Structural Media Forensics

Read the news.
Decode the frame.

Frametra scores any article in seconds, flagging claim pressure, sourcing gaps, and editorial bias before you decide what to trust. No account needed to start.

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The method

Three steps to structural clarity

Frametra doesn't label news as "fake" or "real." It deconstructs the architecture of how a story is built — and gives you the tools to decide for yourself.

01 / INSTALL

Add the extension

One click from the Chrome Web Store. Frametra sits quietly in your browser, ready when you need it — no account required for basic analysis.

02 / SCAN

Analyze any article

Visit any news page and click Analyze. Frametra reads the article's structural composition — not its conclusions — and returns a real integrity score in seconds.

03 / VERIFY

Act on the findings

Compare coverage, trace narrative timelines, audit your own drafts, or generate a certified PDF report for editors, assignments, or institutional review.

The forensics engine

What Frametra actually measures

Six independent signals analyzed on every article. No black boxes, no political labels — structural forensics you can verify yourself.

Claim Pressure

Density of unverified assertions and hedged language relative to article length.

Source Attribution

Named sources, official statements, and traceable quotes per claim.

Editorial Integrity

Emotive language and passive voice — advocacy framing vs. neutral reportage.

Evidence Signals

Data citations and direct quotations that ground claims in fact.

Narrative Timeline PRO

How a story's framing shifts across publication cycles and outlets.

Structural Certificate WRITER+

One-time PDF certification of an article's score, timestamped and ID-verified.

Source Diversity INVESTIGATOR

Classifies every named source by type using the JeRI methodology (TMU).

Full Report Export INVESTIGATOR

One-click PDF of every signal, source breakdown, and verdict.

Who it's for

Built for five kinds of critical readers

Whether you write the news, study it, teach it, investigate it, or just want to read it more carefully — find your path below.

Informed Readers

Start free. See exactly how the analysis works on any article, with no account required.

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Journalists & Writers

Audit your own drafts before you file. Catch attribution gaps your editor would catch — before they do.

Writer Pro →

Researchers & Investigators

Track narrative drift across outlets and time. Export forensic-grade reports for institutional review.

Investigator Pro →

Legal Professionals

Audit pre-trial coverage for prejudicial framing and single-source dependency. Court-ready PDF reports.

Counsel Pro →

Educators & Students

Teach media literacy with a real, citable methodology. Site licences for whole programs and classrooms.

Education Tier →

For Informed Readers

You don't need a press card to read critically.

Frametra's free tier runs real structural analysis on every article — the same heuristic engine professionals use, no account or subscription required.

  • ✓Real-time integrity score on any article, instantly
  • ✓Claim pressure, source attribution & editorial integrity signals
  • ✓Compare coverage of the same story across outlets
  • ✓No bias labels, no political verdicts — just the architecture

Free, forever. No credit card, no account.

Curious how far it goes?

Writer Pro adds AI deep analysis for $9/month.

Once you're used to the free score, the next question is usually "why" — AI deep analysis explains the reasoning behind every signal, plus PDF certificates if you ever need to show your work.

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For Journalists & Writers

Catch what your editor would catch — before they do.

Writer Pro runs AI-powered structural analysis on your own drafts, flagging the same attribution gaps and framing issues an editor would, before the story ever goes out.

  • ✓AI deep structural analysis on your own draft
  • ✓Pre-flight audit — catch issues before you file
  • ✓Emotive tone mapping and narrative shift detection
  • ✓PDF Structural Certificate your editor can verify independently

Writer Pro

$9/month

$79/year — save $29

Tracking a story across multiple outlets, or need cross-source forensics and the full report export? Investigator Pro covers it.

Need cross-source tracking instead? See Investigator Pro →

For Researchers & Investigators

Trace the story across every outlet that touched it.

Investigator Pro adds the full forensic suite: cross-source comparison, narrative timelines, and JeRI source diversity analysis — built for tracking how coverage of one story evolves over time.

