Download board slide from Margin & Cash

What this is

Every rollup section on Verinode HQ (Margin & Cash, Operations, Facilities, Fleet, and Reputation) carries the same button in its top-right corner: Download board slide. Click it and Verinode generates a one-page PDF, built from the same live figures the page is already showing you, ready to drop into a board deck, an ownership update, or an investor packet without you having to screenshot tiles or retype numbers into slides by hand.

This article covers the button as it appears on Margin & Cash specifically: what the slide contains, how the numbers on it map to the numbers on the page, and what makes it safe to hand to a board, an owner group, or a PE partner without exposing any single membership's private books. The button and the export mechanics are identical on Operations, Facilities, Fleet, and Reputation; only the three stat cards in the middle change to match that section's own figures.

Where to find it

Open Margin & Cash from the HQ sidebar, in the Intelligence group (alongside Benchmarks, Forecasting, and Impact), at hq.verinode.ai/margin-cash.

Download board slide sits as a small copper button fixed to the top-right of the page, above the row stack, next to where the AI agent panel opens. It stays in that same corner regardless of which row you have scrolled to.

Clicking it does not open a dialog or a preview. It immediately triggers a PDF download named <your-network-name>-margin-cash-board-slide.pdf (your network's name, lowercased and hyphenated). Nothing on the page changes; you can click it again anytime and get a fresh export reflecting whatever the aggregator has computed as of that moment.

What the slide contains

The PDF is a single US Letter page, generated fresh on every click. From top to bottom:

Header band

If your network has uploaded a brand logo (under Identity & Branding in your HQ settings), the header shows that logo on the left against a cream band, with your network's name in bold beside it and a small eyebrow line above it reading "Board slide · Margin & Cash · methodology [version]" in muted gray, uppercase. This is the "delivered by you" treatment: no Verinode wordmark appears at all, because the slide is meant to look like it came from your own network, not from a vendor.

If no logo is on file, the header instead renders as a Steel Blue band with "VERINODE | HQ" in white on the left and the same eyebrow line beneath it. Either way, the eyebrow's methodology version is the same version number the rest of HQ's benchmark figures are pinned to, so a board member can trace exactly which benchmark methodology produced the numbers on the slide.

Title and subtitle

Below the header, your network's full name appears as a large bold headline, followed by a smaller gray subtitle line naming the section ("Margin & Cash") and describing it as a Verinode-verified network snapshot.

Three stat cards

The body of the slide is three stacked cards, each a light cream box with a small uppercase label, a large Steel Blue value, and a muted sub-line underneath. These map directly to the Margin & Cash home page:

Card 1, "Network median gross margin." The same figure as the page's hero headline, your network's P50 gross margin. The sub-line reads "vs. rest of operator pool [X]%" followed by the gap in percentage points (for example "+2.3pp" or "-1.1pp") when both sides of the comparison have enough data. When the industry side of the comparison isn't populated yet, the sub-line reads "Benchmark warming up" instead of a percentage, and the card's value shows a dash if your own network median isn't available either.

Card 2, "Cash-runway distribution." The value is a count, for example "6 healthy," meaning the number of memberships with a strong cash position (60 or more days of projected runway). The sub-line spells out the rest of the buckets in one line: how many are tightening (the 30-to-60-day band), how many are critical (under 30 days), and how many are unknown (no recent cash balance on file), followed by "of [N] franchisees," the total membership count behind the distribution.

Card 3, "Cohort size." The value reads "N=[count]," the number of memberships currently feeding the network median shown in Card 1. The sub-line reads "Anonymized cohort feeding the network median," followed by a confidence qualifier: warming up, early signal, verified, or strong, depending on how large that cohort is. Verinode does not print the specific count thresholds behind each qualifier anywhere on the slide or on the page; the label itself is the confidence signal, not a number your board needs to reverse-engineer.

Verinode-verified attestation

Below the three cards sits a small copper badge reading "VERINODE-VERIFIED", followed by a line of body text: the numbers on this slide are the same numbers Verinode publishes to your memberships on iq.verinode.ai, this is an anonymized network aggregate with no individual membership identified, and the methodology version is pinned above. This line exists so that anyone in the room can ask "is this the same number my own franchisee sees on their platform," and the answer is always yes; HQ and IQ read off the same underlying benchmark, never two different sets of books.

Footer

The footer carries the generation date on the left ("Generated [Month Day, Year]") and, on the right in copper, your network's name (or "verinode.ai" if no brand name is set) followed by the page count, "1 / 1." Every board slide is a single page by design: it is meant to be the headline you open a meeting with, not the full packet.

How to use it

1. Open Margin & Cash and let the page finish loading its live figures.
2. Click Download board slide. The PDF downloads immediately; there is no confirmation step.
3. Attach the PDF to your board packet, drop it into a slide deck as an image, or print it directly. Because it is a full letter-size page with its own header and footer, it stands on its own even outside a deck.
4. If the figures change (a member reports new financials, the nightly aggregator runs, a new membership joins the cohort), click the button again before your meeting to get a current export. There is no caching; every click reads the live data.

What makes this HQ-safe

The board slide exists specifically so a franchisor can hand a document to a board, an ownership group, or a private-equity partner without crossing the privacy boundary that HQ is built around. Concretely:

• Every figure on the slide is a network aggregate. Medians, percentiles, distribution counts, and a cohort size, never a single membership's margin, cash balance, or P&L line.
• No membership names appear anywhere on the slide. The cash-runway distribution and cohort size are both counts, not lists. If you need to see which specific memberships are driving a weak distribution, that is a Margin & Cash page conversation (see Margin & Cash Overview and Margin Gap in Dollars), not something the board slide is built to expose, by design.
• The cohort-size qualifier is qualitative, not a number to reverse-engineer. "Warming up," "early signal," "verified," and "strong" tell a board how much confidence to put in the median without printing the specific count of contributing operators that separates one tier from the next.
• The download itself is logged. Every board slide generated writes an entry to your network's document access log, the same audit trail used for Item 19 disclosure packs and Discovery Day materials, so there is a record of who pulled which export and when. See HQ Report Library for where that log surfaces.
• The export reads the same query path as the page. There is no separate "board slide database" that could drift out of sync with what your memberships see on IQ. The PDF pulls from the same aggregator output the Margin & Cash home page renders, which is also the reason the Verinode-verified attestation can promise the two match.

Verinode surfaces these figures; it does not decide what to do with a weak median, a tightening cash distribution, or a small cohort. That call belongs to your leadership team.

Related help articles

• Margin & Cash Overview
• Margin & Cash Hero
• Cash Runway Distribution
• Margin Gap in Dollars
• Below Margin
• Cash Runway Alerts
• Top Margin
• HQ Report Library
• HQ Benchmarks
• HQ Overview

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