What your AI can do with BRONTIR
A plain-language tour of the capabilities and tools your agent gets over MCP — no setup jargon.
What your AI can do with BRONTIR
Turn the entire public web into a structured, citable, always-fresh knowledge base for your AI agents.
BRONTIR is a research backend that connects to your AI assistant over MCP and gives it what plain web search can’t: deep access to the real content of live sites, meaning-aware extraction, and a durable memory it can search and cite. Where built-in tools return snippets that vanish after a turn, BRONTIR builds a permanent corpus you can return to, search inside, and cite down to the exact line.
What it can do
Reach any public page
Give it any public link and get back clean, readable content. News articles, blogs, documentation, company sites, landing pages — any public HTTP(S) URL is accepted and turned into structured text ready for analysis.
Deep, platform-aware extraction
For the most popular platforms it uses specialized extraction that understands each platform’s structure, not a generic page dump:
- Video — transcripts and metadata (YouTube and more), so your agent can analyze a video without watching it.
- Social — posts, comments and metadata from Reddit, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, Twitch, Snapchat and Truth Social.
- Documents — text extracted from PDFs by direct link.
- Images — pictures are described in text, so visual content becomes searchable, quotable and analyzable. Works both for images inside posts and for a direct link to a picture.
Search and discover
Don’t have exact URLs? Run a search and let the platform find sources for you:
- Web — organic results with related queries.
- Maps & local — places, businesses and points on the map, down to a single listing.
- Video — find clips with filters for upload date, quality and exact match.
- Social — search by keyword, community, hashtag, author or ad library, with date filters.
Extraction by meaning, not raw dump
Every fetch carries a plain-language intent — what you actually care about. The platform doesn’t just download a page; it separates signal from noise, splitting results into relevant and off-topic and surfacing the key parts of long material. You get an answer to your question, not a pile of HTML.
Persistent, citable memory
Everything gathered is stored as durable records in your workspace — not ephemeral text dropped into a single turn:
- Re-readable — every result from Search and Fetch is kept as a citable record you can open again later, long after the turn that produced it.
- Exact citations — pull the precise line ranges you care about from a specific version of a record, and get answers backed by per-record, line-level citations.
- Search inside your corpus — keyword and regular-expression search across everything you’ve collected, with context around each match.
Research agents
Intelligent helpers work on top of the collected data:
- Batch fetch dozens of links in one call, processed in parallel with clean per-item error handling.
- Structured questions over your corpus — get a ready answer, a set of supporting citations, or both at once.
- Search fan-out — run a series of searches across different platforms in a single task.
Real-time results
Long research doesn’t make you wait for all-or-nothing. Partial results stream in as they arrive: first findings show up immediately, so your agent can react on the fly, branch into new directions, and stop as soon as it has enough.
The tools your agent gets
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search | Discover sources across Google, Google Maps, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok and Threads — run one query across several sources at once. |
| Fetch | Pull clean, structured content from any public URL — many at a time — with platform-aware extraction for video, social, PDFs and images. |
| Ask | Ask a question over the records you’ve gathered and get an answer with per-record, line-level citations. |
| Read | Read any collected record by reference — a specific version, or just the exact line range you need. |
| GrepData | Search your whole corpus by keyword or regex, with surrounding context. |
| GetResults | Stream and collect results from longer research tasks as they complete. |
Sources you can work with
- Web & search — Google, websites, product pages, news
- Maps & local — Google Maps, local businesses, reviews
- Video & creators — YouTube, TikTok, Twitch
- Social platforms — Reddit, X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, Snapchat, Truth Social
- Documents & files — PDFs, tables, images
Why it beats plain web search
| Plain web search | BRONTIR |
|---|---|
| Snippets that vanish after the answer | A permanent corpus you can return to |
| Only what made it into the snippet | Full content of pages, videos, posts, PDFs and images |
| No way to cite a specific spot | Citations precise to the line |
| Starts from scratch each time | A cached, re-readable corpus you can search and cite |
| One generic parser | Platform-specific extraction for each source |
| A crowd of tools weighing the agent down | A lightweight toolkit — a few simple tools with dozens of sources behind them, keeping your agent fast and focused |
| Every result looks equally important | Each source comes with a short summary and a relevance note, so your agent skips the noise |
| Whole pages burned through the context window | Your agent reads only the parts that matter — each task finishes faster and costs less |
Getting started
- Create an account — free, no card required. You get free credits to explore right away.
- Connect your client — add the hosted BRONTIR MCP endpoint to your AI client and authorize with OAuth. Nothing to install.
- Ask for data — find, extract, compare, summarize or structure public data, directly in your chat.
BRONTIR. The entire public web, as one structured knowledge base.