diff --git a/app/Services/Ai/AiRuleLearner.php b/app/Services/Ai/AiRuleLearner.php
index fe4aa2db..1cdd5b7e 100644
--- a/app/Services/Ai/AiRuleLearner.php
+++ b/app/Services/Ai/AiRuleLearner.php
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ use Illuminate\Support\Str;
  */
 class AiRuleLearner
 {
+    /**
+     * Per-user document-frequency corpus, memoized for the lifetime of this
+     * instance. A bulk correction runs learnFromCorrection once per transaction
+     * for the same user, and the description corpus is immutable while only
+     * categories change — so loading and tokenizing every description on every
+     * transaction (the N+1 in PHP-LARAVEL-40) is wasted work.
+     *
+     * @var array<string, array{frequency: array<string, int>, count: int}>
+     */
+    private array $descriptionCorpus = [];
+
     public function __construct(
         private readonly DescriptionTokenizer $tokenizer,
         private readonly TransactionMatcher $matcher,
@@ -153,16 +164,33 @@ class AiRuleLearner
      */
     private function distinctiveDescriptionTokens(Transaction $transaction): array
     {
-        $descriptions = Transaction::query()
-            ->where('user_id', $transaction->user_id)
-            ->whereNull('description_iv')
-            ->pluck('description')
-            ->all();
+        $corpus = $this->descriptionCorpus($transaction->user_id);
+        $threshold = $corpus['count'] * (float) config('ai_suggestions.noise_token_fraction');
 
-        $frequency = $this->tokenizer->documentFrequency($descriptions);
-        $threshold = count($descriptions) * (float) config('ai_suggestions.noise_token_fraction');
+        return $this->tokenizer->distinctiveTokens((string) $transaction->description, $corpus['frequency'], $threshold);
+    }
 
-        return $this->tokenizer->distinctiveTokens((string) $transaction->description, $frequency, $threshold);
+    /**
+     * The user's description document-frequency map and corpus size, loaded once
+     * per instance. Safe to memoize: descriptions are never mutated by a
+     * categorization change, so the corpus is stable across a bulk correction.
+     *
+     * @return array{frequency: array<string, int>, count: int}
+     */
+    private function descriptionCorpus(string $userId): array
+    {
+        return $this->descriptionCorpus[$userId] ??= (function () use ($userId): array {
+            $descriptions = Transaction::query()
+                ->where('user_id', $userId)
+                ->whereNull('description_iv')
+                ->pluck('description')
+                ->all();
+
+            return [
+                'frequency' => $this->tokenizer->documentFrequency($descriptions),
+                'count' => count($descriptions),
+            ];
+        })();
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Ai/AiRuleLearnerTest.php b/tests/Feature/Ai/AiRuleLearnerTest.php
index 53d135bc..93411834 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Ai/AiRuleLearnerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Ai/AiRuleLearnerTest.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use App\Models\User;
 use App\Services\Ai\AiRuleLearner;
 use App\Services\Ai\CategorizationOutcome;
 use App\Services\AutomationRuleService;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
 
 function expenseCategory(User $user): Category
 {
@@ -51,6 +52,43 @@ it('creates an ai-owned rule at the lowest priority and links the transaction',
         ->and($transaction->refresh()->categorized_by_rule_id)->toBe($rule->id);
 });
 
+it('loads the description corpus once across a bulk of correction learnings', function () {
+    $user = User::factory()->create();
+    $category = expenseCategory($user);
+
+    // Merchant-less, plaintext transactions force the description-token path,
+    // which is what loads the per-user description corpus.
+    $makeTxn = fn (string $description): Transaction => Transaction::factory()->plaintext()->create([
+        'user_id' => $user->id,
+        'category_id' => null,
+        'creditor_name' => null,
+        'debtor_name' => null,
+        'description' => $description,
+    ]);
+
+    $first = $makeTxn('zzalpha distinctive ref one');
+    $second = $makeTxn('zzbeta distinctive ref two');
+
+    // Same instance across the batch, mirroring the bulkUpdate loop where the
+    // handler (and its learner) is resolved once.
+    $learner = app(AiRuleLearner::class);
+
+    DB::enableQueryLog();
+    $learner->learnFromCorrection($first, $category->id);
+    $learner->learnFromCorrection($second, $category->id);
+    $queries = collect(DB::getQueryLog());
+    DB::disableQueryLog();
+
+    // The corpus is the pluck of the `description` column (not the matcher's
+    // count(*) probes, which also filter on description_iv).
+    $corpusLoads = $queries->filter(fn (array $q): bool => str_starts_with(strtolower(ltrim($q['query'])), 'select')
+        && str_contains($q['query'], 'description_iv')
+        && ! str_contains(strtolower($q['query']), 'count(')
+    );
+
+    expect($corpusLoads)->toHaveCount(1);
+});
+
 it('appends a new merchant to the existing ai rule for the same category', function () {
     $user = User::factory()->create();
     $category = expenseCategory($user);