diff --git a/apps/sim/lib/chat-deployments/__integration__/relaunch-after-restore.integration.ts b/apps/sim/lib/chat-deployments/__integration__/relaunch-after-restore.integration.ts
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@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+/**
+ * A chat deployment whose workflow was deleted and then restored, against real PostgreSQL.
+ *
+ * Archiving a workflow sets its chat to `isActive: false`, and restore deliberately leaves it
+ * that way: re-enabling is an explicit redeploy. These cases prove each explicit chat deploy
+ * path — the editor's "Launch Chat" update and the create-or-update deploy shared by the
+ * internal route, the v2 API, and Copilot — puts the restored chat back online, and that
+ * nothing reactivates a chat whose workflow is still deleted.
+ */
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { db } from '@sim/db'
+import { chat, permissions, project, user, workflow, workspace } from '@sim/db/schema'
+import { insertWorkspaceFixture } from '@sim/db/testing/workspace-fixtures'
+import { generateId } from '@sim/utils/id'
+import { eq, inArray } from 'drizzle-orm'
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { updateChatDeployment } from '@/lib/chat-deployments/application/update-chat-deployment'
+import { readWorkflowChatDeploymentStatus } from '@/lib/chat-deployments/application/workflow-chat-deployment'
+import { archiveWorkflow, restoreWorkflow } from '@/lib/workflows/lifecycle'
+import { performChatDeploy } from '@/lib/workflows/orchestration/chat-deploy'
+import { admitWorkflowState, saveAdmittedWorkflowState } from '@/lib/workflows/persistence/utils'
+import type { WorkflowState } from '@/stores/workflows/workflow/types'
+
+const userId = generateId()
+const workspaceId = generateId()
+const principal = {
+  kind: 'personal_api_key' as const,
+  userId,
+  keyId: generateId(),
+  access: 'write' as const,
+}
+
+/** A start → function graph; block ids are a global key, so each workflow gets its own. */
+function graph(): WorkflowState {
+  const start = generateId()
+  const compute = generateId()
+  return {
+    blocks: {
+      [start]: {
+        id: start,
+        type: 'start_trigger',
+        name: 'Start',
+        enabled: true,
+        position: { x: 0, y: 0 },
+        subBlocks: {},
+        outputs: {},
+      },
+      [compute]: {
+        id: compute,
+        type: 'function',
+        name: 'Compute',
+        enabled: true,
+        position: { x: 200, y: 0 },
+        subBlocks: {
+          language: { id: 'language', type: 'dropdown', value: 'javascript' },
+          code: { id: 'code', type: 'code', value: 'return 42' },
+        },
+        outputs: {},
+      },
+    },
+    edges: [
+      {
+        id: generateId(),
+        source: start,
+        target: compute,
+        sourceHandle: 'source',
+        targetHandle: 'target',
+      },
+    ],
+    loops: {},
+    parallels: {},
+    variables: {},
+  }
+}
+
+/** A saved workflow with a live chat deployment, created through the real deploy path. */
+async function workflowWithLiveChat() {
+  const workflowId = generateId()
+  const now = new Date()
+  await db.insert(workflow).values({
+    id: workflowId,
+    userId,
+    workspaceId,
+    name: `Chat relaunch fixture ${workflowId}`,
+    lastSynced: now,
+    createdAt: now,
+    updatedAt: now,
+  })
+  const admitted = await admitWorkflowState(graph(), { subjectUserId: userId, workspaceId })
+  await db.transaction((tx) => saveAdmittedWorkflowState(tx, workflowId, admitted))
+
+  const identifier = `relaunch-${generateId().slice(0, 8)}`
+  const deployed = await performChatDeploy({
+    workflowId,
+    userId,
+    workspaceId,
+    identifier,
+    title: 'Support',
+  })
+  expect(deployed, deployed.error).toMatchObject({ success: true, isUpdate: false })
+  assert(deployed.chatId)
+  return { workflowId, chatId: deployed.chatId, identifier }
+}
+
+async function chatRow(chatId: string) {
+  const [row] = await db.select().from(chat).where(eq(chat.id, chatId))
+  assert(row)
+  return row
+}
+
+async function editorChatStatus(workflowId: string) {
+  return readWorkflowChatDeploymentStatus.execute({ principal, input: { workflowId } })
+}
+
+/** Deletes then restores the workflow, asserting the chat comes back present but offline. */
+async function deleteAndRestore(workflowId: string, chatId: string) {
+  expect((await archiveWorkflow(workflowId, { requestId: generateId() })).archived).toBe(true)
