diff --git a/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.test.tsx b/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.test.tsx
index edc1e4b6..29562881 100644
--- a/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.test.tsx
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ describe('ConsoleLayout', () => {
 
     expect(html).toContain('Social providers')
     expect(html).toContain('Default organization')
+    expect(html).toContain('data-smoke-authenticated-console="true"')
     expect(html).toContain('data-active-announcements="true"')
     expect(html).toContain('href="https://xid.dev/docs"')
     expect(html).toContain('Documentation')
diff --git a/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.tsx b/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.tsx
index e01ecf2f..1b5a43f9 100644
--- a/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.tsx
+++ b/apps/console/src/components/layout/ConsoleLayout.tsx
@@ -813,7 +813,10 @@ export function ConsoleLayout({ children, navItems }: ConsoleLayoutProps): React
   }
 
   return (
-    <div {...stylex.props(styles.shell)}>
+    <div
+      data-smoke-authenticated-console={status === 'authenticated' ? 'true' : undefined}
+      {...stylex.props(styles.shell)}
+    >
       <header {...stylex.props(styles.header)}>
         <div {...stylex.props(styles.headerContext)}>
           <span {...stylex.props(styles.brandNarrow)}>
diff --git a/scripts/run-three-worker-browser-smoke.mjs b/scripts/run-three-worker-browser-smoke.mjs
index a061f646..2e0833dd 100644
--- a/scripts/run-three-worker-browser-smoke.mjs
+++ b/scripts/run-three-worker-browser-smoke.mjs
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ async function assertAuthenticatedConsole(page, options) {
   const { origin, browserHost, email, name } = options
   await page.navigate(`${origin}/console/platform`)
   await page.waitFor(
-    () => document.body.innerText.includes('admin@xid-smoke.test'),
+    () => document.querySelector('[data-smoke-authenticated-console]') !== null,
     `${name} authenticated Console`,
   )
   if (page.documentOwner('/console/platform', browserHost) !== 'console') {
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ async function switchLocales(page, origin) {
     await page.waitFor(
       () =>
         document.documentElement.lang === window.__xidExpectedLocale &&
-        document.body.innerText.includes('admin@xid-smoke.test'),
+        document.querySelector('[data-smoke-authenticated-console]') !== null,
       `Console locale ${locale}`,
     )
   }
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ export async function runThreeWorkerBrowserSmoke(options) {
 
     await page.navigate(`${apexOrigin}/console/platform`)
     await page.waitFor(
-      () => document.body.innerText.includes('admin@xid-smoke.test'),
+      () => document.querySelector('[data-smoke-authenticated-console]') !== null,
       'apex session after tenant logout',
     )
     const apexMe = await readMe(page)