The decision log: lanes and status tiles

What this page is

Every decision Verinode has ever surfaced for you, in one board. The signals your data has produced (a vendor charging above the peer rate, a certification about to lapse, a client relationship going cold), the analysis runs you've kicked off, the plans you've started, and the ones you've already closed out all live here. Verinode does not decide anything for you. It reads the data already flowing in from your tools and inbox, surfaces the pattern, and lays out the call. You act, park, or ignore it.

Where to find it

Click Decisions in the sidebar (the badge next to it is your live pending count). The page lives at /decisions. If you arrived here from a bundled card in the feed, for example a "Review 4" button on a grouped card, the board opens pre-filtered to just that set, and a Filtered from feed banner appears above the results so you know why the board looks narrower than usual. Click Clear ✕ on that banner to see everything again.

The filter bar

Across the top of the board:

• Search decisions…, a plain text box. It matches against the decision's title and, if the decision is about a named vendor, client, or carrier, that entity's name.
• Status dropdown, filters the board to one status at a time. Each option shows its live count in parentheses, for example "Pending (12)." This is your at-a-glance tally of where your decisions stand. The five statuses are explained below.
• Business-area dropdown ("All areas"), appears only once your open decisions span two or more business areas (Vendors, Equipment, Carriers, Clients, Billing, Team, Reputation, Field, Margin, Compliance, Certifications, Safety, Recruiting, Processes). Its counts reflect only what's left after the status filter, so "Reputation (5)" under "Pending (12)" tells you 5 of those 12 pending decisions are reputation-related.
• Sort dropdown, "Newest first" (the default, most recently active decision at the top) or "Biggest impact" (largest dollar exposure first). Impact sorting always ranks decisions with a real, calculated dollar figure above ones carrying a placeholder estimate, so a genuine six-figure carrier exposure never gets buried under a smaller but more precisely-priced line item.
• From a scan toggle, appears only after you've run a scan (the Business Analyst) that produced decisions. Switch it on to see only the decisions that scan surfaced, with a live count beside the label, so you can review one run's output as its own set instead of mixed in with everything else.

The five statuses

The status dropdown is really the shape of your whole board. Each decision sits in exactly one of these:

• Pending, new or seen, waiting on your call. This is everything that still needs Act, Not now, or Ignore.
• Acted, you clicked Act. A plan is running or has been drafted; the decision now lives on the Actions surface too, where the day-to-day step tracking happens.
• Parked, you clicked Not now. Parked decisions drop out of your pending count but aren't gone: Verinode brings them back when something changes (a related signal fires, a vendor renewal date approaches, or enough time has passed), so a real problem never quietly disappears just because you deferred it once.
• Ignored, you clicked Ignore. These stay out of your way. An ignored decision carries one action, Restore, which puts it back to pending if you change your mind.
• Resolved, closed out, either because you confirmed a win or because the underlying issue resolved on its own (a signal that verified itself, for instance a rate that reverted to the peer benchmark without you having to act).

Total impact addressed (the combined estimated annual value of everything in Acted plus Resolved) is a number Verinode keeps a running account of behind the scenes. Ask your AI Co-COO how your decisions are trending and it can tell you that figure alongside your pending, acted, parked, and resolved counts, the same board-level tally the status dropdown shows.

Decide this week / Coming up / Handled

When you're looking at the full board (status set to "All," no feed filter active), the gallery organizes itself into three lanes instead of one flat list, so a busy board still reads calmly:

• Decide this week, "What needs a call from you now." Decisions with a near deadline, decisions Verinode has flagged as critical, and decisions carrying a real, calculated dollar value all land here. A decision Verinode judges as genuinely discretionary but that's sat untouched for a while also surfaces here rather than getting buried indefinitely.
• Coming up, "Holding until you have room. Nothing time-sensitive here." Lower-urgency decisions without a near deadline. Nothing is lost by leaving these for later.
• Handled, "Decisions you've already acted on." Everything Acted, Parked, Ignored, or Resolved.

