Infographics no longer force a choice: global redraw and local text repair split routes, letting open-weight generators beat closed models
Infographics must satisfy many text, numeric, chart and layout constraints in one image, and existing iterative refinement suffers a scale mismatch: local edits cannot fix global composition, while full regeneration destroys regions that are already correct. Stride separates constraint judgment from spatial grounding, and a lead editor agent routes each revision to a composer for global redraw or a retoucher for local text repair, accepting a candidate only when the verifier score strictly improves. On BizGenEval, Stride with the open-weight Infographic-V2 scores 69.5, above Nano-Banana-2.0 at 68.5 and Seedream-5.0-Pro at 65.7.