diff --git a/tasks/qualification/launch/better_qualification.launch b/tasks/qualification/launch/better_qualification.launch
index 165bb4b1d..a3a6e2093 100644
--- a/tasks/qualification/launch/better_qualification.launch
+++ b/tasks/qualification/launch/better_qualification.launch
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     <node pkg="lasr_speech_recognition_whisper" type="transcribe_microphone_server" name="transcribe_microphone_server" output="screen" args="--mic_device 9 --end_timeout 2.0 --model_name small.en"/>
     <include file="$(find lasr_vision_yolov8)/launch/service.launch">
         <arg name="debug" value="true" />
+        <arg name="preload" value="['yolov8n-seg.pt']" />
     </include>
 
     <node pkg="unsafe_traversal" type="unsafe_traversal" name="unsafe_traversal"/>