Your Profile & Settings: an overview

What this page is

Settings is the one place that holds everything about you and your membership that is not a business finding: who you are, what you are a Member of, who else on your team has access, what data you have consented to, and where to go for help. It is not a decision surface. Verinode's Co-COO work (the findings, the benchmarks, the decisions) lives in Margin, Benchmarks, and the Feed. Settings is the workspace behind all of that: your identity, your plan, your team, and your privacy controls, laid out as a grouped index you can scan in a few seconds and drill into for detail.

The page opens with a membership hero (a credit-card-style summary of your plan) followed by a grouped rail of destinations. Each row is a real sub-page, not a modal, so every destination has its own URL and its own focused screen.

Where to find it

Open Settings from the sidebar. The page title reads "Settings" with a gear icon, and if you can see billing (admin members), your current Intelligence Unit (IU) balance chip sits in the top-right corner of the header, next to the title, for quick reference wherever you are on the page.

The membership hero

At the top of the page, two panels sit side by side: the membership card and the member status panel.

The membership card

This is a credit-card-shaped panel that carries your paid plan. It shows:

• Verinode wordmark, top-left, as the issuing brand.
• Tier label, top-right, in small caps: Contributor, Executive Member, Premier Member, or Reserve Member, matching your current plan.
• A gold key chip, center-left, echoing the card's issuing-bank chip. It is a visual nod to your Vault Key (the encryption key that protects your data at rest); on this page it is decorative, the interactive "tap to view your Vault Key" version of this chip lives on the Sign-in & Security page.
• Your company name, bottom-left, in large type, with your name underneath it in small caps if it is known, and below that a number row combining your business's Membership Number (format VN-XXXXXX) and your personal Operator Number (format OP-XXXXXX), separated by a pipe. The Membership Number is tied to your business's paid plan and only appears once you are on one; the Operator Number is yours personally and travels with you across any business you are affiliated with.
• Your IU balance, bottom-right, in large type, labeled "Intelligence Units" underneath, with "Member since [year]" below that once you have a membership start date. This only appears on a paid tier (Executive, Premier, Reserve). On the free Contributor tier, this corner instead reads "Become a Member."
• A "Cancels [date]" note, top-right under the tier label, if your subscription is set to cancel at the end of the current billing period.

Clicking the card takes you to Membership & Billing, but only if you can see billing (typically the account admin). If you are a team member without billing access, the card is a display only; it will not navigate anywhere when you click it.

Member status

Next to the card, a second panel shows your earned standing, separate from what you pay for. Standing is a rank you climb by being on Verinode over time, contributing data, and referring peers, not by upgrading your plan.

If you have not yet reached a computed standing (typically before you are a paid Member), this panel reads:

• "Member status" as the label
• "Become a Pioneer" as the headline
• "+25 IUs / month from day one" as the bonus note
• A short paragraph: "Rank is earned, not bought. Members earn Pioneer at signup, then climb to Ranger, Captain, Commander. Founder and Trustee are open to a limited cohort."
• A "See the ranks →" link

Once your standing is active, the panel instead shows:

• The rank ladder position you have reached (Pioneer, Ranger, Captain, or Commander), shown as an earned seal, alongside any parallel honors you also hold: Founder, Trustee, or Advisor, joined with a dot (for example, "Ranger · Founder"). Founder and Trustee are not steps on the ladder, they are separate honors you can hold at the same time as any rank.
• Your current bonus, in copper text, as extra IUs added to your monthly balance for holding that standing.
• What is next, a plain-language line describing what would move you up: more tenure as a Member, more data contributions, more referrals, or completing your profile, depending on what is still outstanding for you specifically. Once Commander is reached (the top of the ladder), this line reads "Top of the order, Commander earned."
• A "View status →" link

Both the teaser and the active panel link to the same destination: the Status sub-page, where the full ladder and how it works are explained in depth.

The grouped rail

Below the hero, destinations are grouped under headings. Every row shows an icon, a title, and either a live value (a real number pulled from your account) or a short subtitle describing what is inside. A chevron on the right means the row opens its own page.

Account

• Profile. Shows your email address if one is on file, or "Add your details" if not. Opens your personal profile: name, contact details, and the personal settings that belong to you as a user (not to the business).
• Notifications. Subtitle: "Digest, alerts, reminders." Controls your digest cadence and alert preferences.
• Feed & Decisions. Subtitle: "Pace, focus areas, news." Controls how the Feed paces itself and what it focuses on for you. See the Feed for how the Feed itself works.
• Sign-in & Security. Subtitle: "Password, 2FA, Vault Key." Your login credentials, two-factor authentication, and the interactive Vault Key view.
• Company Profile (admin only). Shows your business's name as the value. Opens the business-level identity record: legal name, address, and other company-level facts.
• Brand (admin only). Subtitle: "Logo and brand color." Your logo and brand color, used where Verinode surfaces your business identity (for example, on documents or client-facing views).

Membership

• Membership & Billing (admin only). Shows your tier name and current IU balance together (for example, "Executive Member · 1,500 IU"), or just the tier name if a balance is not available. Opens the plan, billing, invoices, and IU purchase page, all on one screen.
• Status. Shows your rank and monthly bonus (for example, "Ranger · +50 IU/mo") if you have an active standing, or "Become a Member" if you do not yet. Opens the same Status sub-page as the hero panel.
• Referrals. Subtitle: "Invite peers, earn IU." Opens the referral tools: your invite link and what you earn per accepted referral.

Team & Access

Visible to admins only.

• Members & Roles. Shows a live headcount (for example, "3 people") once your team has members, or "Invite, assign roles, remove" as a subtitle before anyone has been added. Opens the team management page: who has access to your Verinode account, and what role each person holds.

Data & Privacy

• Privacy & Legal. Shows a live count of consents granted out of the total available (for example, "2/3 consents") once your consent choices are on file, or "Consents, data use, exports" as a subtitle before that. Opens the consent controls (things like allowing inbox forwarding, letting Verinode process forwarded email content, and optional anonymized usage telemetry to help improve the product), plus data use policy and export tools. Every one of these is a toggle you control; nothing here is switched on without your say.
• IQ Activity Log. Subtitle: "Every action IQ took for you." A running record of what your AI Co-COO did on your behalf, so nothing IQ does is a black box.

Developer

Visible to admins on accounts with the operator API enabled.

• API Keys. Subtitle: "Create, roll, revoke." Where you generate, rotate, and revoke API keys for programmatic access to your Verinode data.

Help

• Support. Shows "N open" if you have open support tickets, or "Contact us, open a ticket" as a subtitle when you do not. Opens support contact options and your ticket history.

Who sees what

Several groups and rows only appear for account admins: Company Profile, Brand, Membership & Billing, Members & Roles, and API Keys (which additionally requires the operator API to be enabled on your account). If you are a team member without admin access, your Settings page shows a shorter rail: Account basics, your personal Status and Referrals, Privacy & Legal, IQ Activity Log, and Support. This is not a limitation on your data, it reflects that billing, company identity, and team access are business-level decisions typically held by one admin per account.

Legacy links

If you land on Settings from an older bookmark or an email built before the current page layout (a link with ?section=, ?tab=, or ?drill= in the URL, including old Stripe checkout return links), Verinode reads that query string server-side and redirects you straight to the matching sub-page, carrying over anything else in the link (like a LinkedIn share tag). You will not see the old flat layout; you will land directly on the destination the old link meant to reach.

Related reading

• The decision workspace
• The Feed
• Understanding your margin
• Connecting your data