What an analyst app is

The idea

An analyst app is a tool you point at your own book. It reads your own data, jobs, invoices, agreements, reviews, whatever the section holds, reasons over it, and hands you back a finding you keep: a saved, titled, re-readable result that lands in the app's own card rather than scrolling away in a chat thread. Ask the same question again next quarter and both answers sit side by side, dated, so you can see what changed.

That last part is the point. Before analyst apps, asking Verinode to review your vendors or your customer agreement opened a conversation in the IQ side panel, and the answer lived only there: useful in the moment, gone from view the moment the thread moved on. An analyst app runs the same specialist over the same data, but the finding is kept, listed under Past analyses, pinnable, and exportable as a PDF you can hand to someone who was not in the room.

Where you find them

Section homes carry an Apps row, and where a section has an analyst app, it leads that row: a dark album-cover tile with a small breathing "Live" dot, the app's name, its outcome in one line ("Which vendors cost more than they should, and where to renegotiate"), and a Preview button. Clicking it opens the app as a card over the page; your navigation and the IQ panel stay where they are, and closing the card drops you back where you were. The full row and why it exists is covered in the Apps row on every section, and the complete catalog of section review apps is in the section review apps, at a glance.

The three screens

Every analyst app is the same three screens, deliberately. There is no wizard, no setup flow, and never more than one choice to make before you run.

1. 1Start. The card opens on what you already have. If you have run this app before, your previous results sit at the top, each one a tap away from re-reading. Below that, while you are still new to the tool, the app states what you get in one bold line, explains how it works in plain language, and shows a worked example of a finding, clearly labeled as an example ("This is an example. Your vendors fill in as their bills land against your jobs."). And when the app has little to read yet, a line at the bottom names the exact document that makes it work and the tool it comes from, "Send vendor invoices or a job cost export from QuickBooks, WorkCenter, DASH or Albi", not a vague "add more data." After your first few runs the pitch and the sample retire, and the run control leads.
2. 2Run. At most one choice. An app that can run more than one review, like Contract Review's customer agreement versus carrier or TPA program, shows a two-way picker with a one-line description of what each option reads. An app with one thing to run shows just the button. A generator like Draft a Requisition adds a single text field for its subject. Under the button, before you click anything, the cost is stated plainly: "About 15 IU for the whole analysis, including the back and forth. You are charged per message." What that number covers, and the consent step behind it, is in what a run costs.
3. 3Result. The card switches to the result immediately, so the work happens where you can watch it. While the specialist reads your data, the card says "Working through it. This usually takes a minute or two," and adds: "You can close this. The result will be waiting here when you come back." That is literal; the run keeps going without you, and the finished finding lands in the card whether you watched or not. A run that fails says so, keeps nothing, and running again does not double-charge you for the run that failed.

Four things you can do with a result

A finished result is an artifact, not a message, and it has four verbs.

• Pin it. A Pin control sits at the top right of every result. A pinned result marks the finding you want to keep at hand among the rest.
• Re-read it. Every finished analysis lives under the Past analyses tab, newest first, each row showing its title, its one-line summary, and when it ran. The tab only appears once you have at least one result, so a first-time user is not shown an empty log in front of the tool. Reopening a past result is free; you are re-reading a saved finding, not paying to run it again.
• Talk it through with IQ. A Talk this through with IQ button under the finding opens the conversation seeded with this result, so you can ask why, challenge a conclusion, or work out what to do about it, with the specialist already holding the context.
• Export it as a PDF. An Export as PDF button downloads the finding as a branded document that states what it covers, so it stands alone outside the platform. The details are in results and the PDF export.

What an analyst app will and will not do

The specialists behind these apps are held to a consistent honesty bound: they read what your data shows and report what they find, and they say plainly what your data does not show. They do not invent a number to fill a thin book, they never borrow another operator's figures to fill a gap in yours, and where a subject has a hard edge, Contract Review will suggest language to take to your attorney but will not tell you whether a clause is enforceable, because that depends on your state, the app says so before you run it. Where a comparison against operators like you is part of the read, it appears as more operators contribute, and its absence is not about anything missing from your data.

One app in the family runs differently: Estimate Analysis on Jobs is computed statistically from your own past estimates, with no AI model involved at all, so it costs nothing and shows no consent step. Same three screens, same kept result, different engine.

Best-practice example

You open Vendors on a Tuesday and click the Vendor Review tile. The card opens on the outcome line, the example finding, and one button. You press Review my vendors, confirm the run, and close the card to get back to your day. Twenty minutes later you reopen the app: the finding is waiting, three vendors named as running heavier than comparable work usually carries, one concentration risk flagged. You pin it, export the PDF for your Thursday meeting with your office manager, and in October you run it again and read both results side by side under Past analyses to see whether the renegotiation moved the number.

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