diff --git a/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.spec.ts b/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.spec.ts
index 479a498..eaee2ab 100644
--- a/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.spec.ts
+++ b/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.spec.ts
@@ -112,3 +112,145 @@ describe('JourneysService.getJourneyVariables — EVO-1836 cache-hit preserves v
     expect(result).toEqual(vars);
   });
 });
+
+describe('JourneysService.findActive — EVO-1927 read-through on empty cache', () => {
+  const dbJourney = {
+    id: 'journey-1',
+    name: 'J1',
+    description: '',
+    isActive: true,
+    flowData: {},
+    flowTriggers: [{ type: 'event' }],
+    variables: [],
+    createdAt: new Date('2026-01-01T00:00:00Z'),
+    updatedAt: new Date('2026-01-02T00:00:00Z'),
+  };
+
+  const buildService = (
+    cached: any[],
+    dbActive: any[],
+  ): {
+    service: JourneysService;
+    getActiveJourneys: jest.Mock;
+    set: jest.Mock;
+    find: jest.Mock;
+    warn: jest.Mock;
+  } => {
+    const getActiveJourneys = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(cached);
+    const set = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const journeyCacheService = { getActiveJourneys, set };
+
+    const find = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(dbActive);
+    const repo = { find };
+    const db = { getRepository: () => repo };
+
+    const service = new JourneysService(
+      db as any,
+      journeyCacheService as any,
+      {} as any,
+    );
+    const warn = jest
+      .spyOn((service as any).logger, 'warn')
+      .mockImplementation(() => undefined) as unknown as jest.Mock;
+    jest.spyOn((service as any).logger, 'log').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+
+    return { service, getActiveJourneys, set, find, warn };
+  };
+
+  it('returns cached active journeys without hitting the DB when the cache is warm', async () => {
+    const { service, find } = buildService([dbJourney], []);
+
+    const result = await service.findActive();
+
+    expect(result).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(result[0].id).toBe('journey-1');
+    expect(find).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('falls through to the DB and returns active journeys when the cache is empty (post-restart regression)', async () => {
+    const { service, find, set } = buildService([], [dbJourney]);
+
+    const result = await service.findActive();
+
+    expect(find).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      where: { isActive: true },
+      order: { createdAt: 'DESC' },
+    });
+    expect(result).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(result[0].id).toBe('journey-1');
+    // Cache repopulated so the next read is a hit.
+    expect(set).toHaveBeenCalledWith(dbJourney);
+  });
+
+  it('warns when the cache returns 0 but the DB has active journeys (observability)', async () => {
+    const { service, warn } = buildService([], [dbJourney]);
+
+    await service.findActive();
+
+    expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.stringContaining('findActive cache miss'),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('returns [] without warning when both cache and DB are empty', async () => {
+    const { service, warn, set } = buildService([], []);
+
+    const result = await service.findActive();
+
+    expect(result).toEqual([]);
+    expect(warn).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(set).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('still returns DB journeys when repopulating the cache fails (best-effort)', async () => {
+    const { service, set } = buildService([], [dbJourney]);
+    set.mockRejectedValue(new Error('redis down'));
+
+    const result = await service.findActive();
+
+    expect(result).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(result[0].id).toBe('journey-1');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('JourneysService.warmActiveJourneysCache — EVO-1927 boot warm-up', () => {
+  const buildService = (
+    dbActive: any[],
+  ): { service: JourneysService; set: jest.Mock; find: jest.Mock } => {
+    const set = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const find = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(dbActive);
+    const db = { getRepository: () => ({ find }) };
+    const service = new JourneysService(
+      db as any,
+      { set } as any,
+      {} as any,
+    );
+    jest.spyOn((service as any).logger, 'log').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+    jest.spyOn((service as any).logger, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+    return { service, set, find };
