The Scores section

What the Scores section is

Scores is where Verinode puts a verdict on the market around you: the software, services, material suppliers, processes, and equipment a restoration business chooses between. For each one it can show three independent reads side by side, the Verinode Research Score (Verinode Research's structured assessment on a published method), the peer rating (the combined opinions of members who use it, never Verinode's own), and your team's rating of it. It answers a practical question: who leads each category, and how does what you run compare to the leader?

Scores is different from every other section in one way worth knowing up front. Its subject is the market, not your book. Most sections read your own jobs, invoices, and statements; Scores reads vendors and products, and marks your own stack on top of that picture. That is why its tabs are named differently from the rest of the platform, and why there is no table of "your" records here.

Verinode does not sell placement on this page and does not choose your vendors for you. It surfaces how each option scores, what operators like you report, and where your stack sits against the leaders, so the call you make is an informed one.

Where to find it

Open Scores from the sidebar, under Intelligence, beside Benchmarks. The page lives at iq.verinode.ai/scores. The header reads Scores with an Add Data button in the top right, and a tab bar with three tabs: Cockpit, Scores, and Leaders. The tab you are on rides in the page address, so a link lands on the tab it names and the back button returns you to the tab you left.

At the foot of every tab, a short note says what each kind of rating on it is: the research score is an assessment on a published method, and peer ratings are members' combined opinions.

Cockpit: the top vendor per category

The Cockpit opens on a single picture with the eyebrow Top vendor per category. Each cell is one scoring category, named in full, with the leading vendor's logo, its name, and its score in the color of its verdict, the verdict word beside the number. Cells are ordered so that the categories where you run a scored vendor come first, then the categories with the most scored vendors, up to two rows of five. The full ladder for every category lives on the Leaders tab.

Your own stack is drawn on the same picture:

• Where you run the category leader, its logo wears a ring in your accent color, and a small key reads what you run.
• Where you run a different scored vendor in that category, a quiet line under the leader's score names it and its score, for example "You run [vendor] · 6.2," so the gap is visible on the cell.

Under the picture, one line states where you stand in words, and one line names the scope (the Verinode Research Score, how many vendors across how many categories). The standing line takes one of these forms:

• "You run the leader in all N categories you use." when every scored vendor you run leads its category.
• "You run the leader in X of N categories you use; the widest gap is [category], where [leader] leads [your vendor] by [points]." when some do not.
• "Your own vendors appear here as markers as vendor invoices flow in, or when you rate one on the Scores tab." when Verinode does not yet know which vendors you run. This is the door: vendor invoices, or a rating you give, put your stack on the map.
• "None of the vendors you run is scored yet; each appears here as a marker once the research program scores it." when your vendors are known but not yet scored. Nothing is missing on your side here; the research program closes it.

Before anything is scored at all, the picture draws its empty outline and reads "Scores appear as the research program covers the vendors in your category."

Every cell is a door: clicking it opens the leader's score deep-dive, where you can see how the number was built. That panel is covered in the Verinode Score.

When equipment has been scored, a second ladder sits under a hairline in the same panel with the eyebrow Top equipment per class: the best-scored product in each equipment class, marked with its manufacturer. There is no stack marker on this ladder, because what you own is a fleet record rather than a scored relationship.

Stack gaps

Below the picture, a Stack gaps row appears when Verinode has found categories where operators who use a vendor outperform operators who do not. The card's heading reads Categories where peers outperform you by adoption, and each line reads "Operators with a vendor here see +X% vs operators without," naming the category. Where enough operators sit behind a comparison, a confidence word follows the line: Indicative, Observed, or Verified, in order of strength. The card shows the top three and, when there are more, how many in total.

Read these as hypotheses worth a look, not instructions. They say that adoption and performance travel together in the network, not that buying the tool will cause the gain. When no such category has surfaced for you, the row is simply absent.

Scores: the catalog

The Scores tab is the full catalog. It opens on type tiles, Software, Services, Materials, Processes, and Equipment, each with a count of what is rated and scored inside it. Choosing a type shows its categories; choosing a category opens a table of everything in it.

For vendor categories, the table carries one row per vendor with these columns:

• Vendor, with its logo.
• Verinode Score, the research score, colored by verdict.
• Verdict, the word for the score's band.
• Peer rating, what members who use it report.
• Your team, your own team's rating. Where your team has not rated a vendor yet, a row of five stars sits in this column ("Tap to rate this vendor"), so you can rate it in one tap without a survey.
• Carrier programs, where a carrier program names this vendor: Required, Preferred, Approved, Blocked, or Unclassified.

You can filter by verdict, by whether the vendor is in your stack ("In your stack or not"), and by carrier program, and search with Find a vendor. Tick between two and four vendors and press Compare to see them side by side. A Table and Market Map toggle switches the vendor view to a map of the category's scored vendors, which is the quickest way to scan a crowded category. Clicking a row opens that vendor's score deep-dive, or its peer rating when it has no research score yet.

If nothing in a category has been rated or scored yet, the tab says so plainly and explains that a rating appears as more operators rate the same vendor, process, or equipment item, or once the research record on a vendor is dense enough to score.

How to add your own rating, and how ratings become peer ratings, is covered in rating an entity and Vendor and Equipment Intelligence.

Leaders: every ladder in one table

The Leaders tab is the leaderboard: every scored vendor and every peer-rated entity, ranked within its own category, in one table with two views.

• Verinode Score lists Vendor, Category, rank (#), Score, Verdict, Confidence, and Your team. Filter it by category, by verdict, or by whether the vendor is in your stack.
• Peer ratings lists Name, Kind (Vendor, Process, or Equipment), Category, rank, Peer rating, and Trend.

When the catalog is empty, the tab reads "Scores and peer ratings appear here as the research program and the network rate the vendors in your category."

Reading a score

A Verinode Research Score runs from 1 to 10, and its verdict word tells you which band it sits in:

• Strong, 7.0 and above, the leader band, drawn in green.
• Solid, 5.5 up to 7.0.
• Mixed, 3.5 up to 5.5, drawn in yellow.
• Weak, below 3.5, drawn in Ember Red.

Each score also carries a confidence level, shown in the Leaders table and on the deep-dive, that says how much of the evidence the method looks for was actually found: Verified, Assessed, Estimated, or Directional, from most to least complete. A score marked Provisional is a research-only reading that is not yet presented as final, because its category has not yet been fully weighted and peer-rated. Lean on a Verified Strong score; treat a Directional one as a first look that will firm up as the research record fills in.

The peer rating is a separate read and never blended into the score. It appears only once enough members have rated the same entity, and that has nothing to do with anything missing from your data. The confidence words on peer figures, Indicative, Observed, and Verified, follow the same logic: how deep the set of operators behind the number is.

Ask IQ about Scores

You can ask IQ about this page in plain words, for example "who leads moisture-mapping software, and how far behind is what we run?" or "which stack gaps are worth a look for a business our size?" IQ reads the same catalog, leaders, and stack the page draws, and answers from them.

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