diff --git a/backend/server.js b/backend/server.js
index bc1427fc..2b19f3bb 100644
--- a/backend/server.js
+++ b/backend/server.js
@@ -703,6 +703,7 @@ app.use('/api/admin/business-profile', require('./src/routes/adminBusinessProfil
 app.use('/api/admin/quotes',     require('./src/routes/adminQuotes'));
 app.use('/api/admin/invoices',   require('./src/routes/adminInvoices'));
 app.use('/api/admin/contracts',  require('./src/routes/adminContracts'));
+app.use('/api/admin/projects',   require('./src/routes/adminProjects'));
 app.use('/api/admin/calendar',   require('./src/routes/adminCalendar'));
 app.use('/api/admin/deals',      require('./src/routes/adminDeals'));
 app.use('/api/admin/tax-report', require('./src/routes/adminTaxReport'));
diff --git a/backend/src/routes/adminProjects.js b/backend/src/routes/adminProjects.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ec19d326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/routes/adminProjects.js
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+/**
+ * Admin → Projects routes (the admin-only Project Overview cockpit, Model A).
+ *
+ * Mounted at /api/admin/projects. Projects group events; the overview rolls
+ * up the per-event/per-customer documents. Read = `events.view`, write =
+ * `events.manage` (projects are fundamentally an events-grouping concept).
+ * The overview additionally gates each money-doc type on the admin's own
+ * bills/quotes/contracts view permission.
+ */
+
+const express = require('express');
+const { body, param } = require('express-validator');
+const { adminAuth } = require('../middleware/auth');
+const { requirePermission, userHasAnyPermission } = require('../middleware/permissions');
+const { handleAsync, validateRequest, successResponse } = require('../utils/routeHelpers');
+const projectService = require('../services/projectService');
+
+const router = express.Router();
+router.use(adminAuth);
+
+// List
+router.get('/', requirePermission('events.view'), handleAsync(async (req, res) => {
+  const projects = await projectService.listProjects({
+    search: req.query.q || '',
+    status: req.query.status || null,
+  });
+  return successResponse(res, { projects });
+}));
+
+// Create
+router.post('/',
+  requirePermission('events.manage'),
+  [body('name').isString().trim().isLength({ min: 1, max: 255 }), body('customerAccountId').optional({ values: 'falsy' }).isInt({ min: 1 })],
+  handleAsync(async (req, res) => {
+    validateRequest(req);
+    const project = await projectService.createProject(
+      { name: req.body.name, customerAccountId: req.body.customerAccountId || null },
+      req.admin.id,
+    );
+    return successResponse(res, { project }, 201, 'Project created');
+  }),
+);
+
+// Detail
+router.get('/:id', requirePermission('events.view'), [param('id').isInt({ min: 1 })], handleAsync(async (req, res) => {
+  validateRequest(req);
+  const project = await projectService.getProjectById(parseInt(req.params.id, 10));
+  if (!project) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Project not found' });
+  return successResponse(res, { project });
+}));
+
+// Update
+router.put('/:id',
+  requirePermission('events.manage'),
+  [
+    param('id').isInt({ min: 1 }),
+    body('name').optional().isString().trim().isLength({ min: 1, max: 255 }),
+    body('customerAccountId').optional({ values: 'null' }).isInt({ min: 1 }),
+    body('status').optional().isString().isLength({ max: 24 }),
+  ],
+  handleAsync(async (req, res) => {
+    validateRequest(req);
+    const project = await projectService.updateProject(parseInt(req.params.id, 10), {
+      name: req.body.name,
+      customerAccountId: req.body.customerAccountId,
+      status: req.body.status,
+    });
+    return successResponse(res, { project }, 200, 'Project updated');
+  }),
+);
+
+// Attach an event to the project
+router.post('/:id/events',
+  requirePermission('events.manage'),
+  [param('id').isInt({ min: 1 }), body('eventId').isInt({ min: 1 })],
+  handleAsync(async (req, res) => {
+    validateRequest(req);
+    const result = await projectService.assignEvent(parseInt(req.params.id, 10), parseInt(req.body.eventId, 10));
+    return successResponse(res, result, 200, 'Event attached to project');
+  }),
+);
+
+// The cockpit aggregation — doc types gated on the admin's own permissions
+router.get('/:id/overview', requirePermission('events.view'), [param('id').isInt({ min: 1 })], handleAsync(async (req, res) => {
+  validateRequest(req);
+  const perms = {
+    bills: await userHasAnyPermission(req.admin.id, ['bills.view']),
+    quotes: await userHasAnyPermission(req.admin.id, ['quotes.view']),
+    contracts: await userHasAnyPermission(req.admin.id, ['contracts.view']),
+  };
+  const overview = await projectService.getProjectOverview(parseInt(req.params.id, 10), perms);
+  return successResponse(res, overview);
+}));
+
+// Email preview — the ACTUAL sent HTML (or null for pre-rendered_html rows)
+router.get('/email/:emailId/preview', requirePermission('events.view'), [param('emailId').isInt({ min: 1 })], handleAsync(async (req, res) => {
+  validateRequest(req);
+  const preview = await projectService.getEmailPreview(parseInt(req.params.emailId, 10));
+  return successResponse(res, preview);
+}));
+
+module.exports = router;
diff --git a/backend/src/services/projectService.js b/backend/src/services/projectService.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54db20d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/services/projectService.js
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+/**
+ * projectService — the admin-only "Project Overview" grouping layer (Model A).
