Weather alerts, profile pulses, and agent messages

What this article covers

Most of your feed is decisions and industry content. Three card kinds are different: they are not tied to a single decision row the way a Decision card is, and each has its own layout, its own evidence, and its own button behavior. This article is the deep-dive on those three:

• Weather Alert ("Prepare"): a live weather-driven staffing heads-up.
• Profile Pulse ("Review"): a monthly read on how your process-maturity profile moved.
• Agent Message ("Reply" / "Later"): a proactive conversation your IQ agent started, not a decision it's asking you to act on.

For the full catalog of every card type in the deck (Decision, Article, Video, and the rest), see every kind of card in your feed. For how the deck itself works, the filters, the time window, keyboard navigation, see the Feed section: anatomy and how to move through it and the feed.

Where to find them

Open Feed from the sidebar at iq.verinode.ai/feed. All three card kinds appear mixed into the main deck under the All filter, alongside decisions and content. Weather Alert and Profile Pulse cards also count as decisions for the Decisions filter pill; Agent Message cards do too.

Weather Alert: "Prepare"

What it is

A Weather Alert card is not built from a saved record in your account. It's assembled live, on each feed load, from a weather forecast provider (shown in the card's source line as Google Weather) matched against your operator's location. Verinode runs that forecast through a set of restoration-specific triggers, freeze, flood, severe storm, hurricane, tornado, extreme heat, and high wind, and turns any that fire into a plain-language staffing heads-up.

Because the card is synthetic, there's no signal ID underneath it the way a Decision card has. Verinode tracks whether you've dealt with it by alert type (freeze, flood, storm, and so on) rather than by a specific database row, which is why the empty-state behavior below works the way it does.

What you see

• Icon and label. A yellow triangle icon and the label Weather Alert, with your city and state next to it (for example "Weather Alert · Tampa, FL").
• Headline. A short title naming the condition and its severity, for example "Freeze warning, pipe burst risk," "Flood watch, water damage surge expected," or "Severe storm warning." Severity in the title tracks how confident and how close the event is: a watch is the lighter read, a warning is the more urgent one, and a named catastrophic event (an active hurricane or tornado) reads as an outright emergency.
• Body. A sentence or two of plain-language context, for example how many days below freezing are forecast in the next week, or the wind gust speeds expected, and what that typically means for call volume.
• Expected Impact. A plain description of the likely change in job volume for the categories this alert touches, phrased as a range (for example "+20-30% water mitigation" or "+50-100% mixed damage"). This is a directional estimate built from the trigger that fired, not a guarantee or a forecast of your specific business.
• Prep Window. How many hours out the event is, so you know how much runway you have to staff and stage for it.
• Impacted Categories. A row of pills naming which service lines are likely to see the volume change: water, contents, fire, or mold, depending on the trigger. A freeze alert, for instance, only tags water; a hurricane tags water, fire, contents, and mold together.
• Staffing Recommendation. A boxed, concrete suggestion, for example "Put 2+ additional crew on standby. Pre-stage dehumidifiers and extractors," or "Activate CAT response plan. Contact all available crew and subcontractors. Register with carrier emergency programs." This is the card's recommendation, Verinode surfaces it, staffing the crew is your call.

Buttons

1. 1Prepare. Acknowledges the alert. There's nothing further to open, no attached workspace, the card simply confirms and clears.
2. 2Noted. The default middle action for this card type. Snoozes it with a brief confirmation.
3. 3Ignore. Dismisses it.

All three clear the card the same way: a brief confirmation with an Undo link, then the card drops out of the deck a few seconds later. Because the underlying tracking key is the alert type, not a specific row, resolving a freeze alert today keeps freeze alerts off your feed until the weather trigger stops firing, at which point a new instance can surface again if the condition returns.

