User handbook

The WorldbyFlow Handbook

The textbook edition — step-by-step instructions, worked example cases, and the working methods behind good research, from your first scan to finished work.

Part I

Foundations

What the tool is, how to set yourself up, and the one idea everything is built on.

01

What WorldbyFlow is, and what it is not

Before the first click, it is worth being precise about what kind of tool this is — because it is not a chatbot, and using it like one wastes it.

A research tool, not a conversation
A chat assistant gives you a fluent paragraph and asks you to trust it. WorldbyFlow gives you a finished, structured report: the same named parts every time, the sources it actually read listed at the end, and every individual fact marked with how well it is supported. The difference matters the moment your work gets checked — by a client, a colleague, a class, or your own future self.
What "structured" buys you
Because every report of a given kind has the same shape, you can compare two of them, come back to one months later and still find your way around, and hand one to someone who has never seen the app. Structure is also what makes the honesty checkable: a claim with no source stands out, because the report has a place where its source is supposed to be.
Where the information comes from
Every scan reads current news coverage and, where the subject calls for it, public records and official data — company filings, government statistics, court records, scientific publishing. It reads at run time, so the research reflects what is known today, not what was known when the software was built.
Tip
A useful habit from day one: when a report surprises you, open its Sources panel and read one of the links. You will trust the tool faster — and more accurately — by checking it early than by wondering about it.
02

Setting up

Five minutes of setup, once. Everything here can be changed later.

Creating your account
1
Sign up
Create a free account with your email. There is no card required and nothing to configure — you land directly on your Workbench.
2
Choose how you want to pay
You can subscribe to a monthly plan, or stay free and buy small credit packs as you go. If you are not sure, start with a $5 pack — it covers your first few pieces of research and commits you to nothing.
3
Pick your research area
The app opens in General, the catch-all area that suits most questions. Eleven specialist areas — Policy, Defense, Finance, Tech, Energy, Health, Climate, Sports, Learn, Travel, and Lifestyle — speak their field’s language and read its trusted sources. Switch any time from the area switcher; your work in each area is kept separately.
4
Teachers: switch on Educator Mode
In settings, Educator Mode adds a Create Lesson Plan action to every scan you run. If you teach, turn it on now — chapter 13 is written for you.
Choosing a plan
Every plan unlocks every scan format — plans differ only in monthly credits and in how many projects and portfolios you can keep. Standard suits an occasional deep-dive; Premium suits steady weekly research; Pro gives you enough monthly credits to produce a full Studio report or book; Studio is for producing at volume. Chapter 15 covers the numbers and the rules in full.
Tip
On a phone, WorldbyFlow installs like an app: open the site in your browser and add it to your home screen. The bottom bar puts the Advisor, Watchboard, scan menu, Workbench, and Studio one thumb away.
03

The scan: the one idea to master

Everything in WorldbyFlow — every screen, every price, every export — is built around one unit of work. Understand the scan and the rest of the app explains itself.

One scan, one finished piece of research
A scan is a single run of research in a chosen format. The format decides the shape of what comes back: a Chronology returns a dated account of how a situation developed; a Compare returns a side-by-side reading of two things; a Risk scan returns what could go wrong and how likely. More than 130 formats share one loop: pick, type, confirm, and read what comes back.
Subject and focus: the two inputs
Nearly every scan asks for two things. The subject is what you want researched — a company, a story, a market, a person, a question. The focus is which part of it matters to you — a region, a time period, an audience, an angle. The subject decides what gets read; the focus decides what the reading is for. Chapter 6 turns this into a craft.
Credits: the one currency
Each format has a fixed credit price, most between 1 and 5, shown before anything runs. There are no meters, no per-word charges, and no surprises: the confirmation screen shows the exact price and your balance after, every time. A failed scan refunds itself automatically.
Scans finish without you
A scan takes a few minutes and runs on its own. Close the tab, put your phone away, run several at once — up to five can run at the same time, and each lands in your Workbench marked unread when it is done. Research fits into the gaps of a working day instead of demanding your attention.
Part II

Running research

The core skill, taught properly: your first scan, choosing formats, and asking better questions.

04

Your first scan, step by step

This chapter walks one real scan from blank screen to finished report. Follow along with your own subject — anything currently in the news works.

