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WorldbyFlow for city and state policy managers

Some other city has already tried the thing you are designing. WorldbyFlow works that precedent end to end, setup, what happened, the turning point, the outcome and the lessons, so your program starts from a real case rather than a slide about one.

Written for Works policy or programme design for a municipal or state government.·Runs in the Policy domain

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Where this fits in your week

Policy design in a city or state is applied precedent under a budget. The scans here are built for that: a case worked end to end, a playbook for an objective with the steps and the trade-offs, the numbers on the problem with their sources, a read on the issue itself, and a map of who is responding when something happens in your jurisdiction.

Lead scan

Case Study

2 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

One real precedent worked end to end: setup, what happened, the turning point, the outcome, and what it is taken to show. The case behind the proposal.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
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Playbook

2 credits

An objective worked into a sequence of steps, with what each requires and where it has failed elsewhere. The program plan, with its precedents attached.

Try it on Cut pedestrian deaths in a mid-size city · Reduce chronic homelessness · Speed up housing permits

By the Numbers

2 credits

The figures on a problem, each with its source and interpretation. The numbers slide for the council, with the caveats.

Try it on US homelessness · Municipal broadband · Urban heat islands

Issue / Problem

2 credits

The problem read before the solutions: how it is measured, who it falls on, what is known and disputed about its causes.

Try it on Housing affordability · Homelessness · Transit ridership · Short-term rentals

Who's On It

3 credits

Who is responding to a situation in your jurisdiction and how, mapped as it unfolds. The read for a heat wave, a boil-water notice or a vacancy crisis.

Try it on A downtown office vacancy crisis · A boil-water notice · A heat wave in a large city
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

Run Case Study on the precedent your proposal leans on

Read the turning point and the outcome. If the lessons match what you have heard from the people who ran it, you can build on this.

2 credits
02

Run Playbook on the objective itself

The steps, what each needs, where it has failed. The program plan before the budget request.

2 credits
03

Run By the Numbers for the council

The figures with sources and caveats. The slide that survives a skeptical member.

2 credits
04

Share it with the council and the department

Export as a PDF for the packet, or share as a page staff can open with every figure sourced.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
2 + 2 + 2 = 6 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

Export the case and the plan as PDFs for the council packet, or share them as pages department staff can open with sources live.

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

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Run Case Study 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 Case Study →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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