Sharing feed insights

What this is

Every card in your Feed has a side rail of actions running down its right edge. Some of those actions, Share, LinkedIn, Email, and SMS, hand the card off to someone outside Verinode by generating a public link. Others, Save and Poll, keep the card inside your own account or your own team. Which set of buttons you see depends entirely on what kind of card it is: industry content gets the full rail, your own business intelligence never does.

This article covers how each share action behaves, what a share link actually contains, how long it lasts, and why decisions, agent messages, and other cards built from your own data are never given a public link, only Save and Poll.

Where to find it

Open Feed from the sidebar at iq.verinode.ai/feed. The rail sits to the right of the card, visible on desktop widths. Each card shows only the actions that apply to it:

• Save appears on every card. Clicking it bookmarks the item; the icon fills solid and the label toggles between "Saved" and "Removed from saved." Saved items live under My Data, not in a Feed filter, so this article does not cover that list in depth, see the Feed for the full card catalog.
• Playlist appears only on Video and Podcast cards, for adding the item to your playlist.
• Read list appears only on Article and Vendor News cards.
• Share, LinkedIn, Email, and SMS appear only when the card is public content (see below).
• Poll appears on every card. It never leaves your account, see the Poll section below.

Public cards vs. internal cards

Every card in the Feed carries a visibility: public or internal. It is not a setting you toggle, it is determined by what the card is.

Public (gets the full share rail): Article, Video, Podcast, Event, Vendor News, and Verinode's own promotional posters. These are industry content, sourced from trade press, vendor feeds, and Verinode Research, not anything about your book of business. There is nothing in them that identifies your company, so broadcasting one is safe by default.

Internal (Save and Poll only, never a public link): decisions, bundled decision groups, action-plan cards, agent messages, compound insights, HQ network broadcasts, and every other card built from your own operating data. These cards can carry your margins, vendor performance, staffing gaps, or client-specific detail, exactly the kind of thing an independent data trust exists to keep out of a public URL.

This split is enforced twice, not once. The Feed only renders the four broadcast buttons on public cards in the first place. But even if that check were somehow bypassed, the server-side action that mints a share link independently refuses to create one for anything except industry content, so a decision or signal can never end up behind a public token, by design, not by luck.

The four broadcast actions

Each of these first creates a share token (see below), then hands the resulting link to a different channel. All four record that you shared the item, so it also shows up as activity on the card.

1. 1Share. Creates the token, then tries your device's native share sheet first. On a device that supports it, you pick where to send the link (Messages, another app, AirDrop, whatever is installed) and the toast reads "Shared." If native sharing is not available, or you cancel it, Verinode instead copies the link straight to your clipboard and the toast reads "Link copied."
2. 2LinkedIn. Opens a blank browser tab immediately (before the token is even created, so your browser's popup blocker does not intervene), creates the token, then copies a suggested post to your clipboard, the item's title, the link, and the hashtags #restoration #IQ #Verinode @verinodeai, and finally sends that new tab to LinkedIn's share dialog with the link pre-filled. The toast reads "Post copied. Paste into LinkedIn." because LinkedIn's own share dialog does not accept pasted post text automatically, you paste it in yourself once the tab loads.
3. 3Email. Creates the token, then opens your default mail client with the subject already set to the item's title and the body pre-filled: "Check out this insight from Verinode IQ:" followed by the title and the link. The toast reads "Opening email."
4. 4SMS. Creates the token, then opens your device's messaging app with the body pre-filled as "<title>: <link>". The toast reads "Opening messages."

If token creation fails for any reason (a network error, an expired session), each of the four falls back to the same toast: "Could not share." Nothing partial gets sent.

What a share token actually is

Clicking Share, LinkedIn, Email, or SMS generates a share token: a short, random, unguessable string (12 characters, stripped of dashes from a UUID) that resolves to a standalone public page at iq.verinode.ai/share/<token>. Anyone with the link can open that page without signing in.