  • ✓Source Diversity — full JeRI taxonomy analysis
  • ✓Full narrative timeline across publication cycles
  • ✓Cross-source comparison — same story, multiple outlets
  • ✓Full forensic PDF export for institutional or academic submission

Investigator Pro

$19/month

$149/year — save $79

Working a case rather than a story? Counsel Pro delivers the same forensic suite with reporting framed for legal proceedings.

Need it framed for legal proceedings? See Counsel Pro →

For Educators & Students

Teach media literacy with a methodology that's actually citable.

Frametra is built on the JeRI source diversity framework developed at Toronto Metropolitan University — not an internal black box. Students can cite it; institutions can license it.

  • ✓Structural Certificate to attach as evidence of source review
  • ✓JeRI methodology — grounded in published academic research
  • ✓Institutional site licences with classroom dashboards
  • ✓Curriculum packs, LMS assets, and practitioner guides at store.frametra.com

Canadian institutions: see frametra.ca for bilingual support and Canadian data residency.

Education

Custom

institutional pricing

Individual student? 50% off Writer Pro with a valid .edu email. Whole program? Unlimited seats, classroom dashboard, and a dedicated account manager.

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Analysis Services

Frametra as a service — delivered to your inbox.

Fixed price. Fixed turnaround. No retainer. We run the analysis, you get a documented, citable Frametra report. Three services built for journalists, editors, and communications professionals who need structural forensics applied to real work.

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Pre-Publication Review

Structural review before you file

$99 per article

Send your draft before filing. We run it through Frametra, identify the specific sentences driving attribution gaps or claim pressure issues, and return annotated notes plus a Structural Integrity Certificate within 24 hours.

From our Style Guide

"Every significant claim needs a named source. When in doubt, attribute. The higher the claim pressure score, the more specific your revision notes will be."

  • ✓Signal-by-signal annotation of your draft
  • ✓Specific sentence-level revision notes
  • ✓Structural Integrity Certificate included
  • ✓24-hour turnaround
For freelancers, investigative journalists, and anyone filing a story that needs to hold up.
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Newsroom Structural Audit

Your coverage — assessed structurally

from $500 per audit

We analyze 20–50 published articles from your outlet and deliver a written report: which signals are consistently weak, which beats carry the highest claim pressure, where source diversity is falling short across your coverage.

From our Newsroom SOP Kit

"The most common source diversity failure is not deliberate exclusion. It is the invisible default: reaching first for the sources that are easiest to reach."

  • ✓20–50 articles analyzed across all six signals
  • ✓Pattern identification by beat and journalist
  • ✓JeRI source diversity breakdown
  • ✓Written report with specific recommendations
For editors, news directors, and communications teams who want a documented picture of their structural patterns.
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Coverage Analysis Report

How your subject is being covered

from $300 per report

We run a corpus of articles mentioning your organization, issue, or sector through Frametra and deliver a scored breakdown: source patterns, anonymity rates, editorial language trends, and which outlets are treating your subject most and least rigorously.

From our Source Diversity Framework

"A story scoring 78 (PASS) might still show heavy overrepresentation of Authority sources with zero Citizen voices — a structurally significant finding for stories about communities directly affected by policy."

  • ✓30–50 articles scored across all signals
  • ✓Outlet-by-outlet structural comparison
  • ✓Source diversity and anonymity rate analysis
  • ✓48-hour turnaround
For communications directors, public affairs teams, NGOs, and researchers tracking coverage patterns.
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✓No retainer required
✓Fixed pricing — no surprises
✓Citable, documented output
✓24–48 hour turnaround
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Pricing

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No credit card required for the free tier. Cancel anytime on paid plans.

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Annual Save up to 30%

Writer Pro: $9/mo or $79/yr  ·  Investigator Pro: $19/mo or $149/yr  ·  Team Starter: $59/mo or $499/yr  ·  Team Pro: $99/mo or $799/yr

Reader

The informed baseline

Free
forever

Real structural analysis on every article. No fake scores, no bias labels — honest forensic heuristics, always free.

  • ✓Real-time heuristic integrity score
  • ✓Claim pressure analysis
  • ✓Source attribution signals
  • ✓Editorial integrity read
  • ✓Compare coverage (Google News)
  • —AI deep analysis
  • —PDF certificates
  • —Narrative timeline
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Writer Pro

For creators of the record

$9/month
$79/year — save $29

AI-powered structural analysis with draft auditing and PDF certificates for editors and submissions.

  • ✓Everything in Reader
  • ✓AI deep structural analysis
  • ✓Pre-flight draft audit
  • ✓PDF Structural Certificate
  • ✓Emotive tone mapping
  • ✓Narrative shift detection
  • —Cross-source forensics
  • —Forensic PDF export (full)

Investigator Pro

Full forensic suite

$19/month
$149/year — save $79

Complete narrative forensics for investigators, researchers, and senior journalists tracking stories across time.

  • ✓Everything in Writer Pro
  • ✓Source Diversity — JeRI Analysis
  • ✓Full narrative timeline
  • ✓Cross-source comparison
  • ✓Export full report PDF
  • ✓Historical domain reliability
  • ✓Priority AI processing
  • ✓Email support (24h)

Education

For institutions & classrooms

Custom
institutional pricing

Site licence for colleges, universities, journalism schools, and K-12 programs. Includes classroom dashboards and volume certificates.

  • ✓All Investigator Pro features
  • ✓Unlimited student seats
  • ✓Classroom dashboard
  • ✓Teacher-verified certificates
  • ✓LMS integration support
  • ✓Bulk certificate export
  • ✓Dedicated account manager
  • ✓Canadian .ca portal
Contact for Pricing

One-Time Purchase — No Subscription Required

The Frametra Structural
Integrity Certificate

Proof that you did the work. A single-purchase PDF certificate that documents the structural forensic analysis of any article or written draft — accepted by editors, usable for academic submissions, and independently verifiable.

Frametra
Structural Integrity Certificate
Certificate ID
FT-K9X2M4
Article Analyzed
How disinformation spreads in closed networks
reuters.com · April 17, 2026
82
Score
PASS
Structural Integrity: High
Strong attribution density. Low emotive modifier count. Neutral editorial stance.
Claim Pressure
Low unverified claim density detected
Source Attribution
6 direct attribution signals found
Editorial Integrity
Neutral-to-objective stance indicated
Evidence Signals
9 numeric references · 4 quotes
Jane Smith — Journalism Student, Carleton University
Analyzed via Frametra AI-Verified · reuters.com
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What the certificate includes

  • ✓Unique certificate ID — independently verifiable, timestamped to the minute
  • ✓PASS / CONDITIONAL / FAIL verdict — with a plain-language explanation your editor can read
  • ✓Full sourcing breakdown — claim pressure, attribution density, editorial read, evidence signals
  • ✓Print-ready A4 PDF — attach to essays, editorial submissions, or institutional reports
  • ✓Your name and institution — personalised to the analyst, not just the article

Who buys single certificates? Students attaching source verification to assignments. Freelance journalists submitting contested stories. Writers who need one certificate for a specific piece without a monthly commitment.

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Writer Pro includes unlimited certificates for $9/month.

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All plans include a 7-day free trial. Payments processed securely via Stripe. Frametra Software Inc. — London, Ontario, Canada.

Research & Resources

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Start with a single document.

White papers, curriculum packs, practitioner guides, editorial policy templates, and working tools — built on the same methodology that powers Frametra. One-time purchases. Instant download. Starting at $12.99.

Browse the Full Catalog →
Methodology
Frametra Methodology Guide
$12.99
Curriculum
Media Literacy Curriculum Pack
$34.99
Newsroom
Newsroom Standards & SOP Kit
$149
AI & Media
AI & Synthetic Media Analysis Module
$29.99

Early days

We're new, and that's okay

Frametra is a young product built by one person. We don't have a wall of testimonials yet, because we'd rather wait for real ones than write our own.

If you use Frametra and it's useful — or it isn't — we want to hear about it: sales@frametra.com. Real feedback will replace this section as it comes in.

For organisations

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Get your whole newsroom, research team, or editorial department running on Frametra — free for 30 days. No credit card. No automatic billing. I'll onboard you personally.

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5–20 users get 14 days. 21–49 get 30 days. 50+ get up to 60 days.
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For Educators

Frametra for Classrooms

Already used in journalism programs across 15+ countries. Frametra gives students a structured, citable framework for evaluating the articles they read, research, and write — grounded in the JeRI source diversity methodology from Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Works on ChromeOS

Fully functional on Chromebooks — no additional software, no IT configuration, no desktop required. Students install it from the Chrome Web Store in under a minute.

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Academic methodology

Scoring is grounded in the JeRI (Journalism Research Index) framework developed at Toronto Metropolitan University — not a black-box algorithm. Students can cite the methodology in their assignments.

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Shareable integrity certificates

Students can generate a downloadable Structural Integrity Certificate for any article they analyze — suitable for inclusion in research papers, course submissions, and editorial portfolios.

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Free to start

The free tier gives every student instant access to the six-signal structural breakdown with no account required. No budget approval needed to get started.

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Useful for writers, not just readers

Writer Pro lets students run the same forensic analysis on their own drafts before submission — flagging claim pressure, passive voice clusters, and hedging imbalances in real time.

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Used in 15+ countries

Frametra is being used by journalism students, media literacy instructors, and editorial researchers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.

Bring Frametra into your program

Institutional licensing available for colleges, universities, journalism schools, and K-12 programs. Students with a valid .edu email can access Writer Pro at 50% off.

Canadian institutions can visit frametra.ca for Canadian data residency and bilingual support.

Or email directly: sales@frametra.com

Questions

Frequently asked

No. Frametra does not label news as true or false, left or right, credible or not. It analyzes the structural architecture of how a story is written — source attribution, claim density, editorial language — and gives you the data to make your own judgment. We believe informed readers are more valuable than algorithmic verdicts.
The score is a weighted composite of six signals: source attribution quality (28%), emotive language density (25%), claim pressure (20%), epistemic hedging (10%), evidence signals (10%), and passive voice ratio (7%). A higher score means the article demonstrates stronger structural transparency — more named sources, more evidence, less loaded language. It is not a political judgment.
The Structural Integrity Certificate documents the structural analysis of an article or draft at a specific point in time. It includes the integrity score, verdict (PASS / CONDITIONAL / FAIL), sourcing breakdown, editorial read, and a unique certificate ID. It is designed to be attached to editorial submissions, academic papers, or institutional reports as evidence of source quality review. It is not a guarantee of factual accuracy.
No. All free-tier heuristic analysis runs entirely locally in your browser. No article content leaves your device. Paid-tier AI analysis sends article text to the Anthropic API for processing — this is disclosed in the extension. We do not log article URLs, store browsing data, or sell user data. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Payments are processed securely by Stripe. Monthly plans renew every 30 days. Annual plans renew once per year. You can cancel at any time from your account dashboard — your access continues until the end of your billing period. There are no cancellation fees. We offer a 7-day full refund on first-time subscriptions.
Yes. Students with a valid .edu or institutional email can access Writer Pro at 50% off by contacting us at sales@frametra.com. Institutional site licences for colleges and universities are available — contact us for custom pricing based on enrollment. Canadian institutions should visit frametra.ca.
Frametra is currently a Chrome extension (Manifest V3). It works on all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Arc. Firefox and Safari versions are on the roadmap.

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About

Built by one person who got tired of guessing.

Frametra is built and operated by Frametra Software Inc., a small independent company based in London, Ontario, Canada. The product exists because reading the news shouldn't require a media literacy degree to spot single-source reporting, unverified claims, or quietly editorialized framing. Frametra combines heuristic text analysis with AI-assisted review to score articles on source attribution, claim pressure, editorial integrity, evidentiary support, and related structural signals, surfacing the result directly in your browser as you read.

We're a young company and a work in progress. If something looks broken, scored oddly, or just doesn't make sense, we want to hear about it directly: sales@frametra.com.