Materials on mobile HQ

What Materials on mobile HQ shows

Materials on the mobile HQ app is the same read as the web Materials page, condensed into a single scrolling rollup built for a phone: what your network pays per unit for the physical goods that go into a job (drywall, paint, fasteners, lumber, insulation, roofing, floor coverings, tile, site protection, cleaning chemicals, restoration consumables, PPE, and fleet build-out), set beside the cohort median, the typical price the wider Verinode network pays for that same item.

It answers the same question leadership opens the web page to answer: is the network overpaying for materials, on which items, and by how much. Verinode reads the supplier invoice data your locations have already connected, computes a network-wide median price per material, and compares it to what operators outside your network pay for the identical item. It does not show HQ a purchase order log, an invoice viewer, or any single location's individual buying history. Verinode surfaces the price, the cohort reference, and the dollarized opportunity. It never decides what to do about a gap, and it never names which single location is behind a number. Sourcing and negotiation calls stay with you.

Where to find it

Open Materials from the mobile HQ sidebar. It sits in the Operations group, with the hint text "Unit prices vs cohort, savings opportunities," alongside Facilities and Vendors. The route is /mhq/materials.

The page is a hero row titled "Materials" followed by three flat list sections, top to bottom: Top opportunities, Spend by family, and All materials. Nothing on this page opens a drill-in screen today. Every row is informational, built for a fast scan between meetings rather than for tapping through to a detail view.

The three hero tiles

At the top of the page, a horizontal scrolling row titled Materials carries three tiles. Nothing here sits inside a card frame beyond the tile itself:

• Network Spend. The value is your network's total annual spend across every benchmarked material, formatted as a dollar figure (abbreviated to "k" or "M" once the number is large), captioned "trailing 12 months." Underneath, a support line reads how many materials the network has enough data to benchmark, for example "14 materials benchmarked."
• Above Cohort. The value is a plain count, how many of your benchmarked materials the network pays more for than the cohort median, captioned "of [total benchmarked]." The support line reads "materials priced above operators like you." This tile's support line turns to the attention color when the count is above zero, and reads muted when it's zero.
• Savings Opportunity. The value is the total annual dollar difference if every above-cohort material moved down to the cohort's median price, with a "/yr" unit and the caption "at the cohort median." Its support line reads the same way as Above Cohort: attention-colored when there's a real number, muted at zero.

Read the Above Cohort count and the Savings Opportunity dollar figure together first. They're the one-glance read on whether materials are worth raising on this month's ops call, before you scroll into the detail rows.

Top opportunities

This section lists up to eight materials where the network is paying more than the cohort median, ranked by dollar opportunity, largest first. Each row shows:

• Title: the material's name.
• Meta line: how many of your locations buy that material, and the cohort's median unit price, for example "9 locations · cohort $1.18."
• Value: the estimated annual dollar impact if that one material closed to the cohort median, prefixed with "~" and suffixed "/yr."
• Value sub-line: your network's own median unit price for that material, prefixed "you," for example "you $1.42."

Rows here are tinted with the attention color, since every row on this list represents a real gap. If no material has cleared a savings opportunity yet, the section reads verbatim: "No material savings opportunities yet. They appear as locations contribute invoices."

Spend by family

This section rolls every benchmarked material up into its material family: Drywall & Finishing, Paint & Coatings, Fasteners, Lumber & Sheet Goods, Insulation, Roofing & Exterior, Floor Coverings, Tile & Masonry, Site Protection, Cleaning Chemicals, Restoration Consumables, PPE, Fleet Build-out, and an "Other Materials" catch-all for anything uncategorized. Families are ordered by dollar savings opportunity first, total spend second, so whichever family is costing the network the most sits at the top.

Each row shows the family's name and its total annual network spend. When that family carries a real savings opportunity, a sub-line underneath reads the approximate yearly figure, for example "~$12k/yr opp." Families with no opportunity show no sub-line at all. If the network has no benchmarked materials yet, the section reads verbatim: "Spend by family appears as invoices come in."

