Filtering and searching your decisions

What this covers

Every decision Verinode surfaces (a cost saving, a risk, a growth opportunity it found in your data) lands in one place: the Decisions log. As that log fills up across vendors, carriers, clients, billing, and every other area of your business, you need a fast way to narrow it down to the handful you actually want to look at right now. This article covers the filter bar at the top of the Decisions log: the search box, the status and business-area dropdowns, the sort order, and the "From a scan" toggle, plus what you see when a filter turns up nothing.

For what happens once you open a decision and work it, see The decision workspace and Acting on decisions. For where decisions come from in the first place, see The Feed.

Where to find it

Open Decisions from the sidebar. The page loads at /decisions. The filter bar sits directly under the page header, above the gallery of decision tiles, and every control on it applies to the same underlying list of decisions.

The search box

The leftmost control is a search field with a magnifying-glass icon and the placeholder text "Search decisions…". Type into it and the gallery narrows as you type, no need to press Enter.

The search matches against two things on each decision: its title (the plain-language headline Verinode wrote for it, like "Vendor X's invoice is 22% above your other roofers") and the entity name attached to it (the vendor, carrier, client, or other record the decision is about). The match is a simple substring check and is not case-sensitive, so typing "roofer" will catch "Roofer" and "ROOFER" alike. It does not search the full evidence behind a decision, only the title and the entity name, so a very short or generic search term can turn up more than you expect.

Search works together with every other filter on the bar. If you have Status set to Pending and Business area set to Vendors, typing in the search box narrows within that combination, it does not reset the other filters.

The status dropdown

To the right of search is a dropdown that filters by where a decision sits in its lifecycle. The options, each with a live count in parentheses, are:

• All, every decision regardless of status.
• Pending, decisions Verinode has surfaced that you haven't acted on, parked, or dismissed yet. This is where new decisions land.
• Acted, decisions you've clicked Act on. A plan is running or has been run.
• Parked, decisions you set aside on purpose to revisit later, without dismissing them.
• Ignored, decisions you dismissed. They stay here (not deleted) in case you want to restore one later.
• Resolved, decisions that reached a closed, verified outcome.

The counts update live from whatever decisions are currently in view, so "Pending (12)" means 12 of your decisions are sitting in that state right now, not a historical total.

The business area (domain) dropdown

When your decisions span two or more business areas, a second dropdown appears next to Status: Business area. It only shows up once there's actually a choice to make, if every visible decision is in the same area, Verinode skips the dropdown rather than show you a single meaningless option.

The first option is always All areas, followed by every area currently represented, each with a count: Vendors, Equipment, Carriers, Clients, Billing, Team, Reputation, Field, Margin, Compliance, Certifications, Safety, Recruiting, Processes. You'll only ever see the areas that actually have decisions in them right now, not the full list every time.

The counts here are scoped to whatever you have selected in Status. If Status is set to Pending and you see "Reputation (5)," that means 5 of your pending decisions are reputation-related, not 5 total across every status. Change the status filter and the business-area counts (and the list of areas offered) recompute to match.

If you have a business area selected and then switch Status to something that has zero decisions left in that area, Verinode quietly resets the business-area filter back to All areas rather than leave you staring at an empty gallery for a filter combination that no longer makes sense.

Sort order

The next dropdown controls sort order, with two choices:

• Newest first (the default). Decisions come back in the order Verinode most recently saw them.
• Biggest impact. Decisions are ranked by their estimated dollar impact, largest first.

One detail worth knowing about "Biggest impact": Verinode always ranks decisions with a calibrated dollar figure (one backed by a real formula against your data) above decisions with an estimated or placeholder figure, even if the placeholder number looks bigger on paper. Within each of those two groups, the biggest dollar amount leads. This keeps a real, data-grounded finding from getting buried under a rough estimate that happens to carry a larger number.

The "From a scan" toggle

You'll see a pill-shaped toggle labeled "From a scan" once Verinode's Business Analyst has run at least one scan and put decisions on your board (or if you've already turned the toggle on). It shows a small circular icon and, when there are analyst-sourced decisions in your current status filter, a count next to the label.

Turning it on narrows the gallery to only the decisions that came out of a scan, as opposed to decisions that arrived through everyday monitoring of your data. This lets you review everything a single scan turned up as one set, for example right after you run a fresh analysis, without needing a separate run-history page. Turn it off to go back to the full board, mixed sources.

You can kick off a new scan any time from the Run analysis button in the page header (next to Send data), which runs the Business Analyst against your current data.

The "Filtered from feed" banner

If you arrived at Decisions by clicking a "Review N" link from a bundle in the Feed, a banner reading "Filtered from feed" appears above the gallery, along with a chip showing what narrowed the view (the specific vendor, carrier, or other record; the specific kind of decision; or the business area, depending on how you got here) and a Clear ✕ button. This keeps you oriented, without it, the gallery would look like your full decision log with rows quietly missing and no explanation. Click Clear ✕ to drop the narrowing and see everything again.

Combining filters

Search, Status, Business area, Sort, and "From a scan" all apply together, not one-at-a-time. A typical narrowing might be: Status set to Pending, Business area set to Carriers, "From a scan" on, then a search term to land on one specific decision. Each control narrows what the others are already showing.

1. 1Open Decisions from the sidebar.
2. 2Use the Status dropdown to pick a lifecycle stage, or leave it on All to see the full board grouped into what needs attention this week, what's coming up, and what's handled.
3. 3If you have decisions across more than one business area, use the Business area dropdown to narrow to one, for example Vendors or Compliance.
4. 4Switch Sort to Biggest impact if you want the largest dollar exposures at the top instead of the newest.
5. 5Turn on "From a scan" if you want to review only what a Business Analyst run surfaced.
6. 6Type into the search box to zero in on a specific vendor, carrier, or decision title.
7. 7Click any tile to open it in the decision workspace. See The decision workspace for what happens next.

Empty states

What you see when a filter combination turns up nothing depends on whether you have any decisions at all:

• If you have never had a decision surface and Status is on All: "No decisions for you yet. They'll land here as Verinode spots cost savings, risk, and growth opportunities in your data."
• If you've filtered to a specific status (Pending, Acted, Parked, Ignored, or Resolved) and there's nothing in it: "Nothing [status] for you right now." (for example, "Nothing parked for you right now.")

Neither empty state is an error. It means the filter you've chosen, combined with your search term if any, doesn't match anything at the moment, not that something is broken. Widen the filter (back to All, clear the search box, or turn off "From a scan") to see more.

What Verinode does and doesn't do here

The filter bar only changes what you see, it never changes the underlying decision, its status, or its dollar estimate. Searching, sorting, or narrowing by business area is read-only. Verinode surfaces every decision from the patterns it finds in your data; you decide which ones to look at, act on, park, or ignore. None of the filtering described here touches your data outside your own account, and none of it is shared externally, Verinode is an independent data trust and never sells operator data to carriers.