+  expect((await restoreWorkflow(workflowId, { requestId: generateId() })).restored).toBe(true)
+  const restored = await chatRow(chatId)
+  expect(restored).toMatchObject({ archivedAt: null, isActive: false })
+  expect(await editorChatStatus(workflowId)).toMatchObject({
+    isDeployed: false,
+    deployment: { id: chatId },
+  })
+}
+
+describe('relaunching the chat of a restored workflow', () => {
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    const now = new Date()
+    await db.insert(user).values({
+      id: userId,
+      name: 'Chat relaunch fixture',
+      email: `${userId}@chat-relaunch.test`,
+      emailVerified: true,
+      createdAt: now,
+      updatedAt: now,
+    })
+    await insertWorkspaceFixture(db, {
+      id: workspaceId,
+      name: 'Chat relaunch fixture',
+      ownerId: userId,
+      billedAccountUserId: userId,
+      allowPersonalApiKeys: true,
+    })
+    await db.insert(permissions).values({
+      id: generateId(),
+      userId,
+      entityType: 'workspace',
+      entityId: workspaceId,
+      permissionType: 'admin',
+    })
+  })
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await db.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      await tx.delete(workspace).where(inArray(workspace.id, [workspaceId]))
+      await tx.delete(project).where(eq(project.ownerId, userId))
+      await tx.delete(user).where(eq(user.id, userId))
+    })
+    await db.$client.end()
+  })
+
+  it('puts the chat back online when the editor relaunches it', async () => {
+    const { workflowId, chatId, identifier } = await workflowWithLiveChat()
+    await deleteAndRestore(workflowId, chatId)
+
+    const relaunched = await updateChatDeployment.execute({
+      principal,
+      input: { chatDeploymentId: chatId, workflowId, title: 'Support' },
+    })
+
+    expect(relaunched.deployment).toMatchObject({ id: chatId, identifier, isActive: true })
+    expect(await chatRow(chatId)).toMatchObject({ isActive: true, archivedAt: null })
+    expect(await editorChatStatus(workflowId)).toMatchObject({ isDeployed: true })
+    const [restoredWorkflow] = await db
+      .select({ isDeployed: workflow.isDeployed })
+      .from(workflow)
+      .where(eq(workflow.id, workflowId))
+    expect(restoredWorkflow?.isDeployed).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('puts the chat back online when it is redeployed through the shared deploy path', async () => {
+    const { workflowId, chatId, identifier } = await workflowWithLiveChat()
+    await deleteAndRestore(workflowId, chatId)
+
+    const redeployed = await performChatDeploy({
+      workflowId,
+      userId,
+      workspaceId,
+      identifier,
+      title: 'Support',
+    })
+
+    expect(redeployed, redeployed.error).toMatchObject({
+      success: true,
+      isUpdate: true,
+      chatId,
+    })
+    expect(await chatRow(chatId)).toMatchObject({ isActive: true, archivedAt: null })
+    expect(await editorChatStatus(workflowId)).toMatchObject({ isDeployed: true })
+  })
+
+  it('cannot reactivate the chat of a workflow that is still deleted', async () => {
+    const { workflowId, chatId } = await workflowWithLiveChat()
+    expect((await archiveWorkflow(workflowId, { requestId: generateId() })).archived).toBe(true)
+
+    await expect(
+      updateChatDeployment.execute({
+        principal,
+        input: { chatDeploymentId: chatId, workflowId, title: 'Support' },
+      })
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'not_found' })
+
+    const archived = await chatRow(chatId)
+    expect(archived.isActive).toBe(false)
+    expect(archived.archivedAt).not.toBeNull()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/apps/sim/lib/chat-deployments/application/update-chat-deployment.ts b/apps/sim/lib/chat-deployments/application/update-chat-deployment.ts
index 5db776e929a..c0732340857 100644
--- a/apps/sim/lib/chat-deployments/application/update-chat-deployment.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/lib/chat-deployments/application/update-chat-deployment.ts
@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ async function redeployWorkflowIfDrifted(workflowId: string, userId: string): Pr
     }
     throw new Error(message)
   }
+  if (deployResult.latestDeploymentAttempt?.isCurrent === false) {
+    throw new OrchestrationError(
+      'conflict',
+      'The workflow deployment attempt is historical and no longer describes production. Retry the chat update.'
