diff --git a/docker/entrypoint.sh b/docker/entrypoint.sh
index b250e3a6..e2f3a266 100755
--- a/docker/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/entrypoint.sh
@@ -4,16 +4,17 @@ set -e
 set -u
 set -x
 
+export PYTHONPATH="/app:${PYTHONPATH-}"
+
 if [ z"$1" = "zmigrate" ]; then
-    COMMAND="/app/.venv/bin/django-admin migrate --settings firetower.settings"
+    exec /app/.venv/bin/ddtrace-run /app/.venv/bin/django-admin migrate --settings firetower.settings
 elif [ z"$1" = "zserver" ]; then
-    COMMAND="/app/.venv/bin/granian --interface wsgi --host 0.0.0.0 --port $PORT firetower.wsgi:application"
+    exec /app/.venv/bin/ddtrace-run /app/.venv/bin/granian --interface wsgi --host 0.0.0.0 --port "${PORT}" firetower.wsgi:application
 elif [ z"$1" = "zslack-bot" ]; then
-    COMMAND="/app/.venv/bin/django-admin run_slack_bot --settings firetower.settings"
+    exec /app/.venv/bin/ddtrace-run /app/.venv/bin/django-admin run_slack_bot --settings firetower.settings
+elif [ z"$1" = "zworker" ]; then
+    exec /app/.venv/bin/ddtrace-run /app/.venv/bin/django-admin qcluster --settings firetower.settings
 else
-    echo "Usage: $0 (migrate|server|slack-bot)"
+    echo "Usage: $0 (migrate|server|slack-bot|worker)"
     exit 1
 fi
-
-export PYTHONPATH=/app:\$PYTHONPATH
-/app/.venv/bin/ddtrace-run $COMMAND
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e2eb1555..868fcf2e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pyserde[toml]>=0.28.0",
     "notion-client>=3.0.0,<4.0.0",
     "requests>=2.32.0",
+    "django-q2>=1.7.4",
     "slack-bolt>=1.27.0",
     "slack-sdk>=3.31.0",
     "sentry-sdk>=2.47.0",
diff --git a/src/firetower/config.py b/src/firetower/config.py
index 791e6325..b7c4d12c 100644
--- a/src/firetower/config.py
+++ b/src/firetower/config.py
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
         self.pagerduty = None
         self.statuspage = None
         self.project_key = ""
-        self.django_secret_key = ""
+        self.django_secret_key = "dummy_value_DO_NOT_USE"
         self.sentry_dsn = ""
         self.region_grouping: list[list[str]] = []
         self.firetower_base_url = ""
diff --git a/src/firetower/incidents/migrations/0015_schedule_demo.py b/src/firetower/incidents/migrations/0015_schedule_demo.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da10d77f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/firetower/incidents/migrations/0015_schedule_demo.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+from django.db import migrations
+
+from firetower.incidents.tasks import SCHEDULES
+
+
+def create_schedule(apps, schema_editor):
+    Schedule = apps.get_model("django_q", "Schedule")
+    schedule_name = "schedule_demo"
+    Schedule.objects.get_or_create(
+        name=schedule_name, defaults=SCHEDULES[schedule_name]
+    )
+
+
+def delete_schedule(apps, schema_editor):
+    Schedule = apps.get_model("django_q", "Schedule")
+    schedule_name = "schedule_demo"
+    Schedule.objects.filter(name=schedule_name).delete()
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+    dependencies = [
+        ("incidents", "0014_add_total_downtime"),
+        ("django_q", "0018_task_success_index"),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RunPython(create_schedule, delete_schedule),
+    ]
diff --git a/src/firetower/incidents/tasks.py b/src/firetower/incidents/tasks.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6cec5ddf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/firetower/incidents/tasks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+from logging import info
+
+from firetower.incidents.models import Incident
+
+SCHEDULES = {
+    "schedule_demo": {
+        "func": "firetower.incidents.tasks.schedule_demo",
+        "schedule_type": "I",  # Minutes
+        "minutes": 5,
+        "repeats": -1,  # repeat indefinitely
+    },
+}
+
+
+def schedule_demo() -> None:
+    incident = Incident.objects.order_by("-created_at").first()
+    if incident:
+        info(f"Most recent incident: INC-{incident.id}: {incident.title}")
+    else:
+        info("No incidents found.")
