Getting started

Welcome to Verinode

What Verinode is, what it does for your restoration business, and how to get oriented in your first week.

The value Verinode delivers

How Verinode shows the concrete dollar impact of the decisions you act on.

Achieving a goal: celebration, sharing, and history

Every goal you set in Verinode is chased against a real number: your own data, read the same way Benchmarks reads it, moving toward a target you set. When a later, genuinely measured read crosses t…

Analyst apps on your phone

The analyst apps are not a desktop feature with a mobile summary. The section homes on your phone carry the same **Apps** row the web sections do, with the same tiles opening the same apps, and a f…

App results and the PDF export

When an analyst app finishes, what you have is not a chat reply that scrolls away; it is a saved artifact. Results do not age out: the raw working transcripts behind a run are housekeeping and expi…

Browse all goals: the full metric catalog

Your Goals live in one place, but they start from one problem: how do you know which number to chase next? Browse All Goals is the answer. It is the full list of every metric a restoration owner wa…

Choosing a time window on Impact

Every number on the Impact page (`/impact`, **Impact** in the sidebar) is measured over a period. The window picker in the top-right of the page header is what sets that period. It is four plain-te…

Goals: what you're working toward

Every other view in Verinode looks backward: what happened, what it cost, what IQ found. Goals is the one view that looks forward. It turns a benchmark into a target you actually chose, tracks your…

Hard Recoverable vs Soft Conditional dollars

Every dollar figure IQ shows you on the Impact page falls into one of two buckets, and Verinode never adds them together into a single number.

How "Suggested for you" picks a section

Most sections of Verinode start dormant and switch on only when you decide they are relevant, the anti-overwhelm posture covered in [switching sections on](/help/impact-dormant-activation). "Sugges…

How Verinode gets to know your business, section by section

Think of IQ as a new hire, a sharp one, your Chief Data Officer, who showed up on day one knowing the restoration industry cold but knowing nothing about your business yet. IQ is an AI that works e…

Impact on mobile

Impact is where Verinode answers the only question that matters after you have been using it for a while: what did this actually do for my business. The mobile Impact view is a compact mirror of th…

Inspecting an activity event

The Activity tab on the Impact page is a running log: every document you upload, every decision you act on, park, or ignore, every conversation you start with IQ, every survey you send, and every m…

Opening a decision from Impact

Every row you see on the Decisions tab and the Dollars tab of Impact is a summary line: a status, a title, maybe a dollar figure, how long ago it happened. Click any of those rows and the card does…

Switching on the Impact section

Most sections of Verinode start dormant and have to be switched on before they show live data. Impact is not one of them. This article explains the switch-on mechanism you will see on other section…

The Apps row on every section

Every section home now carries a row titled **Apps**, sitting between the hero and the rest of the page. It holds the section's tools: the things you can start, open, or add at any time. **Take Act…

The Decisions row: Surfaced, Acted, Parked, Ignored

Every restaurant, roofer, or restoration operator asks IQ some version of the same question eventually: is this thing actually doing anything for me? The Decisions row is where Verinode answers it…

The first-visit intro on a section

The first time you open a section that onboards itself, a short click-through appears a moment after you land. It shows once per person per section: if you invite a teammate, they get their own fir…

The Get IQ Up To Speed row

On the home page of a section that is still learning your business, a row titled **Get IQ Up To Speed** sits above the section's regular content. It is the persistent half of section onboarding: th…

The goal IQ suggests, and setting it

Once IQ has enough of a read on your numbers, it does not wait for you to think of a goal. It picks one for you: the single biggest, most credible opportunity in your own data, and puts it in front…

The Impact activity timeline

Impact is where Verinode totals up what IQ has actually done for your business: decisions surfaced and acted on, dollars recovered, and how much you have engaged with IQ. Underneath the metric tile…

The Impact hero: Decisions Acted and IQ utilization

Impact is where Verinode answers one question in plain numbers: what has IQ actually done for your business, and how much of it are you using. The hero band at the top of the page is the headline o…

The Impact section: your ROI on IQ

Every other section of Verinode is where the work happens: jobs, clients, margin, benchmarks. Impact is the one section that looks back at all of that and answers a single question: what did IQ act…

The section review apps, at a glance

Nearly every section carries a review app in its **Apps** row: the section's own analyst, run on demand over your own data, returning a finding you keep. They all work the same way, the three scree…

The Working with IQ row: how you engaged

The **Working with IQ** row is the third row of tiles on the Impact page. Where the Decisions row above it tells you what IQ found and what you did about it, this row tells you how much you actuall…

Tracking an active goal: progress, adjust, retire

Once you have accepted a goal, either the one IQ proposed or one you picked yourself from the catalog, it becomes a live goal card in the **Goals** tab. This is where you watch it move: where you s…

What an analyst app is

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:…