Tuning your Feed and Decisions

What this page is for

The Feed reads everything flowing in from your connected tools, forwarded emails, and peer benchmarks, then turns it into decisions and signals for your week. This page is where you tell Verinode how you want that done: how many decisions to prepare, which parts of the business to weight up, and how much outside news and learning content should ride alongside them.

This is not the reading experience itself. Swiping, discarding, and acting on cards happens on the Feed, covered in the Feed and acting on decisions. This page is the tuning panel behind it: the inputs, not the output.

Nothing here hides a decision from you. Verinode's own description of this page puts it plainly: "Gentle nudges: a decision is never hidden, only weighted." Turning a focus area down means it surfaces less often and lower in the stack. It never disappears.

Where to find it

Go to Settings (/settings) and open the Feed & Decisions row (subtitle: "Pace, focus areas, news"). That opens /settings/feed, titled Feed & Decisions with a back link reading ‹ Settings at the top.

The same preference set drives the first-run "Tune your feed" card some operators see when they start using Verinode. Whether you answer that card or come here later, you are reading and writing the same object, so the two never drift apart, and once you have saved preferences here the first-run card does not reappear.

The page is five plain groups stacked top to bottom, separated by hairlines, no card frames. A single Save button at the bottom writes all five at once.

Group 1: decision pace

Group label: "How many decisions should Verinode prepare each week?"

A three-way control: Fewer, Balanced, More. Under it, a one-line description changes with your choice:

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

These are approximate counts of concurrent live decisions Verinode keeps prepared for you, not a hard cap and not a quota you are spending down. If you are new to Verinode or already stretched thin, Fewer keeps the stack to only the most pressing items. If you want full visibility into everything open across margin, carriers, vendors, and the rest, More widens the stack. This setting only changes how much is prepared, never the quality bar for what counts as a decision.

Group 2: focus areas

Group label: "Areas that matter most to you." Help text: "We weight these up. Nothing is ever hidden."

A row of tappable pills, one per business area:

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

Tap a pill to turn it on (it fills copper) or off (it returns to a neutral outline). On a fresh account, Margin & cash, Carrier pushback, Vendors & equipment, and Peer benchmarks start selected. People & hiring and Compliance & certs start unselected, not because they are hidden, but because they sit lower in the default weighting until you tell Verinode otherwise.

Selecting a pill weights matching decisions and signals higher in your feed. Deselecting one does not remove that area's decisions, it just stops giving them a boost, so they surface at their ordinary priority rather than at the front. A decision about a carrier lowballing a claim, for example, still reaches you even with Carrier pushback turned off, it simply competes on the same footing as everything else instead of jumping the line.

Peer benchmarks works a little differently from the other five: it is not tied to one business area. Because peer comparisons can show up anywhere, margin, pricing, labor burden, cycle time, turning this pill on boosts any signal that compares you to your peers, wherever in the platform it originates.

Group 3: how much news and learning content

Group label: "News and learning in your feed"

A three-way control: Decisions only, Just the essentials, Keep me current.

• Decisions only strips learning content out entirely: no articles, videos, podcasts, or industry events. Only your decisions and vendor news relevant to your stack remain.
• Just the essentials is the default for a new operator: a lighter sprinkle of news and learning content alongside your decisions.
• Keep me current is the fullest volume of outside content.

This one control governs quantity only. Which formats and which topics make it through, once volume allows any content at all, are the next two groups.

One exception worth knowing: vendor news (updates tied to the vendors and equipment you actually use) rides alongside your decisions regardless of this setting, because it is stack-relevant, not general reading. It is still governed by the Vendors & equipment topic in Group 5, so you can turn it off there if you don't want it.

Group 4: formats you take in

Group label: "Which formats you take in"

Three pills: Articles, Videos, Podcasts. All three are on by default.

Unlike focus areas, this is a hard filter, not a weighting. Turn off Videos and no video content appears in your feed at all, full stop. This is the control for the operator who only wants to read, or who only listens to podcasts on the drive between jobs and has no interest in video.

You cannot turn off every format at once. If you try to deselect the last remaining format, the page simply ignores the tap and keeps at least one on, so a slip of the thumb can't silently blank out all incoming content.

Note that industry events are not gated by format. An event listing isn't an article, a video, or a podcast, so it is unaffected by what you select here (it is still subject to the news volume setting in Group 3).

Group 5: topics you care about

Group label: "Topics you care about"

Five pills, all on by default:

• Market & economy
• Peer benchmarks
• Vendor & equipment news
• Compliance & regulation
• Training & best practices

This is also a hard filter: turn off a topic and content tagged to it stops appearing, whether it is an article, a video, a podcast, or (for Vendor & equipment news specifically) a vendor news item. Verinode derives each content item's topic itself, from what the content already carries, it isn't asking you to follow specific outside publishers or authors by name. You'll notice there's no list of sources to pick from here: source names are deliberately anonymized everywhere in the product, so a per-source picker isn't offered. Pick by subject instead.

Saving your changes

Every change you make on this page (pace, focus, volume, formats, topics) lives in local state until you press Save. Nothing writes to your account until then.

Pressing Save writes everything at once. While it's in flight the button shows a loading state. On success, a small Saved confirmation appears next to the button for a few seconds and fades on its own. If the write fails, the same spot instead reads "Couldn't save, try again.", and nothing has changed on your account, so it's safe to just press Save again.

Once saved, the change takes effect immediately, your Feed and Decisions pages reflect it the next time you open them, no reload required.

How this fits with the rest of Verinode

Feed and Decisions preferences only steer which decisions and signals rise to the top and which learning content rides along, they never change the underlying analysis. A carrier lowballing a claim is still flagged the same way whether Carrier pushback is on or off in Group 2, see clients and carriers for how that detection works. Peer comparisons themselves, what a benchmark is and how it's built, are covered in benchmarks overview and how benchmarks work. Margin decisions that this page's Margin & cash focus weights up are explained in understanding your margin. Once a decision reaches your feed, working it end to end is covered in the decision workspace.