diff --git a/manifests/dot-ai-stack/values.yaml b/manifests/dot-ai-stack/values.yaml
index 1cdd715..510be5d 100644
--- a/manifests/dot-ai-stack/values.yaml
+++ b/manifests/dot-ai-stack/values.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ dot-ai:
     customEndpoint:
       enabled: true
       baseURL: "http://ollama.ai-stack.svc.cluster.local:11434/v1"
+      embeddingsModel: "nomic-embed-text"
+      embeddingsDimensions: "768"
 
-  # keep disabled to avoid duplicate CUSTOM_EMBEDDINGS_* env vars
   localEmbeddings:
     enabled: false
 
@@ -18,6 +19,8 @@ dot-ai:
       token: "YAmCMjPflHQAuDqYZufDKKvqWUysrwgfOzXCzwHFEM4="
     openai:
       apiKey: "dummy-key"
+    customEmbeddings:
+      apiKey: "dummy-key"
 
   ingress:
     enabled: true
@@ -27,16 +30,6 @@ dot-ai:
   webUI:
     baseUrl: "https://dot-ai-ui.dvirlabs.com"
 
-  env:
-    - name: CUSTOM_EMBEDDINGS_BASE_URL
-      value: "http://ollama.ai-stack.svc.cluster.local:11434/v1"
-    - name: CUSTOM_EMBEDDINGS_API_KEY
-      value: "dummy-key"
-    - name: EMBEDDING_MODEL
-      value: "nomic-embed-text"
-    - name: EMBEDDINGS_DIMENSIONS
-      value: "768"
-
 # ===== controller =====
 dot-ai-controller:
   enabled: true