"Margin & Cash detail slider: the four drill-in tabs"
Every tile on the Margin & Cash home reads as a summary. The detail slider is where you go to see the full list behind that summary. It is a full-screen overlay of swipeable cards, one card per tab…
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What this is
Every tile on the Margin & Cash home reads as a summary. The detail slider is where you go to see the full list behind that summary. It is a full-screen overlay of swipeable cards, one card per tab, that opens on top of the Margin & Cash page when you tap into a tile that has more behind it than the tile itself shows. Four tabs live in this deck: Below Margin, Runway Alerts, Top Margin, and Cost Ratios.
This is a network read, not a single member's book. HQ never opens a franchisee's private financials here: every row and every number in these four tabs is either a rollup already computed by the network aggregator (a member's own margin, runway, and days-to-pay, positioned against the group) or a group-vs-rest percentile comparison built from anonymized data across the network. Tapping a franchisee row hands you off to that member's directory profile, not their books.
Where to find it
Open Margin & Cash from the Intelligence group in the HQ sidebar, at hq.verinode.ai/margin-cash, alongside Benchmarks, Forecasting, and Impact.
The Margin & Cash home itself is a row-and-tile page: a hero band up top (network median margin, cash-runway buckets), then four rows of tiles: Below Margin, Cash Runway Alerts, Top Margin, and Cost Ratios vs Industry. The detail slider is not a separate page. It opens as an overlay when you tap a tile whose row has more members or metrics behind it than the row shows, and it opens already scrolled to the tab and, for cost ratios, the specific metric you tapped.
Note
The four detail tabs don't drill further into a per-franchisee or per-metric profile card. Tapping a row inside the slider does not flip the card over. Franchisee rows route you out of the slider entirely, to the franchisee's page in Franchisees, and cost-ratio rows sit as a flat list, each one a self-contained summary. See "How the tabs behave" below.
The cards-slider deck
The slider fills the screen between the sidebar and the AI agent panel, if it's open. Four cards sit side by side, one per tab, and you move between them by swiping, dragging, clicking the floating left/right arrows at the edges of the screen, or clicking a dot in the row of navigation dots pinned to the bottom of the screen. Each card carries its own accent color down its top edge, so the tab you're on is visible even mid-swipe:
- Below Margin: Ember Red (the Analyse signal color)
- Runway Alerts: Hard Hat Yellow (the Maintain signal color)
- Top Margin: Deere Green (the Expand signal color)
- Cost Ratios: Copper
Every card header shows the section label (Margin & Cash) and the tab's own label, plus a close button. Closing the slider (the X, clicking outside the card, or pressing Escape) returns you to the Margin & Cash home underneath.
The four tabs
Below Margin
What it is. Every member currently sitting in the bottom margin quartile against the rest of the network, the same intervention-candidate cohort the home page's Below Margin row surfaces. This is the tab a Below Margin tile opens into.
What you see. One row per member, each showing:
- The franchisee's location name as the title.
- Gross margin N% as the body line, or a dash if margin hasn't been computed yet.
- A meta line combining runway and days-to-pay: "Nd runway" (or "Runway unknown" if the aggregator hasn't computed it yet) followed by "Nd to pay" when a days-to-pay figure exists.
- A Flagged trailing label on any row where an open intervention already exists for that member in HQ's intervention queue.
Empty state. "No franchisees in the bottom margin quartile right now."
Runway Alerts
What it is. Every member whose projected cash runway has dropped under 30 days, the same cohort behind the home page's Cash Runway Alerts row. This is a liquidity read, distinct from margin: a member can carry a healthy margin and still be short on cash runway if receivables are slow or a payroll cycle is heavy.
What you see. The same row format as Below Margin: location name, gross margin line, a runway + days-to-pay meta line, and a Flagged label when an open intervention exists.
Empty state. "No franchisees with sub-30-day cash runway. Alerts surface here when a member's runway drops below the threshold."
Top Margin
What it is. Every member currently sitting in the top margin quartile against the rest of the network, your standouts. This is the tab a Top Margin tile opens into.
What you see. Same row format again: location name, gross margin line, runway + days-to-pay meta line. Top Margin rows don't carry the high-intensity "Flagged" treatment the other two tabs use, since these are members in good standing, not intervention candidates.
Empty state. "No franchisees in the top margin quartile yet. Standouts surface here once enough members are reporting."
