+# spelling, not a weight — and it is what `tools/fix-face-model-shapes.sh`
+# will do to the canonical files in the same model release.
+#
+# A venv per run, like fix-face-model-shapes.sh: the tools are not a build
+# input and nothing in the tree should have them on its path.
+set -euo pipefail
+if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
+    sed -n '2,20p' "$0" >&2
+    exit 2
+fi
+PHOTOS="$1"; shift
+[ -d "${PHOTOS}" ] || { echo "no such directory: ${PHOTOS}" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+WORK="$(mktemp -d -p /var/tmp quantise-models.XXXXXX)"
+trap 'rm -rf "${WORK}"' EXIT
+echo "==> venv in ${WORK}"
+uv venv --python 3.12 "${WORK}/venv" >/dev/null
+VIRTUAL_ENV="${WORK}/venv" uv pip install --quiet onnx onnxruntime pillow numpy sympy
+
+exec "${WORK}/venv/bin/python" "$(dirname "$0")/quantise-models.py" "${PHOTOS}" "$@"