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WorldbyFlow for trade publication research editors

A research franchise lives or dies on whether it repeats the industry's claims or tests them. WorldbyFlow grades the claims everyone repeats as evidenced, partially evidenced or asserted without evidence, so the research your publication puts its name on can say which is which.

Written for Owns the research franchise at a trade or B2B publication.·Runs in the Technology domain

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Where this fits in your week

Owning the research desk at a trade publication means producing the pieces the industry cites and defending them when a vendor objects. The scans here are built for that desk: a trajectory read that separates attention from adoption, the numbers with issuers named, a hype check on the technology of the quarter, a read on the research lab behind the claims, and a literature review on the question the industry keeps arguing about.

Lead scan

Tech Trajectory

3 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

Where a technology actually sits on its curve, with attention separated from adoption and the basis for the placement stated. The trend piece, graded.

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

The figures with each one's issuer and interpretation. The numbers your readers will cite, labeled by where they came from.

Try it on Global cloud spending · Developer headcount · Enterprise AI adoption

Hype Check

3 credits

Capability claims graded as demonstrated, independently replicated, self-reported or asserted without evidence. The hype check the industry needs and rarely publishes.

Try it on Quantum computing · Humanoid robots · Solid-state batteries

Research Lab

2 credits

A read on the lab behind the claims: what it has actually published and shipped, where its record is thin. The source under the press release.

Try it on Google DeepMind · OpenAI · Bell Labs · CERN

Literature Review

4 credits

What the research literature says on a question the industry argues about, disagreements included. The piece that settles, or honestly fails to settle, the argument.

Try it on Whether large language models reason · What limits battery energy density · Whether quantum computers can beat classical ones
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 Tech Trajectory on the trend your readers ask about most

Check the basis for the placement. If it separates attention from adoption the way your best analyst would, the desk can start from it.

3 credits
02

Run Hype Check on the technology of the quarter

What is demonstrated, what is self-reported, what is asserted. The piece vendors will object to and readers will save.

3 credits
03

Run By the Numbers for the figures

Each with its issuer and caveat. The chart sources, ready.

2 credits
04

Publish with the grades showing

Export the sources for the methodology box, or share the read as a page linked from the piece.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
3 + 3 + 2 = 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 sources for the methodology box, or share the read as a page your readers can open from the article.

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

Generative AI on the Technology Hype Cycle

Read the research →

Generative AI is not on one curve: the analyst record places core generative AI in a genuine Trough of Disillusionment on enterprise ROI proof, while capital investment and production-deployment volume are still accelerating…

Tech Trajectory · August 31, 2026
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Run Tech Trajectory 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 Tech Trajectory →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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