How to put a number on screen when the sources disagree
Ask Vizard Agent to say which figure it is quoting and who reported it. Net worth, company valuation and annual revenue are three separate numbers about the same person, they differ by an order of magnitude, and a video that treats them as interchangeable will be wrong however carefully it was researched.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask Vizard Agent for research, not just for a video. The word does real work here: it changes the job from writing a plausible-sounding script into finding out what is actually reported, by whom, and where the reports disagree with each other.
Make a Short about how much money this person actually has. Do proper research on the net worth and the business, with highlights and cars.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It researches the figures separately and reads what each source is measuring. A funding round gives a company valuation, a snack brand's sales give revenue, and the subject's own remarks about reinvesting give a third picture again. None of those is a personal net worth. In the session behind this article it:
- Searched for the personal net worth and the business's value as separate questions.
- Looked for a primary or reputable source for the earnings estimate rather than an aggregator.
- Verified the company valuation against funding reports and researched the product business's revenue from reputable reporting.
- Checked the subject's own public statements about cash and reinvestment.
- Gathered the primary sources for a closing card and only then wrote the script, so the research never became a search for support for one headline figure.
- Built the source card as a readable graphic, about three seconds of runtime, rather than small print in a corner.
When does this not work well?
When no reputable source exists. Private finances are private, and for many subjects every number in circulation traces back to the same one estimate. Vizard Agent will say when that is the case. Two credible outlets with different methods are both defensible, so the right treatment is to give the range and attribute both, not average them.
Common questions
Why do the numbers differ so much? Because they measure different things entirely. Vizard Agent separates them rather than trying to reconcile them.
Should I put a range on screen? If the sources give one, yes, and Vizard Agent will attribute both ends of it.
What if there is no reliable number? Vizard Agent says so rather than picking one.