Insights.

The questions every leader should be asking — answered before they're asked.

Most BI tools wait to be queried. Node's Insights surface continuously runs the questions a CIO, CFO, or COO should be asking, surfaces the ones with real signal, and shows the work.

Continuous, curated, citable.

Three properties that separate Insights from a dashboard you forgot to open.

01

Always running.

A library of questions — savings, drift, ownership, risk — running against your live graph. The newsfeed is the answers that changed since you last looked.

02

Ranked by signal.

Not every change matters. Insights weights by potential value, exec relevance, and confidence — so the top of the feed earns the click.

03

Cited, never invented.

Every insight points to the underlying source — the contract, the workflow, the override log. The work is showable.

Inside the Insights surface
147
questions in the standard library — ten more for each customer's tailored set
12
high-signal insights surfaced in the average week
$2.4M
in actioned-saving captured by the median customer in year one
100%
insights citable to underlying source data

What an Insight looks like.

The format is the product. Three behaviours that make Insights worth opening.

The headline

A claim with a value, not a chart with a vibe.

Each insight leads with the action and the size of the prize. Vague metrics don't make the cut; numeric headlines anchored to the work do.

  • HeadlineIdle Salesforce seats — 87 holders inactive 60+ days
  • Value$104K annualised
  • Confidence0.91
  • OwnerRevOps · Sales Ops
  • Suggested actionReclaim queue (one click)
The receipts

Click for the work.

Behind every insight: the query, the data sources it ran against, the rule that fired, and the timestamps. If a number on the page is wrong, you can find out which step lied.

  • QueryIdle-seat detector v3
  • SourcesSalesforce admin · SSO · Finance
  • Threshold60d inactive · primary owner alert
  • Last run12 minutes ago
  • Audit logAvailable
The follow-through

Action lives next to the claim.

Most insights are paired with a one-click action — reclaim seat, route to brief, escalate to DRI, schedule renewal review. The newsfeed isn't a place to think; it's a place to do.

  • Reclaim seatBulk · audit-trailed
  • Open briefGenerate negotiation pack
  • Route to DRIWith context attached
  • SnoozeWith reason · re-checks at next run

An insight that doesn't show its work isn't an insight — it's a slogan.

Node — Insights design notes

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