A few mechanics worth knowing:

• It expires in 30 days. After that, the link stops resolving.
• Re-sharing the same item through the same channel reuses the token rather than minting a new one, as long as the earlier one has not expired. Sharing the same article to LinkedIn twice in a week gives you the same link both times.
• Sharing is rate-limited to guard against runaway automation or a misfiring script, well above what a real operator would ever hit in normal use.
• The content is snapshotted at share time, not linked live. What the recipient sees is a copy of the title, summary, "why it matters" note, image, and source, captured the moment you clicked Share. If the original item is later updated or removed from your feed, the shared page is unaffected until it expires.

What the recipient sees

The public share page is a simple card, branded as Verinode IQ, not as your company specifically:

• A type badge (Article, Video, Podcast, Event, or Vendor News), the item's title, a short excerpt of its body, and, when present, a Why it matters panel.
• A source line ("via <source>") with a Read original link back to the original publisher, when the item came from one.
• An Open in Verinode IQ button that sends the recipient to iq.verinode.ai/feed.
• A footer reading "Shared by <your company name>" if your operator profile has one set, followed by "Powered by Verinode IQ, vendor intelligence for restoration operators."

The page also carries social preview metadata (Open Graph and Twitter card tags, plus a dynamically generated preview image), so the link unfurls as a proper title, description, and image card when it lands in an iMessage thread, a LinkedIn post, or a Slack channel, rather than showing as a bare URL.

If the link has expired or the token is invalid, the page instead reads: "Link expired. This shared insight is no longer available. Share links expire after 30 days." with a Get started with Verinode IQ button pointing at sign-up, turning a dead link into a lead rather than a dead end.

Save: keeping something for yourself

Save is the one action on the rail that is neither a public broadcast nor a team action, it is private to you. It bookmarks the card so you can find it again later without re-scrolling the Feed. It works identically on public and internal cards alike; there is no visibility restriction on Save. Related items surface under My Data, not as a Feed filter.

Poll: sharing with your team, never the public

Poll is the internal-safe way to get a second opinion on any card, public or internal, without ever generating a public link. Clicking it opens the Poll Your Team panel:

• A one-line, editable Question, pre-filled based on the card. A decision reads "Should we act on: <title>?"; an event reads "Should we attend <title>?"; vendor news reads "Is this relevant to us: <title>?"; and so on for each card type.
• A Send to list of your team members, each shown with their name and their email or phone number. Team members with neither on file appear grayed out and cannot be selected, since there is no channel to reach them on. A Select all / Deselect all toggle sits above the list.
• If you have not added any team members yet, the panel reads: "No team members found. Add team members in Settings → Team."
• Sending fires a one-question lightning survey to whichever teammates you selected, delivered by email where you have one on file and by text otherwise. Once it sends, the Feed shows a confirmation toast: "Poll sent to your team."

Nothing about a poll ever leaves your organization: no token, no public URL, just a question and a link that only your invited teammates receive.

Best-practice example

You see an Article card about a new drying-equipment recall. It is public content, so the full rail shows. You hit LinkedIn: a blank tab opens, the suggested post lands in your clipboard, and the tab redirects to LinkedIn's share dialog with the link pre-filled, you paste, add a line of your own commentary, and post. Two cards later, a decision flags a vendor whose invoice pricing has drifted above your peer range. There is no Share, LinkedIn, Email, or SMS button on it, only Save and Poll. You hit Poll, edit the pre-filled question, select your ops manager, and send. She gets a two-line text with the question, no public link, no dollar figures leaving your account, just a decision surfaced to the one person who needs to weigh in.

Related reading

• The Feed: the full card catalog and how the daily mix is built.
• Articles, videos, podcasts, and events in the feed: the industry content that makes up every public, shareable card.
• Reading a decision card: what makes a decision card internal, and how to read its evidence.
• The decision workspace: where a decision goes after you act on it instead of sharing it.
• Acting on decisions: turning a decision card into a plan.

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