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WorldbyFlow for corporate development and M&A directors

A deal record that estimates terms is worse than no record. WorldbyFlow lists transactions with parties, dates and honest status, terms verbatim or marked undisclosed, and reads the sector and the partnerships around them, so your screen rests on what was actually announced.

Written for Sources and screens acquisitions; watches sector consolidation.·Runs in the Finance domain

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Where this fits in your week

Corporate development is a watch on consolidation with a screen running underneath it. Who bought whom, at what stated terms, who is partnering ahead of a deal, which funds are active, and why a peer paid what they paid. The scans here are those five documents, each written to refuse the estimate that makes a deal table look complete when it is not.

Lead scan

Deal Flow

3 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

Transactions in a sector with parties, dates and honest status, terms verbatim or explicitly undisclosed, never estimated. The consolidation watch, kept honest.

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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Sector Research

5 credits

A sector read where every figure names its issuer and what it counts. The market chapter of a screen or a board memo, with the sourcing shown.

Try it on Managed security services · Payments infrastructure · Digital health

Partnership Map

3 credits

Partnerships listed only where the record names both parties, with an MOU kept distinct from a joint venture and announced kept distinct from shipped. Partnering often precedes a deal.

Try it on Cloud and telecom partnerships · Automaker battery joint ventures · Bank and fintech partnerships

Fund & Institution

2 credits

A dossier on a fund or institution: its stated strategy, its documented activity, its people. Who is on the other side of the table.

Try it on Blackstone · KKR · SoftBank Vision Fund · Berkshire Hathaway

Why They Did It

3 credits

Why a peer or a rival did a deal, read from the record with each explanation graded. The context before you decide whether to answer it.

Try it on Microsoft buying LinkedIn · Kraft Heinz's bid for Unilever · Broadcom buying VMware
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 Deal Flow on the sector you are screening

Check the status column. A read that separates announced, closed and rumored, and marks undisclosed terms as undisclosed, is one you can put in front of a committee.

3 credits
02

Add Partnership Map for the moves before the deals

Who is partnering with whom, with the kind of tie stated. Partnerships are often the year-before picture of the deal table.

3 credits
03

Run Why They Did It on the last deal that surprised you

The stated rationale and the alternatives, graded against the record. The read for the question "should we have seen this coming".

3 credits
04

Pin the sector to your Watchboard

Name the signals that would change your screen and let the watch look for them between updates.

Pinning is free; a check costs 2 credits when you ask for one.
The research bill for this path
3 + 3 + 3 = 9 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 deal read as a PDF for the committee memo, or share it as a page your bankers and counsel can open with the 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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Run Deal Flow 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 Deal Flow →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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