Facilities: your network's real-estate footprint at a glance

What the Facilities section is

Facilities is HQ's view of every physical location your network operates out of: warehouses, shops, satellite offices, storage yards, whatever a franchisee has registered as a facility, along with the lease terms attached to each one. It answers three questions a network leadership team asks on a recurring basis: how much real estate does the network carry, what is it costing, and which leases need attention before they lapse.

Facilities is not a lease-management tool and it is not where a franchisee enters their own facility data. That happens inside each franchisee's own IQ account (their operator-side platform), where they register locations, square footage, ownership type, and lease terms as part of running their business. HQ never asks a franchisee to duplicate that work. Instead, Facilities reads a nightly summary of what franchisees have already recorded and rolls it up to the network level. You are looking at aggregates and per-franchisee summary rows, not a live feed into anyone's private business records.

Where to find it

Facilities sits inside the Assets cluster in the HQ sidebar, alongside Fleet and Equipment. Open it at hq.verinode.ai/facilities. At the top of the page a pill-shaped tab strip reads Facilities · Fleet · Equipment, each tab its own page (/facilities, /fleet, /equipment). The active tab fills in copper; the other two stay transparent until you click them. Related help: Fleet and Equipment cover the other two Assets pages, and HQ overview covers how Assets fits into the rest of the HQ sidebar.

A Download board slide button floats in the top-right corner of the page. Click it to generate a one-page PDF export of the section for a board or leadership deck, no manual screenshotting required. The report-building side of HQ, including where slides like this fit into a larger deliverable, is covered in Report library.

Where the numbers come from, and what HQ never sees

Everything on this page is built from a nightly rollup: a scheduled job reads every registered facility and lease across your network's franchisees and writes a per-franchisee summary row (facility counts, square footage, rent, lease end dates, compliance-event counts) into a network-level summary table. HQ's Facilities page reads only that summary table. It is a snapshot as of the last overnight refresh, not a live query against any franchisee's operational data.

This matters for the trust boundary that HQ is built on: franchisees own their data. HQ sees network aggregates, per-franchisee summary numbers, and compliance status. It does not see a franchisee's day-to-day facility management, their underlying invoices or lease documents, or any live edits they make between refreshes. If a franchisee changes a lease term this afternoon, the network won't reflect it until the next overnight rollup.

The hero: your network's footprint in one glance

At the top of the page, the hero panel reads Network footprint as its eyebrow, with your network's total active facility count as the big headline number. Beside it, a pill shows how many franchisees have at least one facility on record (for example, "6 franchisees"), or "No data yet" if none have registered anything.

Below the headline, a subtext line spells out the total picture: total facility count, how many are owned versus leased, and (when at least one active lease exists) the earliest upcoming lease end date across the whole network. If your network's entity model is set to independent operators (the default for franchise and association networks), the subtext adds a line: "Franchisee rows are anonymized (independent-operator network)." More on what that means below.

Three secondary tiles sit beside the headline:

• Square footage. Total registered square footage across active locations. The subtext reads "Across active locations" once you have data, or "Awaiting data" before any franchisee has recorded square footage.
• Monthly rent. Total monthly rent across active leases. The subtext adds CAM (common-area-maintenance) charges on top when any franchisee has them recorded ("Plus $Xk CAM"), or reads "Active leases only" when there's no CAM data yet.
• Leases expiring 90d. The count of active leases across the network ending inside the next 90 days. If more leases fall inside a 180-day window than a 90-day one, the subtext calls that out ("+N more inside 180d"); otherwise it reads "Inside 90-day window."

When your network qualifies as a demo network, each of these three tiles can also carry a "vs national median" comparison appended after the base subtext, letting you see at a glance whether your network's per-franchisee averages run above or below a national reference. On live, non-demo networks this comparison line is not shown yet; it lights up once the underlying industry facility-benchmark data is built out further, and until then the base subtext stands on its own.

If no franchisee has registered any facilities yet, the whole hero reads plainly: "Facility data will appear as operators register their locations and leases."

Row 1: Lease Risk

This row surfaces franchisees who have at least one active lease expiring inside the next 90 days, the leases where a decision (renew, renegotiate, or relocate) needs to happen soon. Up to six franchisees show, sorted with the most exposed first.

Each tile shows:

• A label of "Multiple" (three or more leases expiring inside 90 days) or "Expiring" (one or two).
• The franchisee's name as the headline (real name or an anonymized identifier, depending on your entity model, see below).
• A small dot-grid preview showing the franchisee's total active facility count, with the leases expiring inside 90 days highlighted (in red if three or more, amber otherwise).
• A sub line reading "N lease(s) ending in 90d."
• A meta line reading "Next {date}" when an earliest lease-end date is on record.

Clicking any tile opens that franchisee's Facilities detail slider (covered further down). If no active lease across the entire network is inside the 90-day window, the row reads: "No active leases expire inside the 90-day window."

Row 2: Footprint by Franchisee

This row lists every franchisee with at least one registered facility (up to 12, largest footprint first), so you can scan location count, square footage, and rent cost side by side. Each tile shows:

• A label of "1 location" or "N locations" (active facility count).
• The franchisee's name as the headline.
• A marker-style preview comparing the franchisee's rent-per-square-foot to the network's own median rent-per-square-foot, with a reference tick marking that median.
• A sub line with the franchisee's total square footage (formatted compactly, e.g. "12k sqft").
• A meta line combining the franchisee's monthly rent (e.g. "$8k/mo rent") with the rent gap versus the network median, expressed as an annualized dollar figure: a plus sign means the franchisee is paying below the network median rate (cheaper), a minus sign means above (costlier). For example, "+$14k/yr vs peer" or "-$6k/yr vs peer."

