Feed & decisions preferences: pace, focus, and content

What this page controls

Every decision Verinode prepares for you, and every article, video, or podcast that rides alongside it, passes through one preference object before it reaches your feed. This page is where you shape that object: how many decisions show up each week, which parts of the business get weighted up, and how much outside news and learning content you want mixed in.

None of this changes what Verinode detects. Detection runs continuously in the background regardless of what you set here. What these controls change is what gets surfaced to you, and in what order. A decision is never hidden because of a preference on this page, it can only be weighted up or down, or paced to arrive on a steadier schedule. Turning a business area off here does not make Verinode stop watching it.

Where to find it

Open Settings from the sidebar, then in the Account group click Feed & Decisions (subtitle: "Pace, focus areas, news"), or go directly to /settings/feed. The page header reads "Feed & Decisions," and just under it sits one line of framing: "Gentle nudges: a decision is never hidden, only weighted."

The same set of controls also appears the first time you open your feed, in a one-time "Tune your feed" card. Answering it there, or dismissing it with Not now, writes to the same preference object this settings page reads and writes, so the two surfaces never show different values. If you skip the first-run card, everything here still defaults to a sensible baseline, described below.

There is a single Save button at the bottom of the page. Nothing on this page saves itself as you click, unlike some other settings pages, you make all your changes across the five groups below, then click Save once. A confirmation reads "Saved" for a few seconds after a successful save. If the save fails, the page reads "Couldn't save, try again," and your on-screen choices stay exactly as you left them so you can retry without re-entering anything.

The five groups

1. How many decisions should Verinode prepare each week?

This is decision pace: how many live decisions sit in your feed and decision workspace at once. It is a three-way choice, shown as a segmented control:

• Fewer: "About 2 a week. Only what's most critical."
• Balanced: "About 4 a week. A steady, manageable flow." This is the default.
• More: "About 7 a week. Show me more of what's open."

Underneath the control, a line of plain-language text repeats whichever blurb matches your current selection, so you always see the number you're choosing before you save.

Pace does not change how much Verinode is watching your business. Detection is continuous no matter which stop you pick. What pace changes is how many of those detected items are released to you as live decisions at any one time, and how evenly they arrive. If a week is quiet on new detections, Verinode pulls the next-best already-queued items forward to keep a steady trickle, rather than dumping everything at once after a slow stretch. Nothing time-critical waits on your pace setting: a decision tied to a hard deadline, or flagged as critical, is always released regardless of where your pace is set. Pace only smooths the discretionary flow underneath that safety valve.

2. Areas that matter most to you

Underneath the pace control sits: "We weight these up. Nothing is ever hidden." This is decision focus: which parts of the business get pushed up in your feed's ordering. It's a multi-select of copper chip pills, click any pill to turn it on or off, and any combination is allowed, including all six or none.

The six areas:

• Margin & cash
• Carrier pushback
• Vendors & equipment
• Peer benchmarks
• People & hiring
• Compliance & certs

If you never touch this control, your feed starts with Margin & cash, Carrier pushback, Vendors & equipment, and Peer benchmarks already weighted up, and People & hiring and Compliance & certs left at a neutral, slightly de-emphasized position. That baseline reflects where most operators spend their attention first. The two de-emphasized areas are still fully shown in your feed exactly like everything else, they simply don't get the extra push toward the top until you add them to your focus set.

Turning an area on boosts decisions that touch that part of the business toward the top of your feed's ordering. It never removes or hides decisions in an area you leave off. A carrier pushback decision still appears in your feed whether or not Carrier pushback is checked, it just sits lower in the order if it's not one of your focus areas.

Peer benchmarks works a little differently from the other five: it isn't tied to one narrow slice of your data, since a benchmark comparison can show up inside a margin decision, a vendor decision, or a carrier decision. Turning this focus on boosts any decision built around a peer comparison, on top of whatever other focus areas that decision also touches.

3. News and learning in your feed

This is content volume, a separate segmented control with three stops:

• Decisions only: your feed carries decisions and nothing else, no articles, videos, or podcasts at all.
• Just the essentials: a lighter sprinkle of news and learning content. This is the default for anyone who hasn't tuned their feed.
• Keep me current: the fuller stream of news, articles, and learning content.

One category of content is exempt from this control: vendor and equipment news still rides alongside your decisions even on Decisions only, because Verinode treats it as stack-relevant rather than general learning. You control whether vendor news shows up through the Which formats you take in and Topics you care about controls below instead.

4. Which formats you take in

A multi-select of the three content formats: Articles, Videos, Podcasts. Turn off any format you never open, for example if you only ever read and never watch or listen. Every format is on by default. A format you turn off is hard-filtered out of your feed entirely, it will never appear, regardless of your content volume or topic settings. The one guardrail: you cannot turn off every format at once. If you try to deselect your last remaining format, the click does nothing, since an empty set here would silently blank your entire content stream.

5. Topics you care about

A multi-select of five subject areas: Market & economy, Peer benchmarks, Vendor & equipment news, Compliance & regulation, Training & best practices. All five are on by default. This control is deliberately about subject matter, not source, Verinode anonymizes the names of the outside publishers and outlets it draws from everywhere in the product, so there is no source picker here to turn individual outlets on or off. Turning a topic off filters that subject out of your content stream entirely, the same hard filter as the format control above, it does not merely deprioritize it.

How pace, focus, and content fit together

Pace and focus both govern the decisions half of your feed. Pace sets how many live decisions you carry at once; focus sets which of those decisions get weighted toward the top. Content volume, formats, and topics govern the separate news and learning half. The two halves are independent: you could run More pace with Decisions only content, for a feed that's all decisions and no outside reading, or Fewer pace with Keep me current content, for a lighter decision load with a fuller stream of industry news alongside it.

Best-practice example

Say you're a lean two-person office and simply don't have the bandwidth to work more than a couple of open decisions at a time, but margin and carrier pushback are where you feel the most pain. Set pace to Fewer, so you're carrying about two live decisions instead of four or seven. Leave Margin & cash and Carrier pushback checked in focus, and add nothing else, so those two areas get pushed to the top of the short list you do see. Set content volume to Decisions only, since you'd rather spend your limited reading time on the decisions themselves than on industry news. You'll still see vendor news if any format and topic pills for it stay on, since that rides with decisions regardless of your content volume setting.

Data sources

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