Profile Pulse: "Review"

What it is

A Profile Pulse card is a periodic read on your process-maturity profile, the same five-dimension radar that scores your operation on Documentation, Compliance, Efficiency, Coverage, and Improvement. Verinode only generates a card when at least one of those five dimensions has moved meaningfully since the last time it was measured, small, noisy fluctuations don't produce a card. If nothing has shifted enough to matter, no Profile Pulse card appears at all, there's no empty placeholder for it.

What you see

• Icon and label. A trending-line icon and the label Process Maturity.
• Headline. "Your process maturity improved this month" when the combined movement across all five dimensions is net positive, or "Process maturity needs attention" when it's net negative.
• Dimension changes. A short list, one row per dimension that moved meaningfully, each showing the dimension's name, its prior score, an arrow, its new score, and a signed delta (colored green for an improvement, red for a decline). Only dimensions that actually shifted appear here, a flat dimension isn't listed.
• Peer milestone (when it applies). A highlighted line that appears only the moment a dimension crosses from below to above the peer median for the first time, for example "Your coverage is now above the peer median." It's a one-time crossing note, not a running scoreboard, and it never states specific peer counts or thresholds, just the fact that you've crossed into the stronger half of the network on that dimension.
• Recommendation. A one-line suggestion tailored to the direction of the change: something like reviewing your process library to build on the momentum when things are improving, or checking which areas need attention and adding SOPs or training documentation when they've slipped.

Buttons

1. 1Review. Opens your Processes section in a new tab, the home for your process library, SOPs, and maturity detail.
2. 2Noted. The default middle action. Snoozes it with a brief confirmation.
3. 3Ignore. Dismisses it.

Agent Message: "Reply" or "Later"

What it is

An Agent Message card is different from every other card kind in the deck: it isn't a finding or a recommendation about a number, it's your IQ agent starting a conversation. Verinode's agent proactively opens these when something happens that's worth a heads-up but doesn't reduce cleanly to a single decision, new data finishing processing, a scheduled account sweep turning something up, a benchmark shifting, a piece of curated industry content worth flagging, or several signals connecting into one bigger picture. The card's title reflects which of those triggered it: New data processed, Business sweep, Benchmark change, Industry intelligence, Connected signals, or a generic "Your agent has an update" as a fallback.

What you see

• Icon and label. An IQ monogram and the trigger title above, described above.
• Pulsing dot. A small animated dot appears next to the title only while the agent is genuinely waiting on your reply, that is, you haven't responded in that conversation yet. Once you've replied (in the feed or anywhere else the conversation is accessible), the card either won't show the dot or won't show at all.
• Message preview. The opening line of what your agent said, up to 300 characters, with the rest trimmed and an ellipsis if it runs longer.
• Reply prompt. A boxed line reading "Tap Reply to continue this conversation."

Buttons

1. 1Reply. Opens the agent panel with this exact conversation already loaded and picks up right where the agent left off, it does not draft a new action plan or restart the thread. Behind the scenes, Verinode quietly creates a durable record for the conversation the first time you reply from the feed, so the workspace has something solid to attach to; you won't see this step, it just makes the handoff work.
2. 2Later. Snoozes the card. It clears with a brief confirmation and an Undo link.
3. 3Ignore. Dismisses it for good.

Best-practice example

Say a Weather Alert for a freeze warning lands at the top of your deck: two days below 15°F forecast, a 24-hour prep window, water mitigation tagged as the impacted category, and a staffing recommendation to put two extra crew on standby. Tap Prepare to acknowledge it and brief your team the same afternoon. A few cards later, a Profile Pulse shows Documentation up and Compliance down since last month, with a note that your documentation score just crossed above the peer median, tap Review to open Processes and see which SOPs are still thin on the compliance side. Further down, an Agent Message titled "New data processed" is waiting on you with the pulsing dot lit, a quick Reply keeps that thread moving instead of letting it sit as an unresolved conversation.

Related reading

• Every kind of card in your feed
• The Feed section: anatomy and how to move through it
• The feed
• The decision workspace
• Acting on decisions
• How benchmarks work

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