The walkthrough
1
Open the scan menu
On a computer, the catalog fills the left sidebar, in named groups with a Start here cluster pinned on top. On a phone, tap the center Scan button. For your first run, choose Event Scan from Start here.
2
Type the subject
Name the event plainly, the way a headline would: the company announcement, the policy decision, the dispute, the launch. You can also paste a link to a news article and the scan will start from it.
3
Add a focus
Say which part matters to you — "impact on small suppliers", "the next 90 days", "how this lands in Europe". Leave it empty for the general read; fill it to aim the research at your decision.
4
Confirm the price and run
The confirmation shows the credit price, your balance after, and a time estimate. Press Run Scan. A progress screen narrates what is being read — and tells you, truthfully, that you are free to leave.
5
Read the result
A few minutes later the report is in your Workbench. Skim the section titles first, then read what earns your attention, then open the Sources panel and see what it read. Part III teaches you to read one like an analyst.
Worked example
A first scan, played out
You run a ten-person landscaping company. A national lawn-care chain has just announced it is acquiring the largest regional player in your state, and you want to know what it means for you before your customers start asking.
1
Run an Event Scan
Subject: the acquisition, named as the news names it. Focus: "what this means for small independent operators in the region".
2
Read for the ripples, not the headline
The report maps who the event actually touches — customers, suppliers, competitors, regulators — which is exactly the part the news coverage skips. The section on affected parties is where your answer lives.
3
Take the suggested follow-up
The report ends with suggested next scans. An Options scan — "what can a small operator do about consolidation" — turns the reading into choices you can act on.
What this shows
Two scans, a few credits, and you walked into the week knowing more about the deal’s local consequences than the coverage itself reported.
05

Choosing the right format

With more than 130 formats, choosing well is a skill — but it is a learnable one, and the app carries two tools that do it for you.

Think in questions, not features
Each catalog group answers a kind of question. What is happening? — Discover. What could happen, and what are my choices? — Explore. How did we get here, and who is involved? — Background. What do people claim, and is it true? — Debate. Show me the record itself — Cases. Go deep on one thing — Analyze. Size the business landscape — Markets. Help me act — Act. Match the question in your head to the group, and the right format is usually one of three or four.
Using the Scan Router
1
Open the Router
It sits above the scan groups in the sidebar — the "find the right scan" row.
2
Describe what you want to know
Plain English, one or two sentences, as if asking a colleague: "I want to know whether this supplement actually works" or "who profits if this bill passes".
3
Review the match and run it
The Router names the format it chose and why, with your subject already filled in. Routing is free on any paid plan, with a starter allowance for free accounts holding credits.
Using the Scan Planner for bigger goals
1
Switch the Router to plan mode
When the goal is bigger than one question — entering a market, vetting a partner, preparing a report — flip from single scan to multi-step plan.
2
State the goal, not the method
"Decide whether to open a second location in the next year" is a goal. The Planner designs an ordered sequence of scans that build on each other, each step with its own purpose stated.
3
Run the steps at your own pace
Each planned step is one tap to run and charges its normal price when you run it — generating the plan itself costs 1 credit. Run a step, read it, and let what you learn shape whether the next step still makes sense.
Tip
When torn between two formats, run the cheaper one first. Its follow-up suggestions will tell you whether the pricier one is still worth it — and half the time it no longer is.
06

Asking better questions

The tool does the reading, but the quality of what comes back tracks the quality of what you type. This chapter is the craft of the two input fields.

Subjects: name one thing
The best subjects name one concrete thing: one company, one event, one market, one claim. "Electric vehicles" is a library; "used electric vehicle prices in the US this year" is a subject. If you catch yourself putting "and" in a subject, you usually have two scans, not one.
Focus: say what the research is for
The focus field is where you state your angle — and it changes everything downstream. "As a parent evaluating this school policy" and "as a teacher implementing it" produce genuinely different research from the same subject. Good focuses name a role, a region, a time window, or a decision.
Weak versus strong, side by side
Weak: subject "housing market", focus empty. Strong: subject "first-time buyer affordability in the Denver metro", focus "the next 12 months — buy now or wait". Weak: subject "that new AI company everyone mentions". Strong: the company’s actual name. The strong versions cost the same credits and return twice the useful material.
Starting from a link
Most scans accept a pasted article link as the subject. This is the fastest way from "someone sent me this" to "here is what it actually means": the scan reads the article, then reads around it — other coverage, the record, the numbers — instead of taking it at its word.
Tip
Re-running a scan with a sharper subject is normal practice, not failure. Analysts draft their questions the way writers draft sentences.
Part III

Reading results like an analyst

The anatomy of a report, the evidence grades that make it trustworthy, and how to stress-test one before you act on it.

