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WorldbyFlow for trade association research directors

Members can tell when a briefing averages away a poll spread. WorldbyFlow names each pollster, its field dates, sample and method, carries the sponsor's stake, and shows the spread instead of the average, so the research your association publishes can take a hostile question.

Written for Runs research and member briefings for an industry association.·Runs in the Policy domain

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Where this fits in your week

An association's research is read by members who work in the industry and by opponents looking for a soft number. The scans here produce briefings that satisfy both: opinion with method shown, figures with their issuer named, the positions of every stakeholder on your issue, the instrument itself read whole, and the issue framed before the association takes a side on it.

Lead scan

Poll Check

3 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

A poll read that names pollster, dates, sample, method and sponsor and never averages a spread. Public opinion the way a member can defend it.

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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By the Numbers

2 credits

Industry figures with each one's source and interpretation. The numbers page of a member briefing, sourced.

Try it on US small business employment · Trucking industry employment · Restaurant industry sales

Stakeholder Positions

2 credits

Every stakeholder's stated position on your issue with the evidence for it, in a register that opponents would recognize as fair.

Try it on Independent contractor rules · Corporate tax reform · Right to repair

Policy / Regulation

2 credits

The instrument itself: what it does, whom it binds, where it stands, who is contesting it. The one-pager members forward.

Try it on The Corporate Transparency Act · The Farm Bill · Section 230 · The Affordable Care Act

Issue / Problem

2 credits

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

Try it on Right to repair · Non-compete agreements · Independent contractor status · Credit card swipe fees
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 Poll Check on the question your members ask about

Check the sponsor stakes and the spread. A briefing that shows both is one a hostile reporter cannot easily pick apart.

3 credits
02

Run By the Numbers on your industry

Figures with issuers and caveats. The page members quote in their own meetings.

2 credits
03

Run Stakeholder Positions on the live issue

Every side's position at its actual strength. The map for the government affairs committee.

2 credits
04

Publish the briefing

Export as a PDF for the member portal, or share as a page members can open without an account.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
3 + 2 + 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

Export the briefing as a PDF for the member portal, or share it as a page members open from the newsletter.

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 Poll Check 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 Poll Check →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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