Network, compound, and promo cards

What this article covers

The Feed at iq.verinode.ai/feed is mostly a queue of decisions: cards with a dollar figure, a recommendation, and an Act button. See the Feed for how that queue is built and ordered. This article is about the other cards that show up alongside decisions: cards that tell you what the network just learned, cards that connect patterns across sections, benchmark-derived findings, and the occasional Verinode marketing poster. None of these ask you to act on your own business data the way a decision card does. They exist to keep you oriented in something bigger than the pile of things on your desk this week: the network you're contributing to, the connections between sections IQ already found, and the two other parts of the Verinode family (Research and Advisory).

Every card in the deck, including these, shares the same physical shape: a source line at the top (who or what this is from, and how long ago), a colored type badge, a title and body in the middle, and three buttons along the bottom. What changes from card to card is the badge, the source, and what the three buttons do.

Network cards: "the network just learned X"

What it is. A network card tells you that a pattern has been independently confirmed by enough operators across the industry that it's now a reliable read, not a single operator's story. It's ambient evidence that the intelligence layer Verinode is building keeps getting sharper, not a to-do.

Where you'll see it. A Network card carries a steel-blue Network badge. The source line names the Verinode specialist behind the finding (for example, Vendor Economist, Carrier Scorecard Analyst, Competitive Analyst, Equipment Analyst, Safety Benchmark Coach, or Regulatory Navigator), not a person or company. There's no icon next to the name, just the specialist's title.

What the title and body say. The title reads as a plain-English claim about an entity in the industry, for example "Network update: [Vendor] is pricing above market" or "Network update: [Carrier] is slowing approvals." When Verinode can't tie the finding to a single named entity, the title falls back to the industry as a whole, for example "Network update: The industry is now subject to a new regulation." The body explains that a number of operators have independently concurred on the finding, adds a short data fragment when one is available (a fee percentage, an average approval lag in days, a direction like "worsening," or a program tier), names the specialist source again, and closes with the reason you're seeing it: you're contributing to the network, and every operator who concurs makes the next reading sharper.

What determines whether one appears. Network cards only surface for operators who have turned on benchmark contribution in Consent settings. If you haven't opted in, you won't see these cards, because the reciprocity is the point: you get cohort intelligence in proportion to what you put in. Beyond that gate, a network card needs a finding that's recent (surfaced within the last week of concurrence activity) and that has accumulated enough independent operator agreement to count as confirmed rather than a single anecdote. Verinode does not display the exact number of operators behind a finding or any specific concurrence threshold in the card; the underlying confirmation bar is intentionally not shown, so read the badge as "confirmed by the network," not as a literal headcount.

What the buttons do. Review opens the same feed view; there's no separate detail screen for a network card today, it stands on its own. Noted is the middle button and quietly dismisses it. Ignore on the right dismisses it for good. At most three network cards appear in your feed at any time, and they're capped to recent activity, so an inactive week in the network means you may not see one at all.

Specialist finding cards: your number against the peer median

What it is. A specialist finding is a benchmark comparison, translated into feed language: your value on a specific operating metric compared against the peer median, surfaced only when the gap is meaningful and pointed in the wrong direction.

Where you'll see it. These carry a research-purple Finding badge and, despite the underlying source being labeled "Peer Benchmarks" internally, the card's source line reads Verinode IQ with the IQ mark, the same identity every decision-class card uses. That's deliberate: a finding is IQ's read on your numbers, not a separate voice.

Which metrics get checked. Verinode evaluates five of your portfolio metrics against the peer median: average days-to-pay, gross margin percent, collection rate, supplement approval rate, and time from assignment to on-site (the service-speed metric carriers grade you on). A finding is only generated for a metric where you have real, non-zero data. A metric sitting at zero almost always means the underlying data hasn't flowed in yet, not that you're genuinely at zero, so Verinode skips it rather than telling you you're "below median" off an empty account.

What counts as significant. A finding only fires when your value is on the unfavorable side of the median (below median where higher is better, like margin or collection rate; above median where lower is better, like days-to-pay) and the gap from the median is meaningful, not a rounding difference. Cards are ranked Significant or Notable depending on how large that gap is, and severity in the card itself shows as a warning-level marker for the more significant ones. Only the top three findings appear at a time.

What the title and body say. The title reads "Your [metric] is [above/below] the peer median," for example "Your days to pay is above the peer median." The body states your number and the peer median side by side in matching units (days, percent, or dollars), then a single sentence on why it matters: for a metric where improving it helps revenue, the copy notes the bottom-line impact; for a metric where reducing it helps you, the copy notes the cash-flow or operational-efficiency impact.