07

The anatomy of a report

Every report shares one anatomy. Learn it once and every scan you ever run reads faster.

Read in three passes
First pass, thirty seconds: the title and the section titles — they are written to carry the shape of the answer on their own. Second pass, five minutes: the sections that touch your decision. Third pass, when the stakes are real: the Sources panel and the Facts list, checking how the claims that matter to you are supported.
The sizing badge
Some reports carry a small classification badge sizing the situation: roughly, is this routine, does it mainly need resources, does it need careful analysis before anyone acts, or is it genuinely major. It appears only on formats where that judgment means something — its absence on a background piece is by design.
Open questions are answers too
A section of open questions is not the report failing — it is the report being honest. "Not established" is a finding. Each open question usually carries a suggested follow-up scan that would help close it, which is how a single scan grows into an investigation.
The follow-up suggestions
The suggestions at the end of a report are generated from what the research actually found — loose threads, adjacent questions, named players worth a closer look. They are the cheapest good decision in the app: one tap, subject pre-filled, and the thread of your research stays connected.
08

Evidence grades, one by one

This is the heart of the product. Every discrete fact a report surfaces carries one of these marks, assigned by the software from what was actually retrieved — the writing cannot award itself a passing grade. The full set, in the order of confidence they represent:

verified
Corroborated against an outside source, and that source is linked.
grounded
Came from material the scan actually read, with a named source.
partial
Some support, not enough to call it settled.
contested
Sources disagree, or the record contradicts it.
unverified
Asserted in the material, with nothing behind it.
your input
You supplied it. The scan took it as given.
training
From the model's prior knowledge, not from anything fetched.
from the record
Present in the material with no provenance attached.
gap
Something the analysis could not establish, reported as missing.
How to use the grades
You do not need to memorize the taxonomy. Three working rules cover practice: treat the top grades as load-bearing — safe to build a decision on; treat a contested mark as a genuine dispute — read both sides before repeating either; and treat an unverified mark as a lead, not a fact — useful to know, not yet safe to quote.
Where the grades appear
The same marks follow a fact everywhere it goes: the Facts tab beside a report, your account-wide Facts collection, public share pages, and exported documents. A grade means the same thing on every surface, so you only learn the vocabulary once.
Tip
When you disagree with a report, disagree with a specific fact and its grade — that is what the Facts list is for. "This feels wrong" becomes "this one claim is single-source and I can check it", which is a question you can actually settle.
09

Stress-testing a result before you act on it

When a report is about to carry real weight — money, a recommendation, a grade, a public claim — the app gives you three escalating ways to lean on it first.

The escalation ladder
1
Ask it your hard question — 1 credit
Ask about this scan puts one direct question to the finished research: "what is the single weakest assumption here". A pointed question often settles the matter for a credit.
2
Have it argued against — 1 credit
Red Team Review builds the strongest case that the report’s reading is wrong and names where it leans hardest on thin evidence. If the red team case is weak, your confidence is earned.
3
Audit the facts — 3 credits
Deep Source Check re-searches the report’s facts one by one against fresh, independent coverage and shows each verdict. This is the full audit — the right spend when the decision is real.
Worked example
Vetting research before a client sees it
A consultant has built a recommendation on an Entity scan of a potential acquisition target. The deck goes to the client Thursday. Wrong facts in that deck cost more than credits.
1
Red Team the core read
The review surfaces one real vulnerability: the growth story rests heavily on the company’s own statements.
2
Run the Deep Source Check
The audit confirms most facts, downgrades two, and flags one as contested between the trade press and the company. Those three claims get rewritten or cut from the deck.
3
Keep the audit trail
The consultant exports the report as a PDF with its sources — if the client asks "how do you know this", the answer is a page, not a shrug.
What this shows
Five credits of stress-testing turned "we believe" into "we checked" — and the two claims that failed the check were exactly the ones the client would have questioned.
Checking a single fact, any time
Outside any one report, every fact in your account-wide Facts collection carries a Check this fact action — 1 credit for the same adversarial re-search, one claim at a time. When a new scan contradicts something already in your record, the app flags the conflict for you rather than silently overwriting either side.
Part IV

Working methods

Whole jobs, worked end to end: following a story, sizing a market, investigating deeply, teaching, and producing finished work.

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Following a developing story

Some questions are not answered once — they move. The method here is to research once, then watch cheaply.

