Vendors & equipment

Vendor spend and program fit

Track what you spend with each vendor and whether your stack matches high-performing peers.

Managing your equipment

Keep your equipment tracked, maintained, and refreshed before it costs you a job.

Facilities and leases

Track your facilities and lease commitments, and catch renewal and cost risk early.

Your vehicle fleet

Keep your vehicles compliant and see insurance, maintenance, and accident risk in one place.

"Accidents: the 36-month record brokers price on"

Every commercial auto broker asks the same question at renewal: how many accidents, how many at fault, and how much in claims, over the past 36 months. Most operators answer that question from memo…

"Exiting a facility: the decommission cascade"

Every facility in Verinode is a hub that other records attach to: its lease, its compliance calendar, its consumable stock, its recurring costs, and any equipment stored there. When you actually gi…

"Leases: rent, terms, and renewal deadlines"

A lease record holds everything about the agreement that puts a facility in your hands: who the landlord is, when the term starts and ends, what you owe each month, and how much notice you have to…

"Maintenance Schedules: interval plans that never miss a service"

Maintenance Schedules is a small, self-contained tool inside Equipment (and Fleet) for the one job neither section does automatically: reminding you when a specific unit is due for a specific servi…

"Unit detail: identification, provenance, assignment, and storage"

Open any single piece of equipment and Verinode opens a detail card for that one unit. Overview is the first pill inside that card, the plain paper trail on the unit itself: what it is, where it ca…

"Vendor Detail: Stack Fit (Ecosystem Fit)"

Stack Fit is the section of the vendor card that answers a narrower, practical question than cost or score: if you actually turned this vendor on tomorrow, would it work with what you already run?…

Adding a facility

A facility is a physical location your business operates from: an office, a warehouse, an equipment yard, a truck hub, a storage unit, a branch, or any mixed-use space. Verinode's Facilities sectio…

Adding a vehicle to your fleet

Fleet is where Verinode keeps your service trucks, vans, trailers, and specialty rigs, along with the maintenance, compliance, insurance, driver, cost, and accident records that hang off each one.…

Adding a Vendor: Guided Selection and Manual Add

Verinode gives you two ways to add a vendor to your stack: a guided flow where IQ interviews you briefly and hands back a ranked shortlist, and a direct form for when you already know exactly who y…

All Equipment tab: filters, views, and comparing units

**All Equipment** is your full, searchable roster of every dehumidifier, air mover, moisture meter, extractor, and other unit Verinode has picked up for your fleet, in one filterable list. It sits…

Benchmarks tab: class coverage and peer intelligence

Every other tab in Equipment looks at your fleet on its own: what you own, what condition it's in, how it's held. The Benchmarks tab is the one place that looks outward, at the regional peer cohort…

Compliance: inspections, COIs, and postings on a calendar

Every facility you run carries a stack of recurring obligations that have nothing to do with the jobs you're working: the fire inspection has to happen, the OSHA posting has to stay current, the ce…

Compliance: the calendar for registrations, DOT, IFTA and more

Every vehicle you run carries a set of paperwork deadlines that do not move for you: a registration renewal, an annual DOT inspection, a safety inspection, an emissions test, an IFTA fuel-tax filin…

Condition tab: the gauge cluster and attention lists

Equipment is capital sitting in your trucks and your warehouse: dehumidifiers, air movers, moisture meters, extractors, thermal cameras. Some of it is aging out, some of it needs calibration before…

Consumables: PPE and supply inventory with reorder thresholds

Consumables is the light-weight inventory layer for the stockable supplies sitting at each of your facilities: PPE (gloves, respirators, coveralls), drying agents, antimicrobial spray, janitorial a…

Drivers: license expiry and MVR compliance

Every operator running a fleet has a second compliance surface that has nothing to do with the vehicles themselves: the people behind the wheel. A commercial auto policy, a broker renewal, or a DOT…

