Saturday, May 30, 2026

Your information workbench.

Bring a headline, an entity, or a question. The analytical scans run through the FLOW Framework — a Scale × Complexity classification, grounded against live data sources — on a bench that holds your prior work and informs what you run next.

Twelve domains. One framework. The bench gives shape to whatever you're trying to understand — defense, finance, climate, technology, the topic you're teaching.

On your bench this morning · Sample
DEFENSENATO exercises trigger Baltic shipping reroutes
ECONOMICFed signals pivot as inflation undershoots forecast
TECHNOLOGYEU AI Act enforcement begins — first compliance deadlines hit
Who it's for
Analysts
Scenarios, risks, and entity profiles on the situations you track
Researchers
Entity profiles and relations across any field you work in
Educators
Turn any event into a lesson plan with cited intersections
Students
Break down any topic for papers, debates, and research
Public-sector workers
Policy chains, stakeholder maps, and risk scans for the work
Nonprofit leaders
Landscape and options scans for funding, partners, and programs
Founders
Competitive landscape, risks, and action plans for your company
Managers
Action plans, risk scans, and briefings for the decisions on your plate
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Twelve domains.
One bench.

Every tool on the bench, tuned per domain — with domain-specific sources layered in where it matters. A small sample feed on the free tier so you can see the output shape before you run your own.

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Home
World news
Daily feed
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Policy
Government
Scans + domain data
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Defense
Security
Scans + domain data
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Finance
Markets
Scans + domain data
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Technology
Innovation
Scans + domain data
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Energy
Resources
Scans + domain data
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Health
Science & Medicine
Scans + domain data
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Climate
Environment
Scans + domain data
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Sports
Games & Trades
Daily feed
📚
Learning
Discovery
Daily concepts
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Travel
Destinations
Daily feed
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Lifestyle
Culture
Daily feed

Sample feed free on every bench. No credit card.

The tools on the bench.
Pick what the situation needs.

Grouped by what you're trying to do. Observe what's happening, explore what could happen next, analyze who's involved, decide what to do about it. Every tool works on any topic you bring.

Discover
What's happening right now
Event Scan— Mapping affected parties
"Maps the key entities affected — not just the ones in the headline"
News Search— Research any topic
"Pull any thread, any time"
Water Cooler— Reading the room
"What analysts, practitioners, and observers are actually saying"
Explore
What happens next
Scenario— Forward projection
"3 scenarios with probabilities — the full space of what could unfold"
Chain of Events— Cause-and-effect tracer
"Traces dominoes forward — what happens after what happens"
Options— Decision framing
"Your actual choices — with tradeoffs, timelines, and risks"
Analyze
Deep profiles and connection maps
Entity Scan— Full entity profile
"Every intersection mapped — who they affect, how, and what to watch"
Landscape— Competitive mapping
"Maps the entire competitive field, not just the headline player"
Relations— Connection graph
"Who's connected to whom — the map no single source carries"
Act
What to do about it
Risk Scan— Failure-mode mapping
"Where things break — before they break"
Action Plan— Execution sequencing
"Phased steps, owners, timing, decision gates — ready to run"
Sentinel— Early-warning tripwires
"Tells you exactly what to watch for — the specific signals that matter"
Briefing— Executive summary
"A decision-ready summary for the people you report to"

A wide range of tools for every topic you bring to the bench.

How the bench works.
Three moves.

A chat box gives you one answer and forgets the conversation. A news feed dumps headlines with no place to work on them. The bench does neither.

01 · Bring it in
Paste a headline, an entity, or a question.
A URL, a company name, a topic you're trying to make sense of — or pick from the sample material already on your bench each morning.
02 · Work on it
Pick the tool the situation needs.
Map who's affected. Model what happens next. Surface the risks. Profile the key player. Every tool produces structured, cited output — not a paragraph you have to re-read.
03 · It builds up
Scans, projects, tracked entities stay put.
Group related work into Research Projects. Pin the ones you care about. Come back in a week or a month and the prior analysis is right where you left it — and quietly informs what you run next.

The depth dial is yours. A quick scan when you just need a read. A full cascade — scenario, risk, landscape, plan — when the situation deserves it.

The bench gets sharper
with use.

A chat box starts from zero every time. Your bench doesn't. Work you did last week quietly informs the scan you run today — the entities you've profiled, the findings that held up, the sources that proved reliable.

Day 1·Event Scan
"TSMC announces Arizona fab delay"
Your first scan on this topic works from what's in the news today. 9 intersections mapped. Saved to your bench.
Day 3·Landscape
"Global semiconductor foundry competitors"
You come back with a related question. The bench already has TSMC's intersections — it pulls the relevant ones into context so this scan sharpens around the competitors TSMC is worried about, not a generic industry map.
◉Informed by 1 prior scan on this entity
Day 7·Scenario
"What if US tariffs on Taiwan chip imports rise?"
A week in, your bench has TSMC, the foundry landscape, and the supply-chain work you did yesterday. The scenario model weighs those against the new input — so the triggers and probabilities reflect what you've already established, not just today's headlines.
◉Informed by 4 prior scans on connected entities

Analysts call this "prior intelligence." On your bench, it just happens — quietly, in the background, every time you start a new scan on something you've touched before.

Every analysis
can become a lesson.

WorldbyFlow's Learning domain turns structured analysis into structured teaching. Any headline, any topic, any scan — educators can generate lesson plans calibrated to grade level, session count, and cross-disciplinary connections.