All materials

This is the full list, every material that has cleared the network's reporting bar, in the same opportunity-ranked order as Top opportunities (not alphabetical). Each row shows:

• Title: the material's name.
• Meta line: the unit it's priced per, for example "per Gallon," "per Sheet," or "per Square Ft."
• Value: your network's median unit price for that material.
• Value sub-line: "cohort $[X]" when your network is priced above the cohort median for that material, or "at/below cohort" when it isn't. If there's no cohort reference yet for that material, this line is left blank instead.

Rows priced above the cohort median are tinted with the attention color; everything else reads neutral. If no materials have cleared the reporting bar yet, the section reads verbatim: "Network materials appear as your locations' supplier invoices come in."

How the numbers are built, and the privacy boundary

Every figure on this page comes from your own locations' connected supplier invoice data, aggregated centrally. HQ never reads one location's invoices directly through this page, and no row on this page ever breaks a material's price out by which specific location paid it.

A material only shows up on this page once enough of your locations buy it. Below that floor, a per-material row would effectively identify one location's private purchasing by elimination, so Verinode holds the row back entirely rather than showing it at a thin, identifying cohort. As more of your locations buy that material, it clears the floor and appears on its own, with no action needed from HQ. When materials are being held back this way, the bottom of the page carries a plain disclosure line naming how many materials are currently hidden and explaining that they'll appear once enough locations are buying them. This line is left off the page entirely when nothing is currently suppressed.

The cohort median itself is anonymized, cross-network reference data too: a median computed from operator invoice data across the wider Verinode network, outside your own network, with the same anonymization and minimum-contributor floor that protects every peer benchmark on the platform. You get a typical price, never a name and never a headcount behind it.

This is the same trust boundary that governs every HQ surface, on mobile or on web: franchisees own their data, and HQ sees network patterns, never a single location's private business. A gap between your network's median and the cohort's is a prompt to ask a question, not a scorecard on any one location.

How mobile differs from the web page

The mobile rollup carries the same three hero stats and the same three sections as the web Materials page, but a few details differ because mobile is built for a fast scan, not a working session:

• Top opportunities shows up to eight rows on mobile, versus up to six on the web page. Both are ranked the same way, by dollar opportunity, largest first.
• Nothing on the mobile page opens a drill-in. The web page also has no per-material drill-in today, so this isn't a mobile-specific gap, but it's worth knowing going in: every row here is for reading, not tapping.
• The Benchmarks hub's own Materials pill (web only) is a different surface. hq.verinode.ai/benchmarks carries a thinner Materials view organized by family with a distribution strip and an office-by-office drill-in ranking, the same per-unit-price idea individual operators see on their own Verinode IQ. It answers a different question ("how does each of my offices compare to the industry") than this rollup, which answers "what does my network as a whole pay, versus the cohort, and what's the dollar opportunity." See Network benchmarks: how the section works.

How to use it

1. 1Open the hero row first. The Above Cohort count and the Savings Opportunity dollar figure tell you in one glance whether materials are worth raising on this week's call.
2. 2Scroll to Top opportunities and read the leading rows. They name the specific material, how many locations buy it, and your network's price against the cohort's, so you have the exact ask ready before you call your buyers.
3. 3Check Spend by family before a supplier negotiation. It tells you which category (roofing, drywall, paint) is worth spending negotiating time on, versus which is too small to matter.
4. 4Scan All materials for the full picture, including materials already priced at or below cohort, so you know what's already working and not only what's lagging.
5. 5Bring the specific material names and dollar gaps into your next ops or supplier conversation. The rollup gives you the number; the sourcing decision stays yours.

Related reading

• Materials on HQ: your network's supplier-price intelligence, the full web page this rollup mirrors
• Network price hero, a deeper look at the web hero band's headline and pill logic
• Top opportunities, the web equivalent of this rollup's leading section
• Spend by family, the web equivalent of this rollup's family breakdown
• HQ overview, orientation to the full HQ sidebar, on web and mobile
• Network benchmarks: how the section works, including the Benchmarks hub's own thinner Materials pill

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