diff --git a/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.db.test.ts b/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.db.test.ts
index 526abdfee..fd8aa51cb 100644
--- a/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.db.test.ts
+++ b/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.db.test.ts
@@ -260,7 +260,9 @@ describe("dispatchSyncJob", () => {
       jobFor(resource, "incrementalPull"),
       now,
     );
-    expect(outcome).toEqual({ result: "done" });
+    // Subject is the invalidation feed; this seed has no channel, so it also
+    // carries a bootstrap followup that is not what this test is about.
+    expect(outcome.result).toBe("done");
 
     const feed = await storage
       .db()
@@ -275,9 +277,20 @@ describe("dispatchSyncJob", () => {
     });
   });
 
-  it("settles an applied incremental pull as done with no followup", async () => {
+  it("settles an applied incremental pull as done when the channel is already live", async () => {
     const calendar = await seedCalendar();
     const resource = await seedResource(calendar, "cursor-0");
+    await resources.updateSubscription(
+      calendar.tenantId,
+      calendar.principalId,
+      resource._id,
+      {
+        subscriptionId: "channel-1",
+        subscriptionResourceId: "provider-resource-1",
+        subscriptionToken: "token-1",
+        subscriptionExpiresAt: new Date("2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z"),
+      },
+    );
     const reader = new FakeReader([page([single("new-1")], "cursor-1")]);
 
     const outcome = await dispatchSyncJob(
@@ -300,6 +313,34 @@ describe("dispatchSyncJob", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("bootstraps a push channel when an applied pull finds the calendar has none", async () => {
+    // The initialImport followup used to be the only thing that ever opened a
+    // channel, and the renewal sweep only renews channels that already exist,
+    // so a calendar imported by any other route could never become watchable.
+    // Production preseeded 938 calendars straight into the store during the
+    // Sync cutover: cursors present, syncing fine, no channel, and nothing in
+    // the system able to give them one (2026-08-01).
+    const calendar = await seedCalendar();
+    const resource = await seedResource(calendar, "cursor-0");
+    expect(resource.subscriptionId).toBeNull();
+    const reader = new FakeReader([page([single("new-1")], "cursor-1")]);
+
+    const outcome = await dispatchSyncJob(
+      deps(reader),
+      jobFor(resource, "incrementalPull"),
+      now,
+    );
+
+    if (outcome.result !== "done" || !outcome.followup) {
+      throw new Error("expected a followup");
+    }
+    expect(outcome.followup.kind).toBe("subscriptionMaintain");
+    expect(outcome.followup.coalescingKey).toBe(
+      `subscriptionMaintain:${resource._id}`,
+    );
+    expect(outcome.followup.resourceId).toBe(resource._id);
+  });
+
   it("hands off an expired-cursor pull to a repair followup", async () => {
     const calendar = await seedCalendar();
     const resource = await seedResource(calendar, "stale-cursor");
diff --git a/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.ts b/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.ts
index ba9515e8e..a59628b31 100644
--- a/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.ts
+++ b/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-dispatch.service.ts
@@ -233,6 +233,27 @@ async function runSyncJob(
       const pull = await pullCalendarChanges(deps, calendar, now);
       if (pull.status === "applied") {
         await appendCalendarInvalidation(deps, calendar, now());
+        // Bootstrap a channel for an imported calendar that has none. The
+        // initialImport followup is otherwise the ONLY thing that ever opens
+        // one, and the renewal sweep only renews channels that already exist
+        // (listExpiringSubscriptions filters on subscriptionId), so a calendar
+        // imported by any other route could never become watchable. Production
+        // preseeded 938 calendars straight into the store during the Sync
+        // cutover, bypassing that job: they held cursors, synced correctly, and
+        // had no push channel with nothing in the system able to give them one
+        // (2026-08-01). Pulls already run for every stale calendar, so
+        // piggybacking here needs no new sweep and heals the whole fleet.
+        //
+        // Wart: a calendar the provider refuses to watch reports "unsupported"
+        // and is not recorded as such, so it re-attempts one watch per pull
+        // (~1/100min at current sweep cadence). Cheap, bounded, and self-
+        // limiting in practice since unwatchable calendars are rare.
+        if (pull.resource.subscriptionId === null) {
+          return {
+            result: "done",
+            followup: subscriptionFollowup(pull.resource, now),
+          };
+        }
         return { result: "done" };
       }
       if (pull.status === "notImported") {
diff --git a/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-worker.service.db.test.ts b/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-worker.service.db.test.ts
index 10d7a5ccc..4b38bfb2b 100644
--- a/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-worker.service.db.test.ts
+++ b/packages/sync/src/domain/sync-job-worker.service.db.test.ts
@@ -614,7 +614,11 @@ describe("SyncJobWorker", () => {
       ]),
     ).drain();
 
-    expect(processed).toBe(2);
+    // Four, not two: neither seeded resource has a push channel, so each
+    // applied pull enqueues a subscriptionMaintain followup that this same
+    // drain then picks up. That is the property under test — drain keeps going
+    // until nothing is due, including work spawned partway through it.
+    expect(processed).toBe(4);
     expect(
       await storage
         .db()