Grouped decision cards (bundles)

What a bundle is

The Feed is built to be read in a few minutes a day, not scrolled forever. When Verinode has more than one open decision that clearly belongs together, it collapses them into a single grouped card instead of handing you a stack of near-identical ones. A card that reads "3 vendor signals on Rapid Dry Restoration" is one decision to look at, not three. The card badge in the top right reads Decisions (plural) so it is visually distinct from a single Decision card at a glance.

Bundling only ever touches decisions you have not acted on yet. Anything you have already acted on, parked, or dismissed always renders as its own card, so your resolution history stays intact and legible. A handful of high-intent cards are also never bundled no matter what, specifically the first-upload activation card and the pre-drafted setup action cards (pull your books, pull your jobs, forward your broker docs), because each one is meant to be seen and acted on in its own right during your first sessions.

Verinode does not decide anything on your behalf here. Grouping is a display choice that keeps the Feed calm; every decision inside a bundle is still an individual decision waiting on your call, and opening the bundle takes you to all of them.

Where to find it

Bundled cards live in the same place single decision cards do: open Feed from the sidebar at iq.verinode.ai/feed. The Feed is a vertical, one-card-at-a-time deck (see The Feed section: anatomy and how to move through it for how to move through it and Filtering the feed: pills and time buckets for the filter pills across the top). A grouped decision card looks and behaves like any other Feed card, it just carries more than one decision inside it.

How Verinode decides what to bundle together

Verinode looks at your open, unacted decisions in a fixed order and groups them along the first axis that applies. A decision only ever ends up in one bundle.

1. Documents awaiting review. If two or more forwarded documents could not be filed automatically and are sitting in your review queue, they bundle into one card regardless of what kind of documents they are (an invoice, a P&L, a training summary can all land in the same batch). The card title reads "N documents to review." See The Review Queue: Confirming Uncertain Documents for what happens once you open one.
2. Same record. Two or more open decisions about the exact same business record (the same client, vendor, job, or similar) bundle into one card, titled "N {area} signals on {record name}", for example "4 vendor signals on Rapid Dry Restoration." This catches the case where one record has accumulated several open items: the volume itself is the pattern worth seeing in one place.
3. Same recurring pattern, across records. A small set of administrative signal types (things like team members with overdue reviews, team members hitting a tenure milestone, or applicants who have gone quiet) bundle across different records when two or more of the exact same type are open at once, but only at the lower info severity. The card reads in plain language, for example "3 team members with overdue reviews." A warning or critical signal is never folded into this kind of bundle: if the cost of inaction is specific to one record, that record gets its own card so it cannot get lost in a group.
4. Same business area, as a fallback. Whatever is left after the first three passes bundles by business area (vendors, clients, billing, team, and so on) when two or more warning- or info-level items share one area. The card reads "N {area} items to review." A lone critical decision with no peers in its area always stays on its own card. That is deliberate: a genuinely urgent, one-off signal should never sit buried inside a summary card.

Within all of this, Verinode keeps one more rule: it never mixes a hard, recoverable dollar figure with a soft, conditional one in the same bundle. A bundle's total dollar figure, when it shows one, is always the same kind of number all the way through, never a blend of "this is money you can recover" and "this is money you could recover if a condition holds."

Anatomy of a grouped card

A grouped card carries the same identity strip as any Feed card, Verinode IQ with the time since it surfaced, plus the Decisions type badge on the right. Below that:

• A pulsing severity dot in the color of the single most severe decision inside the bundle. If one of the grouped decisions is critical, the dot and the label read critical, even if the rest are lower severity.
• "{N} decisions" in uppercase, so you know at a glance how many items are inside.
• An optional total dollar figure, shown as "· $X total" (or "$X/mo total," "$X one-time," and so on, matching whichever time unit applies) when the bundle's constituent decisions carry a combined dollar impact greater than zero. This is the sum across every decision in the bundle, not a single one of them.
• The bundle's title, the plain-language sentence built from whichever of the four rules above matched (for example, "5 team members with overdue reviews").
• An "IQ recommends" box, when Verinode has a recommendation for the bundle as a whole. It reads generically, something like "Open the bundle to act, park, or dismiss each one in seconds," since the box speaks to the bundle, not to any one decision inside it.
• Up to four individual lines, one per grouped decision, each with its own small severity dot, its own title (truncated if long), and its own dollar figure when it has one.
• "+N more", only shown when the bundle holds more than four decisions, so the card never turns into a wall of text. Every decision beyond the first four is still there, it is just not listed on the card itself, it shows once you open the bundle.

