Action artifacts: drafts IQ builds for you
A decision card in the Feed tells you something is worth acting on. An action artifact is the thing IQ hands you so you can actually act on it, without leaving the card: a ready-to-send email draft…
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What it is
A decision card in the Feed tells you something is worth acting on. An action artifact is the thing IQ hands you so you can actually act on it, without leaving the card: a ready-to-send email draft, a checklist you can work through step by step, a comparison, or a template. It appears as a bottom sheet that slides up over the card, and it is live: while it is open, you can keep talking to IQ and ask it to tighten the wording, change a number, or start over, and the draft updates in front of you instead of you asking for a new one from scratch.
Verinode does not send anything on your behalf. The artifact is a draft, grounded in your own data (your vendor relationships, your jobs, your financials, your contacts) so IQ is not guessing, and you decide what to do with it: copy it, hand it to your own mail app, or ask for changes first.
Where to find it
Open Feed from the sidebar (/feed). Action artifacts only attach to decision cards, the cards where IQ is surfacing something for you to act on, not to content or informational cards. When a decision card is the one in view and IQ has built something for it, the sheet is docked to the bottom of that card.
To get one, talk to IQ in the conversation attached to the card and ask it to draft what you need, for example asking it to write a renegotiation email to the vendor named on the card, or to lay out the checklist for the steps involved. IQ decides which kind of artifact fits what you asked for; you do not pick a type from a menu.
Note
The sheet is tied to whatever card you are currently viewing. Swipe to a different card and it steps out of view. Draft something new on another decision and it replaces what was showing, so copy or send what you need from one draft before you move on to the next.
The four kinds of artifact
Each artifact carries a small uppercase eyebrow label at the top of the sheet so you always know what you are looking at, followed by its title in bold underneath.
Draft Email
The eyebrow reads Draft Email. Above the body you may see a To row and a Subject row, when IQ has a recipient and a subject line to give you; either can be missing if IQ has not pinned one down yet. Below that, the email body sits inside its own bordered box, with your line breaks preserved exactly as drafted.
Two buttons sit underneath:
- Copy puts the whole thing on your clipboard as plain text, To line, Subject line, a blank line, then the body, skipping any of those lines that are not set. The button reads Copied for two seconds so you know it worked.
- Open in Mail hands the draft straight to your own default mail app, with the recipient, subject, and body already filled in. Nothing sends automatically. You still hit send yourself, from your own account.
Action Checklist
The eyebrow reads Action Checklist. IQ's checklist content is split into one row per line, with any leading bullet or number it wrote stripped for display, and each row is tappable. Tapping a row checks it off: the box fills in and the text gets a strikethrough so you can see what is done at a glance as you work through it in order.
A Copy to clipboard button at the bottom copies the checklist as plain text, exactly as IQ wrote it. It does not carry over which boxes you have ticked, only the list itself.
Heads up
Checking off items is for your own use in the moment. It is not saved anywhere: close the sheet or swipe away from the card and the ticks are gone. If you need a record of what got done, use the checklist to work the list, then note the outcome in the decision itself rather than relying on the ticks to persist.
Comparison and Template
Both share the same layout: the eyebrow reads Comparison or Template, the content sits in a single bordered text block exactly as IQ wrote it, and a Copy to clipboard button underneath flips to Copied for two seconds after you use it. There is no grid or table in this sheet, both render as formatted text you can read straight through and take with you.
How the sheet behaves
The sheet rises from the bottom of the card and caps at roughly 70% of the card's height, with its own scroll if the content runs long. A small handle sits at the top center: drag it down (on touch or with your mouse) and release past a short threshold to dismiss the sheet, or tap the dimmed backdrop behind it, or use the close button in the top right corner. Letting go before that threshold snaps the sheet back into place.
When IQ revises the draft live
Because the conversation with IQ stays open while the sheet is up, you can keep talking and ask for changes, a firmer tone, a shorter version, a corrected figure, a different close, and the content in the sheet updates in place. Each time that happens, a short banner appears just under the header for about two and a half seconds: "Draft updated: " followed by a one-line summary of what changed, then it fades. The full draft underneath is already current the moment the banner appears, so you do not need to wait for it to disappear before reading on.
- 1Open Feed from the sidebar and land on the decision card you want to act on.
- 2In the card's conversation with IQ, ask for what you need: an email, a checklist, a comparison, or a template.
- 3Read the eyebrow label on the sheet that slides up to see what IQ built.
- 4If it is not quite right, keep talking: ask IQ to adjust the tone, shorten it, or fix a detail, and watch for the "Draft updated" banner confirming the change landed.
- 5Take it from there: Copy it, or for an email, tap Open in Mail to hand it to your own mail app and send it yourself.
Empty states
There is no separate "no artifact" screen to see. If IQ has not built anything for the card you are viewing, or you have not asked it to, the sheet simply is not there, the card underneath looks and behaves exactly as it does everywhere else in the Feed. The sheet only appears the moment IQ has something ready to show you.
Related reading
- The Feed: how decision and content cards are ordered and what the different card types mean.
- The decision workspace: where a decision's full multi-step plan lives once you move past a single draft.
- Acting on decisions: the broader set of actions available on a decision card beyond drafting.
- Clients and carriers: background on the carrier and vendor relationships an artifact like a negotiation email is usually drafted against.
Data sources
- 1.Your vendor, job, financial, and contact data. Your business.
- 2.Draft content generated by the Verinode IQ agent, grounded in the above. Verinode IQ.