+ *
+ * A project groups 1..N events. Money documents stay attached to their EVENT
+ * (or, for quotes/contracts which carry no event_id, to the CUSTOMER) and the
+ * project rolls them up for the cockpit. Customers never see projects.
+ *
+ * Rollup scoping (v1):
+ *   - invoices / emails / galleries → by the project's EVENTS (event_id).
+ *   - hours                         → by customer_hour_entries.project_id.
+ *   - quotes / contracts            → by the project's customer_account_id
+ *     (they have no event_id; see migration 107). Empty when the project has
+ *     no single customer set.
+ */
+
+const { db } = require('../database/db');
+const { AppError } = require('../utils/errors');
+
+function transformProject(p) {
+  if (!p) return null;
+  return {
+    id: p.id,
+    name: p.name,
+    customerAccountId: p.customer_account_id || null,
+    customerEmail: p.customer_email || null,
+    status: p.status,
+    eventCount: p.event_count != null ? Number(p.event_count) : undefined,
+    createdAt: p.created_at,
+    updatedAt: p.updated_at,
+  };
+}
+
+/** List projects with customer email + event count. */
+async function listProjects({ search = '', status = null } = {}) {
+  let q = db('projects')
+    .leftJoin('customer_accounts', 'customer_accounts.id', 'projects.customer_account_id')
+    .select(
+      'projects.*',
+      'customer_accounts.email as customer_email',
+      db('events').count('* as c').whereRaw('events.project_id = projects.id').as('event_count'),
+    )
+    .orderBy('projects.updated_at', 'desc');
+  if (status) q = q.where('projects.status', status);
+  if (search) {
+    q = q.where(function () {
+      this.where('projects.name', 'like', `%${search}%`)
+        .orWhere('customer_accounts.email', 'like', `%${search}%`);
+    });
+  }
+  const rows = await q;
+  return rows.map(transformProject);
+}
+
+async function getProjectById(id) {
+  const row = await db('projects')
+    .leftJoin('customer_accounts', 'customer_accounts.id', 'projects.customer_account_id')
+    .select('projects.*', 'customer_accounts.email as customer_email')
+    .where('projects.id', id)
+    .first();
+  return transformProject(row);
+}
+
+async function createProject({ name, customerAccountId = null }, adminId) {
+  if (!name || !String(name).trim()) throw new AppError('Project name is required', 400);
+  const inserted = await db('projects').insert({
+    name: String(name).trim(),
+    customer_account_id: customerAccountId || null,
+    status: 'active',
+    created_at: new Date(),
+    updated_at: new Date(),
+  }).returning('id');
+  const id = (inserted[0] && typeof inserted[0] === 'object') ? inserted[0].id : inserted[0];
+  return getProjectById(id);
+}
+
+async function updateProject(id, { name, customerAccountId, status }) {
+  const existing = await db('projects').where({ id }).first();
+  if (!existing) throw new AppError('Project not found', 404);
+  const patch = { updated_at: new Date() };
+  if (name !== undefined) patch.name = String(name).trim();
+  if (customerAccountId !== undefined) patch.customer_account_id = customerAccountId || null;
+  if (status !== undefined) patch.status = status;
+  await db('projects').where({ id }).update(patch);
+  return getProjectById(id);
+}
+
+/** Attach an event to a project (re-points events.project_id). */
+async function assignEvent(projectId, eventId) {
+  const project = await db('projects').where({ id: projectId }).first();
+  if (!project) throw new AppError('Project not found', 404);
+  const event = await db('events').where({ id: eventId }).first();
+  if (!event) throw new AppError('Event not found', 404);
+  await db('events').where({ id: eventId }).update({ project_id: projectId });
+  return { projectId, eventId };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Full overview aggregation for the cockpit. Returns the project, its events,
+ * and the rolled-up emails / quotes / contracts / invoices / hours + a
+ * timeline of milestones. `perms` gates which doc types are included.