+  };
+
+  it('loads active journeys from the DB and populates the cache', async () => {
+    const j1 = { id: 'j1', isActive: true };
+    const j2 = { id: 'j2', isActive: true };
+    const { service, set, find } = buildService([j1, j2]);
+
+    const count = await service.warmActiveJourneysCache();
+
+    expect(find).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      where: { isActive: true },
+      order: { createdAt: 'DESC' },
+    });
+    expect(set).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(set).toHaveBeenCalledWith(j1);
+    expect(set).toHaveBeenCalledWith(j2);
+    expect(count).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  it('does not throw when a per-journey cache write fails', async () => {
+    const { service, set } = buildService([{ id: 'j1', isActive: true }]);
+    set.mockRejectedValue(new Error('redis down'));
+
+    await expect(service.warmActiveJourneysCache()).resolves.toBe(1);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.ts b/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.ts
index a8a9321..c3eeddd 100644
--- a/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.ts
+++ b/src/modules/journeys/journeys.service.ts
@@ -179,17 +179,85 @@ export class JourneysService {
   async findActive(): Promise<Journey[]> {
     const cachedJourneys = await this.journeyCacheService.getActiveJourneys();
 
-    return cachedJourneys.map(cached => ({
-      id: cached.id,
-      name: cached.name,
-      description: cached.description,
-      isActive: cached.isActive,
-      flowData: cached.flowData,
-      flowTriggers: cached.flowTriggers,
-      variables: cached.variables,
-      createdAt: cached.createdAt instanceof Date ? cached.createdAt : new Date(cached.createdAt),
-      updatedAt: cached.updatedAt instanceof Date ? cached.updatedAt : new Date(cached.updatedAt),
-    } as Journey));
+    if (cachedJourneys.length > 0) {
+      return cachedJourneys.map(cached => ({
+        id: cached.id,
+        name: cached.name,
+        description: cached.description,
+        isActive: cached.isActive,
+        flowData: cached.flowData,
+        flowTriggers: cached.flowTriggers,
+        variables: cached.variables,
+        createdAt: cached.createdAt instanceof Date ? cached.createdAt : new Date(cached.createdAt),
+        updatedAt: cached.updatedAt instanceof Date ? cached.updatedAt : new Date(cached.updatedAt),
+      } as Journey));
+    }
+
+    // EVO-1927: read-through fallback. After an evo-flow restart the Redis
+    // active-journey index can be empty/stale and there is no implicit warm-up,
+    // so `getActiveJourneys()` returns []. The JourneyTriggerProcessor would
+    // then match every event against ZERO journeys and silently drop
+    // event-based triggers (Postgres has active journeys; cache reports none).
+    // On a cache miss, fall through to the DB as the source of truth and
+    // repopulate the cache so subsequent reads are served from Redis again.
+    const dbActiveJourneys = await this.journeyRepository.find({
+      where: { isActive: true },
+      order: { createdAt: 'DESC' },
+    });
+
+    if (dbActiveJourneys.length > 0) {
+      // Observability: cache returned 0 while the DB has active journeys —
+      // this is the regression signature, surface it.
+      this.logger.warn(
+        `findActive cache miss: active-journey cache returned 0 but DB has ${dbActiveJourneys.length} active journeys — serving from DB and repopulating cache (EVO-1927)`,
+      );
+
+      // Repopulate the cache (index + per-journey keys) so the next read is a
+      // cache hit. Best-effort: a cache write failure must not stop us returning
+      // the journeys we already have from the DB.
+      for (const journey of dbActiveJourneys) {
+        try {
+          await this.journeyCacheService.set(journey);
+        } catch (error) {
+          this.logger.warn(
+            `Failed to repopulate journey cache for ${journey.id}: ${error.message}`,
+          );
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    return dbActiveJourneys;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * EVO-1927: warm the active-journey cache from Postgres. Called at boot by
+   * the JourneyTriggerProcessor BEFORE it starts consuming `journey-triggers`,
+   * so the very first event matches against the real set of active journeys
+   * instead of an empty (post-restart) Redis index. Best-effort and idempotent
+   * — `set()` upserts into the index — so a partial failure just degrades to
+   * the read-through fallback in `findActive`.
