diff --git a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dataset-widgets.json b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dataset-widgets.json
index f413614fe2..23ff9555da 100644
--- a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dataset-widgets.json
+++ b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dataset-widgets.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "type": "dashboard",
-  "title": "Sales Overview (dataset + inline)",
   "columns": 2,
   "gap": 4,
   "dateRange": {
diff --git a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-date-presets.json b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-date-presets.json
index 00ef46538f..57e2330a85 100644
--- a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-date-presets.json
+++ b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-date-presets.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "type": "dashboard",
-  "title": "Activity Over Time",
   "columns": 2,
   "gap": 4,
   "dateRange": {
diff --git a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dynamic-options.json b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dynamic-options.json
index b1cc282051..04538ae394 100644
--- a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dynamic-options.json
+++ b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-dynamic-options.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "type": "dashboard",
-  "title": "Accounts by Industry",
   "columns": 2,
   "gap": 4,
   "globalFilters": [
diff --git a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-filter-types.json b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-filter-types.json
index 2264739df7..17a393d3b0 100644
--- a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-filter-types.json
+++ b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-filter-types.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "type": "dashboard",
-  "title": "Invoice Explorer",
   "columns": 2,
   "gap": 4,
   "globalFilters": [
diff --git a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-target-widgets.json b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-target-widgets.json
index 150fad2416..5869a767bb 100644
--- a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-target-widgets.json
+++ b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard-target-widgets.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "type": "dashboard",
-  "title": "Invoice Pipeline",
   "columns": 2,
   "gap": 4,
   "globalFilters": [
diff --git a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard.json b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard.json
index 2b8a82dab4..37343a03f4 100644
--- a/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard.json
+++ b/examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/plugin-dashboard/filtered-dashboard.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "type": "dashboard",
-  "title": "Sales Overview",
   "columns": 2,
   "gap": 4,
   "dateRange": {
diff --git a/examples/schema-catalog/test/dashboard-root-title-retired-7624.test.ts b/examples/schema-catalog/test/dashboard-root-title-retired-7624.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3bb87d1af9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/schema-catalog/test/dashboard-root-title-retired-7624.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+/**
+ * ObjectUI
+ * Copyright (c) 2024-present ObjectStack Inc.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * objectui#7624 — no dashboard node in the catalog authors a root `title`.
+ *
+ * ## Why a pin, for six deleted lines
+ *
+ * Because nothing else in this repo can notice the key coming back. Measured
+ * on the tree this file was added to:
+ *
+ *  - **No renderer reads it.** objectui#7509 (PR #7622) retired the root
+ *    `title` arm in all five surfaces; `DashboardRenderer` now reads
+ *    `schema.label` and nothing else. So a document that re-authors `title`
+ *    renders identically to one that does not — no test can go red on pixels.
+ *  - **`@object-ui/types` still DECLARES it.** `DashboardComponentSchema`
+ *    carries `title?: string` ("Dashboard title displayed in the header"), so
+ *    tsc accepts the key; and the Zod twin ACCEPTS AND PRESERVES it (measured:
+ *    `safeParse` succeeds and `data.title` survives, because the twin does not
+ *    declare `title` itself and `BaseSchema` is `.passthrough()`). A
+ *    declared-but-unread key is refused by neither half of this repo's own
+ *    contract.
+ *  - **`@objectstack/spec` refuses it, but is not this corpus's validator.**
+ *    `DashboardSchema.safeParse` reports `unrecognized_keys(['type','title'])`
+ *    naming the repair (`title` to `label`) — and reports
+ *    `unrecognized_keys(['type'])` for the same document with `title` removed,
+ *    which is how that reading was confirmed to be about `title` by name and
+ *    not about the document generally. But these entries are ObjectUI SDUI
+ *    component documents, not spec metadata documents: they fail that parse
+ *    either way (on `name`, `label`, and the widgets' `dataset`/`values`), so
+ *    the spec's refusal never reaches them as a gate.
+ *
+ * Three receivers, and not one of them turns red. That is the entire argument
+ * for pinning it here instead: the catalog is an authoring corpus — the same
+ * standing `DashboardGridLayout.legacyRetired.test.tsx` claims for it — and a
+ * corpus repair nothing pins is a repair that regresses silently.
+ *
+ * ## The `label` control is DARK, and is deliberately not asserted
+ *
+ * Zero catalog dashboards author `label` either, so a probe over this corpus
+ * cannot discriminate `title` from `label` — it can only show it reaches these
+ * nodes at all, which the non-vacuity case below does. Asserting "zero `label`"
+ * would be worse than useless: `label` is the CORRECT spelling and the one a
+ * later card should add, so pinning its absence would turn red on the repair.
