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WorldbyFlow for freelance researchers and analysts

Your clients pay for output per hour and for a trail they can check. WorldbyFlow multiplies the first and builds the second: every read carries its provenance, graded, so the consultancy, the fund or the journalist you hand it to can follow each claim back to its source.

Written for Contract researcher serving consultancies, funds, and journalists.·Runs in the General domain

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Where this fits in your week

Contract research is a different brief every week and the same standard every time. The scans here cover the shapes briefs usually take: an adversarial inquiry on a claim, a dated chronology, a cast list with leverage stated, a structured read on an unresolved case, and a set of attributed quotes from the people who know the subject.

Lead scan

Inquiry

15 credits · deep research · about 3–6 min

A claim re-checked adversarially with a ledger of what held, what is contested and what could not be established. The deep brief, with the honesty a client can audit.

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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Chronology

3 credits

A dated timeline built from the record, each entry sourced, contested dates marked. The spine under a longer piece of work.

Try it on The Theranos collapse · The rise of TikTok · The FTX collapse

Key Players

2 credits

Who holds what leverage on a subject, from documented positions. The cast list a client asks for on day one.

Try it on The gig economy · Podcast advertising · The private space industry

Open Case

4 credits

An unresolved case laid out: what is established, what is disputed, what the competing accounts are and what would settle them. The brief for a subject with no clean answer.

Try it on The Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappearance · The Havana syndrome cases · The Dyatlov Pass incident · The Nord Stream pipeline sabotage

Voices

3 credits

What the people inside a subject have said on the record, attributed and quoted. The interviews you did not have time to conduct.

Try it on Economists on universal basic income · Historians on the fall of Rome · Scientists on the origins of COVID-19
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 Chronology on this week's brief

The dated, sourced spine. Check the contested dates against your own notes; where it flags one you missed, the tool has paid for itself.

3 credits
02

Run Key Players for the cast

Who matters and why, with sources. The page clients read first.

2 credits
03

Run Inquiry when the brief turns on one claim

The adversarial re-check and ledger. Hand the client the "could not be established" list as a finding, not an apology.

15 credits
04

Deliver with the trail intact

Export as a PDF with the provenance ledger, or share as a page the client can open with every source live.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
3 + 2 + 15 = 20 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 PDF with the provenance ledger attached, or as a shared page the client opens 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 Inquiry 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 Inquiry →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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