"Capacity: demand ahead versus your bench"
Every other view of your subs looks backward: what they cost, how they performed, whether their paperwork is current. The **Capacity** tab is the one that looks forward. It sets the work coming at…
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What the Capacity view answers
Every other view of your subs looks backward: what they cost, how they performed, whether their paperwork is current. The Capacity tab is the one that looks forward. It sets the work coming at you, from your own pipeline and the restoration calendar, against the bench you would actually be able to dispatch, and gives you one plain read on whether you are ready for it. You will find it in the analysis deck: open the Subcontractors page, tap Analyze your subs in the Apps row, and swipe to Capacity.
The demand side: your own pipeline
The demand read is built from your own book of jobs, not a market model. It counts your jobs in flight (open jobs right now), how many are landing in the next 30 and the next 90 days, and the open dollar value sitting on them, shown as "Jobs in flight", "Next 90 days", and "Open value". Under "Where the work is", the top three service lines by upcoming volume show as ranked bars, so you can see whether the next quarter is a water quarter or a rebuild quarter.
On top of the counts sits a surge signal: it trips when your crew is running jobs in the last 30 days at more than one and a half times your own 90-day pace. That is your operation telling you, in its own numbers, that volume is already climbing.
The seasonal context
The intro line across the top of the tab is the restoration calendar's read on the current month. Verinode carries a season map for the industry: winter (December through February, freeze and burst-pipe losses), spring storm season (March through May, hail, wind, and flood building toward the summer peak), and hurricane / CAT season (June through November, peaking August through October). The current phase shows under the readiness headline, and if your company's state has real Atlantic or Gulf hurricane exposure, that phase carries a warning tone rather than a quiet one, because the surge risk is yours, not theoretical. Inland operators see the same calendar without the coastal emphasis.
The bench side: who you could actually send
The other half of the read is your roster's readiness. A ring shows the share of your subs who are COI-ready (a current certificate of insurance on file), green at 90 percent or better, yellow from 70, red below that. Beside it, the bench line counts the rest: subs whose COI is expiring, subs whose COI has expired, subs with no COI on file at all, and subs whose reliability reads at risk. When any sub is expired or uncovered, the line says it the way a dispatcher would: "blocked in a surge (no or expired COI)", because that is exactly what an uninsured sub is when the phones start ringing.
Concentration counts against you too. If one sub carries half or more of your total sub spend, the bench is treated as carrying a gap even if every certificate is current, because your capacity then hangs on one company's availability.
The one-line verdict: exposed, thin, or ready
The tab rolls both sides into a single readiness call, and the logic is simple enough to hold in your head:
- Bench exposed. There is a surge ahead (your own surge signal is on, or the calendar sits in spring storm or hurricane season) AND your bench has gaps (an expired or missing COI, an at-risk sub, or one sub holding half or more of your sub spend). This is the combination that turns into turned-away work.
- Bench thin. The same gaps exist, but nothing on the demand side says a surge is imminent. You have time, and the gaps name themselves: chase the expiring COIs, cover the uncovered subs, widen the bench past the one sub you lean on.
- Bench ready. No gaps the model can see. The ring, the season, and the pipeline are still worth a glance, but nothing is blocking.
Note
One honest limitation, stated because the view itself cannot: readiness here is bench-level, not per-trade. Verinode does not yet map which trades your upcoming service lines will demand against which trades your covered subs carry, so a bench can read "ready" while every covered sub is a painter and the surge coming is water mitigation. Read the "Where the work is" bars next to your own trade list, and let the trade rankings tell you where a trade runs one sub deep.
What to do with an exposed read
An exposed read is a to-do list in disguise, and every item on it is yours to close. Expired and missing COIs close with a certificate request; the Certifications section sends the sub a one-tap upload link. An at-risk sub closes with the Replace flow on their card, which names a stronger same-trade sub if you have one or searches local alternatives if you do not. Concentration closes by spreading the next few dispatches. The forward-looking demand itself is covered in more depth in the Forecasting section, which reads the same pipeline through a wider lens.
Data sources
Data sources
- 1.Your open jobs, their timing, and their estimated value. Your business.
- 2.Your subs' certificates of insurance and logged performance. Your business.
- 3.The restoration seasonal calendar and state hurricane exposure. Verinode reference data.