GrapeVine

Spread. What happens to this message when it leaves your hands? No message dies where it lands.

It gets retold, and retelling is a lossy compression algorithm with an agenda. GrapeVine simulates secondhand persuasion: which lines survive retelling, how the message mutates as it moves, and what force it carries when it arrives, paraphrased, at the person who actually decides.

{
  "probe": "grapevine",
  "retention": {
    "survives_retelling": "four million, no school closures",
    "lost_in_transit": ["methodology caveat", "phase-two timeline"],
    "mutation_risk": "'no closures' may harden into 'guaranteed no closures'"
  },
  "secondhand_force": 61
}

ROI in one line, for all three probes: the most expensive audience research is the kind your opponents run on your live message, in public, for free. Windfall runs it first, in private, for you.

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