diff --git a/helm/rayservice/applications/tissue-linear.yaml b/helm/rayservice/applications/tissue-linear.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..475302b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helm/rayservice/applications/tissue-linear.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+- name: tissue-linear
+  import_path: models.tissue_linear:app
+  route_prefix: /tissue-linear
+  runtime_env:
+    config:
+      setup_timeout_seconds: 1800
+    working_dir: https://github.com/RationAI/model-service/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
+  deployments:
+    - name: TissueLinear
+      max_ongoing_requests: 512
+      max_queued_requests: 4096
+      autoscaling_config:
+        min_replicas: 0
+        max_replicas: 2
+        target_ongoing_requests: 128
+      ray_actor_options:
+        num_cpus: 2
+        num_gpus: 1
+        memory: 12884901888
+        runtime_env:
+          env_vars:
+            MLFLOW_TRACKING_URI: http://mlflow.rationai-mlflow:5000
+            HF_HOME: /mnt/huggingface_cache
+      user_config:
+        tile_size: 224
+        output_tile_size: 1
+        n_channels: 7
+        mpp: 0.5
+        max_batch_size: 64
+        batch_wait_timeout_s: 0.1
+        foundation_model_id: virchow2
+        model:
+          _target_: providers.model_provider:mlflow
+          artifact_uri: mlflow-artifacts:/104/0e2230c722134ce0985e09a18ccadf75/artifacts/onnx/linear_head.onnx
diff --git a/helm/rayservice/values.yaml b/helm/rayservice/values.yaml
index 6e62751..e436e62 100644
--- a/helm/rayservice/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/rayservice/values.yaml
@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@ applications:
   - heatmap-builder
   - prostate-classifier-1
   - prov-gigapath
+  - tissue-linear
   - virchow2
+
diff --git a/models/tissue_linear.py b/models/tissue_linear.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0178355
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/tissue_linear.py
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import importlib
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, TypedDict
+
+import numpy as np
+from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
+from numpy.typing import NDArray
+from ray import serve
+
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import torch
+
+
+class Config(TypedDict):
+    tile_size: int
+    output_tile_size: int
+    n_channels: int
+    mpp: float
+    max_batch_size: int
+    batch_wait_timeout_s: float
+    foundation_model_id: str
+    model: dict[str, Any]
+
+
+fastapi = FastAPI()
+
+
+@serve.deployment(num_replicas="auto")
+@serve.ingress(fastapi)
+class TissueLinear:
+    """7-class tissue classifier: linear head over Virchow2 embeddings.
+
+    Per tile: apply Virchow2's transform, fetch the ViT token sequence from
+    the deployed Virchow2 service, pool tokens (class token + mean of patch
+    tokens) into a 2560-d embedding, run the ONNX linear head, and return a
+    7-channel softmax probability map of shape (n_classes, 1, 1). Softmax
+    (rather than a hard class index) is used so HeatmapBuilder's resize to
+    source resolution interpolates well-defined probabilities; the hard class
+    map is recoverable via argmax over channels at full resolution.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        import lz4.frame
+
+        self.lz4 = lz4.frame
+
+    def reconfigure(self, config: Config) -> None:
+        import onnxruntime as ort
+        from timm.data.transforms_factory import create_transform
+
+        self.tile_size = config["tile_size"]
+        self.output_tile_size = config["output_tile_size"]
+        self.n_channels = config["n_channels"]
+        self.mpp = config["mpp"]
+
+        self.foundation_model = serve.get_app_handle(config["foundation_model_id"])
+
+        # Virchow2's eval transform, built from its pretrained_cfg (ImageNet
+        # mean/std, bicubic, crop_pct 1.0) instead of loading the ~600M-param
+        # model just to read it: saves ~2.4 GB RAM/replica and avoids HF Hub
+        # access at init (gated repo). Embeddings come from the Virchow2 service.