Each lane header shows its live count, for example "Decide this week (6)," and a lane with nothing in it is skipped entirely rather than showing a hollow "(0)" header. Every card in the Decide and Coming up lanes carries a small reason chip above its title, a one-line plain-language answer to "why is this here":

• Urgent chips (warm, copper-toned): a due date such as "Due today," "Due tomorrow," "Due Fri," or "Due Aug 12"; "Overdue" once the deadline has passed; "Needs a call now" for critical-severity decisions; a dollar figure like "$42k at stake" when the decision carries a real calculated impact; or "Been waiting N weeks" for an aged decision that's earned its way into Decide this week.
• Waiting chips (muted grey), shown only in Coming up: "No deadline. Holding until you have room." when there's no deadline at all, or "Not time-sensitive yet." otherwise.

Handled cards carry no chip. Their status (Acted, Parked, Ignored, Resolved) is the story.

Reading a tile

Each card in the gallery follows the same layout regardless of which lane or filter it's in:

• Top accent bar and status pill. A thin colored bar runs across the top of every tile, and a small pill in the top-right corner names the tile's state: Urgent (Ember Red) for a critical or high-value pending decision, Pending (Hard Hat Yellow) for a normal pending one, Acted (green) once you've clicked Act, Resolved (brighter green) once closed out, Parked (IQ Teal), or Ignored (grey). If the decision is about a named vendor, client, or carrier, that entity's logo replaces the pill in the corner instead.
• The dollar figure. The big number is the tile's headline: your best estimate of what this decision is worth, with its period (per month, per year, or one-time) underneath. When Verinode can't cleanly price a decision yet (an insurance gap, a lapsing certification), the tile leads with a plain consequence line instead of a placeholder number.
• The title. Underneath the dollar figure, the specific evidence behind the decision, for example a vendor name against the peer rate it's beating or missing.
• "From a scan", a small copper eyebrow on any tile the Business Analyst produced, so you can tell scan-sourced findings apart from the rest of the board at a glance.
• Acted/Resolved stamp. Once you've acted, a diagonal "Acted" (or "Done," for resolved) stamp appears, and the tile tints pale green so a wall of tiles instantly reads as handled versus still open. While the agent is actively drafting a plan for a decision you just acted on, the stamp reads "Planning" with a soft pulse instead.

Buttons on a tile

The row of buttons at the bottom of a tile changes with its status:

• Pending: Act, Not now, Ignore. Act opens the decision in the workspace and starts the plan; Not now parks it; Ignore dismisses it.
• Parked: Act, Ignore. You can still act on a parked decision at any time, or ignore it outright.
• Ignored: Restore, which puts the decision back to pending.
• Acted: a single full-width Edit plan button that opens the workspace where the plan lives.
• Resolved: a single full-width Review outcome button.
• A verified win (Verinode detected the outcome improved on its own): Lock in this win confirms it and moves the decision to Resolved; Not really dismisses just that verified-win prompt, leaving the underlying decision as it was.

Clicking anywhere on a tile's body (not a button) opens the same decision in a slide-over workspace where you can read the full detail and, for pending decisions, act from there instead.

Empty states

• No decisions at all (status set to "All," nothing on your board yet): "No decisions for you yet. They'll land here as Verinode spots cost savings, risk, and growth opportunities in your data."
• A specific status with nothing in it, for example Parked with zero: "Nothing parked for you right now." (The message swaps in whichever status you've selected.)

Best-practice example

Open Decisions with the status left on "All" so you get the laned view. Start in Decide this week: work the urgent chips top to bottom, deadlines and dollar-at-stake figures first, since those are the ones with a real cost to sitting on them. For each one, either Act (if you're ready to move) or Not now (if it needs more time but shouldn't disappear). Once that lane is clear, skim Coming up for anything you'd rather handle now while you have the headspace, then leave the rest. If a scan just ran, flip on From a scan first to review that batch as its own set before it blends into the general board.

Data sources

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