The cheap sub is rarely cheap. The cost arrives later, as callbacks, slipped schedules, and backcharges nobody attributes back to the decision.
Verinode reads your subs through the labor and liability lens rather than as vendors: whether they finish on time, how often the work comes back, what you charge back, and whether their insurance and licensing are current today.
What You See
Certificate of insurance and license status on every sub, with what has lapsed and what expires next. Running work behind expired paperwork is the exposure nobody budgets for.
Which active jobs depend on which subs, so a compliance gap reads as a list of jobs at risk rather than a name on a list.
What each sub costs you across the year, and how much of your subcontracted work sits with a single one.
Every sub with their performance record, linking through to certifications, margin, and the jobs they ran.
Where You Land
Benchmarked On
A peer line does not appear until enough distinct operators sit behind it. You will see fewer numbers early, and the ones you see are the ones the sample can support.
Read From
Sub invoices and backcharges, schedule and completion records, and your compliance document register. Verinode reads what those already produce. There is nothing to migrate, no form to retype your business into, and every connection is read-only: it never writes back into a system you own.
Common Questions
A vendor sells you something; a sub does the work in front of your customer, under your name, and carries liability with them. So this section leads with compliance and job exposure rather than with pricing and vendor scoring. A vendor with lapsed insurance is a procurement issue. A sub with lapsed insurance on an active job is a different order of problem.
From the certificates themselves. Verinode reads the expiry dates off the documents you already collect, so currency is a fact it checks rather than a field somebody has to remember to update. Lapses surface before they become the reason a claim gets denied.
That is the point of the callback and backcharge metrics. Both are lagging costs that arrive weeks after the sub was chosen and rarely get traced back. Expressed as a share of what you pay each sub, and set against what comparable operators absorb, the expensive relationship stops hiding inside a reasonable-looking invoice.
Your raw data sits in its own encrypted environment that only your Chief Data Officer reads, and the only thing that leaves it for the benchmarks is anonymized aggregate. It is never sold or given to carriers, competitors, or anyone else, and that is written into the Data Use Policy rather than only into marketing. Every connection is read-only, so Verinode never writes back into a system you own. We are early and say so plainly, including the parts we cannot prove yet: verinode.ai/security lists what we do and what we have not done, and verinode.ai/subprocessors names every third party that touches anything.
Why Operators Join
Verinode reads across the tools you already run and returns the few decisions worth your week, ranked by what they are worth. Nothing to migrate, and nothing to rip out.