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WorldbyFlow for boutique strategy consultancy founders

A twenty-person firm competes with a two-thousand-person one on the quality of the document. WorldbyFlow produces the research half of that document, sourced and graded, and its Studio assembles several reads into a client-grade report with a verification pass and a sources appendix.

Written for Runs a 2–20 person strategy or research firm.·Runs in the General domain

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Where this fits in your week

Running a small strategy firm means the founder is also the research department. The scans here are the ones that show up in most engagements: a market read with an honest sizing ledger, an adversarial inquiry on the client's central question, a landscape of the competitive set, the tests that would prove the recommendation wrong, and a graded read on why a rival did what it did.

Lead scan

Market Research

5 credits · deep dive · about 3–6 min

A sizing read with every figure's issuer named and the spread shown. The market chapter of a client report, built to survive the client's own analyst.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
4 more scans that fit this role

Inquiry

15 credits

The client's central question re-checked claim by claim, adversarially, with a ledger of what held, what is contested and what could not be established. The engagement's spine.

Try it on Are four-day work weeks working · Does remote work reduce productivity · Do corporate sustainability pledges get met

Landscape

2 credits

Every named player in the client's market placed with position and leverage. The competitive chapter in one run.

Try it on Management consulting · Executive search · Corporate learning platforms

Falsification Plan

3 credits

The tests that would prove the recommendation wrong, named before the client acts on it. The page that distinguishes advice from a pitch.

Try it on Vertical integration raises margins · Loyalty programmes raise retention · Culture predicts merger success

Why They Did It

3 credits

Why a competitor or a peer of the client made its move, with candidate explanations graded against the record.

Try it on Disney buying 21st Century Fox · Amazon buying Whole Foods · Microsoft buying LinkedIn
A working path

From a first run to a result you can hand over

The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.

01

Open with Landscape on the client's market

The competitive set placed with sources. The first chapter, on the first day.

2 credits
02

Run Market Research for the sizing chapter

The ledger with issuers and spread. It is the chapter clients check hardest, and it now checks itself.

5 credits
03

Run Inquiry on the engagement's central question

The adversarial re-check. The "could not be established" list is the section that earns the follow-on engagement.

15 credits
04

Assemble the report

Export each read as a PDF, or let the Studio assemble them into one client report with a verification pass and a sources appendix.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
2 + 5 + 15 = 22 credits · a Standard plan carries 20 a month
What comes back

A result whose claims carry their grades

Sourced, not asserted

Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question

Ready to hand over

Deliver as a Studio report with a sources appendix, or as shared pages the client team can open without an account.

Built to be argued with

Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →

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Research already published in this shape

How AI-Attributed vs Total Corporate Layoffs Are Measured

Read the research →

The AI-attributed layoff figure is a measure of what companies choose to disclose, not an independently audited count of jobs automation replaced, because Challenger's reason field depends entirely on employer language with no external verification step.

How It Works · August 4, 2026 · from the General library
Try it

Run Market Research on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. If a colleague sent you here with an invitation, the credits land on your account when you sign up.

Start with Market Research →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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