diff --git a/assets/readme/repository_showcase_render.png b/assets/readme/repository_showcase_render.png
index 4b581e71d..5bb5306f3 100644
Binary files a/assets/readme/repository_showcase_render.png and b/assets/readme/repository_showcase_render.png differ
diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineDeckExample.java b/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineDeckExample.java
index 50e110c57..228cead12 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineDeckExample.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineDeckExample.java
@@ -124,6 +124,42 @@ public static Path generate() throws Exception {
         return outputFile;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Renders page 1's banner as a standalone, full-bleed hero. The dark
+     * violet field is painted as the canonical {@code pageBackground}, so it
+     * fills the whole landscape page — margins and corners included — and the
+     * rasterised image carries no white frame, only the banner itself. This is
+     * the source of the repository README hero
+     * ({@code assets/readme/repository_showcase_render.png}, produced by
+     * {@link com.demcha.examples.support.PdfPageRasterizer}); re-render it after a
+     * version bump — the banner reads {@link #VERSION} / {@link #CODENAME}, so
+     * the hero stays current with one rebuild.
+     *
+     * @return the generated single-page banner PDF path
+     * @throws Exception when rendering or icon IO fails
+     */
+    public static Path generateBanner() throws Exception {
+        Path outputFile = ExampleOutputPaths.prepare("flagships", "engine-banner.pdf");
+        try (DocumentSession document = GraphCompose.document(outputFile)
+                .pageSize(DocumentPageSize.A4.landscape())
+                .pageBackground(HERO_BG)
+                .margin(16, 16, 16, 16)
+                .create()) {
+            document.metadata(DocumentMetadata.builder()
+                    .title("GraphCompose v" + VERSION + " — " + CODENAME)
+                    .author("GraphCompose")
+                    .subject("GraphCompose banner — the engine's own brand hero")
+                    .producer("GraphCompose (PDFBox 3.0)")
+                    .build());
+            document.pageFlow()
+                    .name("EngineBanner")
+                    .addSection("Banner", EngineDeckExample::banner)
+                    .build();
+            document.buildPdf();
+        }
+        return outputFile;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Composes the four deck pages onto a session — shared by {@link #generate()}
      * and the layout snapshot test, so the test guards the very layout we ship.
diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineShowcase.java b/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineShowcase.java
index d55507c32..28c27b1ac 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineShowcase.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/com/demcha/examples/flagships/EngineShowcase.java
@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 /**
- * Single-page cinematic engine showcase used as the
- * {@code assets/readme/repository_showcase_render.png} source. NOT a
- * business document, NOT a CV — a brand promo page that demonstrates
- * the visual register the engine can hit when an author cares about
- * presentation as much as data:
+ * Single-page cinematic engine showcase — a brand promo page that was
+ * the original {@code repository_showcase_render.png} README hero, now
+ * superseded by {@link EngineDeckExample#generateBanner()}. NOT a
+ * business document, NOT a CV — it demonstrates the visual register the
+ * engine can hit when an author cares about presentation as much as
+ * data:
  *
  * <ul>
  *   <li><b>Top navy band</b> — full-width branded marquee (canonical
@@ -47,9 +48,10 @@
  * filesystem path assumptions.</p>
  *
  * <p>Output:
- * {@code examples/target/generated-pdfs/flagships/engine-showcase.pdf}
- * — page 1 is rasterised by {@link com.demcha.examples.support.PdfPageRasterizer}
- * into {@code assets/readme/repository_showcase_render.png}.</p>
+ * {@code examples/target/generated-pdfs/flagships/engine-showcase.pdf}.
+ * The README hero is now sourced from
+ * {@link EngineDeckExample#generateBanner()} (rasterised by
+ * {@link com.demcha.examples.support.PdfPageRasterizer}).</p>
  *
  * @author Artem Demchyshyn
  * @since 1.6.6