The method
1
Establish the baseline
Run an Event Scan when the story breaks. This is your dated, sourced record of what was known at the start — worth more later than you expect.
2
Pin the signals
The report offers signals to watch — the tripwires that would mean the story is turning. Pin the ones that matter to your Watchboard.
3
Check the board, not the news
When you want an update, run Check signals on the Watchboard — 2 credits sweeps every pinned signal against fresh coverage and reports what moved. Subscribers can put this on a schedule as a standing order.
4
Re-check when it matters
At a real decision point, run Re-check on the original scan — 2 credits for a focused "what changed since" against your baseline.
Worked example
A regulation moving through the system
A compliance manager learns a proposed rule could hit her industry next year. It will take months to resolve, and she cannot read trade press every morning.
1
Baseline with two scans
An Event Scan on the proposal, then Positions — who supports and opposes it, and why. Together they map the terrain and the players.
2
Watch the calendar and the tripwires
A Catalyst Calendar scan surfaces the dated moments ahead — comment deadlines, hearings, votes. She pins those plus the report’s signals to her Watchboard.
3
Check monthly, brief quarterly
A monthly signal check keeps her current for 2 credits. Before each quarterly leadership meeting, a Re-check on the baseline gives her the "what changed" slide in one run.
What this shows
Total spend: a handful of credits a month for genuine coverage of a slow-moving, high-stakes story — without the morning reading habit.
11

Researching a business decision

The Markets group exists for one job: replacing "I think there’s a market for this" with a sourced read you can defend. The method is a funnel — broad, then narrow, then priced.

The funnel
1
Size the arena
Market Research is the premier read — 5 credits for the full market: size, structure, where value is moving, every sizing claim graded with its issuer named.
2
Understand the buyer
Buyer Research answers who actually buys, what problem they are solving, and what they pay — the chapter of the business plan people usually make up.
3
Check the ground truth
Pricing Read for what things actually cost, posted and sourced; Regulatory Map if the activity is rule-bound. These are the scans that keep a plan honest.
4
Score your options
When you hold real alternatives, Options Appraisal scores your own shortlist on your own criteria — the decision meeting, prepared in one run.
Worked example
Opening a second location
The owner of a successful physical-therapy clinic is weighing a second location in one of two nearby towns. Real money, one decision, no analyst on staff.
1
One market read, aimed
Market Research with the focus "outpatient physical therapy demand across these two towns" — the report grades what is actually known about local demand rather than repeating national averages.
2
Buyers and payers
Buyer Research focused on who pays for therapy locally — insurers, employers, self-pay — because the payer mix decides the business more than foot traffic does.
3
The head-to-head
A Compare of the two towns on the dimensions that emerged, then an Options Appraisal scoring the two locations — plus "open neither yet" — on her own criteria: payer mix, competition, lease costs, staffing.
What this shows
Four scans and the owner walks into her bank meeting with a graded, sourced case — including the honest finding that one town’s apparent demand rested on a single source.
Tip
Keep a Portfolio of the competitors and players you meet along the way — every future scan on any of them is then one tap from the list.
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Investigating in depth

Some questions deserve weeks, not minutes. The app has three instruments for sustained investigation, and they compose.

Inquiry: the deep single run
Inquiry is the flagship — 15 credits for open-ended deep research where the run plans its own angles and every material claim is adversarially re-checked before it is allowed to stand. Reach for it when the question is genuinely open and being wrong is expensive.
Challenges: the standing investigation
A Challenge is an investigation with an objective that you grow one scan at a time. Create one for the question, then fold scans in from any report’s follow-up menu as you go. Weeks later, the Challenge is the organized case file — not a pile of tabs.
Your Facts collection: the memory
Every graded fact your scans establish accumulates in the Facts tab of your Workbench — corroborations recognized, conflicts flagged, the record searchable across everything you have run. Long investigations compound: your tenth scan on a subject knows what your first nine established.
Synthesis: the write-up
When the pieces are on the table, Synthesis — 4 credits — combines several chosen scans into one integrated view. It is the "so what does it all mean" step, and the natural final scan of an investigation.
Worked example
An open question, worked for a month
A journalist is examining whether a much-hyped local development project will actually deliver its promised jobs. The claim is everywhere; the evidence is not.
1
Open a Challenge and baseline the record
A Chronology of the project’s promises and revisions, and Follow the Money on who funds it and who profits — both folded into the Challenge.
2
Test the central claim
Track Record on the developer: past projections against what actually happened. The pattern — systematic overpromise — becomes the story’s spine.
3
Go deep once
One Inquiry on the jobs claim itself, letting the verified-claims discipline do the heavy lifting. Then Synthesis pulls the month into a single integrated read for the editor.
What this shows
The Challenge holds the whole case file; every claim in the final piece carries a grade and a source. When the developer’s lawyer calls, that is what answers.
13

Teaching with WorldbyFlow

Educators are first-class users, not an afterthought. The same graded research that serves an analyst turns into classroom material in one step.