Read the dollar-gap text in the meta line as the authoritative number, it spells out above or below the median directly, so you don't need to eyeball the marker chart to know which way a franchisee sits.

If no franchisee has registered any facilities yet, the row reads: "Footprint data will appear as operators register their facilities."

Row 3: Owned vs Leased

This row lists franchisees who own at least one of their facilities outright (up to 8), each tile labeled "Owner-Operator." A proportion bar in the preview splits owned facilities (in green) from leased ones, and the sub line spells it out directly: "N owned · N leased."

If every registered facility across the network is currently leased, none owned, the row reads: "All registered facilities are leased. Ownership shifts as franchisees acquire real estate."

Row 4: Open Facility Compliance

This row surfaces franchisees carrying open or overdue facility-compliance events, things like a lapsed inspection or an outstanding certification tied to a location, sorted with the most open events first (up to 6 shown). Each tile carries the franchisee's name as the headline and a sub line reading "N open or overdue."

If no franchisee across the network has an open facility-compliance event, the row reads: "No open facility-compliance events across the network. Events surface here when a franchisee logs an inspection that is overdue or open." For the broader compliance-tracking picture across your network (not just facility-tied events), see Compliance.

Franchisee names: real or anonymized, depending on your network

Every per-franchisee tile across all four rows uses one of two display modes, set once for the whole network under your entity model:

• Same entity (used when your locations are all part of one legal company, for example a PE-backed multi-location operator). Real franchisee and location names show throughout.
• Independent operators (the default for franchise and association networks). Franchisee names are replaced with a stable anonymized label, "Franchisee #XXXX", built from a short hash of the franchisee's internal ID. The same franchisee always shows the same label across every visit and every section, so you can still track patterns over time, you just can't map a label back to a specific business by name from the label alone.

Small networks: aggregate-only view

Per-franchisee tiles (Rows 1 through 4) carry an identification risk in very small networks: even with names anonymized, a network with only one or two active franchisees makes it trivial to work out which tile belongs to whom just from the numbers. To guard against that, when your network is in independent-operators mode and has fewer than three active franchisees, every per-franchisee row goes empty and a disclosure banner appears above the rows instead:

Aggregate-only view. Your network currently has fewer than three active operators, so per-franchisee facility footprint tiles are suppressed to protect operator privacy (small-cohort identification risk). Hero aggregates still surface. Tiles return once the network reaches 3+ active operators, or change the network data posture in Settings → Group → Data posture.

The hero panel's network-wide totals still show in full during this state, only the per-franchisee breakdowns are held back. Networks using the same-entity model bypass this guard entirely, since there's no separate business identity to protect.

Clicking into a franchisee: the Facilities detail view

Clicking any per-franchisee tile (Lease Risk, Footprint, Ownership, or Compliance) opens that franchisee's Facilities detail view as a centered overlay. At the top, a header shows the franchisee's name, city and state, active status, and a pill reading "{active} active" (with "/ {total} total" appended if some facilities are inactive).

Scope switcher. Directly below the header, a row of scope options lets you re-center every metric on a different comparison group:

• Group, this franchisee against other active franchisees in your own network.
• Regional, against peers in the same state.
• National, against peers across the country.

Each option shows its cohort size in parentheses when available (e.g. "Group (7)"). A scope with too small a comparison cohort shows as unavailable with an explanatory hint, for example "Need 3+ active peers in the network for within-network comparisons" for Group, or "Need 3+ peers in the same state. Smaller state cohorts hidden by K-anonymity floor" for Regional. On real (non-demo) networks today, Regional and National honestly show as pending rather than a fabricated number, see the scope footer note below.

Footprint metrics. Four tiles: Locations, Total sqft, Monthly cost (rent + CAM), and Owned vs leased. Each shows the franchisee's raw value, then, when the selected scope has enough peers, the cohort median and the franchisee's percentile rank ("Median 8k · p62"), plus a delta label like "+18% vs median" or "On par with peers" (used when the franchisee sits within about 5% of the median). When there isn't enough peer data at the selected scope, the tile reads "Cohort too small" or "Pending benchmark seed" instead of a fabricated comparison. If your network has set a target for a metric through a Program, the tile also shows "✓ Meets target" or "✗ Below target" against that target value, see Programs for how network targets are set.

Lease watch. Two counts side by side: leases expiring inside 90 days and inside 180 days, each color-coded (red if the 90-day count is above zero, amber if only the 180-day count is). A note line beneath reads one of three things depending on urgency: "Negotiate or relocate, windows are tight," "Heads-up window, start renewal conversations now," or "No near-term lease pressure."

Scope context footer. A line at the bottom of the view explains what you're looking at: for Group scope, either "Peer cohort too small, need 3+ active franchisees in the network" or "Within-network comparison · {confidence label} · n={cohort size}" (confidence reads as High, Directional, or Low depending on how many peers contributed). For Regional or National scope on a real network, it reads "Regional industry benchmarks pending, facility metrics will seed via the benchmark data in the next slice" (or the National equivalent), an honest placeholder rather than a demo-derived number dressed up as real.

How to use it

Work Facilities top to bottom on a recurring review cadence (monthly is typical for most networks):

1. 1Start with the hero. Confirm the network's total footprint, rent load, and near-term lease exposure haven't shifted in a way that needs attention.
2. 2Check Lease Risk. Any franchisee with "Multiple" flagged is carrying real near-term decision pressure, click in to see the actual end dates under Lease Watch.
3. 3Scan Footprint by Franchisee for outliers, a franchisee paying well above the network median per square foot is worth a conversation before their next renewal, not after.
4. 4Check Open Facility Compliance. An open or overdue item tied to a location is worth confirming is being worked, not just noted.
5. 5Use the Download board slide button if this section needs to go into a leadership or board deck as-is.

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