diff --git a/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.test.ts b/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.test.ts
index 94139a706c..26bf8a3e51 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.test.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.test.ts
@@ -322,4 +322,11 @@ describe("reactToFailedTaskRun on a card that already moved on", () => {
     await reactToFailedTaskRun(taskBoard, "thr-1", "org-1", CANON_LANES);
     expect(calls).toEqual(["retry"]);
   });
+
+  it("retries a card mid-work on an org-owned board whose progress column isn't named 'in_progress'", async () => {
+    const orgLanes = { ...CANON_LANES, progress: "col-doing" };
+    const { taskBoard, calls } = fakeBoard("col-doing");
+    await reactToFailedTaskRun(taskBoard, "thr-1", "org-1", orgLanes);
+    expect(calls).toEqual(["retry"]);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.ts b/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.ts
index 4d30701f84..395af36413 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/tools/task-board/run-reactions.ts
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ export async function reactToFailedTaskRun(
           .relabelDeliveredFailure(threadId, orgId, DELIVERED_FAILURE_REASON)
           .catch(() => {});
       }
-      if (item.status !== "in_progress") continue;
+      if (item.status !== lanes.progress) continue;
       // A REVIEWER's run failed, not the author's: the card is In Progress only
       // because that is where a card under review sits now. Retrying it here
       // would dispatch a fresh Super Agent run over a PR that is waiting for a