diff --git a/src/evaluation/answer_sweep.py b/src/evaluation/answer_sweep.py
index cfd459e..1a8cf55 100644
--- a/src/evaluation/answer_sweep.py
+++ b/src/evaluation/answer_sweep.py
@@ -287,6 +287,13 @@ async def run(expectations: tuple[Expectation, ...], retries: int = 1) -> list[R
                         # independent, and a shared history would make each a
                         # follow-up of the last.
                         thread_id=f"sweep-{index}-{attempt}",
+                        # No web search. The sweep reads `answer` and nothing
+                        # else, so the postprocess node's Tavily call was paid
+                        # for and thrown away -- fifteen of them per run, and
+                        # this runs after every beta deploy. It also slowed each
+                        # question by the length of a web search, for a result
+                        # no expectation has ever looked at.
+                        enable_postprocess=False,
                     )
                     result.answer = " ".join(str(out.get("answer") or "").split())
                 except Exception as exc:
diff --git a/tests/evaluation/test_answer_sweep.py b/tests/evaluation/test_answer_sweep.py
index e297168..a7d5c6c 100644
--- a/tests/evaluation/test_answer_sweep.py
+++ b/tests/evaluation/test_answer_sweep.py
@@ -198,3 +198,25 @@ def test_it_runs_once_the_collection_is_installed(
     assert not result.skipped
     assert not result.ok
     assert len(graph.asked) == 1
+
+
+def test_the_sweep_does_not_pay_for_a_web_search() -> None:
+    """The sweep reads `answer` and nothing else.
+
+    With postprocess left at its default it ran a Tavily search per question,
+    discarded the result, and slowed each question by the length of that search
+    -- fifteen of them, after every beta deploy. Pinned here rather than trusted,
+    because the cost is invisible: nothing fails when it happens.
+    """
+    import inspect
+
+    from evaluation import answer_sweep
+
+    source = inspect.getsource(answer_sweep)
+    assert (
+        "enable_postprocess=False" in source
+    ), "the sweep is running the postprocess web search again"
+    assert "additional_content" not in source, (
+        "the sweep now reads additional_content, so the assertion above is no "
+        "longer the right guard"
+    )