The Subcontractors section

What the Subcontractors section is

The Subcontractors section is your sub bench seen through a labor-and-liability lens: whether each sub's certificate of insurance is current, how much of your work is riding on them, what they cost you job by job, and how reliably they perform when you put them on a loss. It exists because a sub is not just another vendor. A drywall supplier who ships late costs you a schedule slip. A sub with lapsed coverage who gets hurt on your job can turn into your claim, and a sub who keeps generating callbacks quietly eats the margin on every job they touch. Those are questions about coverage, exposure, and cost, not questions about product quality or program fit, so they get their own page.

The distinction matters for how you read the section. Vendors answers "is this company good, and how does it score against the alternatives?" Subcontractors answers "is this person covered, what have they cost me, and would I put them on the next job?" Everything on this page is built from your own book: your subs' certificates, the subcontractor cost lines on your jobs, the trades you have assigned them, and the performance you have logged. There is no Verinode Score here and no peer benchmark. A sub's exposure is your data, about your jobs, and the section keeps that scope honest.

Subs are vendors, seen through a second lens

A subcontractor in Verinode is one of your vendors, flagged as a sub. Flagging a company as a subcontractor does not move it out of Vendors; it adds a second lens. The same electrician still appears in your Vendors list with everything that page knows about them, and also appears here, re-read for coverage, job exposure, and reliability. Both views exist because they answer different questions: open Vendors when you are weighing who to buy from, open Subcontractors when you are deciding who to put on a job and whether their paperwork will hold up if something goes wrong.

The section is switched on for every account from day one, because an uninsured sub is a risk worth watching even before much data has arrived. Like other content sections, it can also be turned off if subs are not part of how you run work; a section that has been switched off shows a switch-on gate instead of the page, and turning it back on restores everything.

The four kinds of data it joins

The page assembles one picture of each sub from four sources, and each one arrives a different way:

• Certificates and COIs. A sub's certificate of insurance, workers comp, and licenses, with their expiry dates. Forward or upload the certificate itself, or request one: add a sub with their email in the Certifications section and IQ sends them a one-tap COI upload link.
• Subcontractor cost lines on your jobs. The invoices subs bill you, tied to the jobs they worked. This is where sub spend, job counts, and cost-per-job come from. Forward a sub's invoice and Verinode links it to the job.
• Their trades. What each sub actually does: electrical, drywall, roofing, and so on. You set trades inline on the sub's card, and Verinode uses them to rank subs head-to-head within a trade and to source local alternatives when one needs replacing.
• The performance you log. Quality, on-time, callbacks, and backcharge dollars, logged per engagement on the sub's card. This is the input behind the reliability score.

None of this requires new software. An empty Subcontractors page is not broken; it means the invoices and certificates that feed it have not flowed in yet. As they arrive by forwarded email, upload, or a COI request, the page fills in on its own.

Where to find it and the shape of the page

Open Subcontractors from the sidebar, under Operations. The route is iq.verinode.ai/subcontractors. The header carries the section title and the universal Add Data button, the same capture entry point used everywhere on the platform: drop a sub's invoice, a COI, or an agreement and Verinode reads it in.

The page is built like every other section home, a stack of rows you read top to bottom:

• The hero leads with your sub count and a COI pill that tells you at a glance whether anything has lapsed, with sub spend billed to date and the number of subs missing a COI beside it. Covered in the hero and Take Action row.
• Apps holds the Analyze your subs launcher, a full analysis deck that rolls cost, productivity, reliability, and compliance into a keep, watch, or replace verdict for every sub, plus a client-by-client breakdown, a capacity read, and a 1099 prep view.
• Take Action surfaces the sub decisions worth your attention right now, led by a review-or-replace call when one of your subs reads at risk.
• Explore is five tiles, five aspects of the bench: All Subs, COI Current, Sub Spend, Missing COI, and Reliability. Each opens a swipeable deck on that aspect. Covered in the Explore row.
• Your subcontractors is the roster itself, one tile per sub, ordered so the ones needing attention come first. Tapping any sub opens their detail deck.

Reading the section in one pass

A good pass runs downward. Glance at the hero: how many subs, and is the COI pill green, yellow, or red? Read Take Action for the one or two calls IQ thinks are worth your week, a sub to review or replace, a certificate about to lapse. Scan Explore for the aspect that is off, a slipping compliance percentage, spend concentrating on one sub, an at-risk count above zero, and open that tile. Then use the roster to drop into any individual sub. The page is the map; the depth lives in the decks it opens.

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