Equipment classes, auto-classification, and the mobile view

Every dehumidifier, air mover, air scrubber, moisture meter, extractor, truck mount, or vehicle you log ends up needing a specific class before Verinode can do anything useful with it. A photo, CSV…

Equipment: your fleet at a glance

Equipment is where Verinode reads your fleet, dehumidifiers, air movers, air scrubbers, moisture meters, extractors, truck mounts, trucks, and every other piece of gear you run jobs on, and turns i…

Explore Tile: All Vendors (Your Stack)

**All Vendors** is the first tile in the Explore row on the Vendors home page, and it is your full, searchable roster: every software subscription, equipment rental account, subcontractor, and supp…

Explore Tile: Average Verinode Score

Open **Vendors** from the sidebar (`/vendors`) and look at the **Explore** row, the horizontal strip of five tiles below Take Action. The second tile, labeled **Avg Score**, is the single number fo…

Explore Tile: Coverage (Stack vs Archetype)

Coverage answers one question: against the vendor categories a company of your size and type typically has in place, how much of your stack is actually filled in? Verinode calls that reference list…

Explore Tile: Renewals

Renewals is one of the five Explore tiles on the Vendors page, sitting alongside All Vendors, Avg Score, Coverage, and Spend. It answers one question: which vendor contracts are coming up for renew…

Explore Tile: Spend

Spend answers one question: what are you actually paying your vendor stack, right now, every month? Verinode builds this entirely from your active vendor relationships, specifically the committed m…

Explore tiles: All Equipment, Aging, Calibration, Rentals, Benchmarks

Open **Equipment** from the sidebar at `iq.verinode.ai/equipment`. Below the hero panel and the **Take Action** row sits **Explore**, a horizontal row of five tiles: **All Equipment**, **Aging Unit…

Facilities on mobile

Facilities is your physical footprint: offices, warehouses, equipment yards, truck hubs, storage units, and branches, along with what each one costs to run. On mobile it is a read-only mirror of th…

Facilities taxonomy: types, ownership, statuses, and categories

Every facility record in Verinode is built from a small set of fixed, closed lists: the kind of facility it is, how you hold it, what state it's in, what compliance obligations look like, what a co…

Facilities: your operator footprint at a glance

Facilities is where Verinode reads your physical footprint: the offices, warehouses, equipment yards, truck hubs, and storage units you operate out of. It is not a property management tool and it d…

Facility benchmarks: cost per sqft and lease terms vs peers

Every night, Verinode rolls your active facilities, leases, and recurring costs up into a set of portfolio numbers, cost per square foot, owned versus leased mix, average lease term, escalation rat…

Filling Coverage Gaps and Merging Duplicate Vendors

Three separate, focused tools live inside the Vendors section for keeping your vendor stack accurate: filling an open slot when you spot a gap, folding two vendor rows together when the same real-w…

Findings tab: equipment decisions grid

Equipment has its own card slider, the overlay that opens when you click into the section from `/equipment`, and Findings is the first of its five tabs: **Findings, All Equipment, Condition, Utiliz…

Footprint: the full list of your locations

Footprint is the plain list of every physical location your business runs out of: offices, warehouses, equipment yards, truck hubs, storage units, branches, or anything mixed-use. It is the first o…

How equipment tips are generated and acted on

Every night, Verinode reads your equipment fleet, the jobs it has been deployed on, and the manufacturer and rental-rate catalog, and looks for anything worth your attention: a unit aging toward th…

How Fleet compares you to peers

Fleet is where you track vehicles, maintenance, DOT compliance, insurance, drivers, and recurring costs. Underneath that record-keeping, Verinode reads four numbers out of your fleet data every nig…

Inside a Vendor Card: The Detail View

Tap any vendor, on the **Most recent** row, inside the **Stack** or **Score** view, or from a decision tile in Take Action, and its full detail card opens as a glass overlay on top of the Vendors h…