+    )
+  }
   if (deployResult.latestDeploymentAttempt?.status !== 'active') {
     throw new OrchestrationError(
       'conflict',
@@ -150,6 +156,9 @@ async function redeployWorkflowIfDrifted(workflowId: string, userId: string): Pr
         'Workflow deployment is still preparing. Retry the chat update after it becomes active.'
     )
   }
+  if (!deployResult.activeDeployment) {
+    throw new Error('Workflow deployment reported active without a live deployment version.')
+  }
   logger.info(`Redeployed workflow ${workflowId} for chat update (v${deployResult.version})`)
 }
 
@@ -204,7 +213,9 @@ export const updateChatDeployment = defineAuthorizedWorkspaceUseCase({
 
     await redeployWorkflowIfDrifted(existing.workflowId, actingUserId)
 
-    const values: Partial<ChatDeploymentRow> = {}
+    // The workflow is live by now; this is the explicit re-enable for a chat restored with
+    // its archive's `isActive: false`.
+    const values: Partial<ChatDeploymentRow> = { isActive: true }
     if (input.identifier) values.identifier = input.identifier
     if (input.title) values.title = input.title
     if (input.description !== undefined) values.description = input.description
diff --git a/apps/sim/lib/folders/config.ts b/apps/sim/lib/folders/config.ts
index cb6b542cf32..7a093a4ee41 100644
--- a/apps/sim/lib/folders/config.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/lib/folders/config.ts
@@ -444,8 +444,8 @@ export const FOLDER_RESOURCES: Record<FolderResourceType, FolderResourceConfig>
      * `status: 'disabled'` with `nextRunAt` cleared, webhooks and chats to `isActive: false`.
      * Archive does not record what those were, so restoring them to a constant would re-enable
      * a schedule the user had disabled and re-run a completed one. Re-enabling stays explicit
-     * (redeploy re-activates a schedule), matching deployment state, which restore also leaves
-     * off on purpose.
+     * (redeploy re-activates a schedule; deploying or updating the chat re-activates the chat),
+     * matching deployment state, which restore also leaves off on purpose.
      */
     restoreDependents: [
       {
diff --git a/apps/sim/lib/workflows/orchestration/chat-deploy.ts b/apps/sim/lib/workflows/orchestration/chat-deploy.ts
index dccef0844f7..0b01e31ad6a 100644
--- a/apps/sim/lib/workflows/orchestration/chat-deploy.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/lib/workflows/orchestration/chat-deploy.ts
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ export async function performChatDeploy(
       passwordToStore = null
     }
 
-    await db
+    const [updated] = await db
       .update(chat)
       .set({
         identifier,
@@ -284,9 +284,16 @@ export async function performChatDeploy(
         outputConfigs,
         includeThinking,
         includeToolCalls,
+        // Deploying is the explicit re-enable for a chat restored with its archive's `isActive: false`.
+        isActive: true,
         updatedAt: new Date(),
       })
-      .where(eq(chat.id, chatId))
+      // An archive landing during the deploy above must not be undone by this write.
+      .where(and(eq(chat.id, chatId), isNull(chat.archivedAt)))
+      .returning({ id: chat.id })
+    if (!updated) {
+      return { success: false, error: 'Chat deployment not found', errorCode: 'not_found' }
+    }
   } else {
     chatId = generateId()
     await db.insert(chat).values({