How This Works

AI-powered analysis through the Velocity Economics framework

🎯 What We Do

Every news article tells two stories: the one on the surface, and the one about where the money is actually going. We use AI to reveal the second story.

Our system analyzes news articles through the Velocity Economics framework—a lens for understanding how money moves (or stops moving) through economies, and who benefits when it pools instead of circulates.

⚙️ The Process

Article Submission

A news article is submitted for analysis—either by pasting the text or providing a URL.

Context Retrieval

Our RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system searches the complete Velocity Economics book and framework documentation for relevant concepts, patterns, and historical examples.

AI Analysis

An advanced language model analyzes the article using the retrieved framework context, identifying extraction mechanisms, blocking tactics, and historical parallels.

Human Review

Analyses are reviewed for quality and accuracy before being published to the public feed.

🔍 What The Framework Identifies

Extraction Mechanisms: How wealth is being transferred from the many to the few
Blocking Tactics: The five consistent methods used to prevent reform (controlled retreat, complexity multiplication, divide and conquer, credential gatekeeping, co-opted populism)
Velocity Death: When money stops circulating and pools in hoards, buybacks, and offshore accounts
Historical Patterns: How the same mechanisms have operated across Rome, France, the Gilded Age, and today
The Real Question: "Where's the money going?"—asked of every story, every time

🤖 The Technology

Our analysis system combines several AI technologies:

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

The complete Velocity Economics book is indexed in a vector database. When an article is submitted, semantically similar passages are retrieved to provide context for the analysis. This ensures the AI applies the framework consistently rather than improvising.

Large Language Model

We use Claude (by Anthropic) to perform the actual analysis. The model receives the article, the retrieved framework context, and instructions to identify extraction patterns, not to editorialize or take political sides.

Technical details: Vector embeddings via ChromaDB, ~260 indexed chunks from framework documentation, Claude Sonnet for analysis generation, PostgreSQL for analysis storage.

⚖️ What This Is NOT

This is not:

• Financial or investment advice
• Legal advice
• Partisan political commentary (left vs. right)
• Conspiracy theory
• A replacement for reading primary sources

The framework is thermodynamic, not ideological. It asks the same question of every story—whether the source is Fox News, MSNBC, Reuters, or anywhere else: "Where is wealth concentrating, and what mechanisms are enabling that concentration?"

📚 Go Deeper

The analyses on this site apply a framework developed in the book Breaking the Pattern: A Velocity Economics Primer by Kailey Wyatt.

The book explains the complete theory: the currency death cycle, what broke in the 1980s, why the pattern has repeated for millennia, and what breaking it would require.

Learn more about the book →

📜 Licensing

This analysis system and its outputs are licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.

You are free to use, share, and adapt the analyses for any non-commercial purpose. This includes personal use, research, education, and non-profit journalism.

Commercial use—including use by for-profit news organizations, financial services, or any revenue-generating activity—requires a separate license. Contact us for commercial licensing inquiries.