Your IU spend log

What this is

Every action IQ takes on your behalf, reading a document, drafting a plan, answering a question in chat, running a benchmark comparison, spends Intelligence Units (IUs). The IU balance chip is the small pill that shows your current balance at a glance; clicking it opens the spend log, a single overlay with everything about where your IUs have gone: your current balance, a 30-day spend summary broken out by category, a line-by-line ledger of the last 50 entries, and a button to add more capacity.

Verinode does not decide what you spend IUs on. IQ surfaces recommendations and you choose which to act on; the spend log simply keeps that spending visible, the same way a fractional COO would keep you posted on their own hours rather than leave you guessing.

Where to find it

The balance chip lives in the page header of Settings, top right, next to the page title, and again at the top of Settings → Membership. Open Settings from the sidebar (iq.verinode.ai/settings) to see it.

The chip only appears for account admins, since it is part of billing. If you sign in as a team member without admin rights, you will not see it.

The pill itself reads your balance in whole numbers, for example "480 IU," with a small colored dot beside it. Hovering it shows a tooltip with the same value translation used inside the overlay, for example "About 16 decisions or 160 conversations left. At your pace, lasts about 3 weeks. Click to see spend." Click the pill to open the spend log.

The balance hero

The overlay opens titled Intelligence Units under the eyebrow Membership, with Last 50 entries noted in the header. At the top sits the balance hero:

• Your balance, a large number in IU, for example "480 IU." It reads in copper normally and switches to amber when you are running low (the same ~15% threshold as the chip).
• Directly under it, if you have a value translation available: "About [N] decisions or [N] conversations", so the raw IU count always comes paired with what it actually buys you, never a bare number.
• Below that, a personalized runway line when one is available: "At your pace, this lasts [label]." The label is plain language, "about 5 days," "about 3 weeks," or if your usage is light, "plenty this month."
• "of [allotment] this period ([X]% remaining)", shown whenever your tier carries a monthly (or, for the free tier, annual/one-time) allotment, so the balance is always read against what you are entitled to, not in isolation.
• If your balance has dropped under the low threshold, a bolded warning appears: "You're approaching your usage limit. Top up below or wait for your next allotment."

Last 30 days: spend by category

Underneath the hero, one of two things shows, depending on whether you have actually spent anything in the trailing 30 days.

If you have spent in the last 30 days

The section is headed Last 30 days, with the line:

"You've spent [total] IU in the last 30 days."

If there is more than one kind of spend behind that total, the sentence continues, "Breakdown:", followed by a grid of up to six categories, largest first, each showing the category name and how many IUs went to it. Categories are labeled in plain language, not raw system codes. The categories you will actually see map like this:

Money spent:

• Agent run
• Research report
• Analysis
• Ingestion
• Other spend

Earned back:

• Earned · contribution
• Earned · referral
• Earned · validation

Any spend type the overlay does not recognize by name is still shown, just title-cased into a readable label rather than left as a raw code.

If you have not spent anything in the last 30 days

Instead of the breakdown, the overlay shows a short planner: "How much will you lean on IQ?" This is for accounts that are currently idle, whether you are brand new or you simply have not run anything through IQ in the last month, since there is no recent spend to summarize.

1. 1Pick one of three plain-language paces: Now and then (a few decisions a week), Most weeks (part of your routine), or All in (across your whole operation). "Most weeks" is selected by default.
2. 2The planner translates your pick into "about [N] decisions a month."
3. 3A coverage bar shows that expected pace against your included monthly allotment, filling in green when you are comfortably covered, with a note underneath, "Your membership includes about [N] decisions a month, so you are covered," or, if the pace would run past your allotment, "In a busy month you would add about [N] more. A quick top-up covers it."
4. 4If you currently hold a balance, a runway line follows: "At this pace, your current balance lasts [label]."

Contributor-tier accounts that cannot purchase additional IUs see a slightly different note in step 3: "Your free allotment covers about [N] a month. At this pace you would go about [N] beyond it. Members can add more."

Activity: the ledger table

Below the 30-day summary sits Activity, a table of your most recent ledger entries, newest first, capped at the last 50. Four columns:

• When, the entry's date, formatted to stay readable at a glance: entries from today show a time ("2:30 PM"), entries from the last week show the weekday and hour ("Tue, 2 PM"), anything older shows month and day ("Jul 3").
• Reason, a plain-language label for what the entry was, using the same category names described above (Agent run, Research report, Monthly allotment, IU pack purchase, Refund, and so on), never a raw code.
• Δ IU, the amount that entry changed your balance by, in green with a leading "+" when IUs were added, in red when IUs were spent.
• Balance, your running balance immediately after that entry landed, so you can see the trend line entry by entry without doing the math yourself.

Empty state. If you have no ledger entries at all yet, the table reads a single centered row: "No activity yet."

Add capacity

At the bottom of the overlay, a line of context reads: "IU never expire while your membership stays active." Beside it sits the Add capacity button. Clicking it opens the top-up flow on top of the spend log: pick a one-time bundle or a recurring monthly size, and if you already have a card on file the charge goes through in a second or two with no separate checkout page; first-time buyers land on a short embedded card form first. See Buying Intelligence Units: bundles vs recurring for the full breakdown of bundle sizes, pricing, and how recurring differs from one-time.

Related reading

• Reading your IU balance, for the full balance summary on the Billing page, including the paused state and monthly allotment by tier.
• Buying Intelligence Units: bundles vs recurring, for what the Add capacity button opens into.
• The decision workspace, for what the AI-initiated work behind these ledger entries actually looks like.
• The Feed, where AI-drafted cards appear as IUs are spent.