diff --git a/earned_time/README.md b/earned_time/README.md
index 15b9ad3..87e8d31 100644
--- a/earned_time/README.md
+++ b/earned_time/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ tutor's ledger (`~/.local/share/tutor/ledger.json`, `tutor_match` on
 on `~/.local/share/automation_tutor/ledger.json`; rows carry no earner name,
 so the rename only moved the ledger (copied whole, old rows still pay).
 Since 0.8.0 it pays per **active
-minute** (a unit is one minute), at most 60 a day summed across sessions:
+minute** (a unit is one minute), at most 60 a day summed across sessions.
+**Weekday quota (0.10.0, `TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM` 2026-10-12, `_quota.py`):** all 60
+units take 15 min Tue-Thu (`WORKDAYS`, a copy of freedays'), 30 Mon/Fri, 50
+Sat/Sun; `credit_units` scales the day's deduped minute sum,
+min(60, minutes * 60 // quota), so it returns units, no longer minutes:
 
 | units | gaming | shutdown rung |
 |---|---|---|
@@ -152,17 +156,14 @@ How far to trust a gate is computed from its ledger, never listed by name:
 - `base_for(day=None, earners=EARNERS) -> Base` — the day's floors.
 - `done_today(earner, ledger, key_file, *, now=None) -> bool | None`
 - `first_credit_at(earner, ledger, key_file, day) -> float | None` — unix time
-  of the earliest verified credit that counts for `day`. The time is the
-  stamp the earner's `match` decides on (`_match.CREDIT_STAMPS`: LeetCode
-  `submitted_at`, reading `ended_at`, workout `completed_at`; Anki/Automation
-  fall back to `created_at`). It can lie outside `day` when a gate's day is
-  not the calendar day (Anki's rollover, a rest day declared the evening
-  before).
+  of the earliest verified credit for `day`, on its matcher's stamp
+  (`_match.CREDIT_STAMPS`; Anki/Automation: `created_at`). It can lie outside
+  `day` (Anki's rollover, a rest day declared the evening before).
 - `credit_units(earner, ledger, key_file, day) -> int | None` — the units
   the verified rows pay for `day`: 1 per row (the workout), or the row's own
-  count (the tutor's `detail.minutes`, legacy block rows 15). A repeated
-  `entry_id` pays once, its smallest count; `max_units` is applied by
-  `resolve`.
+  count (the tutor's `detail.minutes`, legacy block rows 15; from 0.10.0 the
+  day's sum scaled to its weekday quota). A repeated `entry_id` pays once,
+  its smallest count; `max_units` is applied by `resolve`.
 - `earners_for(day)`, `all_earners()`, `registries()` — the registry in force
   on a day, and every earner of every registry (what a ledger watcher must
   watch). They read `earned_time.EARNERS` through the package, so a consumer
@@ -236,7 +237,7 @@ on the day itself is logged and does not count.
 ## Install
 
 ```console
-pip install --user --break-system-packages --no-deps "earned-time @ git+https://github.com/kuhyx/utils@earned-time-v0.9.0#subdirectory=earned_time"
+pip install --user --break-system-packages --no-deps "earned-time @ git+https://github.com/kuhyx/utils@earned-time-v0.10.0#subdirectory=earned_time"
 ```
 
 The root `steam-backlog-enforcer.service` sets `HOME=/home/kuhy`, so it imports
diff --git a/earned_time/earned_time/__init__.py b/earned_time/earned_time/__init__.py
index 1116f35..45ac627 100644
--- a/earned_time/earned_time/__init__.py
+++ b/earned_time/earned_time/__init__.py
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ from earned_time._policy import (
     Earner,
     earner,
 )
+from earned_time._quota import TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM, TUTOR_QUOTA_MINUTES, tutor_quota_for
 from earned_time._registry import all_earners, earners_for, registries
 from earned_time._resolve import Base, Resolution, Term, base_for, resolve
 