Insurance: tracking your commercial auto policy and renewal

Most restoration operators carry one commercial auto policy that covers the whole fleet, not a separate policy per vehicle. The Insurance tab is where that policy lives inside Verinode: the policy…

Lease intelligence: escalations, notice windows, and landlord matching

Adding a lease to a facility (covered in [Leases: rent, terms, and renewal deadlines](/help/facilities-leases)) gives Verinode the raw contract terms: landlord, term, rent, escalation clause, notic…

Maintenance: logging service history and reading your rhythm

Every restoration operator runs a small fleet of trucks, vans, and trailers, and every one of them needs oil changes, tires, brakes, and the occasional repair. The Maintenance tab is where that ser…

Marketing co-op overview

A marketing co-op is a shared pool of money a franchise network's HQ runs on behalf of its memberships: a share of revenue is contributed into the pool, and memberships draw reimbursements back out…

Reading the Fleet hero: active vehicles, acquisition value, ownership mix

Every service truck, van, equipment trailer, hydrovac, and contents-transport vehicle you run sits in one place: **Fleet**, in the sidebar, at `/fleet`. The page opens with a flat hero band, no car…

Reading your co-op activity ledger

Every dollar that moves through your marketing co-op, whether it went into the pool as a contribution or came back out to you as a reimbursement, leaves a row in a ledger that your franchise networ…

Recurring costs: fuel, leases, parking and tolls

Every vehicle in your fleet carries costs that show up on a schedule, not on a repair invoice: fuel, a lease or loan payment, a parking permit, tolls. None of that lives on a single work order, so…

Recurring costs: utilities, taxes, and the all-in monthly roll-up

Rent is only part of what a facility costs you every month. Utilities, internet, security monitoring, janitorial, landscaping, trash removal, property tax, property insurance, and anything else tha…

Reimbursement status: accrued, approved, paid

Every row in your marketing co-op ledger, whether it is a contribution going into the pool or a reimbursement request coming back out, carries a status. That status is the single field that tells y…

Submitting a reimbursement request

Marketing co-op is a program HQ can activate for your network where you contribute a share of marketing spend into a shared pool, and can request reimbursement back out of it for campaigns you've r…

Take Action: equipment decisions and empty states

Every dehumidifier, air mover, truck-mount, moisture meter, and rented unit your crews touch sits in one place: **Equipment**, in the sidebar, at `/equipment`. Directly under the hero band at the t…

The Equipment hero: active count, avg age, aging, calibration

Every dehumidifier, air mover, truck-mount, moisture meter, and thermal camera you run sits in one place: **Equipment**, in the sidebar, at `/equipment`. The page opens with a flat hero band, no ca…

The Facilities home: hero, Apps, and Needs Attention

Facilities is where Verinode reads your physical footprint: offices, warehouses, equipment yards, truck hubs, storage units, and branches. It is not a lease management system or a maintenance ticke…

The facility profile: overview, inline edit, and drill-in

Every facility on your footprint, an office, a warehouse, an equipment yard, a truck hub, a storage unit, a branch, or a mixed-use space, has its own profile: a per-facility detail card that opens…

The Findings Tab: Vendor Decisions

Vendors has its own card slider, the overlay that opens when you click into the section from `/vendors`, and Findings is the first of its five tabs: **Findings, Stack, Coverage, Spend, Renewals**.…

The Fleet Apps and Needs Attention rows

Fleet is where Verinode reads your vehicles: service trucks, vans, equipment trailers, hydrovacs, contents-transport trucks, and everything you keep them compliant, insured, and staffed to drive. D…

The Fleet Explore tiles and what each one opens

Fleet is where Verinode reads your vehicle footprint: trucks, vans, trailers, and equipment haulers, along with the maintenance, compliance, insurance, driver, and cost records that come in for the…

The Fleet section: your vehicle footprint at a glance

Fleet is where Verinode reads your vehicle footprint: the service trucks, vans, trailers, hydrovacs, and contents-transport trucks that get your crews and equipment to a loss. It tracks seven kinds…

