The Impact activity timeline

What the Activity timeline shows

Impact is where Verinode totals up what IQ has actually done for your business: decisions surfaced and acted on, dollars recovered, and how much you have engaged with your AI Co-COO. Underneath the metric tiles sits the Activity timeline, a single running log of everything that happened in your account in the current window: documents you uploaded, decisions you acted on, parked, or ignored, questions you asked IQ, surveys you sent, and memberships that joined your account. It is the "what happened, when, and who did it" record for the period you are looking at.

Verinode does not decide anything on this timeline, it reads what you and IQ already did and lines it up in one place so you can see the shape of your week or your quarter at a glance.

Where to find it

Open Impact from the sidebar at iq.verinode.ai/impact. The Activity timeline is not a tab you have to click into, it sits directly on the Impact home page, below the tile rows (Goals, Decisions, Working with IQ). Scroll down past the tiles and you land on a section titled Activity.

For the full log, click View all in the top right of that section, or open the Activity tab directly from the card slider that also holds Goals, Decisions, Dollars, and Engagement.

What counts as an activity event

The timeline pulls from five sources and merges them into one feed, newest first:

• Uploads. Any document you add to your vault, other than IQ's own internal traces (its chat turns and background queries, which are filtered out so the feed only shows what you actually contributed). Each row reads "Uploaded" followed by whatever is most useful to identify it: a reference number if the document has one, otherwise the vendor name, otherwise the document type written out in plain English (for example "Uploaded Financial statement" rather than the raw financial_statement label).
• Decision transitions. Every time a decision moves to Acted, Parked, or Ignored, a row appears: "Acted on decision: [title]", "Parked decision: [title]", or "Ignored decision: [title]." This is the same lifecycle you can read about in the decision workspace and acting on decisions.
• IQ commands. Conversations you started with IQ (not conversations IQ started on its own). Each row reads "Asked IQ" followed by a short excerpt of what you asked, when one is available.
• Surveys. Every survey you send reads "Sent survey: [title]."
• People joining. When someone accepts an invite to your account, a row reads "[their email] joined as [role]," for example "joined as Admin." This applies to memberships on your account, never to outside operators.

Reading a row

Every row in the timeline follows the same layout, left to right:

1. A color-coded kind badge. A small rounded pill in the top-left of the row labels what kind of event it is: Acted, Parked, Ignored, IQ command, Survey, Joined, or the document's type for an upload (for example Invoice). Each kind carries its own color so you can scan the shape of a busy week without reading every line: Acted decisions read in the Deere Green "expand" tone, Parked in Hard Hat Yellow, Ignored in Ember Red, IQ commands in IQ Teal, and Surveys in copper. Joins and uploads read in a neutral tone. If an upload has no identifiable document type, the badge is simply blank rather than showing a placeholder.
2. The summary line. A one-line, plain-English description of what happened, for example "Uploaded Q1 P&L" or "Acted on decision: Renegotiate tarp vendor pricing." Long lines truncate rather than wrap.
3. The actor, when known. Beneath the summary, a smaller "by [name]" line shows who did it, for decisions transitions attributed to a specific user, IQ commands, surveys, and joins. The name shown is the part of that person's email before the @ sign, not a display name, so "by jsmith" means the account for jsmith@yourcompany.com. Uploads do not currently attribute an actor, so no "by" line appears on those rows.
4. When it happened, on the right. Recent events read as relative time: "just now," "12m ago," "3h ago," "2d ago." Anything older than a week switches to a plain date, like "Jun 14."

The preview and "View all"

On the Impact home page, the Activity section shows the ten most recent events for the current window, always newest first. The section header reads Activity on the left and, on the right, a button reading View all [N] →, where N is the total number of events in the window (not just the ten shown). Clicking it opens the full Activity tab in the card slider.

The preview is a fixed cutoff at ten rows: if your window has fewer than ten events, all of them show and there is no "View all" undercount, if it has more, the newest ten show and the rest are one click away.

The full Activity tab

Clicking View all (or opening the Activity tab from the slider directly) shows every event in the window, up to 200 rows, with a header line reading how many entries are in view, for example "42 entries in this window." (singular events read "1 entry in this window.")

Every row here is clickable. Clicking one flips the card in place to a detail view for that single event, no page navigation:

• A ← Back to activity link at the top returns you to the list.
• The event's kind badge and full summary repeat as the headline.
• The timestamp shows in full (for example "Jul 10, 2026, 3:45 PM") alongside the same relative time from the list ("2h ago"), and the actor's name if one is attached.
• Where the event links to something concrete, an Open in context → button appears at the bottom. Uploads link to your data vault, decision transitions link to that decision's full record, and surveys link to the survey itself. IQ commands and membership joins have nothing further to open, so no link appears on those.

Empty states

If nothing has happened in the current window, the preview on the Impact home page reads:

Nothing yet in this window. Upload a document, ask IQ a question, or act on a decision to start the timeline.

No "View all" button appears in that state, since there is nothing to view. If you open the full Activity tab directly on an empty window (for example by deep-linking to it), it reads simply:

Nothing yet in this window.

Neither empty state means something is broken. It means no upload, decision transition, IQ conversation, survey, or membership join has landed inside the window you have selected. Widening the window (Last 30 days, Year to date, or All time) is usually the fastest way to confirm the feed is working, if you expect activity that isn't showing.

Best-practice example

You open Impact on a Monday morning to catch up. The tiles above show three decisions acted on since Friday. Scrolling down, the Activity timeline confirms the story in order: a P&L uploaded Friday afternoon, an IQ conversation about labor burden an hour later, then two decisions acted the same evening, and a third acted Saturday morning by a colleague, "by jsmith." A survey went out Sunday. Reading top to bottom takes fifteen seconds and tells you exactly what moved over the weekend, without opening five different sections to piece it together.

Related reading

• The decision workspace: what happens when you open a decision from the Decisions row or from Activity.
• Acting on decisions: what Acted, Parked, and Ignored actually mean and how to choose between them.
• The Feed: where decisions first surface, before they show up here as activity.
• Forwarding documents and connecting your data: the two ways uploads land in your vault and, from there, in this timeline.

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