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WorldbyFlow for public affairs directors

External affairs is only credible if opponents recognize your account of the debate as fair. WorldbyFlow maps every stakeholder's stated position with its leverage in a non-partisan register, lays out the arguments on each side at their strongest, and reads the issue before the position.

Written for Runs external affairs and stakeholder engagement.·Runs in the Policy domain

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Where this fits in your week

Running external affairs and stakeholder engagement means knowing every side of an issue well enough to be trusted by most of them. The scans here build that knowledge: the positions on the record, the players and their leverage, the arguments laid out fairly, the issue itself before the framing, the voices of the constituencies involved, and a dossier on the agency that holds the pen.

Lead scan

Stakeholder Positions

2 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

Every stakeholder's stated position with its leverage and evidence, in a register both sides would accept. The map an engagement plan 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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Key Players

2 credits

Who holds what leverage on the issue, from documented positions. The coalition map with sources.

Try it on US drug pricing reform · Section 230 · Plastics regulation

The Arguments

2 credits

The arguments on each side at their strongest, with evidence. The fair page, for the briefing and for your own thinking.

Try it on Whether nuclear power should expand · Whether social media should require age verification · Whether the corporate tax rate should rise

Issue / Problem

2 credits

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

Try it on Housing affordability · Prescription drug pricing · Data privacy · Immigration reform

Voices

3 credits

What the constituencies involved have said on the record, attributed. Farmers, nurses, small businesses, in their own words with sources.

Try it on Farmers on tariffs · Nurses on staffing ratios · Small businesses on the minimum wage

Agency & Committee

2 credits

The agency with jurisdiction: authority, people, documented positions, calendar. Who you are engaging.

Try it on The FTC · The EPA · The FCC
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 your live issue

You know the players. Check whether the read gives each side its actual position at its actual strength.

2 credits
02

Run Voices for the constituencies

What they have said, attributed. The quotes for the briefing that are not yours.

3 credits
03

Run The Arguments for the fair page

Both sides at their strongest. The page an opponent would accept, which makes it the page you can use.

2 credits
04

Pin the issue to your Watchboard

A hearing, a new position or a coalition change becomes a watched signal.

Pinning is free; a check costs 2 credits when you ask for one.
The research bill for this path
2 + 3 + 2 = 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 reads as pages the executive team can open before an engagement, or export them as PDFs for the stakeholder plan.

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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