From today’s news to tomorrow’s lesson
1
Turn on Educator Mode
Offered at signup and always available in settings. It adds a Create Lesson Plan action to every scan you run.
2
Research the topic as yourself
Run whatever scan fits — an Event Scan on this week’s news, a How It Works on a process, The Arguments on a live controversy. Use the focus field for the class: "for a 10th-grade civics unit".
3
Create the lesson plan — 3 credits
The lesson is built from the scan’s own sourced material: objectives, discussion questions, activities, materials. Because the research carries evidence grades, "how do we know this" is itself teachable.
Formats that teach well
The Arguments steelmans both sides of a controversy — ready-made for debate prep. Myths & Misconceptions corrects common beliefs with evidence. Chronology turns a complicated story into a dated narrative. The Learn area adds its own library of concept explainers on top.
Tip
The evidence grades are a media-literacy curriculum hiding in plain sight: hand students the Facts list and ask which claims they would trust, and why. The vocabulary — sourced, single-source, contested, unverified — is the lesson.
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From research to finished work

Research usually serves a deliverable — a memo, a post, a briefing, a book. Everything you produce here exports with its sourcing intact.

The everyday exports
Every scan’s export menu covers the daily needs: a clean PDF, Copy as Markdown for pasting into email and documents, citation files for reference managers, a read-only public link, and sharing to another account with a discussion thread attached.
Listening and watching
Read renders the report as a flowing narrative, free on any plan. Listen — 1 credit — is the spoken walkthrough for the commute. Episode — 5 credits — is the two-voice podcast-style deep-dive. Summary Deck — 2 credits — turns the key points into a social-ready slide carousel, caption included.
Building something book-length in the Studio
1
Set the objective
Open the Studio and state what the finished thing is for: a client report, a briefing book, a field study, a full book. Pick the format that matches.
2
Approve the plan and the price
The Studio designs the research plan and quotes one flat credit total before anything runs — the whole build, priced up front.
3
Let it build, then make it yours
The Studio runs the research and writes the draft. You review and revise until it reads like you. Finished books share as a web reader or export for print and publishing.
Tip
A Pro plan’s monthly credits are sized to cover one full Studio build a month; Studio-plan credits cover about two. If long-form output is the goal, that is the arithmetic to plan around.
Part V

Reference

The account rules in full, and the complete catalog with live prices.

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Credits, plans, and your account

Everything about the money, in one place. The principle behind all of it: you spend only when you run something, and every price is shown before you commit.

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; plans differ in monthly credits and in how many projects and portfolios you can keep.
Credit packs and the free account
Packs top up any account: 5 credits for $5, 15 credits for $10, 25 credits for $15, 100 credits for $50. A free account is pay-as-you-go — no monthly fee, and every scan format available whenever you hold pack credits. A couple of subscriber extras, the free Read narrative and the Visual card, remain part of the paid plans.
How credits behave over time
Unused subscription credits roll forward while your plan is active, up to twelve months per batch, and your oldest credits are always spent first. Pack credits last twelve months and survive cancellation; banked subscription credits end when a plan does. Any scan that fails refunds itself.
Housekeeping that pays off
Group client or course work into Research Projects; keep tracked companies and people in Portfolios; archive finished work — it stays searchable. Plan changes prorate fairly, and billing runs through a secure self-service portal.
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Appendix: the complete catalog

Every format in the General research area with its live credit price, group by group. The specialist areas carry their own selections, sometimes under names that fit their field. A few formats offer a deeper edition at a higher price, offered where it applies.

