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WorldbyFlow for policy analysts

Your work is only useful if both sides of an issue would recognize it as fair. WorldbyFlow maps every stakeholder's stated position with its leverage and evidence, lays out the arguments on each side without a thumb on the scale, and reads public opinion with the pollster and the sponsor named.

Written for Analyst at a think tank, association, or public agency.·Runs in the Policy domain

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Where this fits in your week

Policy analysis is the discipline of describing a fight accurately. The scans here are its tools: the positions actors have actually taken, the arguments laid out neutrally, the polling with its method and sponsor shown, a read on the problem itself before the solutions, and a graded explanation when a headline number moves and everyone claims credit.

Lead scan

Stakeholder Positions

2 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

Every stakeholder's stated position on an issue, with leverage and the evidence for it, written to a non-partisan register. The map a briefing starts from.

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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The Arguments

2 credits

The arguments on each side of a proposition, laid out neutrally with their strongest form and the evidence each rests on. The fair page.

Try it on Whether the minimum wage should rise with inflation · Whether nuclear power should expand · Whether social media should require age verification

Poll Check

3 credits

A poll read naming each pollster, its field dates, sample, method and sponsor, with the spread shown rather than averaged. Public opinion as it was actually measured.

Try it on Public support for nuclear power · Public trust in the Supreme Court · Support for a carbon tax

Issue / Problem

2 credits

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

Try it on Housing affordability · Childcare cost · Prescription drug pricing · Immigration backlogs

Why It Changed

3 credits

A headline number moved and every side has a story. Candidate explanations graded against the record.

Try it on US homelessness count · The federal deficit · Teen unemployment · US life expectancy
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 Stakeholder Positions on an issue you know cold

You know the players. Check whether the read gives each side its actual position, at its actual strength, before trusting it on a new issue.

2 credits
02

Run The Arguments on the same issue

Each side at its strongest, with evidence. The page you can hand to both a proponent and an opponent.

2 credits
03

Add Poll Check for where the public sits

Pollster, dates, sample, method, sponsor, spread. The polling section written to a standard.

3 credits
04

Read it through a thinker

Re-read the issue through the documented method of a thinker from the roster, with the reading stamped as an interpretation. A second angle for the brief.

1 credit
The research bill for this path
2 + 2 + 3 = 7 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

Share the read as a page for a briefing, or export it as a PDF with the positions, evidence and sources laid out for the record.

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 Stakeholder Positions 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 Stakeholder Positions →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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