Inspecting an activity event

What this view is

The Activity tab on the Impact page is a running log: every document you upload, every decision you act on, park, or ignore, every conversation you start with IQ, every survey you send, and every membership that joins your account. Tap any row in that log and the card flips in place to a drill view, a single-event detail face with the full timestamp, who did it, what kind of event it is, and, when the event points at something specific, a button to jump straight there. Nothing navigates away from Impact. You back out with the same tap, or move to the next event with the shell's arrow controls, and you land back on the list exactly where you left it.

This is the same in-card drill pattern used across the platform (jobs, clients, vendors, facilities all work the same way): the card you tapped becomes the detail, not a new page.

Where to find it

Open Impact from the sidebar, at iq.verinode.ai/impact. Impact is a horizontal card slider with five tabs: Goals, Decisions, Dollars, Engagement, Activity. Select the Activity tab.

The list header reads how many entries are in the current window, for example "12 entries in this window" (singular "1 entry" when there is exactly one). Tap any row and the card flips to the drill view described below. Tap ← Back to activity at the top of the drill view, or use the shell's floating prev/next arrows, to move between events or return to the list.

Reading the activity list row (before you drill in)

Each row in the list is already a compressed version of what you will see in the drill view:

• Kind badge (left, pill-shaped, uppercase). Not every row has one, rows with no badge show a small blank space instead. When present, it is a short, human-readable label such as Acted, Parked, Ignored, IQ command, Survey, Joined, or the humanized document type (for example Financial statement) on an upload row. This is never a raw database value, it is pre-humanized before it reaches the screen.
• Summary (center, one line, truncates if long). A verb-phrase sentence describing what happened, for example "Uploaded Q1 P&L," "Acted on decision: Replace failing dehumidifier," or "Asked IQ: what's my margin on the Cedar Ave job." IQ-command summaries truncate to the first 80 characters of what you asked.
• Actor line (small, under the summary, only when known). Reads "by" plus the person's name derived from their account email. Upload and decision-lifecycle events do not carry an actor and this line is omitted.
• Relative time (right, small, tabular). How long ago the event happened, in the same "5m ago / 3h ago / 2d ago" shorthand used throughout Verinode. Once an event is more than a week old, this switches to a short date like "Jun 14."

The drill view: what each element means

Tapping a row flips the card to this face:

Back link. "← Back to activity" at the top left. Tap it to return to the Activity list without losing your place.

Kind badge. If the event has one, it repeats at the top of the drill view as a bordered pill in the same wording as the list row (Acted, Parked, Ignored, IQ command, Survey, Joined, or the humanized document type). If the row had no badge on the list, none appears here either.

Summary as headline. The same verb-phrase sentence from the list row, now shown large as the page's title, for example "Sent survey: Q3 vendor check-in."

Timestamp line. Directly under the headline, two readings of the same moment separated by a middle dot:

• The absolute timestamp, a full date, time, and year (for example "Jul 9, 2026, 2:14 PM").
• The relative timestamp, the same "Xm/Xh/Xd ago" phrasing as the list.

Seeing both together answers two different questions at once: exactly when something happened, and how fresh it is right now.

Actor. When the event has a known actor, "by [name]" is appended to the timestamp line. The name comes from the account holder's own email, not a stored display name, so it will read as their email's local part (the piece before the @). Events with no actor on record (uploads, and each stage of a decision's own lifecycle) simply omit this, there is no "by Unknown" placeholder.

"Open in context" link. This is the payload of the whole drill view. When the event has a target it can point at (a decision, a survey, or your data vault), a copper button reads Open in context → and takes you straight there:

| Event kind | Where "Open in context" goes | |---|---| | Document upload | Your Data section, where the uploaded document lives | | Acted / Parked / Ignored on a decision | That decision's own page | | Survey sent | That survey's page |

Two kinds of events never carry a link and the button is simply absent from the drill view: IQ command (a conversation has no separate page to jump to, it lives in your chat history) and Joined (a membership joining your account isn't a page you navigate to). If a row has no link, the drill view just ends at the timestamp and actor line, there is nothing missing, that event genuinely has no "elsewhere" to send you.

What counts as an activity event

The Activity tab pulls from five different sources in your account, merged into one timeline sorted newest first:

1. Document uploads. Every document you add to your vault, labeled by its reference number, the vendor name on the document, or its humanized document type, whichever is available, in that order. A small set of internal traces (IQ's own conversation logging and query bookkeeping) are filtered out of this feed entirely so it only shows things you actually added.
2. Decision lifecycle moves. Each time you act on, park, or ignore a signal Verinode surfaced, that transition becomes its own event, tied to that decision's page.
3. IQ commands. Conversations you start with IQ (not the ones IQ starts on its own).
4. Surveys sent. Each survey your account sends out.
5. Memberships joining. When someone accepts an invite to join your account, that's logged as an event too, showing their email and the role they joined as (never a raw role token, always humanized, for example "Manager" rather than "manager").

All five share the same occurred-at ordering, so a document upload, a decision you parked, and a survey you sent the same afternoon interleave in the order they actually happened.

Empty state

If there is nothing in the selected window, the Activity tab shows only:

Nothing yet in this window.

There is no drill view to open because there is no row to tap. This is expected on a new account or in a quiet window, not an error. As you upload documents, act on decisions, talk to IQ, send surveys, or add memberships, entries appear here on their own.

How this fits with the rest of Impact

Activity is the "what happened, when, and who" ledger. It deliberately does not repeat the dollar figures shown on the Hard vs. soft dollars breakdown or the decision-by-decision detail on the Decisions row, those live in their own tabs with their own totals. For the list view this drill view opens from, see The activity feed. Activity's job is narrower: a clean, chronological, drill-into-anything record of what happened in your account, so you (or anyone on your team looking back) can answer "did that happen, and when, and can I get to it" without digging through email or asking around.

Related reading: the decision workspace for what happens after you tap through to a decision, acting on decisions for what "acted," "parked," and "ignored" actually change, and understanding your margin for how document uploads eventually turn into the numbers on your Margin page.