diff --git a/.github/workflows/azd-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/azd-deploy.yml
index 41c620f..da601d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/azd-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/azd-deploy.yml
@@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ jobs:
 
           echo "Pre-seeding first model deployment to serialize Cognitive Services operations..."
           terraform apply -auto-approve -parallelism=4 \
+            -target='module.ai_foundry.azapi_resource.ai_foundry' \
             -target='module.ai_foundry.azapi_resource.ai_model_deployment["gpt-5-nano"]'
 
           echo "Pre-seed complete. Full provision will create the remaining model."