Turn prompts, tabs, and AI chats
into source-backed briefs.
Ask a question. SourceFrame searches, checks the evidence, and builds a cited brief you can read in full.
Research gets messy fast
Research starts scattered. Briefs shouldn’t.
You might start with a prompt, a set of tabs, or an AI conversation. SourceFrame turns scattered research into a clear brief you can trust, export, or draft from.
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How it works
From a prompt, tabs, or AI chats to a cited brief
SourceFrame creates source-backed briefs from the evidence you choose or ask it to find.
Start from a prompt
SourceFrame finds relevant web sources and checks them.
Capture tabs or AI chats
Use the browser extension to bring open research into SourceFrame.
Get a cited brief
Create summaries, comparisons, and recommendations with visible sources.
Brief types
The right brief for each source set
SourceFrame turns a research prompt, selected tabs and AI chats into the brief type that fits the question — then lets you ask, add sources, or draft from the same source set.
Source Brief
Answers your question about a subject, with the sources as the evidence for the answer.
Source Summary Brief
Summarizes the source set itself — what this collection of reading collectively says.
Research Brief
A snapshot of a question that is still open. It keeps unresolved questions and thin evidence as state, names no winner, and ends in the next research move.
Source Comparison Brief
Compares what the sources say — where they agree, and where they contradict each other.
Comparison Brief
Compares options you already know against shared criteria — and deliberately stops before picking one.
Recommendation Brief
The only type that makes the call — and states how firm it is. When the evidence isn’t there, it says so instead of committing.
Ask about this brief
Explore follow-up questions without starting over in a blank chat.
Create draft from brief
Turn a brief into reusable writing while keeping the source context intact.
Use cases
When scattered sources need to become usable
Use SourceFrame when research starts as a prompt, scattered tabs, or an AI conversation — and needs to become something you can trust, cite, or act on.
Compare tools or options
Named candidates, shared criteria, and a clear view of which criteria are actually evidenced — before anyone argues about the answer.
Check an AI answer
Bring the ChatGPT or Claude conversation in as context, put independent web sources next to it, and see what the evidence covers — and what it doesn’t.
Research an open question
The landscape is unsettled and the candidate set isn’t fixed, so a single confident answer would overstate it. SourceFrame keeps what’s answered, partial and open in view, and runs another bounded round where it matters.
Answer a question with sources
You know what you need to find out. You want the answer, the evidence under it, and an honest note on what the sources don’t cover.
Summarize a source set
The set of sources is the subject. You want its themes, the tensions between sources, and the questions it leaves open.
Compare what sources say
A vendor page, an independent review and a forum thread tell three stories. You need the agreement and the conflict separated, with both sides kept.
Turn research into a decision
Carry one problem from open research to a comparison to a call — deciding yourself when each stage is ready, with its status and gaps still attached.
Why SourceFrame
Not another blank AI chat
Use ChatGPT to explore ideas. Use SourceFrame when research needs sources, structure, citations, and follow-through.
The difference
Generic chat gives you an answer. SourceFrame builds a brief from inspectable sources — selected by you or discovered from your prompt.
Grounded in inspectable sources
SourceFrame works from sources you choose or sources it discovers from your prompt.
Structured as briefs
Turn research into summaries, comparisons, and recommendations with a clear shape.
Built around real research context
Start from a prompt, open tabs, or AI conversations without rebuilding context by hand.
Made for follow-through
Go from sources to brief to draft without losing the evidence behind it.
FAQ
Common questions
SourceFrame is a web app and browser extension that turns research prompts, selected browser tabs, and AI chats into structured, source-backed briefs. Start from a prompt or choose the sources you want to work from, and SourceFrame creates the brief type that fits — from a Source Brief that answers your question to a Recommendation Brief that makes a call — with citations and evidence gaps surfaced.
ChatGPT is useful for open-ended thinking. SourceFrame is built for turning research into a structured brief grounded in inspectable sources. It can work from sources you select or sources it discovers from your prompt, then shows what the brief is based on instead of leaving the evidence hidden in a chat thread.
Yes. With Prompt-to-Brief, you can describe what you want to research and SourceFrame will find relevant web sources, check which ones are usable, and create a cited brief from them. You can still use the browser extension when you want to capture specific tabs or AI chats yourself.
You can use auto-discovered web sources, web pages you have open, and ChatGPT or Claude conversations. SourceFrame works from that source set instead of relying only on generic model recall.
A brief is a structured output grounded in sources, and there are six brief types. A Source Brief answers your question; a Source Summary Brief maps what a set of sources says; a Research Brief keeps an open question structured; a Source Comparison Brief shows where sources agree and disagree; a Comparison Brief lines options up against shared criteria without picking one; and a Recommendation Brief makes the call and states how firm it is.
SourceFrame is for source-heavy work: comparing tools, checking AI answers against web sources, summarizing messy research, building recommendations, and turning research into drafts. It is useful whenever prompts, tabs, and AI chats need to become something you can trust, cite, or act on.
Use SourceFrame when you need a cited summary, comparison, recommendation, follow-up answer, or draft from real sources. Start from a prompt when you want SourceFrame to find sources for you, or use the browser extension when your research is already open in tabs or AI chats.
SourceFrame only works with the sources you choose or the sources it discovers when you explicitly ask it to create a brief. It does not passively watch your browsing or read tabs in the background.
No. You can create a brief from a prompt in the web app. The browser extension is useful when you want to capture specific open tabs or AI conversations as the source set for a brief.
Create your first source-backed brief
Create cited summaries, comparisons, and recommendations from a prompt, selected tabs, or AI chats.