Compliance peer benchmarks

What this page shows

Compliance benchmarking answers one question: is your compliance posture ahead of, in line with, or behind operators like you? Verinode reads your audit history and your regulatory and exposure record, computes two numbers, your compliance shield score and your audit pass rate, and lines them up against a peer cohort of other operators and, where peer data is thin, against outside research. As an independent data trust, Verinode never sells your compliance data to carriers or programs; the only thing that comes back to you from the network is the comparison itself.

You'll see this comparison in two places that work a little differently from each other:

• The Benchmarks tab on the main Compliance page, a standing peer-and-research reference for both metrics.
• A Benchmarks section inside the detail view of any exposure, audit, or regulation record, which adds your own number to the comparison and lets you switch the peer scope yourself.

Where to find it

Open Compliance from the sidebar, grouped with Certifications and Safety, at iq.verinode.ai/compliance. The page opens on a five-tab card slider: Findings, Exposures, Audits, Regulations, Benchmarks. Click Benchmarks for the standing comparison.

For the per-record view, open any row from the Exposures, Audits, or Regulations tab to drill into its detail view, then scroll to the Benchmarks section (labeled "How You Compare" inside the panel itself).

The Benchmarks tab

This tab lists both metrics stacked vertically, each with three columns:

• Peer: the cohort's value for that metric, at the current scope. Directly beneath it, when there's enough data, a small "cohort N" line shows how many peer operators are behind that number, so you can judge how much weight to give it.
• Research: an outside reference value for the same metric, with its source named underneath (for example, an industry benchmark publisher). This is what Verinode falls back to when the peer cohort isn't there yet.
• Scope: which comparison scope actually produced the Peer number, state or national. Verinode always tries the narrowest scope first (your own state) and only widens to national once there isn't a big enough peer cohort in-state.

Both rows show a single dash in any column where there's nothing to report yet.

Below the two rows, a note explains the logic in plain terms: benchmarks are peer-relative once enough operators of your size have contributed data; until then, Verinode shows a research benchmark from industry sources instead so you're never staring at a blank comparison.

The two metrics

Compliance shield score. A single 0 to 100 percent read on your overall compliance posture. The headline gauge on the Compliance page blends training, insurance standing, carrier program status, regulatory compliance, and safety together into this number. Where that richer blend isn't available yet, Verinode falls back to a simpler proxy: the share of your completed audits that scored 80 percent or higher.

Audit pass rate. The share of your completed audits that scored 80 percent or higher, full stop. It only counts audits with a status of Completed and a recorded score, scheduled and in-progress audits aren't in the denominator.

Today, both numbers can land on the same figure when the richer shield-score inputs (insurance, carrier standing, regulatory status) aren't yet feeding in, since they both fall back to the same audit-pass calculation. As more of your compliance picture fills in (insurance certificates, carrier program status, regulation acknowledgments) and as more operators contribute to the network, expect the two to read differently: the shield score reflecting your whole posture, the audit pass rate reflecting audits alone.

Per-record peer compare

Open any exposure, audit, or regulation record and its detail view carries the same "How You Compare" panel used across the platform. Here you get:

• A National / State scope switcher at the top right of the panel. Pick the scope yourself, this switcher does not auto-widen. If you pick State and your state doesn't have enough peer operators yet, you'll see the panel's empty note rather than a silent fallback to national numbers.
• A peer count next to the header, "vs National Operators · N operators" (or "vs State Operators"), when the chosen scope has a peer cohort behind it.
• One row per metric, compliance shield score and audit pass rate, each showing your own value alongside the peer value for the scope you picked.

This panel only appears when you have a shield score or audit pass rate of your own to compare, if you have no completed audits yet, there is nothing to plot and the section doesn't render. It's the same underlying operator-wide number regardless of which record you opened, an exposure, an audit, or a regulation all show your overall shield score and audit pass rate here, not a benchmark scoped to that one record. Think of it as: "here is how my whole compliance program compares," surfaced conveniently wherever you're already looking.

1. 1Open Compliance from the sidebar.
2. 2Click the Benchmarks tab to see the standing peer-and-research reference for both metrics.
3. 3Open any exposure, audit, or regulation record to see your own shield score and audit pass rate sitting next to the peer value.
4. 4Use the National / State switcher inside that record's Benchmarks section to change which cohort you're compared against.
5. 5If a scope reads "not enough peers yet," switch back to National, or check back as more operators in your state contribute data.

Empty states

• Benchmarks tab, no peer or research data for a metric: the Peer and Research columns each show a single dash, and the Scope column shows a dash too.
• Benchmarks tab, peer cohort too small at your size: the note under both rows explains that Verinode is showing a research benchmark from industry sources in place of a peer number.
• Per-record Benchmarks section, no completed audits: the entire "How You Compare" panel is omitted from the record's detail view, there is no shield score or audit pass rate of your own to plot yet.
• Per-record Benchmarks section, chosen scope has no peer cohort: "Not enough peers in this scope yet. Switch scopes above or check back as more operators contribute. Industry research values are shown as a fallback."

What to do with this

Treat a shield score or audit pass rate that trails the peer number as a prompt, not a verdict. Check the Audits tab for anything overdue or scheduled without a completed result, and the Exposures tab for anything flagged Breaching or Exposed, both drag the score down before a single new audit can lift it. If your own number is ahead of peers, that's a credential worth using in carrier program conversations, the comparison exists so you have the receipts, not just the confidence.

Related articles

• How benchmarks work
• Reading a benchmark
• Benchmarks overview
• The decision workspace
• Forwarding documents
• Connecting your data