Group, Regional, and National peer scopes on the fleet drill-in

What this is

When you drill into a single franchisee from the Fleet page, the detail that opens compares that franchisee's vehicles, safety record, and compliance posture against peers. "Peers" is not a single fixed group. A scope switcher at the top of the drill-in lets you pick which peer population the numbers below it are measured against: Group (the rest of your own network), Regional (peers in the same state), or National (the broader restoration industry). This article covers how that switcher works, what has to be true for each scope to unlock, and why Regional and National currently read as pending on a real network even though the switcher shows all three.

This sits inside the same privacy boundary as the rest of Fleet: the drill-in never opens a peer franchisee's raw vehicle, insurance, or driver records. Every comparison number you see, at every scope, is a median computed across a peer population, never a named peer's individual figure.

Where to find it

The scope switcher lives inside the per-franchisee Fleet detail, which opens as a centered overlay when you click a tile.

1. 1Open Assets from the HQ sidebar at hq.verinode.ai/fleet, then click the Fleet pill in the Facilities · Fleet · Equipment bar if you don't land there already.
2. 2Click any franchisee tile, on the Insurance Risk row, the Compliance & Driver Risk row, the Accidents row, or the Fleet by Franchisee roster at the bottom.
3. 3The drill-in opens with the franchisee's name, city and state (or their anonymized equivalents), membership status, and an active-vehicle pill. Directly beneath that header is the scope switcher: three pills reading Group, Regional, and National.

For background on the page the drill-in opens from, see Fleet overview.

The three scopes, and what each one actually is

• Group compares this franchisee against the other active franchisees in your own network. This is an internal comparison: it answers "how does this vehicle count, average age, premium, or safety record sit relative to everyone else on my own roster?"
• Regional compares this franchisee against restoration operators in the same state, drawn from Verinode's cross-network intelligence layer rather than from your own roster. This answers a different question: "how does this franchisee sit against the broader industry in its state?"
• National compares against the broader restoration industry across the country, the widest and least local of the three lenses.

Group is a different kind of number from Regional and National. Group only ever needs more franchisees on your own roster to unlock, because it is entirely computed from your network's own nightly fleet rollup. Regional and National need Verinode's industry-wide intelligence pipeline to have enough real, anonymized observations behind that state or that metric, which is a separate thing entirely from how large your own network is.

Why a scope can be greyed out

Each scope pill is always shown, even when it is not usable yet. An unusable scope renders as a disabled pill with a tooltip explaining what is missing, rather than disappearing, so you always know the dimension exists and roughly what would unlock it.

Behind every scope sits a floor: a peer comparison only displays once there are enough peers behind it that showing a median could not effectively reveal any single peer's own number. Below that floor, Verinode shows the scope as unavailable instead of a comparison built from too few franchisees to protect anonymously. This is the same anonymity discipline that governs every peer comparison across the platform, not something unique to Fleet.

Once a scope clears that floor, its pill label appends the exact number of peers behind it, for example "Group (7)." That count is drawn from how many peers have vehicle data on file at that scope, which is used as the switcher's representative population size. It is possible for the switcher to show a scope as available while one specific tile inside it still reads as unavailable, if fewer peers happen to have a value on file for that particular metric than have a value on file for vehicle count generally. A metric tile's own unavailable state (covered below) is always the accurate answer for that specific number, even when the scope pill itself is enabled.

• Group, when there are not enough active peers on your own roster yet, the tooltip explains that within-network comparisons need more active peers in the network.
• Regional, when the state cohort behind it is too small, the tooltip explains that smaller state cohorts are hidden by the anonymity floor.
• National, when the cross-network cohort is too small, the tooltip reads that the cohort is too small for a cross-network comparison.

Reading a tile once a scope is selected

Selecting a scope re-renders the same tiles underneath it with peer numbers at that scope. Each metric tile shows:

• The franchisee's own value, formatted for that metric (a plain count, a dollar figure like "$18k" or "$1.2M," a year figure like "3.8y," or a percentage).
• The peer median at the selected scope, when one is available, labeled "Median" followed by the formatted value.
• The franchisee's percentile within that peer population, shown as "· p42" beside the median, when a percentile could be computed.
• A plain-language delta line below that, comparing the franchisee's value to the peer median as a percentage, for example "+12% vs median" or "-8% vs median." A gap smaller than about five percent in either direction reads as "On par with peers" in neutral gray rather than a percentage, since a difference that small is noise, not signal.
• A color on that delta line that depends on whether the metric's own direction of good is higher-is-better or lower-is-better, not just on whether the franchisee is above or below the median. More vehicles, a newer average vehicle age, a lower commercial-auto premium, a higher owned-versus-leased share, and fewer accidents or at-fault accidents are all the favorable direction for their respective metric, so a delta the wrong way for that metric turns yellow at a moderate gap and red once the gap widens past roughly a quarter, while a delta the favorable way turns green regardless of size.
• When the group has an active target set for that metric under Programs, a tag reading "✓ Meets target" (green) or "✗ Below target" (red), with the target's value shown beside it and the program's name on hover. See Programs for how network targets are set.

