01Ask in plain words
Say what the person wants done for their footage or film, the way they said it: “I want to make a DCP”, “I want my footage to have a glitch effect”, “give this a screen texture”. Bradford answers with the services that fit, their status and price, the looks that match, and the next step. When Bradford does not offer it, the answer says so (matched: false) and lists what it does offer.
The quickest way, with no key:
curl -s 'https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/public/agents/services?q=I+want+to+make+a+DCP'The same answer comes from the A2A agent, the remote MCP server (tool find_services) and the HTTP API.
02What Bradford offers
Glitch looks for footage (opening)
Analog and digital video glitch looks on your footage: VHS and tape faults, old TV and CRT decoding, video feedback, vision-mixer keys, frame-buffer corruption and video-synth patterns, from Bradford Glitch, an OpenFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve (macOS and Windows).
License $199, one time (not on sale yet). Cloud renders (coming): $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second.
- Look through the looks (with before and after samples) at https://www.bradfordoperations.com/agents/looks.json or https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/public/agents/looks?product=glitch&q=<words>.
- Licenses are not on sale yet; the product page has "Get notified" and will sell them when the store opens.
- Use it in DaVinci Resolve. An agent will be able to drive it through the Bradford Plugins app's local MCP (bradford-fx) when the app is released.
- Cloud renders from an agent are coming; they will charge $1.50 per finished minute at HD, $4.50 at 4K, charged by the second (no license needed). A license holder rendering in the Lab pays $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second.
Textures looks for footage (opening)
Screen and print textures on your footage: a picture filmed off a CRT or LED screen, LCD and handheld-camera looks, photocopy, risograph-style stencil print, screen print, gravure, cyanotype, dot-matrix and thermal-receipt prints, from Bradford Textures, an OpenFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve (macOS and Windows).
License $199, one time (not on sale yet). Cloud renders (coming): $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second.
- Look through the looks (with before and after samples) at https://www.bradfordoperations.com/agents/looks.json or https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/public/agents/looks?product=textures&q=<words>.
- Licenses are not on sale yet; the product page has "Get notified" and will sell them when the store opens.
- Use it in DaVinci Resolve. An agent will be able to drive it through the Bradford Plugins app's local MCP (bradford-fx) when the app is released.
- Cloud renders from an agent are coming; they will charge $1.50 per finished minute at HD, $4.50 at 4K, charged by the second (no license needed). A license holder rendering in the Lab pays $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second.
DCP mastering (Digital Cinema Package) (coming)
Turn a finished film into a DCP for cinemas and festivals. As an agent service (MCP, A2A and API) it is coming: it will need a Bradford Lab account, the source in Lab storage, and will return the DCP to the Lab library. Today Bradford makes DCPs as a hands-on post service: write to hello@bradfordoperations.com.
Price: by quote today; agent pricing not set.
- Today: email hello@bradfordoperations.com with the film's length, frame rate, resolution, audio layout and the festival's or cinema's spec.
- Coming: request it through MCP, A2A or the API with a Lab account; the DCP comes back as an asset in your library.
Hands-on post-production by Bradford Operations (available)
People, not an API: color grading (HDR and SDR, ACES, Dolby Vision), online editing and conform, archival restoration, post supervision, accessibility (captions, subtitles, audio description) and deliverables (DCPs, broadcast and streaming masters, LTO archive), from a New York post house.
Price: by quote.
- Email hello@bradfordoperations.com with the project, its length, the deliverables and the dates.
Status words: available means it can be had now; opening means it is made and shown here but licenses are not on sale yet; coming means planned and not reachable yet.
03Doors for agents
- A2A endpoint
https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/a2a- Remote MCP
https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/mcp- Looks gallery
- https://www.bradfordoperations.com/agents/looks.json
- For language models
- https://www.bradfordoperations.com/llms.txt
04Every interface, and its status
- bradford-fx (local MCP, stdio) (coming): Ships with the Bradford Plugins desktop app, which is not released yet. The effects engine inside the app speaks MCP; the app's "Connect to an agent" registers it with Claude Desktop or Claude Code as `bradford-fx` (command: the app's bradford_fx, args: ["mcp"]). Tools list effects and looks, describe parameters, validate a stack and render previews and files on the person's own machine with their license.
- build_stack_from_references (local MCP, stdio) (coming): Built and tested by Bradford, not yet shipped to customers. Reference pictures and a written direction in, a validated Glitch/Textures stack out. Runs beside bradford-fx; abstains when the direction is not something these effects can make.
- Cloud renders (CLI/MCP and API) (coming): Send footage and a stack to Bradford's render fleet from the Plugins app's CLI or MCP; the render comes back as a new version in the person's Lab library. Needs a Lab account, a license for the plugin, and a Lab balance: $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second.
- A2A inquiry agent (available): An A2A agent (JSON-RPC, protocol 1.0 and 0.3) that answers what Bradford offers for a request in plain words, which looks fit, what it costs and how to start. It runs no jobs.
- Public read API (available): GET the services and the looks gallery, with plain-words matching. No key needed.
- Remote MCP (streamable HTTP, read-only) (available): The same answers as the public API as MCP tools (find_services, find_looks, get_look), for any MCP client that takes a URL. No key needed.
05To contract Bradford
Today, for anything on this page, write to hello@bradfordoperations.com with what needs doing, the material (length, frame rate, resolution, audio layout) and the dates. A person answers.
Coming: an agent will be able to start a Bradford Lab account for a person (the person confirms the terms and payment), and then run renders and DCPs, paid from the account's Lab balance, through MCP, A2A or the API. Nothing on this page runs a job yet.