Sub decisions in your Feed

The proactive half of the section

Everything else in the Subcontractors section waits for you to open it. This part does not. When one of your subs reads as a drop candidate, Verinode raises it as a decision that reaches you where you already look: your Feed, the Decisions workspace, and the Take Action row on the Subcontractors home. The card leads with what it is, "Review subcontractor Summit Drywall," the costed reason, and the dollars at stake, so a sub problem finds you instead of waiting to be found.

The rule that fires it is deliberately the same one behind the keep-watch-replace verdict and the Replace tab on a sub's card, covered in how the verdict is reached: reliability at risk, or reliability on watch with real backcharges, or a certificate of insurance expired on more than $5,000 of billed work. Because the card and the section run on one rule, they never disagree. A sub flagged in your Feed is flagged in the analysis, and a sub the analysis clears never lingers as a stale card.

What the card says

Each decision names the sub and states the case in plain language: that they are underperforming, the specific costed reason ("Reliability slipping, $4k in backcharges."), and what opening them gets you, the costed case, a stronger sub already on your roster if one exists, and local alternatives. The recommendation is always the same honest one: open the subcontractor and weigh replacing them or shifting work to a stronger sub. Where a dollar figure exists, backcharges plus the share of their billed work treated as exposed, it rides on the card so the decision can rank against everything else competing for your week.

Reliability cases where real damage has landed read as warnings; a slipping-but-recoverable case reads quieter. Verinode raises the call. Deciding is yours.

The mechanics, stated plainly

• One open decision per sub. A sub is flagged once, not once per symptom. If they stay a drop candidate, the same decision stays open and is refreshed rather than duplicated, so your Feed never stacks five cards about the same drywall crew.
• At most five new cases per pass. When a whole bench is weak, the detector takes the five worst by dollars at stake first, and the rest arrive on later passes. A book with ten struggling subs becomes a manageable drip, not a wall of red.
• It resolves itself. When a sub stops being a drop candidate, their reliability recovers, their COI is renewed, or they leave your roster, the open decision closes on its own. You never have to tidy up after a problem you already fixed.
• It runs on its own, and costs nothing. The detector runs as part of the background scans that keep every section's signals fresh. It never spends Intelligence Units, yours or anyone's, and it needs nothing from you to keep running.
• The evidence is only your own data. The case is built from your rated engagements, your backcharge history, and the certificates on file for that sub. No peer data, no network reads, nothing about anyone else's book.

Acting on one

Opening the decision takes you to the sub, where the Replace tab holds the full flow: the costed why, the stronger same-trade sub to shift work toward, and local alternatives with a drafted outreach email, covered in replacing a sub. Park it, dismiss it, or work it like any other decision; the mechanics of plans, steps, and outcomes are the same as everywhere else in the decision workspace.

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