What the buttons do. Read opens the metric on the Benchmarks page. Noted dismisses quietly. Ignore dismisses for good. For the full mechanics of how peer medians are computed and why numbers are held back below a minimum sample size, see how benchmarks work and reading a benchmark.

Compound insight cards: connected signals across sections

What it is. IQ's specialists each work one domain: margin, vendors, jobs, safety, and so on. A compound insight is what happens when two or more of those domains fire on the same underlying pattern at once, for example a labor-cost spike and a client-satisfaction dip on the same book of work. Rather than showing you two unrelated cards and leaving you to connect them, Verinode writes a single compound signal that explicitly walks through how the pieces reinforce each other, in second person, leading with the combined cost, and pointing back to the section specialists who'd own the individual plans.

Where you'll see it. In practice a compound insight shows up in one of two places in your feed:

• As a Decision card, the same flip-card shape every other decision uses (see the decision workspace), but marked with a higher severity when two or more domains are stacking on the same finding. The card body is written to name the causal chain, not just one symptom, and the recommendation routes you toward the connected fix rather than a single-domain patch.
• As a proactive message from your agent, badged Your Agent, with the title "Connected signals" when the conversation was triggered specifically because a compound pattern fired. Tapping Reply continues that conversation in the agent panel.

What the buttons do. Because a compound insight rides on the same Decision or agent-message card shapes, the buttons behave exactly as described for those card types: Act or Reply engages, the middle button parks or defers it, and Ignore dismisses it.

Advisory referral cards

What it is. An advisory referral connects something Verinode has already surfaced to work Verinode Advisory (the professional-services sibling entity, distinct from the AI product) can help with directly. It carries a burgundy Advisory badge, consistent with the Advisory brand color across the platform.

What the buttons do. View opens the referral. The middle button reads Not Now and defers it. Ignore dismisses it for good.

Promo cards: Research and Advisory posters

What it is. A promo card is a single, full-bleed marketing poster for one of Verinode's two content-and-services siblings: Verinode Research (Deep Purple) or Verinode Advisory (Burgundy). Unlike every other card in the deck, a promo card carries no separate title, source line, or badge overlay, the poster art itself already carries the entity's branding and headline, so adding text on top would double it up.

What you see. The poster fills the card, shown whole (never cropped or letterboxed) over a blurred, darkened version of the same image as a background fill. Below the poster sits a single full-width button in the entity's brand color: Explore Research or Explore Advisory.

How it behaves. Tapping the poster or the button opens the entity's marketing page (research.verinode.ai for Research, the Advisory page for Advisory) in a new tab, and records the card as read, which removes it from your feed. There's no Not Now or Ignore button on a promo card, one tap either opens it or you simply scroll past it.

How often you'll see one. Promo cards are intentionally rare: at most one appears in your feed at a time, and they sit low in the deck, after decisions, network cards, and content, so they read as an occasional brand moment rather than a running ad slot. The intended cadence is about one poster per entity per month.

Where these cards sit in the deck

The Feed leads with your open decisions and weather alerts, then weaves in vendor news and industry content so decisions never get buried under a run of articles. Network cards, specialist findings, and compound-insight-flavored decisions or agent messages are woven into that same ranked queue, they compete for a card slot like anything else, ranked by recency and severity rather than pinned to a fixed position. Promo cards are the one exception: they're deliberately held back and capped at one, appearing after the higher-priority material rather than up front.

Empty states

There's no dedicated "no network activity" or "no findings" banner sitting in the deck. If there's nothing to say on a given card type, that card type simply doesn't appear that day, the Feed as a whole falls back to its normal caught-up state once every other decision, alert, and content item has been worked through. A quiet week for the network, no benchmark gaps against the peer median, and no compound patterns firing at once are all good signs, not something to troubleshoot.

Related reading

• The Feed: how the whole card queue is built, ranked, and refreshed.
• The decision workspace: what happens when you tap Act on a Decision card, including compound-insight decisions.
• Acting on decisions: Act, Not Now, and Ignore across every card type.
• Benchmarks overview and reading a benchmark: the peer-median comparisons behind specialist findings.
• How benchmarks work: contribution, consent, and why numbers are held back below a minimum sample.
• Understanding your margin: the metric most specialist findings and compound insights trace back to.