diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3278667fb97..bd489d8b906 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -40,11 +40,6 @@ help:
 	@echo '  make update.chart-entities  update the charts_x_entities join table'
 	@echo '  make reindex                reindex (or initialise) search in Algolia'
 	@echo '  make bench.search           run search benchmarks'
-	@echo
-	@echo '  OPS (staff-only)'
-	@echo '  make deploy                 Deploy your local site to production'
-	@echo '  make stage                  Deploy your local site to staging'
-	@echo
 
 up: export DEBUG = 'knex:query'
 
@@ -215,34 +210,6 @@ tmp-downloads/owid_metadata.sql.gz:
 	@echo '==> Downloading metadata'
 	./devTools/docker/download-grapher-metadata-mysql.sh
 
-deploy: node_modules
-	@echo '==> Starting from a clean slate...'
-	rm -rf itsJustJavascript
-
-	@echo '==> Building...'
-	yarn lerna run build --skip-nx-cache
-	yarn run tsc -b
-
-	@echo '==> Deploying...'
-	yarn buildAndDeploySite live
-
-stage: node_modules
-	@if [[ ! "$(STAGING)" ]]; then \
-		echo 'ERROR: must set the staging environment'; \
-		echo '       e.g. STAGING=halley make stage'; \
-		exit 1; \
-	fi
-	@echo '==> Preparing to deploy to $(STAGING)'
-	@echo '==> Starting from a clean slate...'
-	rm -rf itsJustJavascript
-
-	@echo '==> Building...'
-	yarn lerna run build
-	yarn run tsc -b
-
-	@echo '==> Deploying to $(STAGING)...'
-	yarn buildAndDeploySite $(STAGING)
-
 test: node_modules
 	@echo '==> Linting'
 	yarn run eslint
diff --git a/baker/DeployTarget.ts b/baker/DeployTarget.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e981228c74..00000000000
--- a/baker/DeployTarget.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-export enum DeployTarget {
-    live = "live",
-    staging = "staging",
-    hans = "hans",
-    playfair = "playfair",
-    jefferson = "jefferson",
-    nightingale = "nightingale",
-    explorer = "explorer",
-    exemplars = "exemplars",
-    tufte = "tufte",
-    roser = "roser",
-    snow = "snow",
-    halley = "halley",
-    neurath = "neurath",
-    ptolemy = "ptolemy",
-    kelley = "kelley",
-}
-
-export const ProdTarget = "live"
diff --git a/baker/Deployer.ts b/baker/Deployer.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c844439159..00000000000
--- a/baker/Deployer.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,314 +0,0 @@
-import fs from "fs-extra"
-import { prompt } from "prompts"
-import ProgressBar from "progress"
-import { execWrapper } from "../db/execWrapper.js"
-import { spawn } from "child_process"
-import { simpleGit, SimpleGit } from "simple-git"
-import { WriteStream } from "tty"
-import { ProgressStream } from "./ProgressStream.js"
-import { DeployTarget, ProdTarget } from "./DeployTarget.js"
-
-const TEMP_DEPLOY_SCRIPT_PREFIX = `tempDeployScript.`
-
-interface DeployerOptions {
-    owidGrapherRootDir: string
-    userRunningTheDeploy: string
-    target: DeployTarget
-    skipChecks?: boolean
-    runChecksRemotely?: boolean
-}
-
-const OWID_STAGING_DROPLET_IP = "165.22.127.239"
-const OWID_LIVE_DROPLET_IP = "209.97.185.49"
-
-export class Deployer {
-    private options: DeployerOptions
-    private progressBar: ProgressBar
-    private stream: ProgressStream
-    constructor(options: DeployerOptions) {
-        this.options = options
-        const { target, skipChecks, runChecksRemotely } = this.options
-
-        this.stream = new ProgressStream(process.stderr)
-        // todo: a smarter way to precompute out the number of steps?
