Media literacy tools built for Canadian classrooms
Frametra gives journalism programs, college libraries, and K-12 media literacy curricula a forensic-grade news analysis platform — with Canadian data residency, curriculum-aligned resources, and institutional pricing.
The forensic media literacy tool your students actually need
Most media literacy tools tell students whether a source is "credible" or not. Frametra shows them exactly why — and teaches them to think structurally about how news is built.
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Structural forensics, not labels
Frametra doesn't label news as left, right, real, or fake. It deconstructs how a story is built — source attribution, claim density, editorial language — and lets students form their own judgments.
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Certified student submissions
Students can generate a Frametra Structural Certificate for any article they cite — a timestamped, ID-verified PDF showing their source quality review. Attach it to essays, assignments, or portfolios.
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Works in any browser, any device
Frametra is a Chrome extension that works on any Chromium-based browser. No app installs, no student accounts required for the free tier. Students are up and running in under 60 seconds.
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Classroom dashboards
Institutional plans include teacher-facing dashboards showing class-wide analysis activity, certificate submissions, and aggregate integrity score trends across article sources.
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Canadian data residency
Frametra.ca operates with Canadian data residency and is fully PIPEDA compliant. No student browsing data is collected or stored. Free-tier analysis runs entirely locally in the browser.
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Curriculum-aligned resources
Institutional plans include curriculum documentation, lesson plan templates, and assessment rubrics aligned to provincial media literacy outcomes across Ontario, BC, Alberta, and Quebec.
Institutional Plans
Pricing built for institutions
All plans include a 30-day pilot period. Volume discounts available for multi-campus deployments.
Classroom
Single course or program
Custom
per semester · contact for pricing
For a single course, seminar, or journalism program. Up to 40 students.
Fixed price. Fixed turnaround. No retainer. We run the Frametra analysis and deliver a documented, citable report. Particularly useful for Canadian newsrooms, journalism schools, NGOs, and public affairs teams tracking coverage of Canadian policy and institutions.
Newsroom Structural Audit
Your coverage — assessed structurally
from $500 per audit
We analyze 20–50 published articles from your outlet across all six Frametra signals and deliver a written report identifying structural patterns — where claim pressure is highest, where source diversity is weakest, and which beats carry the most attribution risk.
From the Frametra 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 across all six signals
✓JeRI source diversity breakdown
✓Pattern identification by beat
✓Written report with specific recommendations
For editors, news directors, and communications teams at Canadian outlets and institutions.
How your subject is being covered across Canadian media
from $300 per report
We run a corpus of articles about your organization, policy area, 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. Particularly relevant for Canadian policy issues, federal and provincial coverage, and Indigenous affairs reporting.
From the JeRI Framework
"In Canadian political news coverage, fewer than 7 in 100 named sources are citizens. The other 93 are authority figures, politicians, experts, and organizational representatives."
✓30–50 articles scored across all signals
✓Outlet-by-outlet structural comparison
✓English and French outlet coverage included
✓48-hour turnaround
For Canadian NGOs, public affairs teams, government communications, and academic researchers.
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. For freelancers, investigative journalists, and anyone filing a story that needs to hold up.
No. The free-tier heuristic analysis runs entirely locally in the student's browser — no article content or URLs leave their device. Paid-tier AI analysis sends article text to the Anthropic API for processing only. We do not collect, store, or sell student browsing data. Frametra is PIPEDA compliant.
No — and that's the point. Frametra does not label news as true, false, left, or right. It analyzes the structural architecture of how a story is written. This makes it genuinely useful for media literacy education: students learn to evaluate sources structurally rather than relying on algorithmic verdicts.
Frametra is a Chrome extension (Manifest V3) and works on all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Arc. It works on any device that runs Chrome — Windows, Mac, Chromebook. Firefox and Safari versions are on our roadmap.
Yes. The free tier requires no account, no login, and no personal information. Students install the extension and use it immediately. Institutional plans that include certificate generation require students to enter their name for the certificate — nothing else.
Yes — all institutional plans include a 30-day pilot period at no cost. We'll set up a small cohort of students with full access so your faculty can evaluate it before committing to a full licence.
Yes. We accept purchase orders and can issue invoices in CAD or USD. HST is applied to Canadian transactions as required. Contact education@frametra.ca for procurement documentation.
Yes. Our research catalog at store.frametra.com includes curriculum packs, LMS teaching assets, the Faculty License Pack, the Certified Educator credential, and 13 individual documents starting at $12.99 USD. These are one-time purchases with instant digital delivery — no institutional approval required. Also available in CAD on Etsy.
Ready to bring structural media literacy to your students?
Start with a free 30-day pilot. No purchase order required to get started.