The Local Network Row

Every restoration business leans on a set of local relationships that are not job subcontractors: an accountant, an attorney, an insurance broker, an answering service, a marketing partner. The Loc…

The Roster tab: every vehicle on file

Fleet is the section that holds your service trucks, vans, trailers, and every other vehicle your crews run on. The Roster tab is the front door to it: a single table listing every vehicle you have…

The vehicle profile: six tabs, editing, and retiring a vehicle

The vehicle profile is the single-vehicle detail view that opens on top of the Fleet slider whenever you click a vehicle. It is where every fact and every piece of history Verinode has read in for…

The Vendor Hero and Take Action Row

Every vendor you use, the software, the equipment rental houses, the material suppliers, the subcontractors, sits in one roster: **Vendors**, in the sidebar, at `/vendors`. It is no longer the only…

The Vendors first-visit reveal

The start step of the Vendors [first-visit intro](/help/section-onboarding-first-visit) asks for one thing: the name of a tool you already run. The panel reads "Type a tool you run. IQ shows how Ve…

The Vendors Section: Your Vendor Stack at a Glance

Vendors is where Verinode reads everything you pay outside contractors for: software subscriptions, equipment rental accounts, supply-house relationships, restoration-specific tools, insurance and…

Unit maintenance: calibration, service log, and condition

Every unit in your fleet has its own detail overlay, and Maintenance is one of the tabs across the top of it. This is where the age-versus-lifespan math and calibration status that drive the unit's…

Unit performance, specs, and catalog alternatives

Every unit in your fleet has a detail record, and three tabs on that record answer three different questions: what has this unit actually been doing (Performance), what does the manufacturer say it…

Unit stance: KEEP, SERVICE, RETIRE, REPLACE, or WATCHING

Every unit in your fleet, every dehumidifier, air mover, air scrubber, moisture meter, or truck mount, gets one of five stances the moment you open its detail card. The stance is Verinode's read on…

Utilization tab: ownership mix and class density

Condition tells you the shape your gear is in. Utilization tells you the shape of your fleet itself, how it is held (owned, rented, leased, financed) and how thin it is spread across equipment clas…

Vendor Detail: Alternatives and the Compare Tool

Every vendor you work with sits at `/vendors` in the sidebar. Click a vendor tile and its detail card opens with a set of sections: The Contract, Renewal & People, Ratings & Feedback, Score & Resea…

Vendor Detail: Products, Paperwork, Related SOPs & Community

Open **Vendors** from the sidebar (`iq.verinode.ai/vendors`) and click any vendor tile or row to open its detail card. The card is a decision workbench built around one question: keep this vendor,…

Vendor Detail: Ratings & Feedback

Every vendor card has a **Ratings & Feedback** section, one of the pills in the row beneath the hero and health bar. It is the one place on the card built entirely around voice, not numbers you fil…

Vendor Detail: Score & Research and Score Composition

Every vendor in your stack, software, equipment rental, restoration supply, disposal, whatever it is, carries a **Verinode Score**: an independent, research-backed read of how strong that vendor is…

Vendor Detail: The Contract, Renewal & People

Every vendor you run through Verinode, software, equipment rental, restoration supply, disposal, whatever is in your stack, has one detail card. That card is where Verinode keeps the facts that tur…

Vendors on Mobile

Vendors on Mobile is the phone version of [Vendors](/help/vendors-overview) (the desktop `/vendors` page), rebuilt for a scrollable, tap-and-swipe phone screen instead of a sidebar-and-tabs layout.…

Your co-op position: contributed, reimbursed, pending

Marketing co-op is money your franchise network pools and pays back out for approved marketing spend: a per-location contribution goes into the pool, and a reimbursement request comes back out once…

Your enrolled co-op programs

**Marketing co-op** (`/coop`) has three rows stacked top to bottom: a hero panel with your all-programs net position, this row, **Your co-op programs**, and a read-only activity ledger below it. Th…