Tuning your feed

What "Tune your feed" is

The first time you open Feed, before any decisions or content have a chance to fill the screen, Verinode asks three quick questions: how many decisions you want prepared each week, how much news and learning content you want alongside them, and which formats you actually take in. This is the "Tune your feed" card. It answers those questions once, saves your choices, and then never appears again. Nothing about it is a gate: skip it and Verinode falls back to sensible defaults that still work well.

The card is not a survey about what Verinode should show you in the abstract. It is a small set of dials that change how Feed behaves from that point forward: how many decisions surface per week, how much learning content rides alongside them, and which of those formats you'll actually see.

Where to find it

Open Feed from the sidebar at /feed. Feed has four filter pills across the top: All, Decisions, Content, Events. The "Tune your feed" card only ever appears on the All tab, and only as the first card in the deck, ahead of everything else including the welcome/orientation card, until you have answered it.

If you skipped it the first time and want to change any of these choices later, you don't need the card to reappear. Go to Settings → Feed & Decisions (/settings/feed) instead. That page holds the same controls plus two more (which business areas to weight up, and which content topics interest you) that the first-run card doesn't ask about, to keep the first run to three questions.

The three questions, in order

1. "How many decisions should Verinode prepare each week?"

This sets your decision pace, a three-way choice presented as a segmented control:

• Fewer, about 2 a week. Only what's most critical.
• Balanced, about 4 a week. A steady, manageable flow.
• More, about 7 a week. Show me more of what's open.

Whichever option you're on shows that description directly underneath the control, so you always know what "Balanced" means in practice before you commit to it. Under the hood this number is a target for how many decisions can be open (surfaced and still pending) in your feed at once, not a hard cap or a quota Verinode is metering you against. Detection keeps running at full strength regardless of pace: Verinode still finds every decision-worthy signal in your data. Pace only controls how many of those queued findings get released into your feed at a time, so a "Fewer" week isn't a starved one, it's simply the most critical handful surfaced first, with the rest waiting their turn. A signal that's time-sensitive or tied to a hard deadline is never held back by pace: those are released regardless of how full your queue already is.

The default, if you never touch this control, is Balanced.

2. "News and learning in your feed"

The help text under this question reads: "How much industry news, articles, and podcasts ride alongside your decisions." It sets your content volume, also a segmented control with three stops:

• Decisions only, no articles, videos, or podcasts at all. Your feed is just the decisions.
• Just the essentials, a lighter sprinkle of learning content. This is the calm default.
• Keep me current, the fuller stream of news and learning content.

This dial only touches learning content (articles, videos, podcasts, and events). It does not affect vendor news: vendor-flavored content is treated as stack-relevant and rides alongside your decisions regardless of this setting, gated only by the format and topic controls in full Settings, not by content volume.

The default, if you never touch this control, is Just the essentials.

3. "Which formats you take in"

The help text reads: "We only show formats you keep on. Turn off anything you never open." This is a set of toggle pills, one per format:

• Articles
• Videos
• Podcasts

Tap a pill to turn it on or off. Any format you turn off is hard-filtered out of your feed: Verinode won't show you a video card at all if Videos is off, rather than showing it dimmed or deprioritized. This is a strict filter, unlike decision pace, which only weights. You can't turn every format off at once (Verinode keeps at least one on) so the toggle never silently empties your whole content stream. Events aren't included in this control: they're treated as low-volume and directly actionable, so they're never format-gated the way articles, videos, and podcasts are.

The default, if you never touch this control, is every format on.

What each button does

At the bottom of the card are two buttons:

• Save writes whatever you've selected across all three questions and marks the card as answered, so it won't reappear.
• Not now also marks the card as answered and makes it go away, but it does not change any of your preferences: you keep the defaults (Balanced pace, Just the essentials content, every format on) until you visit Settings and change them yourself.

Either button retires the card permanently. There is no snooze or "ask me again later": once you've responded (even by skipping), the only way back to these controls is Settings → Feed & Decisions.

How this shapes what surfaces later

Your answers feed two independent parts of Feed:

• Decision pace changes how many decisions are open in your queue at once, and therefore how much of your critical-path work Verinode is actively holding in front of you versus queued behind the scenes. A lower pace doesn't mean Verinode analyzes less of your business, it means fewer of the resulting decisions compete for your attention at any one time.
• Content volume and format together decide which learning cards (articles, videos, podcasts) make it into your feed at all, and how many of them. Volume scales how much of that stream you see; format is an on/off filter for the types you'll ever see, regardless of volume.

Everything you don't touch on this first-run card, which business areas get weighted up (margin and cash, carrier pushback, vendors and equipment, peer benchmarks, people and hiring, compliance and certs) and which content topics interest you (market and economy, peer benchmarks, vendor and equipment news, compliance and regulation, training and best practices), keeps a sensible baseline behind the scenes. That baseline weights margin, carriers, vendors, and benchmarks up front, since those are the areas operators lean on most, while people and compliance stay visible but a little less emphasized until you tell Verinode otherwise in Settings. None of this ever hides a decision outright. Weighting only changes what rises to the top of your queue first; a decision in a de-emphasized area still surfaces, just not as urgently as one in an area you've told Verinode matters more.

Changing your mind later

Go to Settings → Feed & Decisions at /settings/feed. The page opens with a short reminder: "Gentle nudges: a decision is never hidden, only weighted." It repeats the same three controls from the first-run card (pace, content volume, format) and adds two more:

• Areas that matter most to you, a set of toggle pills across margin and cash, carrier pushback, vendors and equipment, peer benchmarks, people and hiring, and compliance and certs. Toggling one on weights matching decisions up; nothing here hides a decision, it only changes priority.
• Content topics, a similar toggle set for market and economy, peer benchmarks, vendor and equipment news, compliance and regulation, and training and best practices. Unlike format, which is a hard filter, topic acts as both a filter and a weight for learning content: turning a topic off removes that flavor of content from your feed, since Verinode doesn't surface external source names by design, topic is the closest equivalent to picking your sources.

Changes on this page save with a single Save button and apply immediately: Feed, the Decisions view, and (on mobile) the equivalent mobile screens all refresh to reflect your new settings.

Empty states

The "Tune your feed" card itself doesn't have an empty state in the usual sense: it either shows (because you haven't answered it yet) or it doesn't (because you have, whichever way). There's no partial or loading version of the card. If you have no decisions or content yet because your data hasn't started flowing in, the card still appears first, since tuning your preferences doesn't depend on having anything in the feed yet to tune.

Once you've saved or skipped, if your feed then has nothing to show under a given filter, that's a property of the feed's other empty states (covered in The Feed), not of the tuning card, which has already retired for good at that point.

Related reading

• The Feed: the deck this card lives inside, and how filters, time buckets, and card types work.
• The Decision Workspace: what happens after a decision surfaces and you open it.
• Acting on Decisions: moving a surfaced decision to a plan.

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