Opening one sub

The full read on one sub

Tapping a sub anywhere in the Subcontractors section, a roster tile, a ranked bar in the Explore deck, the review-or-replace tile, opens that sub's detail deck: the complete picture of one subcontractor, laid over the page as a card you close back out of. It answers the questions you actually have before dispatching someone: is their paperwork current, what have they cost me, where has their work come from, and would I send them out again.

One thing to hold onto before reading any number here: this card compares the sub to nothing but your own book. There is no peer benchmark on this deck and no network score; the only scope it knows is "Your book." A sub's coverage, cost, and reliability are your data about your jobs, and the deck keeps that boundary. Some of these companies also exist as entities in Benchmarks carrying a Verinode Score built from the network; that is a different lens on a different question, and this card deliberately does not blend the two.

The header

The top of the card restates the sub:

• The eyebrow is their COI status, exactly one of "COI current", "COI expiring", "COI expired", or "No COI on file", and it colors the card's accent.
• The title is the sub's name, and the subtitle lists their trades ("Electrical · Drywall"), or simply "Subcontractor" when no trade is set yet.
• Three stats: Sub spend (what they have billed you in total), Jobs (how many of your jobs carry their cost lines), and Reliability (their 0 to 100 score, or a dash before anything is logged).

The tabs

Below the header, tabs jump you between the deck's sections: Overview, Replace, Compliance, Jobs & margin, Dispatch, Clients, and Performance. Replace is the one conditional tab: it only appears when the sub reads as a drop candidate, meaning their reliability is at risk, or it is on watch with real backcharge dollars logged, or their COI has expired while they carry meaningful spend. For everyone else the tab simply is not there.

Overview

Overview opens with the sub's reliability ring when they have been rated: the 0 to 100 score in the center, the label beside it (Reliable, Watch, or At risk), their COI status, and their rank among your rated subs, for example "#2 of 5 your rated subs," or, when you have two or more rated subs in the same trade, ranked within that trade instead. An unrated sub skips the ring and shows plain "Not rated yet" and compliance rows instead.

Then the working facts: current jobs, past jobs, and total sub spend; their contact details (email, phone, website) where Verinode has them, or "Not on file"; and an inline trade picker where you set what this sub does. Setting trades is worth the ten seconds: it is what lets Verinode rank subs head-to-head within a trade and source local alternatives if this one ever needs replacing.

When you have logged callbacks or backcharges against the sub, an Issues line totals them, "2 callbacks · $1k backcharges," in the warning tone. It only appears when there is something to say.

Replace

For a drop candidate, the Replace tab lays out the move in three parts: the costed why ("Why replace" with the reason and the dollars at stake), a stronger same-trade sub already on your roster when one exists ("Shift work their way first"), and local alternatives sourced from your own area, each with a one-tap outreach draft you review, edit, and send yourself. Verinode never contacts anyone on your behalf, and the panel says so.

Compliance

Every certificate on file for this sub: each one with its status, expiry date, and whether it has been verified. With nothing on file it points at the door: "No certificate of insurance or license on file. Request one from the Certifications section so this sub can send a COI in one tap." The tab also holds the W-9 on file toggle, which feeds the 1099 prep view in the analysis deck, so at tax time you already know who you can file for cleanly.

Jobs & margin

Every job carrying this sub's cost lines, split into Current and Past, each with the sub's cost on that job and, where the job's value is known, their cost as a share of it, "35% of job value." A share of 40 percent or more renders in the warning tone: when one sub is consuming that much of a job's value, the job's margin belongs more to them than to you, and it is worth asking whether the price or the scope is right. Before any invoices are tied to jobs, the tab reads "No jobs yet. Their cost lands here as you forward the subcontractor invoices tied to your jobs."

Dispatch

Dispatch is where you put the sub on a job's crew: the jobs they are currently assigned to, each with a one-tap remove, and an "+ Assign to a job" picker of your open jobs. As the panel puts it, "Put this sub on a job's crew. They show up on the job, and the work you log ties back here." Dispatching matters beyond bookkeeping: dispatched jobs are offered first when you log an engagement, so the performance record lands on the right job.

Clients

Where this sub's work comes from, their cost grouped by your paying clients, largest first. The read is concentration: "Concentration on one client means their coverage or reliability slipping puts that revenue at risk." A sub who only ever works your biggest carrier account is a single point of failure on that account.

Performance

The Performance tab holds the sub's reliability rollup, their per-job-type scores, the list of every logged engagement, and the inline logger for adding the next one. It has its own article: logging an engagement, with the score mechanics in the reliability score.

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