Information teams today are overwhelmed with content from countless sources, formats, and platforms. In the face of this information sprawl, organizations often struggle to centralize, refine, and deliver exactly what their stakeholders need.
Vable is built to solve the everyday realities of information overload: scattered sources and the constant pressure to deliver the right insight to the right people. At its core, the platform brings everything into one place through aggregation, makes it easy to find what matters with powerful search capabilities, and supports flexible ways to deliver curated intelligence to different audiences. Strengths that are unpacked further in our recent write-ups on Vable’s aggregation and core building blocks.
But what truly makes clients stick with Vable over the long term isn’t just the core functionality - many users discover that certain ‘quiet’ features create the biggest wins.
Below, we highlight five underrated Vable features which users regularly cite as game-changers once they start using the platform.
Benefit: easily package all updates from a specific source in one go
When stakeholders want complete coverage from a particular resource, information teams need a simple way to include everything that is produced.
Source Topics let administrators automatically funnel all content from a chosen source into a topic, so it can be surfaced to end users via newsletters or MyVable.
This is ideal for tracking things like company news, updates from a regulator or events.
Benefit: refine delivery with confidence
Information teams need a clear picture of how end users interact with the intelligence they receive.
Vable’s Activity Reports give administrators insight into the engagement users have with content, based on article click-throughs over time. The data can be viewed by user, publisher, topic, source, article, access type, or newsletter/alert, with options to filter on data type and time period, and export for further analysis.
This helps administrators understand what resonates, improve future content, and optimize subscriptions based on real usage.
Benefit: optimize internal context and collaboration
In larger teams, multiple administrators often manage the same alerts and need a quick way to share guidance or flag nuances for each other.
Administrator Notes let library teams add private comments for other administrators that won’t appear for end users, so collaborators stay aligned without anything showing up in email deliveries. It’s a simple way to support handovers, teamwork, and consistent alert quality at scale.
Benefit: keep your information streams reliable
Once a source is added to Vable, it’s continuously monitored and assigned a health status so administrators can instantly see whether coverage is running smoothly.
Sources show as New (just added, not yet crawled), Healthy (accessible and producing content as expected), Error (temporarily inaccessible or technical issue), or Content Error (accessible but no articles detected on the last visit).
When something slips into Error or Content Error, Vable’s Client Success team proactively steps in to fix issues and clarify source behavior, keeping your service consistent and uninterrupted. It's this accessible, reliable and proactive layer of support built into the platform that makes clients stay - and see Vable not just as a tool, but as a strategic partner in their information service.
Benefit: catch up anytime, anywhere
End users often find valuable content while busy and don’t want to lose it in the flow of daily updates.
Read Later gives them a simple way to bookmark articles in MyVable and come back to them when they have time, including on the go from their phone. It supports more flexible, user-friendly consumption of tailored intelligence.
In a world where information volume keeps rising but attention doesn’t, the teams that win are the ones who can streamline how insight is gathered, shaped, and shared. Vable helps you do exactly that - reducing manual busywork, tightening workflows, and making sure the right people stay informed without being overwhelmed.
And while the core building blocks lay the foundation, it’s the broader ecosystem of features that turns Vable into a platform clients truly rely on day to day. Add to that proactive, deeply engaged support, and you’re never left figuring things out alone: our team works alongside you to refine setups, unlock new use cases, and keep your service evolving.
The result is a system that doesn’t just centralize content, but continuously helps you deliver higher-value intelligence at scale.