+        self.foundation_transform = create_transform(
+            input_size=(3, self.tile_size, self.tile_size),
+            is_training=False,
+            mean=(0.485, 0.456, 0.406),
+            std=(0.229, 0.224, 0.225),
+            crop_pct=1.0,
+            crop_mode="center",
+            interpolation="bicubic",
+        )
+
+        model_config = dict(config["model"])
+        module_path, attr_name = model_config.pop("_target_").split(":")
+        provider = getattr(importlib.import_module(module_path), attr_name)
+
+        model_path = provider(**model_config)
+
+        # Head runs on CPU: a single 2560->n_classes matmul, so GPU launch +
+        # transfer overhead would exceed it, and embeddings arrive as CPU numpy.
+        # num_gpus: 1 only pins the actor to a worker with torch/timm.
+        self.session = ort.InferenceSession(
+            str(model_path),
+            providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"],
+        )
+        self.input_name = self.session.get_inputs()[0].name
+        self.output_name = self.session.get_outputs()[0].name
+        self._num_classes = int(self.session.get_outputs()[0].shape[-1])
+
+        self.predict.set_max_batch_size(config["max_batch_size"])  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+        self.predict.set_batch_wait_timeout_s(config["batch_wait_timeout_s"])  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+
+    async def get_config(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "tile_size": self.tile_size,
+            "output_tile_size": self.output_tile_size,
+            "n_channels": self.n_channels,
+            "mpp": self.mpp,
+        }
+
+    def _prepare_tile_for_virchow2(self, tile_chw: NDArray[np.uint8]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        from PIL import Image
+
+        tile_hwc = tile_chw.transpose(1, 2, 0)
+        image = Image.fromarray(tile_hwc)
+        # Return [3, 224, 224], not [1, 3, 224, 224].
+        return self.foundation_transform(image)
+
+    async def _create_embedding(self, tile: NDArray[np.uint8]) -> np.ndarray:
+        import torch
+
+        tile_tensor = await asyncio.to_thread(self._prepare_tile_for_virchow2, tile)
+
+        virchow2_output = await self.foundation_model.predict.remote(tile_tensor)
+
+        if isinstance(virchow2_output, np.ndarray):
+            virchow2_output = torch.from_numpy(virchow2_output)
+
+        # Virchow2 predict returns one tensor per tile, shape [tokens, dim].
+        # Make it [1, tokens, dim] so pooling is batch-compatible.
+        if virchow2_output.ndim == 2:
+            virchow2_output = virchow2_output.unsqueeze(0)
+
+        class_token = virchow2_output[:, 0]
+        patch_tokens = virchow2_output[:, 5:]
+        embedding = torch.cat([class_token, patch_tokens.mean(dim=1)], dim=-1)
+
+        return embedding.squeeze(0).cpu().numpy().astype(np.float32, copy=False)
+
+    @serve.batch
+    async def predict(
+        self,
+        tiles: list[NDArray[np.uint8]],
+    ) -> list[NDArray[np.float32]]:
+        embeddings = await asyncio.gather(
+            *(self._create_embedding(tile) for tile in tiles)
+        )
+        batch = np.stack(embeddings, axis=0).astype(np.float32, copy=False)
+
+        # ONNX graph ends in Softmax -> (batch, n_classes) probabilities.
+        # Reshape each row to (n_classes, 1, 1) for HeatmapBuilder.
+        probs = self.session.run(
+            [self.output_name],
+            {self.input_name: batch},
+        )[0]
+
+        return [row.reshape(self._num_classes, 1, 1) for row in probs]
+
+    @fastapi.post("/")
+    async def root(self, request: Request) -> list[Any]:
+        data = await asyncio.to_thread(self.lz4.decompress, await request.body())
+
+        tile = np.frombuffer(data, dtype=np.uint8).reshape(
+            self.tile_size,
+            self.tile_size,
+            3,
+        )
+        tile_chw = tile.transpose(2, 0, 1)
+
+        result = await self.predict(tile_chw)
+        return result.tolist()
+
+
+app = TissueLinear.bind()  # type: ignore[attr-defined]