The Gilt Frame is a forgery and counterfeiting ring of approximately 30 members that produces the highest-quality counterfeit goods in GLMZ — fake luxury augmentations, counterfeited corporate credentials, forged art, and replicated Φ currency (though currency counterfeiting has become nearly impossible with quantum-encrypted transactions, the Gilt Frame manages to counterfeit physical Φ tokens that still circulate in the lower tiers).

The Frame's specialty is augmentation counterfeiting — producing convincing replicas of high-end augmentations from manufacturers like Crucible Industries and TESSERA that look, scan, and partially function like the genuine article but cost a fraction of the price. These counterfeits range from cosmetic augmentations (fake chrome that looks expensive but has no functional capability) to functional but inferior copies (augmentations that work but fail sooner and perform worse than genuine models). The market for these counterfeits is enormous among Tier-2 and Tier-3 residents who want to project a status their income doesn't support.

The Frame also produces forged corporate documentation — employee credentials, security clearances, authorization codes — that are used by other criminal organizations for infiltration and fraud. Their forgeries are good enough to fool automated verification systems, which is a technical achievement that requires deep understanding of corporate security architecture.