Start here
Event Scan2 cr
What's happening and who's affected
Ask2 cr
Get a direct answer to any question
Open Case4 cr
What the record establishes, and what rules each theory out
Entity3 cr
Deep profile of a company or actor
Profile2 cr
Strengths, pros/cons, or roads/barriers for one entity
News Search1 cr
Find and analyze recent coverage
Water Cooler2 cr
Informal takes and counter-narratives
Explore
Innovate3 cr
Grounded ideas for a problem
Scenario3 cr
What happens if this plays out
Uncertainty Map3 cr
What's genuinely unknown — and how to shrink it
Options2 cr
What can be done about it
Compare2 cr
Side-by-side analysis of two things
Landscape2 cr
Map the full competitive environment
Precedents2 cr
Find historical precedents for this situation
Background
Chronology3 cr
How the situation developed over time
Follow the Money2 cr
Who pays, who profits, through what channels
Funding Map3 cr
Who funds this field — programs and awards
Case File3 cr
Lawsuits and rulings — what's actually decided
Budget Anatomy3 cr
A budget line by line — enacted vs proposed
Key Players2 cr
The actors who matter, at a glance
Who's On It3 cr
Who is actually on it, and who decides
How It Works2 cr
How a system or process actually works
Trend Trajectory3 cr
Where a named trend sits on its arc, and where it heads
Early Signals3 cr
Pre-mainstream signals at the edge of a space
Innovation Check3 cr
What an innovation has DEMONSTRATED vs what is claimed
Research Pulse2 cr
What the research layer has actually produced lately
By the Numbers2 cr
The key figures, sourced and dated
Why It Changed3 cr
Why a published number actually moved
Debate
Positions2 cr
Who supports or opposes it, and why
The Arguments2 cr
The case for and against, steelmanned
Myths & Misconceptions2 cr
Common misconceptions, corrected with evidence
Consensus Check2 cr
What consensus expects — and where it's fragile
Poll Check3 cr
What polls show — pollster named, spread kept
Cases
Scene3 cr
Reconstruct one pivotal moment, in the room
Voices3 cr
Real quotes, exactly sourced
Primary Documents3 cr
The record verbatim — filings, rulings, contracts
Case Study2 cr
One real example, worked as a case
Playbook2 cr
The actionable steps, from analysis
Decision Review2 cr
Was the call right, given what was knowable?
Analyze
Person2 cr
Profile a specific individual
Relations2 cr
How entities connect around an event
Relationship2 cr
How two entities relate to each other
Idea Stress-Test3 cr
Your idea vs the record — assumptions graded
Falsification Plan3 cr
The cheapest tests that could kill the hypothesis
Convergence2 cr
Where two forces actually meet, evidenced
Track Record2 cr
Past claims and forecasts vs. what happened
Why They Did It3 cr
Why an actor really made that move
Method Study4 cr
How a named method works in real practice
Options Appraisal4 cr
Your shortlist, scored on your own criteria
Fact Grid4 cr
Your subjects × fields, filled with receipts
Read Grid5 cr
How each player is actually positioned
Document Breakdown5 cr
Decode a document you have, claims checked
Synthesis4 cr
Combine multiple scans into one view
Markets
Market Research5 cr
Size and read any market the record supports
Buyer Research4 cr
Who buys, what they solve for, what they pay
Supply Chain3 cr
What feeds it — mapped, sourced, visibility-tagged
Logistics Read3 cr
How it moves — legs, nodes, and what binds them
Operator Dossier2 cr
Who actually carries, holds, or handles it
Regulatory Map3 cr
Every rule around an activity, status-honest
Deal Flow3 cr
The arena's deal record — parties, terms, patterns
Pricing Read3 cr
What things actually cost — posted and sourced
Partnership Map3 cr
Who is aligned with whom — documented ties only
Act
What You Need2 cr
What you need to hit an objective
Vulnerability Assessment3 cr
Where a competitor is exposed
Risk3 cr
What could go wrong and how likely
Plan4 cr
Action steps with timelines and owners
Opportunity Brief3 cr
One solicitation's documented file, end to end
Sentinel2 cr
Tripwires and signals to watch for
Catalyst Calendar2 cr
The dated events ahead that could move this
Briefing1 cr
Executive summary for decision-makers
Investigate
Inquiry15 cr
Deep research with every claim verified
Tools
Thinking3 cr per framework
Structured frameworks like SWOT, PESTLE
More to read
The two-minute overview →What WorldbyFlow is and what it does, in plain words.Getting Started →Your first scan, reading your first result, and the habits that get better research.The User Guide →The complete tour — every screen, the full catalog with live prices, every format.In Practice →Ten practitioners, ten industries, ten working patterns — with every research bill priced live.For Educators →Today’s news as Monday’s lesson — classroom patterns, media literacy from the evidence grades, and course building.