Acting on a bundle at once

The bottom of a grouped card has the same three-button row every Feed card has, but the labels and behavior adapt to a bundle:

• Act. For a bundle of two or more, the button reads "Review N" (for example, "Review 4") instead of the plain "Act," so it is clear that tapping it opens a list rather than committing to a single action. In the rare case a bundle only ever ends up with one item, the button falls back to "Act."
• Not Now. Opens the same inline "Why not now?" prompt as a single decision card, with the same four reasons: Too busy, Need more info, Not convinced, and Other. Choosing one parks every decision inside the bundle, not just the one shown at the top, then the card reads Parked with "This will resurface later" and a brief Undo option.
• Ignore. Dismisses every decision inside the bundle at once. The card reads Dismissed with an Undo option for a few seconds before it clears from the Feed for good.

What "Review N" actually does depends on the kind of bundle:

1. 1Documents to review. Tapping Act opens the review dialog for the first document in the batch, letting you confirm what Verinode read or reassign it to the right record. Once you resolve one, the dialog steps straight to the next document in the batch, and the next, until every document in the bundle has been confirmed or reassigned. Closing the dialog partway through abandons whatever is left in the queue for now. On this specific kind of bundle, both Not Now and Ignore discard the whole batch of documents immediately, there is no reason prompt on a review-queue bundle the way there is on other bundles.
2. 2Every other kind of bundle (same record, same recurring pattern, or same business area). Tapping "Review N" takes you straight to the Decisions workspace at /decisions, pre-filtered to exactly the decisions the bundle represented, by record, by signal type, or by business area, whichever axis built the bundle. The bundle card itself then clears from the Feed; the individual decisions inside it are still open and waiting for you in the workspace.
3. 3Act on each one in the workspace. Once you land on the filtered Decisions view, every decision the bundle represented shows as its own card there, and you act, park, or dismiss each one individually with the full detail Verinode has on it. See Anatomy of a decision card for what a single decision card in the workspace shows and does.

Where lanes fit in

The Feed itself is a single scrolling stream, it does not sort cards into lanes. Lanes belong to the Decisions workspace, which is exactly where "Review N" sends you. Once you are there, every open decision, including the ones a bundle just pointed you at, is sorted into one of three lanes:

• Decide this week. Caption: "What needs a call from you now." This is where a critical decision lands, and where anything with a deadline inside the next several days lands, along with a decision carrying a real dollar figure or one that has simply been sitting open, untouched, for a long stretch. Verinode does not let a decision quietly age forever in the background, if nothing else about it changes, time alone eventually pushes it into this lane.
• Coming up. Caption: "Holding until you have room. Nothing time-sensitive here." Decisions with no near deadline and nothing urgent about them sit here until they either approach a deadline or age enough to move into Decide this week.
• Handled. Caption: "Decisions you've already acted on." Anything you have acted on, resolved, or dismissed shows here so your history stays visible without cluttering the working lanes.

Each lane's header shows a count, for example "Decide this week (6)", and an empty lane is skipped entirely rather than showing a bare "(0)" heading, so the board never looks emptier than it is. Every decision in the workspace also carries a short, plain-language reason chip explaining why it landed where it did, things like "Due tomorrow," "Needs a call now," a dollar figure like "$4.2k at stake," or, for a decision that can wait, "Not time-sensitive yet." or "No deadline. Holding until you have room."

The full breakdown of how lanes are built and what every reason chip means lives in The decision log: lanes and status tiles. The workspace as a whole, including its filters, views, and the individual decision card underneath, is covered in The decision workspace.

Empty states

If you have no open decisions or content waiting at all, the Feed shows a full-screen card that reads:

All caught up Verinode IQ is continuously analyzing your data and scanning industry sources. New decisions, insights, and updates will appear here as they surface. Check back soon. Your next briefing is building.

If you have applied a filter pill and nothing matches it, you instead see a smaller card reading "No items match this filter." Clear or change the filter to see the rest of your Feed.

There is no separate empty state written specifically for bundles: if none of your open decisions currently meet any of the four grouping rules above, you simply see them as individual cards, the way every decision looked before bundling was involved.

Best-practice example

Say four separate signals have opened up against one vendor over a couple of weeks: a rate that has drifted above your peer benchmark, a slow response on a recent job, an expiring certificate, and a note that a competing vendor in your area is offering a lower rate. Instead of four almost-identical cards asking for four almost-identical decisions, the Feed shows one card: "4 vendor signals on [vendor name]." The card totals the dollar impact where one exists, lists the first four lines so you can see what is actually going on, and gives you one button, Review 4, that drops you into the Decisions workspace filtered to just that vendor. From there you work through each one, renegotiate, chase the certificate, compare quotes, on your own terms, with the full detail Verinode has for each.