diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 9625774..4899fcf 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 `react-component-test-suite` — consistent, reusable test suites for React components in Jest or Vitest, naming each `describe` block after the component under test. Published to npm, bundled by tsdown.
 
-- **Layout**: `src/component-suite.tsx` is the entrypoint, `src/utils.ts` its helpers; unit tests live in `src/__tests__/` with shared fixtures in `src/__tests__/__helpers__/`.
+- **Layout**: `src/component-suite.tsx` is the entrypoint, `src/utils/index.ts` its helpers; unit tests live in `src/__tests__/` with shared fixtures in `src/__tests__/__helpers__/`.
 - **Peers**: `react`, `@types/react`, and the Testing Library packages are peers; `vitest` and `jest` are optional peers, so nothing may import either test runner at module scope.
 
 ## Code conventions
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@ Conventions live outside this file, synced from https://github.com/bvandrc/bvand
 ## Repo conventions
 
 - **Package manager**: pnpm. `npm install` writes a competing `package-lock.json` that CI ignores.
+- **Typed `Object` walks**: `typedKeys`, `typedEntries`, and `typedFromEntries`, exported from `src/utils/index.ts`, are ours. They are the builtins with the cast a call site would otherwise write by hand, so reach for one instead of asserting the result -- and leave `Object.keys`/`entries`/`fromEntries` alone where the widened type is what's wanted.
 - **Convention files**: `conventions/` is synced from https://github.com/bvandrc/bvandrc-conventions by `.github/workflows/sync-conventions.yml` and overwritten on every sync. Edit a rule upstream, never in that directory.
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 31ab4ad..0000000
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-export type AnyFunctionComponent = React.FunctionComponentElement<unknown>
-
-/** The component's name, used to title the suite written for it. */
-export const getComponentName = (Component: AnyFunctionComponent): string => {
-  const name =
-    Component.type.name ||
-    Component.type.displayName ||
-    (Component as unknown as { displayName?: string }).displayName
-  if (!name) {
-    throw new Error(
-      'Component has no name. May be a React.MemoExoticComponent-- if so, set displayName on the component.'
-    )
-  }
-  return name
-}
diff --git a/src/utils/index.ts b/src/utils/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d58cc52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import type { Entries } from 'type-fest'
+
+/**
+ * `Object.keys`, typed as the keys of what was passed.
+ *
+ * Narrower than the runtime guarantees: a value can carry keys beyond the ones
+ * its type names, which is the cast being made on purpose.
+ *
+ * Restricted to plain records: an array's `keyof` names its string methods, not
+ * the numeric-as-string indices `Object.keys` actually returns, so an array
+ * argument is refused rather than mistyped.
+ */
+export const typedKeys = <T extends Record<PropertyKey, unknown>>(o: T) =>
+  Object.keys(o) as (keyof T & string)[]
+
+/**
+ * `Object.entries`, typed as the entries of what was passed.
+ *
+ * Carries the key-to-value correlation that `Object.entries` drops, so
+ * destructuring an entry of a union-valued object narrows. Refuses an array
+ * argument for the same reason as `typedKeys`.
+ */
+export const typedEntries = <T extends Record<PropertyKey, unknown>>(o: T) =>
+  Object.entries(o) as Entries<T>
+
+/**
+ * `Object.fromEntries`, typed as the object those entries build.
+ *
+ * Only as precise as the entries it is handed, so a `.map` that wants each key
+ * paired with its own value type annotates the callback's return as a tuple.
+ */
+export const typedFromEntries = <
+  const EntryList extends readonly (readonly [PropertyKey, unknown])[],
+>(
+  entries: EntryList
+) =>
+  Object.fromEntries(entries) as {
+    [Entry in EntryList[number] as Entry[0]]: Entry[1]
+  }
+
+export type AnyFunctionComponent = React.FunctionComponentElement<unknown>
+
+/** The component's name, used to title the suite written for it. */
+export const getComponentName = (Component: AnyFunctionComponent): string => {
+  const name =
+    Component.type.name ||
+    Component.type.displayName ||
+    (Component as unknown as { displayName?: string }).displayName
+  if (!name) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'Component has no name. May be a React.MemoExoticComponent-- if so, set displayName on the component.'
+    )
+  }
+  return name
+}