Settings: your account, membership, and controls

What Settings is

Settings is the index of every control you have over your own account, your business's membership, and how your data flows through Verinode. It is not a single long form. It is a map: a membership hero at the top, then a short list of grouped destinations, each one a focused sub-page. Open a row and you land on a page built to do one job, whether that is changing your password, reading your Intelligence Unit balance, or reviewing who forwards documents into your inbox address.

Verinode does not decide any of this for you. Settings is where you tell Verinode who you are, who else on your team gets access, and what it is allowed to do with your data. Everything downstream, from the Feed to Margin to Benchmarks, reads its behavior from what you set here.

Where to find it

Open Settings from the sidebar. The route is /settings.

If you land on /settings with an older link, for example one saved from an email or a bookmark from before the redesign, Verinode reads the old parameters and forwards you straight to the matching new page. You will not see a broken link or a dead page; you will just land somewhere slightly different than the old layout, on the same destination you were headed for.

The hero: Membership Card and Member Status

At the top of the index, two panels sit side by side. They carry two different kinds of standing: what you pay for, and what you have earned.

The Membership Card

The larger panel on the left is styled like a physical membership card, because that is the closest real-world object it stands in for. It shows:

• Your company name, large, bottom-left. If your Company Profile is not filled in yet, this reads "Your company" as a placeholder.
• Your name, in small caps beneath the company name (drawn from your account profile).
• Two identifiers, in the same small-caps line: a VN-XXXXXX number, your business's Membership Number, and an OP-XXXXXX number, your personal Operator Number. The VN number belongs to the business and only appears while you're affiliated with a paid Business membership. The OP number belongs to you personally, was assigned once at signup, and travels with you if you ever move to a different business.
• A tier label, top-right: Contributor, Executive Member, or Premier Member (a further invite-only Reserve Member tier exists above Premier). The card's color shifts with tier: a cool slate gradient for Contributor, warm copper for Executive Member, and dark graphite for Premier Member.
• Your Intelligence Unit balance, bottom-right, on any paid tier: a number followed by "Intelligence Units," with "Member since [year]" beneath it. On the Contributor tier, this corner instead reads "Become a Member."
• A gold chip, center-left, styled after an EMV card chip. On this page it is decorative, a visual signature of the card. The same chip becomes an interactive control that reveals your Vault Key in a couple of other places, covered in Sign-in & Security.
• If your subscription is set to cancel, the card adds a line under the tier label reading "Cancels [date]." If you are on a trial, it reads "Preview · N days left" instead of a tier.

Click the card and, if you have the Admin role, you land on Membership & Billing. If you don't have that role, the card is not clickable; billing is an Admin-only surface.

Member Status block

The square panel on the right shows your earned standing, which is separate from what tier you pay for. Two states:

• If you've earned a rank, the block shows every status seal you currently hold across the top (rank badges climb Pioneer → Ranger → Captain → Commander, and Founder, Trustee, and Advisor honors stack alongside them for members who hold them), a headline naming your ranks (for example "Ranger · Founder"), a line reading "+N IUs / month" (the bonus Intelligence Units your current standing adds to your monthly allotment), and a short line describing what is left before you advance, phrased in plain terms like "N more months" or "N more data contributions" or "complete your profile," combining whichever of those still apply. At the top of the ladder it instead reads "Top of the order, Commander earned."
• If you have not become a Member yet (Contributor tier), the panel reads "Become a Pioneer" with a note that Pioneer starts at "+25 IUs / month from day one" and an explanation that rank is earned, not bought: you start as a Pioneer at signup and climb the ladder through activity on the platform, while Founder and Trustee are reserved for a limited cohort.

Click either state to open Member Status for the full ladder and what advances you.

The grouped destinations

Below the hero, rows are grouped under six headings. Every row carries an accent-colored icon tile on the left, a title, and either a live value or a short subtitle describing what is inside, plus a chevron that opens the sub-page. Some rows only appear for accounts with the Admin role, or when a feature is enabled for your account; those are called out below.

Account

Visible to everyone:

• Profile. Shows your account email address as the value, or "Add your details" if your profile is incomplete. Opens your personal profile: name, email, photo, and the personal fields tied to your account (this row also now covers what used to be a separate inbox-forwarding-address destination).
• Notifications. Subtitle: "Digest, alerts, reminders." Opens your notification preferences.
• Feed & Decisions. Subtitle: "Pace, focus areas, news." Opens the controls for how the Feed paces itself and which topics it prioritizes for you.
• Sign-in & Security. Subtitle: "Password, 2FA, Vault Key." Opens password and two-factor authentication controls, plus the Vault Key reveal flow referenced above.

Visible only with the Admin role:

• Company Profile. Shows your operator name as the value (or "Your company" until it's set). Opens the business-level profile: company name and related business details.
• Brand. Subtitle: "Logo and brand color." Opens logo upload and brand color controls used anywhere your business's identity is shown back to you.

Membership

• Membership & Billing (Admin role only). Shows your tier label together with your current Intelligence Unit balance, for example "Executive Member · 1,200 IU," or just the tier label if a balance isn't available yet. Opens plan details, invoices, and Intelligence Unit purchase.
• Status. Shows your earned rank and bonus, for example "Ranger · +50 IU/mo," or "Become a Member" if you haven't earned a rank yet. Opens the same Member Status page as the hero panel.
• Referrals. Subtitle: "Invite peers, earn IU." Opens your referral link and tracked invites.

Team & Access

Visible only with the Admin role:

• Members & Roles. Shows a live headcount, for example "3 people" (singular "1 person"), or the subtitle "Invite, assign roles, remove" if no team data has loaded yet. Opens the page where you invite teammates, assign their role, and remove access.

Data & Privacy

Visible to everyone:

• Privacy & Legal. Shows how many of your data consents are currently granted out of the total available, for example "2/3 consents," or the subtitle "Consents, data use, exports" while that count is loading. Opens the consent toggles, links to the data-use policy, and data export.
• IQ Activity Log. Subtitle: "Every action IQ took for you." Opens a running log of what IQ has done on your behalf: every send, every write, every recommendation acted on.

Developer

Visible only with the Admin role, and only when API access is enabled for your account:

• API Keys. Subtitle: "Create, roll, revoke." Opens the page where you generate, rotate, and revoke API keys for programmatic access to your data.

Help

Visible to everyone:

• Support. Shows a live count of your open tickets, for example "2 open," or the subtitle "Contact us, open a ticket" when you have none open. Opens the support and contact page.

How to use it

1. 1Start at /settings and check the hero first. Confirm your tier on the Membership Card and your rank on the Member Status block, both drive your Intelligence Unit capacity for the month.
2. 2If you're setting up your account for the first time, work down Account: Profile, then Notifications, then Feed & Decisions, then Sign-in & Security.
3. 3If you have the Admin role, also fill in Company Profile and Brand, since those feed how your business is presented back to you elsewhere in the product.
4. 4Check Team & Access if teammates need to be invited or their role adjusted.
5. 5Review Data & Privacy at least once: confirm your consents match what you intend to share, and skim the IQ Activity Log so you know what IQ has been doing on your behalf.
6. 6Only open Developer if you're integrating Verinode with another system and need an API key.

Data sources

Related

• Sign-in & Security: password, 2FA, and your Vault Key
• Membership & Billing: plan, capacity, and invoices
• Member Status: the Pioneer to Commander ladder
• Members & Roles: inviting and managing your team
• Privacy & Legal: consents, data use, and exports
• Understanding your margin
• The Feed
• The decision workspace
• Connecting your data