How it works
From any analysis to a structured lesson plan
1.Start with any topic — a concept, a historical event, a current development
2.Set your grade level and number of sessions — saved as defaults for next time
3.Get a structured lesson plan with objectives, activities, discussion questions, and cross-disciplinary connections
Example
Morning feed headline becomes a lesson
Headline
"EU proposes emergency tariffs on Chinese EVs"
Lesson plan generates
·Trade policy fundamentals — how tariffs work and who pays
·Supply chain geography — mapping the EV battery pipeline
·Geopolitical competition — industrial policy as strategy
·Environmental economics — green transition vs trade barriers

The Learning domain also includes a Concept Library — a searchable archive of pre-analyzed topics across science, history, mathematics, philosophy, and technology.

One headline.
A full cascade on the bench.

A raw feed gives you a title. The bench maps who's affected, models what happens next, surfaces the risks you haven't considered, and classifies how much of your attention the situation actually deserves.

Headline
EU proposes emergency tariffs on Chinese EVs
DISCOVER→Event Scan
12 intersections — automakers, suppliers, trade lawyers, port operators, rare earth miners. Each classified A through D.
EXPLORE→Scenario
Escalation (45%), Negotiated compromise (35%), Symbolic-only (20%). Trigger conditions for each.
EXPLORE→Chain of Events
7 cause-and-effect links traced forward through supply chain, trade relations, and domestic politics.
ANALYZE→Landscape
Full competitive map: BYD, CATL, European OEMs, battery startups, charging networks.
ACT→Sentinel
What to watch: BMW earnings language, CATL export filings, Stellantis factory utilization, EU Council voting signals.
Zoom into one intersection
Each scan above maps to 8–15 intersections like this.
Proximity: Direct
FLOW D
European Automakers
BMW, Volkswagen, and Stellantis face immediate margin pressure as tariff costs hit their Chinese-manufactured EV supply chains. Restructuring timelines of 18-24 months conflict with Q3 earnings guidance.
01Accelerate domestic battery sourcing
02Lobby for graduated implementation
03Shift production to non-EU markets
Key Question
Can European OEMs absorb tariff costs without passing them to consumers before the 2027 EV mandate?
Watch Signals
Factory utilization rates below 70% · Supplier contract renegotiation filings · Earnings call language shifts

This level of depth is available on any topic you bring to the bench — an event, a company, a concept, a question. Paid users can run it anytime.

Not everything deserves the same attention.

On the analysis-heavy scans — events, entities, scenarios, risks, plans — every finding is classified the same way, every time: by organizational scale and decision complexity. FLOW A means delegate. FLOW D means mobilize. The routine filing and the supply-chain crisis stop reading as the same thing.

LevelScaleComplexity
FLOW ALowLow
FLOW BModerateLow
FLOW CLow–ModerateHigh
FLOW DLargeAny
FLOW SExtraordinaryExtraordinary

Scale = organizational weight (dollars, authority, stakeholders). Complexity = difficulty of correct decision and action. Same vocabulary across every domain — so a FLOW D in finance means the same thing as a FLOW D in policy.

Common questions.

How is a workbench different from a chat box?+
A chat box gives you a paragraph you have to re-read to decode, and it forgets the conversation. The bench gives you structured output — named fields, classified weight, listed options, specific watch signals — and it holds onto your work. Prior scans quietly inform new ones, so the second time you look at a topic the analysis is sharper than the first. And each tool on the bench applies a specific method (Event Scan, Scenario, Risk, Landscape, etc.) rather than whatever the model felt like producing that day.
Does this work if I'm not an analyst?+
Yes — it's built for anyone who has to make sense of a complex situation. Educators turn scans into lesson plans. Nonprofit leaders use them to brief boards. Public-sector workers use them to frame policy memos. Founders use them to read a market move. Students use them to break down a topic for a paper. The bench doesn't assume you have an analyst background — the tools produce structured output with plain-language labels you can hand to a board, a class, or a teammate without translation.
How is this different from a news aggregator or a research database?+
Aggregators deliver content — articles, tickers, reports. The bench delivers structure over content. Headlines come in pre-classified by scale and complexity, broken into who's affected and how, and connected to scenarios, risks, options, and decisions. An aggregator tells you what happened; the bench tells you who it affects, how much to weight it, what comes next, and what to do. And whatever you analyze stays on the bench — you don't lose the thread between sessions.
Where does the data come from?+
Scans ground against live Brave Search (news + web + discussion threads) and domain-specific APIs — SEC EDGAR for finance, FRED for economics, GDELT for defense, NOAA for climate, FDA for health, OFAC for sanctions screening, and more. The grounding constrains what the model can claim, alongside prompt-level disciplines built into every analytical scan: temporal anchoring on quantitative claims, anti-hallucination rules on names and titles, and scholarly-source rules where applicable. The sample daily feed pulls from CNN, AP, Reuters, BBC, NYT, and The Guardian — every selected headline validated character-for-character against the source article before it lands on the bench.
Can I export or share what I get?+
Yes. Every scan can be downloaded as a PDF or shared via a public link. Paid tiers also get audio briefings of their scans and access to a personal podcast feed. Other export formats (Markdown, CSV, calendar) are on the roadmap.
What's this FLOW classification I keep seeing?+
FLOW is the intersection of two dimensions: organizational scale and decision complexity. A = low scale + low complexity (routine). B = moderate scale + low complexity (assign and resource). C = high complexity at smaller scale (analyze before acting). D = large scale (senior attention required; scale alone drives it). S = extraordinary on both (max one or two per analysis). The bench applies it on the analysis-heavy scans — events, entities, scenarios, risks, plans — where the weighting actually changes what you should do. It's the same vocabulary across every domain, so a FLOW D in finance reads the same as a FLOW D in policy.

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Free lets you browse the sample material and see what the tools produce. Paid tiers turn the tools loose on whatever you bring.

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