Radar
How we keep watch on your accounts
RM Radar watches the companies that matter to you, screens out the noise, and drafts the outreach for every genuine piece of news — so you're never the last to know.
Overview
What Radar does
Each company you monitor is watched through Google Alerts. Every new item is screened by Claude, and only genuinely notable company news is kept, classified, and turned into an update with a ready-to-edit outreach email. Updates reach your team in a daily digest and a weekly newsletter. Nothing is ever sent from inside Radar; you copy a draft into your own email client when you're ready.
Sources
Where the news comes from
What it searches
Each company has six complimentary Google Alerts set up against it — a general name alert plus one each for funding, leadership changes, product launches, partnerships, and awards. Radar checks each alert's feed for new items. Google does the searching; nothing here pays per search or crawls the web itself.
How often it runs
Checks run automatically every 6 hours. Admins can also trigger a check at any time from the Companies page — it reads every alert feed and finishes in seconds.
Adding new companies
New companies (added one at a time or via CSV upload) don't get alerts automatically. They're highlighted as pending on the Companies page until an admin runs the alert provisioning script, a one-click local launcher that sets up their Google Alerts.
Screening
What counts as an update
Google Alerts matches on keywords alone, so it can't tell "the company did something" from "the company's name was merely cited" — common for companies whose name is also a media brand — or from "the company did an ordinary instance of the thing it always does". Every item is screened by Claude before it is ever stored. Genuinely notable news is kept and classified into one of these types; everything else is discarded, not just hidden.
Where AI is used
Claude does two jobs, both text-only — it's never used to search the web. First it screens every item Google Alerts finds, reading the title and summary alongside the company's name to decide whether it's real news and which type it is. Second, once an update is saved, it drafts the outreach email attached to it.
Avoiding duplicates
The same story is often syndicated to several outlets under the same headline with a different URL each time. Updates are deduplicated per company by source URL and by a normalized version of the title, so re-published copies show up once.
Outreach
What happens after a match
Each new update gets a Claude-drafted outreach email ready for review, and is included in the daily digest and weekly newsletter sent to your team. Drafts can be edited in place (subject and body, plain text) and copied to your clipboard for pasting into your email client. The signature drafts sign off with is editable on the Data settings page.
Learning your voice
Every time you edit a draft and save it, that edit is remembered. When Claude drafts a new email it looks at your most recently edited drafts — what it originally wrote versus what you actually sent — and uses them as examples to match your tone. There is nothing to configure; drafts get closer to your voice the more you edit them.
Data retention
Updates are kept for a configurable number of days (default 90, editable by an admin on the Data settings page) before being deleted automatically every night.