diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c45357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+## 2024-04-13 - Ultralytics YOLO Synchronous stdout Bottleneck
+**Learning:** Ultralytics YOLO models by default print bounding box predictions and model details to stdout synchronously for every prediction call. Inside of loops or high-throughput batching, this blocks the main thread and introduces significant I/O latency, tanking performance.
+**Action:** Always set `verbose=False` inside `.predict()` when using YOLO models in production or batch loops where logs are not explicitly needed.
diff --git a/commonforms/inference.py b/commonforms/inference.py
index 527925f..3f2a393 100644
--- a/commonforms/inference.py
+++ b/commonforms/inference.py
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ def extract_widgets(
                     conf=confidence,
                     augment=False,
                     imgsz=ONNX_IMAGE_SIZE,
+                    verbose=False,  # Optimization: prevent stdout blocking during loop
                 )
                 for p in pages
             ]
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ def extract_widgets(
                 augment=True,
                 imgsz=image_size,
                 device=self.device,
+                verbose=False,  # Optimization: prevent stdout blocking
             )
 
         widgets = {}