diff --git a/snappea/foreman.py b/snappea/foreman.py
index a09fa14..0c587b3 100644
--- a/snappea/foreman.py
+++ b/snappea/foreman.py
@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ class Foreman:
         # stops. (the value of this semaphore is implicitly NUM_WORKERS - active_workers)
         self.worker_semaphore = threading.Semaphore(self.settings.NUM_WORKERS)
 
+        # "initialize" the application.
+        # this is likely in the wrong place, but I want to have it "somewhere" (before the workers start). And thinking
+        # of the right place is something I want to postpone (it's also something we need to do for gunicorn, where it's
+        # even harder because multi-process means the n (number of workers) don't share the same instance.
+        from bugsink.registry import get_pc_registry
+        get_pc_registry()
+
     def run_in_thread(self, task_id, function, *args, **kwargs):
         # NOTE: we expose args & kwargs in the logs; as it stands no sensitive stuff lives there in our case, but this
         # is something to keep an eye on