-        const testSteps = !skipChecks && !runChecksRemotely ? 1 : 0
-        this.progressBar = new ProgressBar(
-            `Baking and deploying to ${target} [:bar] :current/:total :elapseds :name\n`,
-            {
-                total: 21 + testSteps,
-                renderThrottle: 0, // print on every tick
-                stream: this.stream as unknown as WriteStream,
-            }
-        )
-    }
-
-    private async runAndTick(command: string) {
-        await execWrapper(command)
-        this.progressBar.tick({ name: `✅  finished ${command}` })
-    }
-
-    private get isValidTarget() {
-        return new Set(Object.values(DeployTarget)).has(this.options.target)
-    }
-
-    get targetIsProd() {
-        return this.options.target === ProdTarget
-    }
-
-    private get targetIpAddress() {
-        return this.targetIsProd
-            ? OWID_LIVE_DROPLET_IP
-            : OWID_STAGING_DROPLET_IP
-    }
-
-    // todo: I have not tested this yet, and would be surprised if it worked on the first attempt.
-    private async runPreDeployChecksRemotely() {
-        const { owidGrapherRootDir } = this.options
-        const { rsyncTargetDirForTests } = this.pathsOnTarget
-        const RSYNC_TESTS = `rsync -havz --no-perms --progress --delete --include=/test --include=*.test.ts --include=*.test.tsx --exclude-from=${owidGrapherRootDir}/.rsync-ignore`
-        await execWrapper(
-            `${RSYNC_TESTS} ${owidGrapherRootDir} ${this.sshHost}:${rsyncTargetDirForTests}`
-        )
-
-        const script = `cd ${rsyncTargetDirForTests}
-yarn install --immutable
-yarn testPrettierAll`
-        await execWrapper(`ssh -t ${this.sshHost} 'bash -e -s' ${script}`)
-
-        this.progressBar.tick({
-            name: "✅📡 finished running predeploy checks remotely",
-        })
-    }
-
-    private async runLiveSafetyChecks() {
-        const { simpleGit } = this
-        const branches = await simpleGit.branchLocal()
-        const branch = await branches.current
-        if (branch !== "master")
-            this.printAndExit(
-                "To deploy to live please run from the master branch."
-            )
-
-        // Making sure we have the latest changes from the upstream
-        // Also, will fail if working copy is not clean
-        try {
-            const gitStatus = await simpleGit.status()
-            // gitStatus.isClean() checks for staged, unstaged, and untracked files
-            if (!gitStatus.isClean()) throw "Git working directory is not clean"
-
-            await simpleGit.pull("origin", undefined, { "--rebase": "true" })
-        } catch (err) {
-            this.printAndExit(JSON.stringify(err))
-        }
-
-        const response = await prompt({
-            type: "confirm",
-            name: "confirmed",
-            message: "Are you sure you want to deploy to live?",
-        })
-        if (!response?.confirmed) this.printAndExit("Cancelled")
-    }
-
-    private _simpleGit?: SimpleGit
-    private get simpleGit() {
-        if (!this._simpleGit)
-            this._simpleGit = simpleGit({
-                baseDir: this.options.owidGrapherRootDir,
-                binary: "git",
-                maxConcurrentProcesses: 1,
-            })
-        return this._simpleGit
-    }
-
-    private get pathsOnTarget() {
-        const { target, userRunningTheDeploy } = this.options
-        const owidUserHomeDir = "/home/owid"
-        const owidUserHomeTmpDir = `${owidUserHomeDir}/tmp`
-
-        return {
-            owidUserHomeDir,
-            owidUserHomeTmpDir,
-            rsyncTargetDir: `${owidUserHomeTmpDir}/${target}-${userRunningTheDeploy}`,
-            rsyncTargetDirTmp: `${owidUserHomeTmpDir}/${target}-${userRunningTheDeploy}-tmp`,
-            rsyncTargetDirForTests: `${owidUserHomeTmpDir}/${target}-tests`,
-            finalTargetDir: `${owidUserHomeDir}/${target}`,
-            oldRepoBackupDir: `${owidUserHomeTmpDir}/${target}-old`,
-            finalDataDir: `${owidUserHomeDir}/${target}-data`,
-        }
-    }
-
-    private get sshHost() {
-        return `owid@${this.targetIpAddress}`
-    }
-
-    private async writeHeadDotText() {
-        const { simpleGit } = this
-        const { owidGrapherRootDir } = this.options
-        const gitCommitSHA = await simpleGit.revparse(["HEAD"])
-
-        // Write the current commit SHA to public/head.txt so we always know which commit is deployed
-        fs.writeFileSync(
-            owidGrapherRootDir + "/public/head.txt",
-            gitCommitSHA,
-            "utf8"
-        )
-        this.progressBar.tick({ name: "✅ finished writing head.txt" })
-    }
-
-    // 📡 indicates that a task is running/ran on the remote server
-    async buildAndDeploy() {
-        const { skipChecks, runChecksRemotely } = this.options
-
-        if (this.targetIsProd) await this.runLiveSafetyChecks()
-        else if (!this.isValidTarget)
-            this.printAndExit(
-                "Please select either live or a valid test target."
