diff --git a/apps/web/tests/e2e/section-visibility.test.ts b/apps/web/tests/e2e/section-visibility.test.ts
index e87d090..eee8db2 100644
--- a/apps/web/tests/e2e/section-visibility.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/tests/e2e/section-visibility.test.ts
@@ -66,24 +66,45 @@ async function tabBarHasSection(page: Page, section: string): Promise<number> {
 		.count();
 }
 
+async function resetAllFlags(browser: import('@playwright/test').Browser): Promise<void> {
+	// Reset the seed rows via Ana (the only user authoritative for both her own
+	// row AND the seed collective row). Patching another user's row from Ana
+	// would be blocked by RLS, so we open a second context for Borja.
+	const anaCtx = await browser.newContext();
+	const anaPage = await anaCtx.newPage();
+	try {
+		await loginAs(anaPage, USERS.ana);
+		await patchRow(anaPage, 'users', USERS.ana.id, { feature_flags: {} });
+		await patchRow(anaPage, 'collectives', SEED_COLLECTIVE_ID, { feature_flags: {} });
+	} catch {
+		/* don't mask original failure */
+	} finally {
+		await anaCtx.close();
+	}
+
+	const borjaCtx = await browser.newContext();
+	const borjaPage = await borjaCtx.newPage();
+	try {
+		await loginAs(borjaPage, USERS.borja);
+		await patchRow(borjaPage, 'users', USERS.borja.id, { feature_flags: {} });
+	} catch {
+		/* don't mask original failure */
+	} finally {
+		await borjaCtx.close();
+	}
+}
+
 test.describe('Section visibility', () => {
+	// Reset BOTH before and after every test. The before-each guards against
+	// state leakage from prior suites (the broader `just test-all` run shares
+	// the same Docker database with whatever tasks/lists tests ran before).
+	// The after-each keeps subsequent suites clean.
+	test.beforeEach(async ({ browser }) => {
+		await resetAllFlags(browser);
+	});
+
 	test.afterEach(async ({ browser }) => {
-		// Best-effort cleanup as Ana so the collective row resets too. We only
-		// touch the seed rows — extra collectives created mid-test are left in
-		// place (the integration suite already covers the cross-collective path
-		// without leaking, and Playwright's seed.sql is rebuilt by `just db-reset`).
-		const ctx = await browser.newContext();
-		const page = await ctx.newPage();
-		try {
-			await loginAs(page, USERS.ana);
-			await patchRow(page, 'users', USERS.ana.id, { feature_flags: {} });
-			await patchRow(page, 'users', USERS.borja.id, { feature_flags: {} });
-			await patchRow(page, 'collectives', SEED_COLLECTIVE_ID, { feature_flags: {} });
-		} catch {
-			/* don't mask the original failure */
-		} finally {
-			await ctx.close();
-		}
+		await resetAllFlags(browser);
 	});
 
 	test('SV-01: Ana hides Tasks in /settings — sidebar + tab bar drop it, /tasks redirects to /lists', async ({