Network Review, the network read in one run

What Network Review is

Network Review is the flagship HQ app: one run that reads your whole network's aggregates and narrates what is moving. Its promise, in the app's own words, is to "see what is moving across your network, and which locations to look at first." Where the Network page's tiles each show you one lens, the composite score, the movers, the leaderboard, Network Review reads across all of them at once and comes back with the story: what is trending, where the spread between your strongest and weakest locations is widening, and which locations are pulling the average.

It is the run to reach for before a leadership call, a board update, or a quarterly review, when the question is not "what is the margin median" but "what should I be looking at this month, and why."

Where to find it

Open Network from the HQ sidebar, at hq.verinode.ai/network. The Apps row sits directly under the hero, and Network Review is its first tile: a dark album-cover tile with the subtitle "Where the network is drifting, and which locations to look at," a small breathing "Live" dot, and a Preview control. The Talk to your Network Analyst and Network Coverage tiles follow it in the same row.

Below the Apps row, the Take Action row holds the section's own findings, the critical cross-network signals. The two rows are deliberately separate: the app is a standing tool you can always start, while Take Action fills and empties as signals fire and clear. When no signals are open, that row reads "No open signals. Cross-network warnings appear here when ≥30% of active franchisees hit the same pattern," and the Apps row stays put above it.

On the phone, Network Review is the first tile in the Apps row on the HQ mobile home; see HQ apps on mobile.

What it reads

The specialist behind Network Review reads your network's pre-computed aggregates: margin, cycle time, carrier mix, reputation, and coverage. These are the same rollups the rest of the HQ product is built on, refreshed by the overnight aggregation, so the finding and the page always describe the same network. It reads only network aggregates, never an individual location's private business data; the boundary behind that sentence is covered in what an HQ app can and cannot read.

Before your first run, the card shows a worked example of the kind of read that comes back, three labeled lines such as margin spread widening, cycle time stable, and a coverage percentage, captioned "This is an example. Your network fills in as locations contribute." Nothing in the example is your data; it exists so you know the shape of a finding before you spend the time running one.

What comes back

A finished Network Review is a prose finding, structured with headings and lists, that covers three things:

• What is trending. The direction of the network's headline aggregates, margin, cycle time, carrier mix, reputation, and whether the movement is broad or driven by a few locations.
• Where the spread is widening. The gap between your strongest and weakest cohorts, which is often the earlier warning than any median: a stable median over a widening spread means the top is compensating for the bottom.
• Which locations to look at first. The locations pulling the average, with the reason each one is named, so the follow-up is a specific conversation rather than a hunt.

The finding lands in the card, is saved automatically, and joins the app's Past analyses tab. You can pin it, reopen it for free, talk it through with the analyst from the result itself, or export it as a PDF for the meeting where it matters; see keeping, reopening, and exporting HQ findings. Running it is free, with no Intelligence Unit prompt, because HQ has no per-operator billing.

Before your network is contributing

Network Review is honest about a thin network. The card carries a standing line for the cold state: "Works best once more of your network is contributing. Connect locations from the Members section, and the aggregates fill in." The app still runs on whatever aggregates exist, and the specialist says plainly where the data is too thin to support a conclusion rather than inventing one. Every location that connects and starts contributing makes the next run sharper, which is the same coverage lever the Network Coverage tile in this row tracks.

Related articles

• HQ Apps overview
• What an HQ app can and cannot read
• Keeping, reopening, and exporting HQ findings
• What HQ sees, the network privacy boundary

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