Benchmarks & intelligence
How peer benchmarks, ratings, and the Verinode Score are built and how to read them.
33 articles · IQ & HQ
How benchmarks work
How Verinode builds peer benchmarks, why they stay anonymous, and how to read a benchmark against your cohort.
Reading the Verinode Score
What the Verinode Score measures, how it is built, and how to use it to focus your week.
How peer ratings work
What peer ratings measure, how they stay anonymous, and how to read them alongside the benchmarks.
Am I ahead of peers? The peer-compare stat widget
The peer-compare widget is the small "how does this number sit against everyone else" bar that rides underneath a stat, wherever that stat already lives. It is not a page, a report, or a chart you…
Benchmark access and why some numbers are locked
When you open Benchmarks, you see the whole page: every metric row, every category, every tile, laid out in full. But some of the peer numbers on it are blurred or greyed out, with a small copper p…
Benchmarks on mobile
The mobile Benchmarks surface carries the same intelligence as the web version, rebuilt for a phone. The data is the same peer bands, the same ratings, the same carrier and TPA reads. What changes…
Category benchmark pages
A category benchmark page is a dedicated page for one grouping of related metrics. Where the Benchmarks tab gives you a wide sweep, a featured tile and a summary per area, a category page zooms int…
Choosing who you compare against (National / State / Group)
Every number Verinode shows you is more useful next to a peer number. A margin of 14% means something different if the operators around you are running 10% or 20%. But "peers" is not one fixed grou…
Cohorts and scope, who you are compared against
Every peer number on the Benchmarks page answers the same question in a different way: how does this compare to other operators like me? A **cohort** is that set of "operators like me." It is the g…
Compare vendors side by side
The Compare modal puts up to four vendors in columns, side by side, so you can read the same facts about each one in a single view instead of clicking between four separate vendor cards. It is the…
Comparing a job against its cohort
Every job has a story about speed and money: how many days it sat before the carrier paid, how quickly your crew got on-site, how long the whole thing took start to finish. On its own, a number lik…
Comparing vendors across the network (HQ)
When you open a vendor from your network's Vendors home, you get an option to see how it stacks up against the best-scored alternatives in the same category, but read at the level of the whole fran…
Comparisons: how side-by-side and peer comparison works
Comparisons is not a page on the platform. It is a capability that lives inside the sections where a comparison actually matters: Vendors, Jobs, and Carriers (Carriers live under the Clients sectio…
Entity and client profiles
Every name you see in Benchmarks is tappable. Behind each one is a profile: your own view of that entity, laid over what the rest of the network experiences with it. A profile is where a benchmark…
Handing a comparison to Verinode Advisory
Verinode Advisory is a human team, not an automated agent. Where IQ works inside the product on your behalf, Advisory is a service you can hand a specific piece of work to: sourcing new vendors, ru…
How to read a benchmark
A single benchmark is not a scoreboard number. It is a picture of the whole market for one metric, with your own position marked on it. The point is never "here is your labor ratio." The point is "…
Industry Data on mobile
Industry Data is the published record: what the wider restoration market is doing, according to sources that are not you and not your peers. It is the sibling of [Benchmarks](/help/benchmarks-on-mo…
Rating an entity
Every peer number in [Vendor and Equipment Intelligence](/help/peer-ratings-and-reviews) exists because operators like you rated the thing. A rating is the smallest, fastest contribution you can ma…
Reading the comparison bar visualization
The comparison bar is the single gradient chart Verinode uses everywhere it compares one of your numbers to the reference points around it: a Verinode Research figure, an industry number, the peer…
The Analyst Reports tab
The Analyst Reports tab is where Verinode Research publications live inside the product. It carries the Restoration Software Intelligence Reports and the field analysis our research team writes abo…
The benchmark categories
The Benchmarks tab holds a lot of numbers. Rather than one long scroll of every metric Verinode tracks, the metrics are grouped into named categories, the way a financial terminal groups instrument…
The benchmark deep-dive
A benchmark tile on the Benchmarks page gives you the headline: your number and a sense of where it sits. The deep-dive is what opens when you tap that tile, and it is where the single number turns…
The Benchmarks data room
Benchmarks is the data room where Verinode turns the numbers already sitting in your invoices, payroll, financials, and inbox into a read on the whole restoration market, with your own position mar…
The Carriers and TPAs benchmark tab
The Carriers and TPAs tab inside Benchmarks is the network view of the counterparties you work for: the carriers who write the claims and the third-party administrators who manage them. It reads as…
The Conditions tab
Benchmarks next door is about you and your peers: your margin against the cohort, your rates against the network. Conditions is the other half of the picture, and it is **not** built from operator…
The Industry Data section
Industry Data is the published record: what the wider restoration market is doing, according to sources that are not you and not your peers. Government series, industry indices, weather and catastr…
The Materials benchmark tab
The Materials tab lives inside the Benchmarks section. Its subtitle states the job in one line:
The News tab
The News tab is the restoration industry feed inside [Industry Data](/help/industry-overview). It pulls together what is happening across the trade (reporting, interviews, product releases, events,…
The Verinode Score on vendors and entities
The Verinode Score is the headline rating we put on an external, rate-able entity: a software vendor, an equipment brand, a subcontractor, a carrier or TPA, a materials supplier, and so on. You see…
The vs Peers panel on entity detail
Every time you open a single job, vendor, client, carrier, equipment unit, or safety record, one panel sits above everything else on the card: "How You Compare." It answers the first question you a…
TPA rates and line-item pricing benchmarks
The Benchmarks page carries two pricing surfaces that read your prices against the anonymized network, not just against yourself. The first, **TPA program rates**, shows the discount and fees you a…
Vendor and Equipment Intelligence
**Vendor Intelligence** and **Equipment Intelligence** are where the network's collective experience with a supplier, a piece of gear, or a way of working becomes a number you can act on. They were…
Watching a metric
Some numbers you check once. Others you want to know the moment they move, a benchmark you are working to close, an industry series that shapes your next quarter. Watching a metric puts that number…