diff --git a/src/firetower/settings.py b/src/firetower/settings.py
index 62b7e07f..10f1522c 100644
--- a/src/firetower/settings.py
+++ b/src/firetower/settings.py
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ def _coerce_region_grouping(raw: list[Any]) -> list[list[str]]:
     "firetower.incidents",
     "firetower.integrations",
     "firetower.slack_app",
+    "django_q",
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
@@ -374,3 +375,13 @@ class StatuspageSettings(TypedDict):
         },
     },
 }
+
+Q_CLUSTER = {
+    "name": "firetower",
+    "orm": "default",
+    "workers": 4,
+    "timeout": 180,
+    "retry": 210,
+    "queue_limit": 50,
+    "bulk": 10,
+}
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 4d83d82f..da5d2da4 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -479,6 +479,31 @@ wheels = [
     { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fd/d0/14e763857e44fc8d846f786527c777d6b85d649e5d990e29cf2b468a91d9/django_kubernetes-1.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:068cca992a6b3f8030774618ce23ee22cf68b565a35faa46bb6ccd97f034c029", size = 13731, upload-time = "2025-06-18T16:46:59.95Z" },
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "django-picklefield"
+version = "3.4.0"
+source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
+dependencies = [
+    { name = "django" },
+]
+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/93/03/13114bccbd1ec8c026ac1ff33dae75ae6c6a5632e4769ee9cda283b9f57e/django_picklefield-3.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3a1f740536c0e60d0dba43aa89ccdbe86760d4c3f8ec47799eae122baa741d0a", size = 12555, upload-time = "2025-11-27T03:11:53.13Z" }
+wheels = [
+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/79/b7/139eb1419ca7b27fd714925b8d0eed6efb592479dcf2155fed6c0c87c956/django_picklefield-3.4.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:929bcfbae5b48bd22a52bc04521fdfdd152eee36abb9f20228f9480f9df65f45", size = 10031, upload-time = "2025-11-27T03:11:51.937Z" },
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "django-q2"
+version = "1.9.0"
+source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
+dependencies = [
+    { name = "django" },
+    { name = "django-picklefield" },
+]
+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fc/e6/21375bed54a4be1339f6ee31e4173d361d457dbe91db7bff130b52566126/django_q2-1.9.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ef7facca96fae9c11ddf2c5252d3817975c7a9a6d989fa0d65487d8823d57799", size = 77218, upload-time = "2025-12-04T22:11:29.336Z" }
+wheels = [
+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3e/b7/8282f9815fc9df3187d9303a6f54e0388e02742255dee1fed7b4019a03ae/django_q2-1.9.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4eded27644b0ffb291839c9f9c12fea6c0dec63ebd891fa6881b0b446098a49d", size = 89615, upload-time = "2025-12-04T22:11:28.079Z" },
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "django-stubs"
 version = "5.2.7"
@@ -549,6 +574,7 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "django" },
     { name = "django-cors-headers" },
     { name = "django-kubernetes" },
+    { name = "django-q2" },
     { name = "djangorestframework" },
     { name = "google-auth" },
     { name = "google-genai" },
@@ -588,6 +614,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "django", specifier = ">=5.2.9,<6" },
     { name = "django-cors-headers", specifier = ">=4.9.0" },
     { name = "django-kubernetes", specifier = ">=1.1.0" },
+    { name = "django-q2", specifier = ">=1.7.4" },
     { name = "djangorestframework", specifier = ">=3.15.2" },
     { name = "google-auth", specifier = ">=2.37.0" },
     { name = "google-genai", specifier = ">=1.0.0" },