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What WorldbyFlow is
WorldbyFlow is a research tool. You bring a question; it reads current news, public records, and trusted data sources, and hands back a finished, organized report. This short guide covers your first session.
One idea to hold onto
Everything in WorldbyFlow is built around the scan. A scan is one piece of finished research: you choose a format, type your question, and a few minutes later a structured report lands in your workspace. Different formats answer different kinds of questions — a timeline, a side-by-side comparison, a market overview, a risk check — but they all work the same simple way.
Your Workbench
The Workbench is your home screen. Every scan you run is saved there, newest first, so your research builds into a library over time. A brand-new account starts empty — it fills up as you work.
Credits, in one sentence
Running a scan costs a few credits — most cost between 1 and 5 — and you always see the exact price and your remaining balance before anything runs, so there are never surprises.
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Your first scan
The whole loop takes about a minute of your time. Here it is, start to finish.
Step 1 — Pick a format
Open the scan menu and browse the catalog. The Start here group at the top is a good first stop: Event Scan (what is happening and who is affected) and Ask (a direct answer to any question) are the two most natural ways in. Not sure which format fits? Use the Scan Router — describe what you want to know in plain English and it points you to the best match.
Step 2 — Type your subject
Every scan starts with a subject: the company, story, market, person, or question you care about. A focus field underneath lets you narrow it — which region, which time period, which angle. Most scans also accept a pasted link to an article and will start from it.
Step 3 — Confirm and go
Before anything runs you see a confirmation with the exact credit price, your balance after, and roughly how long it will take. Press Run Scan and you are done — there is nothing to babysit.
You can walk away
Scans finish on their own. Close the tab, switch to another task, put your phone away — the finished report will be waiting in your Workbench, marked unread. If a scan ever fails, your credits come straight back automatically.
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Reading your first result
A finished scan is not a wall of text. It is organized so you can get the point in two minutes or go deep for twenty.
Titled sections
Every report is broken into short, titled sections, each covering one part of the question. Skim the titles first — they are written to give you the shape of the answer on their own.
The Sources button
Every report carries a Sources button showing exactly what was read to produce it — the news articles, records, and data it drew on, each one a real link you can open and check yourself.
The Facts list and its grades
Alongside the sources you will find a list of the report’s individual facts, each marked with how well it is supported — from confirmed against a named outside source, down to unverified. When sources genuinely disagree about something, the fact is marked as contested and both sides are kept. This is the heart of the product: you never have to take a claim on faith.
Suggested next steps
At the end of a report you will usually find suggested follow-up scans — natural next questions the research surfaced, each one tap away. It is the easiest way to go from a first look to a real investigation.
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Five habits that get better research
The tool does the reading, but what you type still steers it. These five habits make the biggest difference.
1 · Be specific about the subject
A precise subject beats a broad one. "Rivian’s delivery numbers this year" will come back sharper than "electric cars". If your question is genuinely broad, run a broad scan first and use its follow-up suggestions to narrow.
2 · Use the focus field to aim
The focus field is where you say which part matters to you — a region, a time period, a market, an audience. Two people can run the same subject and get research aimed at completely different decisions because of what they put here.
3 · Start small, then go deep
Begin with the lighter formats — an Event Scan or an Ask costs a couple of credits and tells you whether a subject deserves more. Save the deeper, pricier formats for the questions that earn them.
4 · Follow up instead of starting over
When a report raises a new question, do not run a fresh scan from scratch. Every finished scan has follow-up actions — you can ask it a direct question, re-check it later for what changed, or have it argued against. Follow-ups are cheaper and they keep the thread of your research connected.
5 · Let the tool pick the format
With more than 130 formats, nobody memorizes the catalog. Describe what you want to know to the Scan Router and it picks the right one. For a bigger goal, the Scan Planner designs a short sequence of scans that build on each other, and you run them one tap at a time.
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Credits and plans, in plain words
One currency, no meters running in the background. You spend credits only when you run something, and every price is shown before you commit.
How credits work
Each scan has a fixed price in credits — most cost between 1 and 5, with the deepest research formats costing more. Your plan adds credits to your account every month, and unused credits roll forward while your plan is active, so a quiet month is never wasted.
The plans
Standard is $10 a month for 20 credits. Premium is $25 a month for 60 credits. Pro is $50 a month for 125 credits. Studio is $100 a month for 275 credits. Every plan unlocks every scan format — the plans differ in how much research you can run, not in which kinds.
Credit packs
You can top up any time with one-off packs: 5 credits for $5, 15 credits for $10, 25 credits for $15, or 100 credits for $50. Pack credits last twelve months and stay yours even if you cancel a subscription.
The free account
A free account has no monthly fee and no monthly credits — it is pay-as-you-go. Buy a credit pack when you need one and every scan format is open to you. A $5 pack covers your first few pieces of research.
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Where to go next
Once the first scan feels natural, three doors are worth opening.
The in-app Guide
The Guide link in the sidebar opens a reference for every part of the app, always a click away while you work.
The Watchboard
Research is rarely one-and-done. The Watchboard is your standing watchlist: pin the signals and open questions that matter from any scan, and check them against fresh coverage whenever you like.
The full instruction guide
When you want the complete tour — every format, every follow-up action, sharing, watching, and organizing — the full WorldbyFlow instruction guide walks through the whole app room by room.