diff --git a/default.json b/default.json
index 96d1fd5..a844623 100644
--- a/default.json
+++ b/default.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
   "description": "WAVE org-wide Renovate preset. Every wave-av repo extends this via `local>wave-av/.github`. Named default.json (NOT renovate.json) because Renovate resolves a preset to default.json first and only falls back to renovate.json with a deprecation warning.",
+  "enabled": false,
   "extends": [
     "config:recommended",
     ":dependencyDashboard",