Data-driven stories on the forces shaping modern life.
We build interactive explainers that turn complex systems — attention markets, geopolitics, energy shocks — into something you can actually poke at.
One blockade. Four downstream shocks. One parallel thread.
These sites aren't a list — they're a graph. Read top-down: Hormuz is the origin. Oil, fertilizer, and the Iran peace plan are what the blockade set in motion. The Attention Tax is a separate extraction on a different scale.
Current projects
Six standalone sites, each a deep dive into a single question.
The Attention Tax Calculator
You lose 23 days a year to ads. Calculate your true attention cost — in time, money, and mental bandwidth — with an interactive model of how modern ad economies extract from you.
Iran's 10-Point Peace Plan
An interactive breakdown of Iran's 10-point peace proposal, the 40-day war's human cost, and the fragile ceasefire happening right now. Every demand, every trade-off, mapped.
Oil Shortages Countdown
A live countdown to the late-April oil shortage risk window, sliced by country — fuel prices, household gas pressure, and the latest headlines in one dashboard.
Hormuz Watch
Trump extends ceasefire with no fixed end date — blockade stays until Iran submits a peace proposal. Brent briefly $101, settled ~$99. Pakistan brokering. Day 52.
The Fertilizer Fault Line
3.8 billion people alive because of Haber-Bosch. The Gulf supplies a third of the world's traded nitrogen fertilizer. Hormuz closed it. Urea up 67%. 70% of US farmers cannot afford what they need. Harvest impact: 4 months away.
Bond Crisis Tracker
The Hormuz oil shock is feeding through US inflation and freezing the Fed. The 30-year Treasury yield crossed 5% for the first time since 2007. CPI at 3.8%. War costs $29B direct with $200B supplemental pending.
About Covalent ML
Covalent ML is a small studio building interactive, data-driven explainers. We pull together public data, original reporting, and custom visualizations to make complicated systems legible.
Every project is a standalone site with its own aesthetic and its own argument — but they share a bias: show the numbers, let the reader explore, and don't waste their attention.