SourceFrameUse Cases
Start from where your research actually is.
Seven research situations, and the path SourceFrame takes through each one. Some finish in a single brief; others run another research round or move on to a decision you choose to make.
Pick your situation
“I don’t know what the options are yet.”
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.
The path
- Prompt · Auto
- Research Brief
- Create comparison
- Comparison Brief
“I have a specific question.”
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.
- Prompt · Summary
- Source Brief
“I want to understand what this reading says.”
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.
- Summary · about the sources
- Source Summary Brief
“I know the options. I have to weigh them.”
Compare tools or options
Named candidates, shared criteria, and a clear view of which criteria are actually evidenced — before anyone argues about the answer.
- Comparison · named options
- Comparison Brief
- Turn into…
- Recommendation Brief
“My sources don’t agree with each other.”
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.
- Comparison · about the sources
- Source Comparison Brief
“An AI gave me a good answer. How much should I trust it?”
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.
- Chat + web tabs
- Source Brief
Needs the extension
“I have to put a decision in front of people.”
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.
- Research Brief
- Comparison Brief
- Recommendation Brief
Where you start
The web app is the workspace. The extension is the capture tool.
Web app
Start from a research prompt and let SourceFrame find the sources. Everything after the first brief lives here too.
Browser extension
For work that depends on what is already in your browser: tabs you’ve collected, and a ChatGPT or Claude conversation.
- Summarize a source set
- Check an AI answer
- Adding captured tabs to an existing brief
Captured briefs open in the web app for reading, asking and export.
Capturing tabs or a ChatGPT or Claude conversation needs the extension.
Research isn’t one answer
A brief is a position you can update, not a final report
Another round · Research this
On a Research Brief, sends one open question or option out for a bounded round. If it finds something, the result is a new variant; the original stays Primary.
More evidence · Add sources
Discovers more sources or takes captured tabs, and produces an updated brief as a new variant — you choose which one is Primary. Not available on a Research Brief.
Next stage · Turn into…
Builds the next brief type from the same evidence: a Research Brief into a Comparison, or a comparison or summary into a Recommendation. You start it.
Same brief, revised · Improve
On a Recommendation Brief, Improve produces a refined draft you can save as a new version — viewable, comparable and restorable in Version history.
Describe what you’re trying to find out.
SourceFrame finds the sources and builds the structure that fits the question.