When a tile has no peer number to show, it reads one of two short lines instead of a median:

• "Cohort too small", when too few peers at that scope have a value on file for this specific metric.
• "Pending benchmark seed", when the scope itself has no data behind it yet at all (this is the state Regional and National are in today, described below).

Fleet shape, Safety, and Compliance watch: which sections respond to scope

The drill-in has three sections. Only the first two change with the scope switcher.

• Fleet shape (vehicle count, average vehicle age, annual commercial-auto premium, owned-versus-leased split) is fully scope-aware: switch scopes and all four tiles re-compare against the newly selected peer population.
• Safety (accidents and at-fault accidents, both over the trailing 36 months) is also scope-aware for the Group comparison, but Regional and National for these two metrics specifically read "Pending benchmark seed" today regardless of scope selected, since accident history has not yet been seeded into the industry pipeline behind those two wider scopes.
• Compliance watch does not respond to the scope switcher at all. Its eight counts (policies expiring inside 90 days, registrations expiring inside 90 days, DOT inspections expiring inside 90 days, services overdue, drivers with an expired license, drivers with a stale MVR, open compliance events, and services completed in the last 30 days) are always this franchisee's own current numbers, with a status line beneath them reading active compliance gaps in red, a heads-up window in yellow, or a clean posture in green. There is no peer version of this panel; it is a status check on this one franchisee, not a comparison.

Why Regional and National read "benchmarks pending"

A line beneath the tiles, tied to whichever scope is currently selected, reads the state of that scope in plain language:

• Under Group, if your network has enough active peers, it confirms the comparison is live and names the confidence level behind it (see below). If your network does not yet have enough active peers, it explains that the peer cohort is too small for a within-network comparison yet.
• Under Regional, it explains that regional industry benchmarks are still being seeded, and that fleet metrics will populate as that data matures.
• Under National, it explains the same thing for the national scope.

This is a straightforward reason, not a soft no. Group is computed entirely from your own network's nightly rollup, so it can be live the day your network has enough active franchisees. Regional and National are meant to be genuine cross-industry benchmarks, built from Verinode's broader intelligence layer across many restoration operators nationwide, not just a bigger slice of your own roster. That pipeline has not yet been seeded with real, anonymized fleet observations at those two scopes. Verinode reads that state honestly rather than inventing a number: a real network sees "pending," never a placeholder dressed up as a genuine benchmark.

Confidence, and why it isn't the same as the peer median itself

Alongside a live Group comparison, the scope footer names a confidence level: High confidence, Directional, or Low confidence. This is Verinode's own read on how much weight to put on the median itself, separate from whether a comparison displays at all. A peer population that just barely clears the anonymity floor produces a real, displayable median, but that median is naturally noisier than one built from a much larger group of peers, so it is labeled Low confidence rather than presented with the same certainty as a comparison backed by many more peers, which reads as Directional, and then High confidence as the peer population grows further still. Read a Low confidence or Directional comparison as a useful signal, not a precise number to hold a franchisee to exactly.

Empty and loading states

• While the drill-in is loading, the overlay shows the franchisee's header with a plain "Loading…" line where the tiles will appear.
• If the load fails, the overlay reads "Couldn't load this franchisee's fleet data." with a Close link.
• If a metric tile has no peer comparison at the selected scope, it shows "Cohort too small" or "Pending benchmark seed" as described above, never a blank tile.

Related help articles

• Fleet overview for the full Fleet page this drill-in opens from, including the five rows and the small-network aggregate-only banner
• Network Health for the cross-network signals Fleet risk rows feed into
• Benchmarks for how HQ-wide peer comparisons work outside the Assets cluster
• Programs for setting the network targets that show as "Meets target" / "Below target" tags on these tiles
• Compliance for how the Compliance watch counts roll into network-wide compliance reporting

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