-            )
-
-        this.progressBar.tick({
-            name: "✅ finished validating deploy arguments",
-        })
-
-        // make sure that no old assets are left over from an old deploy
-        await this.runAndTick(`yarn cleanTsc`)
-        await this.runAndTick(`yarn buildTsc`)
-
-        if (runChecksRemotely) await this.runPreDeployChecksRemotely()
-        else if (skipChecks) {
-            if (this.targetIsProd)
-                this.printAndExit(`Cannot skip checks when deploying to live`)
-            this.progressBar.tick({
-                name: "✅ finished checks because we skipped them",
-            })
-        } else {
-            await this.runAndTick(`yarn testJest`)
-        }
-
-        await this.writeHeadDotText()
-        await this.ensureTmpDirExistsOnServer()
-
-        await this.generateShellScriptsAndRunThemOnServer()
-
-        this.progressBar.tick({
-            name: `✅ 📡 finished everything`,
-        })
-        this.stream.replay()
-    }
-
-    // todo: the old deploy script would generete BASH on the fly and run it on the server. we should clean that up and remove these shell scripts.
-    private async generateShellScriptsAndRunThemOnServer(): Promise<void> {
-        const { target, owidGrapherRootDir } = this.options
-
-        const {
-            rsyncTargetDirTmp,
-            finalTargetDir,
-            rsyncTargetDir,
-            oldRepoBackupDir,
-            finalDataDir,
-        } = this.pathsOnTarget
-
-        const scripts: any = {
-            clearOldTemporaryRepo: `rm -rf ${rsyncTargetDirTmp}`,
-            copySyncedRepo: `cp -r ${rsyncTargetDir} ${rsyncTargetDirTmp}`, // Copy the synced repo-- this is because we're about to move it, and we want the original target to stay around to make future syncs faster
-            createDataSoftlinks: `mkdir -p ${finalDataDir}/bakedSite && ln -sf ${finalDataDir}/bakedSite ${rsyncTargetDirTmp}/bakedSite`,
-            createDatasetSoftlinks: `mkdir -p ${finalDataDir}/datasetsExport && ln -sf ${finalDataDir}/datasetsExport ${rsyncTargetDirTmp}/datasetsExport`,
-            createSettingsSoftlinks: `ln -sf ${finalDataDir}/.env ${rsyncTargetDirTmp}/.env`,
-            yarn: `cd ${rsyncTargetDirTmp} && yarn install --immutable`,
-            lernaBuild: `cd ${rsyncTargetDirTmp} && yarn lerna run build`,
-            vite: `cd ${rsyncTargetDirTmp} && yarn buildVite`,
-            migrateDb: `cd ${rsyncTargetDirTmp} && yarn runDbMigrations`,
-            algolia: `cd ${rsyncTargetDirTmp} && node --enable-source-maps --unhandled-rejections=strict itsJustJavascript/baker/algolia/configureAlgolia.js`,
-            createQueueFile: `cd ${rsyncTargetDirTmp} && touch .queue && chmod 0666 .queue`,
-            swapFolders: `rm -rf ${oldRepoBackupDir} && mv ${finalTargetDir} ${oldRepoBackupDir} || true && mv ${rsyncTargetDirTmp} ${finalTargetDir}`,
-            restartAdminServer: `pm2 restart ${target}`,
-            restartDeployQueueServer: `pm2 restart ${target}-deploy-queue`,
-        }
-
-        Object.keys(scripts).forEach((name) => {
-            const localPath = `${owidGrapherRootDir}/${TEMP_DEPLOY_SCRIPT_PREFIX}${name}.sh`
-            fs.writeFileSync(localPath, scripts[name], "utf8")
-            fs.chmodSync(localPath, "755")
-        })
-
-        await this.copyLocalRepoToServerTmpDirectory()
-
-        for await (const name of Object.keys(scripts)) {
-            await this.runAndStreamScriptOnRemoteServerViaSSH(
