diff --git a/scripts/deploy.sh b/scripts/deploy.sh
index 3a56be6..20333c0 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ DEPLOY_USER="${DEPLOY_USER:-ubuntu}"
 DEPLOY_PATH="${DEPLOY_PATH:-/var/www/aramland-admin}"
 DEPLOY_PASSWORD="${DEPLOY_PASSWORD:-}"
 
-echo "▸ Building locally…"
+echo "▸ Building locally (clean)…"
+# Remove caches so the production build never type-checks a stale `.next/dev`
+# validator (tsconfig includes .next/dev/types) and never ships stale out/ files.
+rm -rf .next out
 npm run build
 
 if [ ! -d out ]; then