Cost Ratios
What it is. A flat list of the network's cost-structure ratios, each one a group-vs-rest comparison for a specific cost line: Cost of goods sold, Labor, Materials, Equipment, and Operating expense. This is the tab a Cost Ratios tile opens into, and it's the one tab where tapping a home-page tile focuses you on one specific row inside it rather than just opening the tab. See "How a cost-ratio tile opens focused" below.
What you see. One row per ratio, showing:
- The ratio's plain-language label as the title (e.g. "Labor", "Materials").
- A body line reading "Group N% · Rest N%", your network's median for that ratio against the rest-of-industry median. A dash appears on either side if that side has no computable value yet.
- A meta line carrying the coverage label for that comparison: Awaiting Data, Early Signal, Trending, Observed, or Verified, depending on how much data currently backs the comparison. This is a confidence read, not a privacy gate, the underlying comparison is still suppressed independently (see the callout below) when there isn't enough data on either side to protect any single member's identity.
- A trailing label reading "Group at PN" when Verinode can place your network's median inside the rest-of-industry distribution as a percentile. This is omitted when there isn't enough data to compute it.
Empty state. "Cost ratios populate as members upload P&Ls, group-vs-rest splits appear once enough members have data."
How a cost-ratio tile opens focused
The Cost Ratios row on the Margin & Cash home renders one tile per ratio: Cost of goods sold, Labor, Materials, Equipment, Operating expense. Tapping any one of those tiles does two things at once: it opens the slider directly on the Cost Ratios tab, and it scrolls to and highlights that specific ratio's row inside the tab with a brief copper ring, so you land exactly on the metric you tapped instead of a generic list you have to search. Swiping to a neighboring tab and back, or closing and reopening the slider, clears the highlight.
How franchisee tiles route to Franchisees instead
Every franchisee tile you see across the Margin & Cash home, in Below Margin, Cash Runway Alerts, or Top Margin, behaves differently from a cost-ratio tile: tapping it does not open the detail slider at all. Instead it takes you straight to that member's page inside the Franchisees section of HQ.
This is deliberate, not a shortcut that happened to be missing. A franchisee tile is already the summary; there's no richer per-franchisee profile to drill into inside Margin & Cash itself; the fuller picture of that specific member, their directory status, certifications, program tier, contact history, lives in Franchisees. Margin & Cash exists to show you the network pattern (who's below margin, whose runway is thin, who's leading) and to hand you to the right member record the moment you want to act on one name. See hq-overview for how the Franchisees section itself is laid out.
Heads up
Because franchisee tiles route out to Franchisees rather than opening a drilled card here, the Below Margin, Runway Alerts, and Top Margin tabs inside the slider are read-only lists. You can scroll them, but the only interactive element on a franchisee row is the row itself in the slider tabs, there is no per-row detail flip. If you want to act on a specific member (open an intervention, review their compliance status, message them), do it from their Franchisees profile.
The network privacy boundary, held throughout
Nothing in this slider exposes a single franchisee's underlying P&L, invoices, or job-level records to HQ. What you're seeing in every tab is one of two things:
- A member-level rollup (Below Margin, Runway Alerts, Top Margin): a franchisee's own margin, runway, and days-to-pay, computed by the network aggregator from that member's data and positioned against the group's own distribution. HQ sees the computed position, not the underlying transactions.
- A group-vs-rest comparison (Cost Ratios): a statistical comparison between your network's median and the rest of industry, built from anonymized, hashed contributions across every eligible operator. No single peer operator's business is ever identifiable in a Cost Ratios row.
Every group-vs-rest number in the Cost Ratios tab is also gated behind a hard data-privacy floor: when either side of the comparison, your network or the rest-of-industry side, doesn't have enough distinct contributing operators, Verinode suppresses the percentiles and the group-vs-rest figures entirely rather than risk exposing a single business's numbers by inference. You'll see this as dashes and an Awaiting Data coverage label rather than a fabricated number. This is the same trust boundary that runs across every benchmark surface in Verinode: franchisees own their data, and HQ only ever sees aggregates.
Related reading
- hq-overview, the HQ shell and the Franchisees section franchisee tiles route into
- hq-benchmarks, the fuller group-vs-rest benchmark catalog Cost Ratios is drawn from
- network-health, the network-wide health rollup Margin & Cash sits alongside
- hq-compliance, where open interventions and flagged members are managed once you've routed to a franchisee
Data sources
Data sources
- 1.Network aggregator snapshot (the network data). Verinode HQ.
- 2.Anonymized operator financial facts (the benchmark data). Verinode network intelligence.
- 3.Group intervention queue (the network data). Verinode HQ.