+   */
+  async warmActiveJourneysCache(): Promise<number> {
+    const dbActiveJourneys = await this.journeyRepository.find({
+      where: { isActive: true },
+      order: { createdAt: 'DESC' },
+    });
+
+    for (const journey of dbActiveJourneys) {
+      try {
+        await this.journeyCacheService.set(journey);
+      } catch (error) {
+        this.logger.warn(
+          `Failed to warm journey cache for ${journey.id}: ${error.message}`,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+
+    this.logger.log(
+      `Warmed active-journey cache with ${dbActiveJourneys.length} journeys from DB (EVO-1927)`,
+    );
+
+    return dbActiveJourneys.length;
   }
 
   async validateFlowData(journey: Journey): Promise<boolean> {
diff --git a/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.spec.ts b/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.spec.ts
index f611197..114a4a2 100644
--- a/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.spec.ts
+++ b/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.spec.ts
@@ -186,10 +186,12 @@ describe('JourneyTriggerProcessor consumer gating (EVO-1764 A1)', () => {
   let processor: JourneyTriggerProcessor;
   let initializeKafkaConsumer: jest.Mock;
   let startConsuming: jest.Mock;
+  let warmActiveJourneysCache: jest.Mock;
 
   beforeEach(async () => {
+    warmActiveJourneysCache = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(0);
     processor = new JourneyTriggerProcessor(
-      {} as any,
+      { warmActiveJourneysCache } as any,
       {} as any,
       {} as any,
       {} as any,
@@ -229,4 +231,46 @@ describe('JourneyTriggerProcessor consumer gating (EVO-1764 A1)', () => {
     expect(initializeKafkaConsumer).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(startConsuming).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
+
+  // EVO-1927: warm the active-journey cache from the DB before consuming so a
+  // post-restart event matches against the real journey set, not an empty cache.
+  it('warms the active-journey cache BEFORE subscribing to journey-triggers (EVO-1927)', async () => {
+    jest.spyOn(AppFactory, 'shouldStartJourneyWorker').mockReturnValue(true);
+
+    const callOrder: string[] = [];
+    warmActiveJourneysCache.mockImplementation(async () => {
+      callOrder.push('warm');
+      return 3;
+    });
+    initializeKafkaConsumer.mockImplementation(async () => {
+      callOrder.push('init');
+    });
+    startConsuming.mockImplementation(async () => {
+      callOrder.push('consume');
+    });
+
+    await processor.onModuleInit();
+
+    expect(warmActiveJourneysCache).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // Warm-up must run before the consumer is wired up and starts.
+    expect(callOrder).toEqual(['warm', 'init', 'consume']);
+  });
+
+  it('still starts consuming when the warm-up fails — read-through fallback covers it (EVO-1927)', async () => {
+    jest.spyOn(AppFactory, 'shouldStartJourneyWorker').mockReturnValue(true);
+    warmActiveJourneysCache.mockRejectedValue(new Error('db down at boot'));
+
+    await processor.onModuleInit();
+
+    expect(initializeKafkaConsumer).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(startConsuming).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT warm the cache in a non-journey-worker mode', async () => {
+    jest.spyOn(AppFactory, 'shouldStartJourneyWorker').mockReturnValue(false);
+
+    await processor.onModuleInit();
+
+    expect(warmActiveJourneysCache).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.ts b/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.ts
index 5965425..23ef07f 100644
--- a/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.ts
+++ b/src/modules/journeys/services/journey-trigger-processor.service.ts
@@ -133,6 +133,22 @@ export class JourneyTriggerProcessor implements OnModuleInit, OnModuleDestroy {
     // reason to consume journey-triggers at all.
     if (AppFactory.shouldStartJourneyWorker()) {
       this.logger.log('🚀 Starting Journey Trigger Processor...');
+      // EVO-1927: warm the active-journey cache from Postgres BEFORE consuming.
+      // After a restart the Redis active-journey index is empty/stale and there
+      // is no implicit warm-up, so the first events would otherwise match
+      // against ZERO journeys and event-based triggers would silently die.
+      // Best-effort: a warm-up failure falls back to the read-through in
+      // JourneysService.findActive, so it must not block the consumer.
+      try {
+        const warmed = await this.journeysService.warmActiveJourneysCache();
+        this.logger.log(
+          `🔥 Warmed active-journey cache with ${warmed} journeys before consuming (EVO-1927)`,
+        );
+      } catch (error) {
+        this.logger.warn(
+          `⚠️ Failed to warm active-journey cache at boot (read-through fallback will cover this): ${error.message}`,
+        );
+      }
       await this.initializeKafkaConsumer();
       await this.startConsuming();
     } else {