+ */
+async function getProjectOverview(id, perms = {}) {
+  const project = await getProjectById(id);
+  if (!project) throw new AppError('Project not found', 404);
+
+  const events = await db('events')
+    .where({ project_id: id })
+    .select('id', 'event_name', 'event_date', 'slug', 'is_active', 'is_draft', 'expires_at', 'is_archived');
+  const eventIds = events.map((e) => e.id);
+
+  const out = { project, events, emails: [], quotes: [], contracts: [], invoices: [], hours: { entries: [], totalMinutes: 0 } };
+
+  // Emails (by event) — newest first. rendered_html presence flagged, body
+  // itself fetched lazily by the preview endpoint.
+  if (eventIds.length) {
+    const emails = await db('email_queue')
+      .whereIn('event_id', eventIds)
+      .select('id', 'recipient_email', 'email_type', 'status', 'created_at', 'sent_at', 'error_message', 'event_id')
+      .orderBy('created_at', 'desc')
+      .limit(200);
+    out.emails = emails.map((e) => ({
+      id: e.id, recipient: e.recipient_email, type: e.email_type, status: e.status,
+      queuedAt: e.created_at, sentAt: e.sent_at, error: e.error_message, eventId: e.event_id,
+    }));
+  }
+
+  // Invoices (by event) incl. storno.
+  if (eventIds.length && perms.bills !== false) {
+    out.invoices = await db('invoices')
+      .whereIn('event_id', eventIds)
+      .select('id', 'invoice_number', 'status', 'kind', 'issue_date', 'due_date',
+        'total_amount_minor', 'paid_amount_minor', 'paid_at', 'currency', 'event_id', 'deal_uuid')
+      .orderBy('issue_date', 'desc');
+  }
+
+  // Quotes / contracts (by customer — no event_id on those tables).
+  if (project.customerAccountId) {
+    if (perms.quotes !== false) {
+      out.quotes = await db('quotes')
+        .where({ customer_account_id: project.customerAccountId })
+        .select('id', 'quote_number', 'status', 'issue_date', 'valid_until', 'total_amount_minor', 'currency', 'deal_uuid')
+        .orderBy('issue_date', 'desc');
+    }
+    if (perms.contracts !== false) {
+      out.contracts = await db('contracts')
+        .where({ customer_account_id: project.customerAccountId })
+        .select('id', 'contract_number', 'status', 'issue_date', 'signed_by_customer_at', 'deal_uuid')
+        .orderBy('issue_date', 'desc');
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Hours (by project_id) — individual entries + total.
+  const hours = await db('customer_hour_entries')
+    .where({ project_id: id })
+    .select('id', 'entry_date', 'duration_minutes', 'description', 'status', 'invoice_id')
+    .orderBy('entry_date', 'desc');
+  out.hours = {
+    entries: hours,
+    totalMinutes: hours.reduce((s, h) => s + Number(h.duration_minutes || 0), 0),
+  };
+
+  // Timeline milestones (latest of each kind that exists), each dated.
+  const milestones = [];
+  const firstQuote = out.quotes[out.quotes.length - 1];
+  if (firstQuote) milestones.push({ kind: 'quote', label: firstQuote.quote_number, date: firstQuote.issue_date });
+  const firstContract = out.contracts[out.contracts.length - 1];
+  if (firstContract) milestones.push({ kind: 'contract', label: firstContract.contract_number, date: firstContract.issue_date });
+  const pubEvent = events.find((e) => e.is_active && !e.is_draft);
+  if (pubEvent) milestones.push({ kind: 'gallery', label: pubEvent.event_name, date: pubEvent.event_date });
+  const firstInvoice = out.invoices[out.invoices.length - 1];
+  if (firstInvoice) milestones.push({ kind: 'invoice', label: firstInvoice.invoice_number, date: firstInvoice.issue_date });
+  out.milestones = milestones;
+
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The ACTUAL sent HTML for an email_queue row (cockpit preview). Rows sent
+ * before the rendered_html column existed have none → `available:false`, the
+ * frontend then shows a "preview not stored" note rather than a stale
+ * re-render.
+ */
+async function getEmailPreview(emailId) {
+  const row = await db('email_queue')
+    .where({ id: emailId })
+    .select('id', 'recipient_email', 'email_type', 'status', 'rendered_html')
+    .first();
+  if (!row) throw new AppError('Email not found', 404);
+  return {
+    id: row.id,
+    recipient: row.recipient_email,
+    type: row.email_type,
+    status: row.status,
+    available: !!row.rendered_html,
+    html: row.rendered_html || null,
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  listProjects,
+  getProjectById,
+  createProject,
+  updateProject,
+  assignEvent,
+  getProjectOverview,
+  getEmailPreview,
+};