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AI Research Briefs from Sources, Prompts, and AI Chats
SourceFrame turns a research prompt, a set of browser tabs, or an AI conversation into a source-backed brief you can inspect, refine, share, and draft from — with each point tied back to a visible source instead of buried in a chat thread.
What an AI research brief actually is
A brief is a structured output grounded in sources — not a wall of chat.
Instead of a single conversational answer, SourceFrame produces a brief built from a specific set of sources. Every brief keeps its evidence visible: you can see which sources a point came from, where the source set is thin, and which claims still need checking.
There are three brief types, and each one is grounded in the same source set so you can move from a quick read to a decision without re-doing the research.
Summary Brief
Key takeaways, tensions between sources, and the open questions your source set leaves unanswered.
Comparison Brief
Options laid side by side across shared criteria, with tradeoffs and evidence gaps made explicit.
Recommendation Brief
A clear point of view with rationale, alternatives, risks, and what would change the answer.
Start from a prompt, your tabs, or an AI chat
A brief always starts from a source set. SourceFrame lets you assemble that set three ways, and you can mix them:
Start from a prompt — describe what you want to research and SourceFrame discovers relevant web sources, checks which ones are actually usable, and cites them.
Bring your open tabs — use the browser extension to capture the pages you already have open as the source set.
Import an AI conversation — pull a ChatGPT or Claude chat in as a source. It is labeled as AI-generated context, so it is never treated as independent verification of a claim.
Why a source-backed brief beats a raw chat answer
Inspectable sources: every point links back to where it came from, so you can check it instead of trusting it.
Honest about quality: when a source is weak, blocked, or metadata-only, the brief says so rather than quietly filling the gap.
Evidence gaps surfaced: the brief calls out what the sources do not cover, so you know the limits of the answer.
Reusable: turn a brief into a Draft when you need to write it up, without losing the evidence behind it.
A practical example
Say you are deciding whether to adopt a new analytics tool. You start from the prompt “compare product analytics tools for a small SaaS team,” and SourceFrame discovers vendor pages, docs, and a few independent reviews, then checks which are usable.
From that source set you generate a Comparison Brief that lines the options up across pricing, self-serve setup, and event limits — and flags where the sources disagree or go quiet. When you are ready to circulate a decision, a Recommendation Brief turns the same evidence into a point of view with risks and open questions attached.
Keep going
Compare Tools
Build a side-by-side Comparison Brief with criteria, tradeoffs, and evidence gaps.
Check AI Answers
Compare a useful AI answer against real web sources and see what holds up.
Summarize Sources
Condense many tabs, articles, or docs into one cited Summary Brief.
Comparison Brief Template
The structure of a strong comparison: options, criteria, tradeoffs, and evidence.
Recommendation Brief Template
Context, recommendation, alternatives, risks, and evidence gaps in one place.
Turn your next research prompt into a cited brief
Start from a prompt, your open tabs, or an AI chat, and get a source-backed brief you can inspect and share.