diff --git a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php
index 27f2f813..75d18cdf 100644
--- a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php
+++ b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/helpers/extras.php
@@ -328,6 +328,55 @@ function get_member_count()
     return $memberCount;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Number of active investors in Tuleva index funds.
+ * Source of truth: onboarding-service /v1/statistics/investor-count
+ * (analytics.mv_kpi_new.total_active_investors) — the same figure tracked in
+ * Metabase. The underlying data updates roughly monthly, so the value is cached
+ * for a day: the front page does not call the API on every load, and the number
+ * still picks up a change within a day. Fetched with the same file_get_contents
+ * + stream context style as the fund pages (see print_funds_js below). Falls
+ * back to the last known good value and then to the manual ACF `members_count`
+ * option, and always returns an int, so the number never disappears, drops to
+ * zero, or triggers a number_format() error.
+ */
+function get_investor_count()
+{
+    $cached = get_transient('tuleva_investor_count');
+    if ($cached !== false) {
+        return $cached;
+    }
+
+    $context = stream_context_create(
+        [
+            'http' => [
+                'method' => 'GET',
+                'timeout' => 2,
+            ]
+        ]
+    );
+    $json = @file_get_contents('https://onboarding-service.tuleva.ee/v1/statistics/investor-count', false, $context);
+    $data = $json ? json_decode($json, true) : null;
+    $count = isset($data['count']) ? (int) $data['count'] : 0;
+
+    if ($count > 0) {
+        set_transient('tuleva_investor_count', $count, DAY_IN_SECONDS);
+        update_option('tuleva_investor_count_last_good', $count);
+        return $count;
+    }
+
+    // API unavailable or unusable: fall back to the last known good value, then
+    // the manual ACF field. Cache the fallback briefly so an outage does not
+    // refetch on every page load.
+    $fallback = (int) get_option('tuleva_investor_count_last_good', 0);
+    if ($fallback <= 0) {
+        $fallback = (int) get_field('members_count', 'option');
+    }
+    set_transient('tuleva_investor_count', $fallback, 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS);
+
+    return $fallback;
+}
+
 function print_funds_js()
 {
     $context = stream_context_create(
diff --git a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php
index cf41874a..7c611606 100644
--- a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php
+++ b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/templates/components/credentials.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-$members_count = get_field('members_count', 'option');
+$investor_count = get_investor_count();
 $members_count_description = get_sub_field('members_count_description');
 $security_text = get_sub_field('security_text');
 $security_link_text = get_sub_field('security_link_text');
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 ?>
 <section id="<?php the_sub_field('component_id'); ?>" class="section-credentials bg-gray-2 py-4 py-lg-5">
     <!-- Credentials -->
-    <?php if ($security_text || ($members_count && $members_count_description)) { ?>
+    <?php if ($security_text || ($investor_count && $members_count_description)) { ?>
         <div class="container">
             <div class="row gx-xl-5">
                 <?php if ($security_text) { ?>
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@
                         </div>
                     </div>
                 <?php } ?>
-                <?php if ($members_count && $members_count_description) { ?>
+                <?php if ($investor_count && $members_count_description) { ?>
                     <div class="col-md-6 d-none d-md-flex align-items-center text-navy">
                         <span class="membercount text-nowrap me-3 me-sm-4 display-5 lh-1">
-                            <?php echo number_format($members_count, 0, '', ' '); ?>
+                            <?php echo number_format($investor_count, 0, '', ' '); ?>
                         </span>
                         <span style="max-width: 11em"><?php echo $members_count_description; ?></span>
                     </div>
diff --git a/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/tests/templates/CredentialsComponentTest.php b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/tests/templates/CredentialsComponentTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d1bc69a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/wp-content/themes/tuleva/tests/templates/CredentialsComponentTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\Test;
+
+// Stub the WordPress + theme functions that credentials.php depends on, so the
+// template can be rendered in isolation and we can assert that it actually
+// publishes the investor count on the page.
+if (!function_exists('get_investor_count')) {
+    function get_investor_count()
+    {
+        return $GLOBALS['__test_investor_count'] ?? 0;
+    }
+}
+if (!function_exists('get_sub_field')) {
+    function get_sub_field($name)
+    {
+        return $GLOBALS['__test_sub_fields'][$name] ?? '';
+    }
+}
+if (!function_exists('the_sub_field')) {
+    function the_sub_field($name)
+    {
+        echo $GLOBALS['__test_sub_fields'][$name] ?? '';
+    }
+}
+
+final class CredentialsComponentTest extends TestCase
+{
+    private function render(int $investorCount): string
+    {
+        $GLOBALS['__test_investor_count'] = $investorCount;
+        $GLOBALS['__test_sub_fields'] = [
+            'component_id' => 'credentials',
+            'members_count_description' => 'Eesti inimest kogub Tuleva indeksfondides',
+            'security_text' => '',
+            'security_link_text' => '',
+            'security_link_url' => '',
+        ];
+
+        ob_start();
+        include __DIR__ . '/../../templates/components/credentials.php';
+        return ob_get_clean();
+    }
+
+    #[Test]
+    public function publishesInvestorCountInMembercountSpan(): void
+    {
+        $html = $this->render(85224);
+
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('class="membercount', $html);
+        // number_format(85224, 0, '', ' ') => "85 224"
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('85 224', $html);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('Eesti inimest kogub Tuleva indeksfondides', $html);
+    }
+
+    #[Test]
+    public function hidesTheBlockWhenCountIsZero(): void
+    {
+        $html = $this->render(0);
+
+        // When every fallback resolves to 0 the number must not be published at all,
+        // rather than showing a misleading "0".
+        $this->assertStringNotContainsString('class="membercount', $html);
+    }
+}