-                `${rsyncTargetDir}/${TEMP_DEPLOY_SCRIPT_PREFIX}${name}.sh`
-            )
-            const localPath = `${owidGrapherRootDir}/${TEMP_DEPLOY_SCRIPT_PREFIX}${name}.sh`
-            fs.removeSync(localPath)
-        }
-    }
-
-    printAndExit(message: string) {
-        // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-        console.log(message)
-        process.exit()
-    }
-
-    private async ensureTmpDirExistsOnServer() {
-        const { sshHost } = this
-        const { owidUserHomeTmpDir } = this.pathsOnTarget
-        await execWrapper(`ssh ${sshHost} mkdir -p ${owidUserHomeTmpDir}`)
-        this.progressBar.tick({
-            name: `✅ 📡 finished ensuring ${owidUserHomeTmpDir} exists on ${sshHost}`,
-        })
-    }
-
-    private async copyLocalRepoToServerTmpDirectory() {
-        const { owidGrapherRootDir } = this.options
-        const { rsyncTargetDir } = this.pathsOnTarget
-        const RSYNC = `rsync -havz --no-perms --progress --delete --delete-excluded --prune-empty-dirs --exclude-from=${owidGrapherRootDir}/.rsync-ignore`
-        await execWrapper(
-            `${RSYNC} ${owidGrapherRootDir}/ ${this.sshHost}:${rsyncTargetDir}`
-        )
-        this.progressBar.tick({
-            name: `✅ 📡 finished rsync of ${owidGrapherRootDir} to ${this.sshHost} ${rsyncTargetDir}`,
-        })
-    }
-
-    private async runAndStreamScriptOnRemoteServerViaSSH(
-        path: string
-    ): Promise<void> {
-        // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-        console.log(`📡 Running ${path} on ${this.sshHost}`)
-        const bashTerminateIfAnyNonZero = "bash -e" // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9952177/whats-the-meaning-of-the-parameter-e-for-bash-shell-command-line/9952249
-        const pseudoTty = "-tt" // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7114990/pseudo-terminal-will-not-be-allocated-because-stdin-is-not-a-terminal
-        const params = [
-            pseudoTty,
-            this.sshHost,
-            bashTerminateIfAnyNonZero,
-            path,
-        ]
-        const child = spawn(`ssh`, params)
-
-        child.stdout.on("data", (data) => {
-            const trimmed = data.toString().trim()
-            if (!trimmed) return
-            // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-            console.log(trimmed)
-        })
-
-        child.stderr.on("data", (data) => {
-            const trimmed = data.toString().trim()
-            if (!trimmed) return
-            // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-            console.error(trimmed)
-        })
-
-        const exitCode: number = await new Promise((resolve) => {
-            child.on("close", resolve)
-        })
-
-        if (exitCode !== 0) {
-            throw new Error(
-                `📡⛔️ failed running ${path} [exit code ${exitCode}]`
-            )
-        }
-
-        this.progressBar.tick({
-            name: `📡✅ finished running ${path}`,
-        })
-    }
-}
diff --git a/baker/ProgressStream.ts b/baker/ProgressStream.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 65aa0a188aa..00000000000
--- a/baker/ProgressStream.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-import { WriteStream } from "tty"
-
-// Wrap stderr before passing it to ProgressBar so we can save all writes
-// and replay them at the end of the bake. Without this the progress bar class
-// works fine, but there is no way to show the summary once the job is complete.