@@ -99,6 +100,8 @@ __all__ = [
     "TUTOR_EARNERS",
     "TUTOR_FROM",
     "TUTOR_LADDER",
+    "TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM",
+    "TUTOR_QUOTA_MINUTES",
     "WAKE_MINUTES",
     "WORKOUT",
     "Base",
@@ -129,5 +132,6 @@ __all__ = [
     "shutdown_ceiling_for",
     "shutdown_minutes_for",
     "today_window",
+    "tutor_quota_for",
     "verified",
 ]
diff --git a/earned_time/earned_time/_credits.py b/earned_time/earned_time/_credits.py
index 41dd5e4..9153cef 100644
--- a/earned_time/earned_time/_credits.py
+++ b/earned_time/earned_time/_credits.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final
 
 from earned_time._ledger import counting_rows
 from earned_time._match import CREDIT_STAMPS, ROW_UNITS
+from earned_time._quota import DAY_UNITS
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from pathlib import Path
@@ -100,7 +101,10 @@ def credit_units(earner: Earner, ledger: Path, key_file: Path, day: date) -> int
 
     Each row pays :func:`row_units`: 1 for most earners (the workout), its
     ``detail.minutes`` for the tutor (a 0.7.0 block row without it, 15), so a
-    day mixing block rows and minute rows sums both.
+    day mixing block rows and minute rows sums both. From
+    ``TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM`` the tutor's day sum is then scaled to its weekday
+    quota (:func:`~earned_time._quota.tutor_day_units`, 0.10.0): units, no
+    longer minutes.
 
     Args:
         earner: A ledger-backed earner (it must have ``match``).
@@ -130,4 +134,6 @@ def credit_units(earner: Earner, ledger: Path, key_file: Path, day: date) -> int
             anonymous += units
         else:
             by_id[entry_id] = min(units, by_id.get(entry_id, units))
-    return anonymous + sum(by_id.values())
+    total = anonymous + sum(by_id.values())
+    scale = DAY_UNITS.get(earner.match) if earner.match is not None else None
+    return total if scale is None else scale(earner, total, day)
diff --git a/earned_time/earned_time/_quota.py b/earned_time/earned_time/_quota.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf7b1e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/earned_time/earned_time/_quota.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2026 Krzysztof Rudnicki
+"""The tutor's weekday quota: how many minutes a full day's reward takes.
+
+From ``TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM`` the tutor's full reward (all ``max_units``, 60 gaming
+and 60 shutdown minutes) is paid for fewer minutes on most days: 15 on a
+workday, 30 on Monday and Friday, 50 at the weekend. A day pays
+``min(max_units, minutes * max_units // quota)`` -- scaled on the day's summed
+minutes, never per row, so flooring loses at most one unit a day. Every quota
+is at most ``max_units``, so the switch only ever raises what a day pays
+(may land on its deploy day). Earlier days pay one unit per minute, as before.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from datetime import date
+from types import MappingProxyType
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final
+
+from earned_time._match import tutor_match
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from collections.abc import Callable, Mapping
+
+    from earned_time._policy import CreditMatch, Earner
+
+# From this day (a Monday, kuhy's call on 2026-10-12) the weekday quota applies.
+TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM: Final = date(2026, 10, 12)
+# A literal copy of ``freedays.WORKDAYS`` (Tue/Wed/Thu, ``date.weekday()``):
+# importing freedays pulls in crdt-sync, and earned_time is stdlib only. A
+# drift test compares the two.
+WORKDAYS: Final[frozenset[int]] = frozenset({1, 2, 3})
+# The rest of the week, split: Monday/Friday and the weekend.
+EDGE_DAYS: Final[frozenset[int]] = frozenset({0, 4})
+WEEKEND: Final[frozenset[int]] = frozenset({5, 6})
+# Minutes of tutoring the full reward takes, per weekday class.
+TUTOR_QUOTA_MINUTES: Final[Mapping[frozenset[int], int]] = MappingProxyType(
+    {WORKDAYS: 15, EDGE_DAYS: 30, WEEKEND: 50}
+)
+
+
+def tutor_quota_for(day: date) -> int | None:
+    """Minutes the tutor's full reward takes on ``day``; ``None`` before it."""
+    if day < TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM:
+        return None
+    weekday = day.weekday()
+    return next(q for days, q in TUTOR_QUOTA_MINUTES.items() if weekday in days)
+
+
+def tutor_day_units(earner: Earner, minutes: int, day: date) -> int:
+    """Units ``minutes`` of tutoring pay on ``day``: scaled to its quota.
+
+    Before ``TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM`` one unit per minute (``max_units`` still
+    applied by :func:`~earned_time.resolve`); from it,
+    ``min(max_units, minutes * max_units // quota)``.
+    """
+    quota = tutor_quota_for(day)
+    if quota is None:
+        return minutes
+    most = earner.max_units or quota
+    return earner.capped(minutes * most // quota)
+
+
+# How a day's summed row units become the units it pays, per matcher; a
+# matcher without an entry pays its sum unchanged.
+DAY_UNITS: Final[Mapping[CreditMatch, Callable[[Earner, int, date], int]]] = (
+    MappingProxyType({tutor_match: tutor_day_units})
+)
diff --git a/earned_time/earned_time/tests/test_tutor_ledger.py b/earned_time/earned_time/tests/test_tutor_ledger.py
index 2ccf6d4..acebcc7 100644
--- a/earned_time/earned_time/tests/test_tutor_ledger.py
+++ b/earned_time/earned_time/tests/test_tutor_ledger.py
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from pathlib import Path
 