+ * The absence is therefore recorded here in prose and measured nowhere.
+ *
+ * ## What this file must NOT be satisfied by
+ *
+ * A blind sweep deleting every `title` in the corpus. `widget.title` is
+ * `DashboardWidgetSchema.title` — a DIFFERENT, declared, live key that
+ * `DashboardRenderer` renders into each widget card. The two are told apart by
+ * RECEIVER, not by spelling, so the last case asserts the widget titles are
+ * still there.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { allExamples } from '../src/index.js';
+
+/** A dashboard-shaped node: one carrying a `widgets` array. */
+interface DashboardNode {
+  widgets: unknown[];
+  [key: string]: unknown;
+}
+
+const isDashboardNode = (value: unknown): value is DashboardNode =>
+  typeof value === 'object' &&
+  value !== null &&
+  Array.isArray((value as { widgets?: unknown }).widgets);
+
+/** Every dashboard-shaped node in the corpus, at any depth, with its location. */
+function collectDashboardNodes(): Array<{ where: string; node: DashboardNode }> {
+  const found: Array<{ where: string; node: DashboardNode }> = [];
+  const walk = (value: unknown, where: string): void => {
+    if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+      value.forEach((child, i) => walk(child, `${where}[${i}]`));
+      return;
+    }
+    if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null) return;
+    if (isDashboardNode(value)) found.push({ where, node: value });
+    for (const [key, child] of Object.entries(value)) walk(child, `${where}.${key}`);
+  };
+  // `allExamples()` is the generated registry, and
+  // `scripts/__tests__/catalog-index-regenerable-4633.test.ts` pins it against
+  // its generator with `--check` — so this really is every shipped entry, not
+  // just the ones someone remembered to register.
+  for (const example of allExamples()) walk(example.schema, example.id);
+  return found;
+}
+
+const dashboardNodes = collectDashboardNodes();
+
+describe('catalog dashboards author no root `title` (objectui#7624)', () => {
+  /**
+   * NON-VACUITY. Every assertion below is over `dashboardNodes`; an empty
+   * collection satisfies all of them while measuring nothing. This is also the
+   * only thing the sweep's `label` half could ever have shown — that the probe
+   * reaches these nodes.
+   */
+  it('the walk reaches the dashboard nodes it claims to measure', () => {
+    expect(dashboardNodes.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(9);
+  });
+
+  it('no dashboard node authors `title` on the dashboard itself', () => {
+    const offenders = dashboardNodes
+      .filter(({ node }) => 'title' in node)
+      .map(({ where, node }) => `${where}: ${JSON.stringify(node.title)}`);
+    expect(
+      offenders,
+      'a catalog dashboard authors a root `title` again. No arm reads it ' +
+        '(objectui#7509 retired all five) and `@objectstack/spec` refuses it by ' +
+        'name, so it configures nothing and teaches the next author a dead key. ' +
+        'The header spelling is `label`, and it only renders when `header` is ' +
+        'also declared (objectui#5812).',
+    ).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  /**
+   * COUNTER-PROBE. The case above is an assertion that something is absent, so
+   * on its own it is indistinguishable from a predicate that can never fire.
+   * This runs the same predicate over a node that DOES carry the key.
+   */
+  it('the predicate above still catches a dashboard that does carry `title`', () => {
+    const planted = [
+      ...dashboardNodes,
+      { where: 'planted/synthetic', node: { type: 'dashboard', title: 'Sales Overview', widgets: [] } },
+    ];
+    const offenders = planted.filter(({ node }) => 'title' in node).map(({ where }) => where);
+    expect(offenders).toEqual(['planted/synthetic']);
+  });
+
+  /**
+   * MUST-NOT-CHANGE. `widget.title` is a live declared key rendered into every
+   * widget card; deleting it would satisfy a naive reading of this file while
+   * blanking the corpus's widget headings.
+   */
+  it('the widgets still carry their own `title` — a different, live key', () => {
+    const widgetTitles = dashboardNodes.flatMap(({ node }) =>
+      node.widgets.filter(
+        (w): w is { title: string } =>
+          typeof w === 'object' &&
+          w !== null &&
+          typeof (w as { title?: unknown }).title === 'string' &&
+          (w as { title: string }).title.length > 0,
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(widgetTitles.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+});