Where the news comes from and how fresh it stays

What this page is

Industry News is a standalone news surface in Verinode HQ. It shows a running stream of restoration-industry content: articles, podcasts, videos, press releases, webinars, vendor moves, and equipment launches, alongside Verinode's own research. It is network-scope: everyone in your leadership group sees the same feed, because it isn't built from any one membership's private data. It's the same underlying content stream that also feeds the news cards operators see in Verinode IQ and the News tab inside Benchmarks, so a story you read in HQ is the same story your memberships may be seeing in their own tools.

Where to find it: in the HQ sidebar, under Industry News. Direct address: hq.verinode.ai/news.

How items get here

Nothing on this page is typed in by hand. There is no "add article" button in HQ, and there doesn't need to be. Every item on the page arrives automatically from an upstream content stream that watches restoration-industry publishers, trade press, vendor announcements, and equipment manufacturers, and continuously scores and publishes new items into the same content pipeline that powers Verinode's other news surfaces. On top of that external stream, Verinode's own research team publishes its findings and reports directly into the same feed, labeled clearly as Verinode research.

Because HQ, IQ, and the Benchmarks News tab all read from that one shared stream, you never have to reconcile three different news feeds or wonder why a headline shows up in one place and not another. Publish once upstream, and it appears everywhere it's relevant.

What's on the page

Header line. Under the "Industry News" title, a summary line reads something like 80 items · 6 featured · 12 vendor · Verinode research, industry articles, podcasts, vendor moves, and equipment launches. The counts update live as you filter.

Filter chips. A row of pill buttons lets you narrow the list:

• All, everything currently live in the feed.
• Featured, items flagged as time-sensitive that haven't expired yet (see below).
• Vendor, vendor announcements and product-launch content.
• Industry, everything that isn't vendor content: trade articles, podcasts, webinars, and similar.
• Verinode, content published directly by Verinode's own research team.

Each chip shows its own count, and a chip disappears entirely if its count is zero, so you're never staring at an empty "Vendor" tab with nothing behind it.

Featured section. When you're on the "All" filter and there are featured items, they appear first under a Featured heading, ahead of everything else. Switch to a specific filter chip and this split disappears, you just get one plain grid for that filter.

Latest section. Everything else, newest first, under a Latest heading (only shown when there's also a Featured section above it; otherwise the grid runs on its own).

Each card shows:

• A content-type badge (for example Article, Video, Podcast, Vendor, Product) in the top corner, over the cover image if there is one, or above the headline if there isn't.
• The headline.
• A short summary, when the source provided one.
• The source name (for example RIA, C&R Magazine, IICRC, Cleanfax) and how long ago it was published, shown as "Today," "3d ago," "2w ago," or "4mo ago."

Opening an item brings up a preview panel with the full detail: the content-type badge, a Verinode research badge if it's Verinode-authored, a Featured badge if it's currently time-sensitive, the source name, the publish date, a run time for video or audio, the summary, the full body text when available, an embedded player for video or podcast content, any topic tags, and a link to view the original piece at the source.

The 14-day freshness floor

External industry content has to clear a freshness floor to appear at all: anything published more than 14 days ago drops out of the feed. This applies uniformly across HQ, IQ, and the Benchmarks News tab, so leadership and memberships are never looking at a stale story that quietly aged out somewhere else already.

The floor is measured against when the item was originally published, not when it was picked up by Verinode. An article from six months ago that only just got noticed upstream does not get a fresh 14-day clock, it's already stale on arrival and won't surface.

Verinode's own research is exempt from the 14-day floor. Verinode-owned content is treated as a durable library resource, not a news wire, so it stays available (marked with the Verinode research badge) until it's explicitly retired rather than aging out on a two-week clock.

Expiry and how items disappear

Beyond the age floor, some items also carry an explicit expiration. Once an item's expiration passes, it drops off the feed the same way an aged-out item does, whichever comes first (the 14-day floor or its own expiration) removes it.

Featured status works on top of this. An item is marked time-sensitive when the upstream stream flags it as especially relevant right now, for example a limited-time vendor announcement or a near-term industry event. As long as that item hasn't hit its expiration, it's pulled into the Featured section at the top of the "All" view. Once it expires, it stops being featured and simply falls out of the feed like any other item, there's no lingering "expired but still featured" state.

Nothing in HQ is ever deleted by a person on this page. Items leave the feed the same way they arrive: automatically, on a schedule, based on age and expiration, not on anyone remembering to clean it up.

Why nothing needs manual entry

There is deliberately no way to author or upload news content from inside HQ. That's by design:

• The content stream already watches the publishers, vendors, and manufacturers that matter to restoration leadership, so there's no gap for a person to fill by hand.
• A single shared pipeline behind HQ, IQ, and Benchmarks means one publish event reaches every surface at once, manual entry in any one of them would create three copies to keep in sync.
• The 14-day floor and expiration handling only work cleanly on an automated feed. A hand-maintained list would need someone to remember to prune it, and stale items would linger.

If a story is missing, it's either not yet been published upstream, hasn't cleared the freshness floor, or belongs to a publisher not yet part of the stream, not a gap you fill by adding it yourself.

Empty state

If the feed has nothing live yet (or every prior item has aged out), the page shows:

No items in the feed yet. New articles will appear here as the upstream content scraper publishes them.

This is expected while the network is warming up. No action is needed on your end, items appear as the stream publishes them.

1. 1Open Industry News from the HQ sidebar (or go to hq.verinode.ai/news).
2. 2Use the filter chips (All, Featured, Vendor, Industry, Verinode) to narrow the list to what you care about right now.
3. 3Click any card to open the full preview: summary, body, embedded media, tags, and a link to the original source.
4. 4Check back regularly. New items and expirations are both automatic, there is nothing to refresh manually or curate by hand.

Related

• Where HQ's privacy boundary sits
• Understanding the Benchmarks News tab
• What "Featured" and content-type badges mean