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WorldbyFlow for geopolitical risk analysts

A risk calendar that guesses its dates is a liability to the client who acts on it. WorldbyFlow documents the basis for each date, scheduled, expected or estimated, and pushes undated items past the horizon instead of inventing a month, so your client note carries its own uncertainty.

Written for Advises corporate or investor clients on political and security risk.·Runs in the Defense domain

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Where this fits in your week

Advising on political and security risk is a running argument about timing and mechanism. The scans here give both a structure: a dated calendar with the basis of each date shown, scenario branches with named assumptions and triggers, a map of where the real uncertainty sits, a graded reading of why a state did what it did, and a map of who is responding to a situation as it unfolds.

Lead scan

Catalyst Calendar

2 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

A dated calendar with each date's basis stated and undated items held past the horizon rather than guessed. The client-facing timeline that carries its own honesty.

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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Scenario

3 credits

Branches with their assumptions named and the triggers that would select each. The scenario note a client can check against events as they happen.

Try it on What if China blockades Taiwan · What if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz · What if the Panama Canal runs dry

Uncertainty Map

3 credits

Where the real uncertainty in a situation sits, separated from what is already settled. It keeps the note on the part that could go either way.

Try it on The Sahel coups · The Red Sea shipping crisis · North Korea

Why They Did It

3 credits

Why a state or a leader acted, with candidate explanations graded against the record rather than asserted. The read under any forecast of what they do next.

Try it on Russia annexing Crimea · Saudi Arabia cutting oil output · Turkey blocking Sweden's NATO bid

Who's On It

3 credits

Who is responding to a situation and how, mapped as it unfolds. The read for a client asking who is on this and what they can do.

Try it on A Taiwan Strait blockade · A Houthi attack on Red Sea shipping · A coup in the Sahel
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 Catalyst Calendar on a theater you cover

Check the basis tags. A calendar that admits which dates are estimates is one you can send to a client under your own name.

2 credits
02

Run Scenario on the contingency your clients ask about most

The assumptions at the top are the ones to argue with. The triggers are the ones to watch.

3 credits
03

Run Why They Did It on the last move that surprised the market

Candidate explanations graded against the record, so the read of what comes next has a stated basis.

3 credits
04

Pin the scenario triggers to your Watchboard

The triggers each branch named become watched signals, so you know which branch is unfolding before the client asks.

Pinning is free; a check costs 2 credits when you ask for one.
The research bill for this path
2 + 3 + 3 = 8 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 note as a PDF under your own letterhead, or share it as a page a client 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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Research already published in this shape

U.S. Munitions Stockpiles, Iran War Costs, and Taiwan Demand Unknowns

Read the research →

The three headline figures the public debate treats as knowable — exact remaining U.S. munitions stocks, total Iran war cost, and Taiwan contingency munitions demand — sit on three different points of the reducibility…

Uncertainty Map · September 3, 2026
Try it

Run Catalyst Calendar 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 Catalyst Calendar →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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