-export class ProgressStream implements Partial<WriteStream> {
-    private wrappedStream: WriteStream
-    constructor(wrap: WriteStream) {
-        this.wrappedStream = wrap
-    }
-
-    isTTY = true
-
-    private allWrites: string[] = []
-
-    replay() {
-        console.log(this.allWrites.join(""))
-    }
-
-    write(buffer: string) {
-        this.allWrites.push(buffer)
-        return this.wrappedStream.write(buffer)
-    }
-
-    cursorTo(index: number) {
-        return this.wrappedStream.cursorTo(index)
-    }
-
-    clearLine(direction: 1) {
-        return this.wrappedStream.clearLine(direction)
-    }
-
-    get columns() {
-        return this.wrappedStream.columns
-    }
-}
diff --git a/baker/buildAndDeploySite.ts b/baker/buildAndDeploySite.ts
deleted file mode 100755
index 3852ebf59d9..00000000000
--- a/baker/buildAndDeploySite.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env node
-
-import { Deployer } from "./Deployer.js"
-import yargs from "yargs"
-import { hideBin } from "yargs/helpers"
-import os from "os"
-import path from "path"
-import { DeployTarget } from "./DeployTarget.js"
-
-void yargs(hideBin(process.argv))
-    .command<{
-        target: DeployTarget
-        skipChecks: boolean
-        runChecksRemotely: boolean
-        steps?: string[]
-    }>(
-        "$0 [target]",
-        "Deploy the site to a remote environment",
-        (yargs) => {
-            yargs.boolean(["skip-checks", "run-checks-remotely"])
-        },
-        async ({ target, skipChecks, runChecksRemotely }) => {
-            const deployer = new Deployer({
-                target: target as any,
-                userRunningTheDeploy: os.userInfo().username,
-                owidGrapherRootDir: path.normalize(__dirname + "/../../"),
-                skipChecks,
-                runChecksRemotely: runChecksRemotely,
-            })
-            await deployer.buildAndDeploy()
-        }
-    )
-    .help()
-    .alias("help", "h")
-    .strict().argv
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fc29b66b5c8..015ab84b628 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
     "packageManager": "yarn@4.1.1",
     "scripts": {
         "batchTagWithGpt": "tsx --tsconfig tsconfig.tsx.json baker/batchTagWithGpt.ts",
-        "buildAndDeploySite": "tsx --tsconfig tsconfig.tsx.json baker/buildAndDeploySite.ts",
         "buildCoverage": "jest --coverage=true --coverageProvider=v8",
         "buildLocalBake": "tsx --tsconfig tsconfig.tsx.json baker/buildLocalBake.ts",
         "buildTsc": "tsc -b -verbose",
@@ -90,7 +89,6 @@
         "@types/mysql": "^2.15.21",
         "@types/papaparse": "^5.3.5",
         "@types/progress": "^2.0.5",
-        "@types/prompts": "^2.0.14",
         "@types/randomstring": "^1.1.8",
         "@types/react": "^17.0.69",
         "@types/react-beautiful-dnd": "^13.1.2",
@@ -171,7 +169,6 @@
         "papaparse": "^5.3.1",
         "prettier": "^3.2.5",
         "progress": "^2.0.3",
-        "prompts": "^2.4.0",
         "prop-types": "^15.7.2",
         "randomstring": "^1.3.0",
         "react": "^17.0.2",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 65ccf64a4db..469cc64d160 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -5226,15 +5226,6 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
-"@types/prompts@npm:^2.0.14":
-  version: 2.0.14
-  resolution: "@types/prompts@npm:2.0.14"
-  dependencies:
-    "@types/node": "npm:*"
-  checksum: 10/e20a92a3fc38646d850ac3c7c03cab582a3b4f12224605a209ef7025d2fbe574656276ab9e43ea01b504f7e91d21a6da0119d1e1eeacf939895ec2ad8d9c6b5d
-  languageName: node
-  linkType: hard
-
 "@types/prop-types@npm:*":
   version: 15.7.1
   resolution: "@types/prop-types@npm:15.7.1"
@@ -11068,7 +11059,6 @@ __metadata:
     "@types/mysql": "npm:^2.15.21"
     "@types/papaparse": "npm:^5.3.5"
     "@types/progress": "npm:^2.0.5"
-    "@types/prompts": "npm:^2.0.14"
     "@types/randomstring": "npm:^1.1.8"
     "@types/react": "npm:^17.0.69"
     "@types/react-beautiful-dnd": "npm:^13.1.2"
@@ -11162,7 +11152,6 @@ __metadata:
     papaparse: "npm:^5.3.1"
     prettier: "npm:^3.2.5"
     progress: "npm:^2.0.3"
-    prompts: "npm:^2.4.0"
     prop-types: "npm:^15.7.2"
     randomstring: "npm:^1.3.0"
     react: "npm:^17.0.2"
@@ -16114,7 +16103,7 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
-"prompts@npm:^2.0.1, prompts@npm:^2.4.0":
+"prompts@npm:^2.0.1":
   version: 2.4.0
   resolution: "prompts@npm:2.4.0"
   dependencies: