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What is Frames
Frames gives your AI app access to premium data it can't reach on its own.
Frames gives your AI access to premium data. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another AI app, and your AI can pull data it can't reach on its own: company and contact data, market prices, social posts and web pages, from providers like Apollo, LinkedIn, X, Exa and Firecrawl.
You don't need an account, key or subscription with any of those providers. Frames finds the right source, pays for the data, checks that it arrived and keeps a receipt. You pay Frames in credits, per request.
How a request works#
- You ask your AI
- Your AI searches Frames (free)
- Frames pays the provider
- Frames checks the data arrived
- Your AI gets the data and a receipt
If the data doesn't arrive, you aren't charged for it.
Two ways to use Frames#
| Connect with MCP | Frames F1 through the API | |
|---|---|---|
| For | People using an AI app | Developers and heavy research |
| Who does the thinking | Your AI | Frames F1 |
| You pay for | The data your AI pulls | F1's work plus the data |
| Start with | Connect with MCP | Frames F1 |
Key terms#
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Catalog | The paid data tools Frames can reach, across many providers |
| Credits | What you pay Frames in. 1 credit = $0.001. |
| Spending cap | The most one request can spend. Your plan sets it, and you can set it lower. |
| Delivery check | Frames checks every paid call. Empty or failed responses aren't charged. |
| Receipt | A record of each purchase: the tool, the price, the payment network and transaction, and whether it delivered |
| MCP | An open standard that lets AI apps use outside tools. It's how Frames plugs into your AI. |
| Frames F1 | Frames' own research model, for when you want Frames to do the whole job |
Example questions#
Frames is for finding things out. Every question below asks for information, and none of them buys, sends or books anything.
- Which climate fintech startups raised a Series A in the last 90 days?
- Compare today's price for this blender on Amazon, Walmart and Target.
- What are people on X saying about our launch this week?
- Who leads partnerships at these 10 companies?