The structure of an investigation is a timeline, a money map and a stack of documents, and building them is where the months go. WorldbyFlow builds the structure from the public record with a source on every entry, and writes none of the story, which stays yours.
Written for Staff or freelance investigative journalist.·Runs in the General domain
Investigative work is slow because the scaffolding is slow: who paid whom and when, what the filings actually say, what happened in what order. The scans here put up the scaffolding: the money trail, the dated chronology, primary documents excerpted verbatim with pinpoint citations, a structured read on an unresolved case, and a graded reading of why the subject did what they did.
Who is spending, who gains and who pays, mapped from the disclosed record. The money map you would otherwise build in a spreadsheet over a month.
A dated timeline from the record, every entry sourced, contested dates marked as contested. The spine the story hangs on.
Verbatim excerpts from filings and records with pinpoint citations, contested readings marked and gaps stated. The document work, at speed, without a paraphrase.
An unresolved case laid out: what is established, what is disputed, the competing accounts and what would settle them. The map of the holes.
Why the subject did it, with candidate explanations graded against the record rather than asserted. The context, kept honest.
The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.
Check the dates against your own notes. Where it flags a contested date you had accepted, you have found the tool's use.
The flows with who gains and who pays, from disclosures. The spreadsheet, started for you.
Verbatim excerpts with citations. Confirm them against the originals, as you would anyway; the citations tell you where to look.
Put the question to the read and see what the record says. It will tell you when it cannot establish something, which is also an answer.
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.
Copy the scaffolding as Markdown into your working file, with the sources as footnotes you can verify one by one.
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 →
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.
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.