Polling your team from a card
Every card in your Feed, whether it is a decision, an article, a video, a vendor-news item, or an event, carries a **Poll** button. Poll turns that card into a quick question for your team: you wri…
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What the Poll action is
Every card in your Feed, whether it is a decision, an article, a video, a vendor-news item, or an event, carries a Poll button. Poll turns that card into a quick question for your team: you write (or accept) a short prompt about the thing you are looking at, choose who on your team should see it, and Verinode sends it out by email or text. Your teammates answer with a fast rating, and their answers land back on your account for you to read before you act.
Poll is not a discussion thread and it is not a full survey. It is one question, sent in seconds, so you can get a read from the crew, the field lead, or the office manager before you commit to a decision, attend an event, or spend time chasing something in the news. Verinode does not decide anything here, it hands you a fast way to ask, and you still make the call.
Where to find it
The Feed lives at iq.verinode.ai/feed, opened from Feed in the sidebar. On wider screens, every card (the daily briefing card aside) carries a vertical rail of action icons beside it, not on top of it, so it never covers the card content. Poll is the last icon in that rail, a small lightning-bolt glyph labeled Poll. It appears on every card in the rail, decisions, decision bundles, articles, videos, podcasts, vendor news, and events alike, with no exceptions.
Note
The action rail sits to the right of the card and only shows on wider screens. On a narrow window, scroll the card into view and widen the browser, or use a desktop session, to reach Poll, Save, and the other rail actions.
What happens when you click Poll
- 1Click the Poll icon on any card. A Poll Your Team window opens with the subtitle "One question, instant team input."
- 2Verinode has already written a question for you, built from the card's title and type (see the table below). Edit it, or leave it as written.
- 3Verinode has also already loaded your active team, pulled from Settings → Team, and pre-selected every member with an email or phone number on file. Deselect anyone you do not want to include, or use Select all / Deselect all to flip the whole list at once.
- 4Click Send to N people. The button's count updates live as you check and uncheck names.
- 5On success, the window closes and a toast reads "Poll sent to your team." Your teammates get an email, a text, or both, depending on what contact info each of them has on file.
The Poll Your Team window, field by field
Question
A two-line text box, pre-filled with a question generated from the card, and fully editable. There is no character limit enforced in the box itself, but a short, direct question gets faster and more useful answers. The placeholder text if you clear it reads "Ask your team..."
Verinode's starting question depends on the type of card you opened Poll from:
| Card type | Default question | |---|---| | Decision or decision group | "Should we act on: [title]?" | | Event | "Should we attend [title]?" | | Vendor news | "Is this relevant to us: [title]?" | | Article | "Worth discussing: [title]?" | | Video | "Should we watch and discuss: [title]?" | | Podcast | "Worth listening to: [title]?" | | Anything else | "What do you think about: [title]?" |
Send to
A list of your active team members (people marked active under Settings → Team), each showing their name and, beneath it, their email if they have one, otherwise their phone number, otherwise the line "No contact info." Click a name to toggle it on or off, a filled square with a checkmark means that person is included.
A team member with neither an email nor a phone number on file cannot be selected at all, their row is dimmed and does nothing when clicked, because Verinode has no way to reach them. Add an email or phone number for that person under Settings → Team and they become selectable the next time you open Poll.
The Select all / Deselect all link above the list toggles every member (reachable ones only affect the send count; unreachable ones are never actually included) in one click. The label itself flips between the two states depending on whether everyone is currently checked.
Send button
The footer has two buttons: Cancel, which closes the window without sending anything, and the send button, labeled Send to N person or Send to N people depending on how many reachable teammates are currently checked. It is disabled, and shows as faded, whenever any of these is true: the question box is empty, no one is selected, or everyone selected happens to have no email or phone on file. While a poll is being sent, the button reads "Sending..." and the window cannot be dismissed by clicking outside it, so you cannot accidentally send twice.
How a teammate answers
Verinode sends the poll to each selected teammate by whichever channel they have, email, text, or both:
- Email arrives with the subject line "Rate [card title] 1-5 for [your company name]." The body carries your question and a reply-to address tied to that specific poll, so a plain reply is enough to register an answer.
- Text arrives as: "Quick question from [your name] via Verinode: [your question]" followed by "Reply 1-5 (1=low, 5=high)."
However you phrased the question, a teammate's answer comes back as a single number from 1 to 5, not a typed reply or a yes/no tap. Read a low number as "no" or "not worth it" and a high number as "yes" or "worth it," the same fast pulse-check format Verinode uses for other quick team surveys.
Where the results show up
A poll you send is really a one-question survey behind the scenes, and it appears under Forms in the sidebar (/forms) with a small amber Lightning badge next to its title, alongside your other surveys and forms. Its title reads "Lightning: [card title]," its Type badge reads Vendor, Carrier, Tool, or Process depending on what the card was about, and its Responses column fills in as teammates answer, "3/6 (50%)" for example, until everyone has replied or you stop watching.
Open that entry to see every teammate's individual answer, their rating from 1 to 5 next to their name, how long they took to respond, and whether they answered by email or text, plus the running average and a distribution of how many people gave each rating. Rows for teammates who have not answered yet stay listed and read "Awaiting."
Why Poll, and not Share, on a decision card
Decision and other internal cards never carry the public sharing icons, LinkedIn, Email, SMS, or a copyable link, that industry content like articles and vendor news gets. Those public channels hand out a link anyone can open, and a decision card is your own business's data, not something to broadcast outside your team. Poll is the one channel internal cards get instead: it goes to named teammates you pick from your own roster, by their own contact info, never through a public link. That is why every card gets Save and Poll, but only public-content cards (articles, videos, podcasts, events, vendor news) also get the broadcast icons.
Empty states and errors
- Team still loading. A small spinner and "Loading team..." while Verinode fetches your active team members.
- No team members found. If your account has no active team members on file, the window reads "No team members found" with a hint below it: "Add team members in Settings → Team."
- A team member has no contact info. Their row shows "No contact info" in place of an email or phone, and the row cannot be selected.
- Team failed to load. If the fetch itself fails, the window reads "Could not load team members" and the list stays empty until you close and reopen Poll.
- Send fails. If sending the poll fails on the server, the error line under the team list shows the specific reason, or falls back to "Failed to send poll" if none is given. The window stays open so you can retry.
Best-practice example
You open a decision card recommending a switch to a different equipment rental vendor. Instead of deciding solo, you click Poll. Verinode has already written "Should we act on: Switch equipment rental vendor?" You leave it as is, keep every reachable teammate selected, and send. Within the hour, three of your four techs have replied with a 4 or 5, and one came back with a 2. You check that one teammate's answer against their usual field experience with the current vendor before you commit, then act on the decision from the card itself with a fuller picture than the numbers in the card alone would have given you.