Reading the Vault hero: total, recent, and by-type
Vault is where every document your network has generated collects in one place: Discovery Day Packs, quarterly reviews, compliance audits, and member cohort reports. The hero panel at the top of th…
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Vault is where every document your network has generated collects in one place: Discovery Day Packs, quarterly reviews, compliance audits, and member cohort reports. The hero panel at the top of the page is the fastest way to answer "how much has been generated, and how current is it" without opening a single report. This article walks through every element of that hero panel.
Where to find it
Open Vault from the HQ sidebar, or go directly to hq.verinode.ai/vault. Older links to /documents redirect here automatically. The hero panel is the first thing on the page, above the Recent row and the four type-specific rows below it (see The Vault: your HQ document library for the full page layout).
The hero panel, element by element
The hero has three parts: a big headline number with a status pill beside it, a line of context underneath, and three smaller numbers on the right.
The headline: total documents
The large number under the eyebrow "Generated documents" is the total count of reports currently in your library: every Discovery Day Pack, quarterly review, compliance audit, and member cohort report generated for your network, added together. It only counts finished reports that exist in Vault today, not reports still generating or reports that failed partway through.
Note
The headline reflects your network's most recent generation history. If your network has produced a very large number of documents over a long stretch of time, the hero is scoped to the freshest slice of that history rather than an all-time tally back to day one. For nearly every network this is a distinction without a difference, since it will be a long time before generation volume approaches that depth.
When nothing has been generated yet, the headline shows a small, muted placeholder instead of a large "0."
The status pill
Next to the headline, a pill gives you an at-a-glance read on recency:
- "N new 30d" (shown in green): this many documents were generated in the last 30 days. This is the normal state for an active network, where HQ or memberships are running Discovery Day Packs, quarterly reviews, or audits on an ongoing basis.
- "Library current" (neutral tone): your library has documents in it, but none were generated in the last 30 days. Nothing is broken; it just means no one has run a new document recently. If you expected a quarterly review or compliance audit to have landed, this is the cue to check with whoever runs generation.
- "Nothing yet" (neutral tone): no documents exist in Vault at all.
The context line
Directly under the headline, one line spells out the mix and freshness in plain language, for example:
"3 Discovery Day Packs · 2 quarterly reviews · last generated 4 days ago."
This line always reflects your current totals for those two types plus the timestamp of the most recently generated document, so you don't have to add up the numbers on the right yourself. The "last generated" phrasing follows the same relative-time convention used across the report tiles further down the page: "today," "1 day ago," "N days ago" for anything under 30 days, then "1 month ago" or "N months ago" beyond that.
Before your network has generated anything, this line instead reads:
"Generated reports land here as Discovery Day Packs, quarterly reviews, compliance audits, and member cohorts ship. PDFs are stored with their period and a link back to the franchisee data they cite."
The three by-type numbers
On the right side of the hero, three counts break the total down by type:
| Metric | Subtext underneath | What it counts | |---|---|---| | Discovery Day Packs | "Item-19-style outputs" | Recruitment-facing packs used to walk prospective members through validated network performance, styled after the disclosure format used in franchise recruitment | | Quarterly reviews | "Board-ready snapshots" | Periodic performance reviews meant for board or leadership review, each covering a defined period | | Compliance audits | "Audit + cohort artifacts" | Compliance audit reports |
Each number animates up from zero when the page loads, left to right. They always add up toward the headline total, member cohort reports included, even though cohort reports don't get their own hero tile and are counted through their own row further down the page instead. See Compliance audit documents and Member cohort reports for what's actually in those documents.
What counts, and what doesn't
The hero only reflects documents that have actually been generated and stored in Vault. It does not include:
- Documents still being generated or queued
- Documents that failed to generate
- Uploaded documents (brand book files, contracts, or other non-generated material). The hero covers generated reports only.
If a report tile in the rows below shows "Generation incomplete" instead of "PDF + XLSX available," that report is still counted in the hero's totals, but its files aren't ready to open yet. See Recent documents and opening a report for how those tiles work.
The empty state
If your network has never generated a document, the headline reads a muted placeholder, the pill reads "Nothing yet," and the context line reads the not-yet-generated copy quoted above. This is not an error; it means generation simply hasn't happened for your network yet. The Recent row below the hero reads empty too, with a prompt to use the Generate report action or open the Discovery Day builder.
How to use it
Treat the hero as your freshness check, not your workspace. If the pill says "Library current" or "Nothing yet" when you expected recent activity, that's your cue to check in on generation rather than dig through the rows yourself.
- 1Glance at the pill first. Green "N new 30d" means generation is active; anything else means check in with whoever runs it.
- 2Read the context line for the exact Discovery Day Pack and quarterly review counts and the last-generated timestamp.
- 3Scan the three by-type numbers on the right if you need the full breakdown at a glance.
- 4Scroll down to the Recent row or the relevant type row to actually open a document. Every tile opens its report's PDF in a new tab.
Note
One caveat on the Discovery Day Packs by-type number: authoring a pack from the Discovery Day builder does not currently increment it. Pulling a pack downloads the PDF to your browser and logs the pull to the access trail, it does not file a copy into Vault, so that count can stay at its placeholder even after your team has pulled and shared packs. That's expected today, not a stale hero. See Discovery Day Packs in Vault.
Heads up
The hero and every document in Vault reflect network-level aggregates: rollups, rankings, and compliance artifacts. Vault never surfaces a single membership's private, unaggregated business data. Memberships own their underlying data; HQ sees what's been generated from it at the network level. See The Vault privacy boundary for the full policy, and The document access trail for who pulled what, when.