 KEY = b"test-key"
-DAY = date(2026, 10, 12)
+# The day before TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM: one unit per minute (test_tutor_quota.py
+# covers the weekday quota).
+DAY = date(2026, 10, 11)
 WINDOW = day_window(DAY)
 
 
diff --git a/earned_time/earned_time/tests/test_tutor_quota.py b/earned_time/earned_time/tests/test_tutor_quota.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ed53ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/earned_time/earned_time/tests/test_tutor_quota.py
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2026 Krzysztof Rudnicki
+"""The tutor's weekday quota (0.10.0): fewer minutes for the same full reward."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from datetime import date, datetime, time, timedelta
+import json
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+import pytest
+
+from earned_time import (
+    TUTOR,
+    TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM,
+    TUTOR_QUOTA_MINUTES,
+    credit_units,
+    entry_signature,
+    resolve,
+    tutor_quota_for,
+)
+from earned_time._quota import EDGE_DAYS, WEEKEND, WORKDAYS, tutor_day_units
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pathlib import Path
+
+KEY = b"quota-key"
+EVE = date(2026, 10, 11)  # Sunday, the day before the switch
+MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN = (
+    TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM + timedelta(days=n) for n in range(7)
+)
+
+
+def _at(day: date, minute: int) -> float:
+    start = datetime.combine(day, time(17)).astimezone()
+    return (start + timedelta(minutes=minute)).timestamp()
+
+
+def _row(day: date, entry: str, ended: float, minutes: int | None) -> dict[str, object]:
+    detail: dict[str, object] = {"ended_at": ended}
+    if minutes is not None:
+        detail["minutes"] = minutes
+    row: dict[str, object] = {
+        "kind": "credit",
+        "entry_id": entry,
+        "day": day.isoformat(),
+        "created_at": ended,
+        "detail": detail,
+    }
+    return {**row, "hmac": entry_signature(row, KEY)}
+
+
+def _units(tmp_path: Path, day: date, rows: list[dict[str, object]]) -> int | None:
+    ledger = tmp_path / "ledger.json"
+    ledger.write_text(json.dumps({"entries": rows}), encoding="utf-8")
+    key = tmp_path / "hmac.key"
+    key.write_bytes(KEY)
+    return credit_units(TUTOR, ledger, key, day)
+
+
+def _minutes(day: date, count: int) -> list[dict[str, object]]:
+    return [_row(day, f"s-m{n}", _at(day, n), 1) for n in range(1, count + 1)]
+
+
+def test_weekday_classes_partition_the_week() -> None:
+    assert frozenset(range(7)) == WORKDAYS | EDGE_DAYS | WEEKEND
+    assert len(WORKDAYS) + len(EDGE_DAYS) + len(WEEKEND) == 7
+    assert set(TUTOR_QUOTA_MINUTES) == {WORKDAYS, EDGE_DAYS, WEEKEND}
+
+
+def test_workdays_match_freedays() -> None:
+    freedays = pytest.importorskip("freedays")
+    assert freedays.WORKDAYS == WORKDAYS
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("day", "quota"),
+    [(MON, 30), (TUE, 15), (WED, 15), (THU, 15), (FRI, 30), (SAT, 50), (SUN, 50)],
+)
+def test_quota_per_weekday(day: date, quota: int) -> None:
+    assert tutor_quota_for(day) == quota
+
+
+def test_no_quota_before_the_switch() -> None:
+    assert date(2026, 10, 12) == MON
+    assert tutor_quota_for(EVE) is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("day", "minutes", "units"),
+    [
+        (EVE, 10, 10),
+        (EVE, 50, 50),
+        (MON, 10, 20),
+        (MON, 15, 30),
+        (MON, 30, 60),
+        (TUE, 10, 40),
+        (TUE, 15, 60),
+        (SAT, 10, 12),
+        (SAT, 25, 30),
+        (SAT, 50, 60),
+        (SAT, 7, 8),  # 7 * 60 / 50 = 8.4, floored
+        (FRI, 1, 2),
+    ],
+)
+def test_one_minute_rows_scale_to_the_quota(
+    tmp_path: Path, day: date, minutes: int, units: int
+) -> None:
+    assert _units(tmp_path, day, _minutes(day, minutes)) == units
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("day", [MON, TUE, SAT])
+def test_the_day_caps_at_60(tmp_path: Path, day: date) -> None:
+    assert _units(tmp_path, day, _minutes(day, 90)) == 60
+
+
+def test_before_the_switch_minutes_pass_through_uncapped(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    assert _units(tmp_path, EVE, _minutes(EVE, 90)) == 90
+
+
+def test_multi_row_day_scales_the_sum_not_each_row(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    # Per row: 3 * 60 // 50 = 3 each, 5 rows = 15. On the sum: 15 * 60 // 50 = 18.
+    rows = [_row(SAT, f"s{n}-m1", _at(SAT, 10 * n), 3) for n in range(5)]
+    assert _units(tmp_path, SAT, rows) == 18
+
+
+def test_a_replayed_row_still_pays_once(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    rows = [_row(TUE, "s-m1", _at(TUE, 1), 5), _row(TUE, "s-m1", _at(TUE, 2), 5)]
+    assert _units(tmp_path, TUE, rows) == 20
+
+
+def test_legacy_block_rows_count_15_minutes_then_scale(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    blocks = [_row(MON, "s-b1", _at(MON, 15), None)]
+    assert _units(tmp_path, MON, blocks) == 30
+    mixed = [*blocks, _row(MON, "t-m1", _at(MON, 40), 5)]
+    assert _units(tmp_path, MON, mixed) == 40
+    assert _units(tmp_path, TUE, [_row(TUE, "s-b1", _at(TUE, 15), None)]) == 60
+
+
+def test_full_reward_and_penalty_unchanged(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    others = {"workout": 0, "leetcode": 0, "reading": 0}
+    full = resolve({**others, "tutor": _units(tmp_path, TUE, _minutes(TUE, 15))}, TUE)
+    none = resolve({**others, "tutor": 0}, TUE)
+    assert full.term("tutor").gaming_minutes == 60
+    assert full.term("tutor").shutdown_minutes == 60
+    assert full.base == none.base
+    assert none.term("tutor").gaming_minutes == 0
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("offset", range(7))
+def test_raise_only_against_0_9_0(offset: int) -> None:
+    day = TUTOR_QUOTA_FROM + timedelta(days=offset)
+    for minutes in range(91):
+        assert tutor_day_units(TUTOR, minutes, day) >= TUTOR.capped(minutes)
diff --git a/earned_time/pyproject.toml b/earned_time/pyproject.toml
index fa25e2b..acaa398 100644
--- a/earned_time/pyproject.toml
+++ b/earned_time/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "earned-time"
-version = "0.9.0"
+version = "0.10.0"
 description = "Penalty-then-reward registry: what every gate app earns in gaming time and shutdown time"
 requires-python = ">=3.14"
 dependencies = []