A shared method for the question
your readers keep asking.

Start with a free 30-day demo. No credit card required. The demo is the full product — every feature unlocked — with a credit cap of 10 article analyses and 4 Ask Clear-Sight questions. Enough to evaluate the framework with a real class or section before involving procurement.

Institutional pricing is per-seat and scales with headcount. A single high-school section, a department, a campus, and a full district are all common deployment sizes. Pricing depends on volume, deployment requirements, and PD scope. Request a quote.

Yes. The Clear-Sight extension requires a login to use — this is how usage is attributed, Knowledge Lens scores are tracked, and institutional seats are managed.

For individual librarians and readers on the 30-day demo: quick email-based sign-up via the sign-up page. No PII beyond the account email.

For institutional deployments: SSO (Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra) and roster-based provisioning (Clever, ClassLink) are not available out of the box today, but we'll explore the integration with you as part of an institutional engagement. Let us know your environment when you request access.

Clear-Sight is built for institutional environments. We collect no learner or patron PII beyond the account email, store no article content beyond what's needed to render the analysis, and process all extension activity over encrypted connections.

For higher ed and academic libraries: FERPA-compliant by design (no education records collected). Accessibility — we test against WCAG 2.1 AA and provide a VPAT on request. The ALA Library Bill of Rights and the patron-confidentiality posture libraries expect are honored: no patron-identifying logs, no targeting based on what someone reads.

For K-12: COPPA and state-specific data-privacy agreements (NY Ed Law 2-d, CSDPA, SOPIPA, etc.) signed as part of procurement review. Data Privacy Impact Statement and our security questionnaire responses available on request.

CSAF maps directly to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy — specifically the frames around Authority Is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, and Information Has Value. The ten signals give librarians a concrete instrument to use during a one-shot session, an embedded course module, a research consultation, or an adult patron program.

Common deployment patterns we see: academic libraries embedding it in first-year writing, communication, and research methods courses; public libraries running adult patron workshops or making it available as a research-room tool; library systems licensing it across branches as part of digital and information literacy outreach.

Chrome and Edge on desktop and Chromebook. The extension installs from the Chrome Web Store; institutional deployments can push it via Google Admin Console / Microsoft Intune for managed devices.

Works through standard school content filters. Compatible with most LMS environments — Clear-Sight is the analysis layer, not the LMS.

Individual librarian: 5 minutes (install extension, sign in, start analyzing).

Branch / department pilot: typically 1–2 weeks — primarily IT review and managed extension deployment.

System / consortium rollout: 2–6 weeks depending on procurement timeline, security review, and program scope.

Not out of the box today — but we can explore it with you upon request. If SSO (Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra) or rostering (Clever, ClassLink) is a requirement for your deployment, tell us when you request institutional access and we'll scope the integration as part of your engagement.

Yes. We work with consortia, cooperatives, and library systems on shared licensing — one method across every member library, with cooperative purchasing that scales the way your other shared resources do. Tell us about your membership and how you purchase together when you request access, and we will scope a structure that fits.

Most bias tools rate outlets on a political scale. CSAF does something different. We do not classify outlets by lean and we do not tell readers what to think. We look at the words on the page. The framework groups its ten signals into three categories: words that move the reader, words that inform the reader, and words that frame the story. Each one leaves an observable trail. A reader who knows what to look for can see how an article is constructed and decide for themselves what to do with it. That is a more useful skill than knowing where a publication sits on someone else's chart.

It sits alongside the instruction you have built, not on top of it. The CSAF is a shared analytical foundation — a structured vocabulary and consistency across sessions — that accentuates the work you already do rather than replacing it. The framework is content-agnostic, so it overlays whatever subject or collection you are working in, which means one method instead of a new one for every topic. Read the methodology →