Press Radar A daily routine and scripts to sort free journalist requests, without paid credits
Press Radar is a playbook (a step-by-step guide) plus Node scripts to sort the free journalist-request feeds without paid credits. It does not write or send pitches. First test, 2026: 49 requests read, 6 worth reading, 0 usable leads; second test: 54, 25 and 2. $149. Not on sale yet.
What it does: Sort the free journalist-request feeds in a daily routine of about ten minutes (our estimate, not yet timed), with decision rules and scripts written to stay within each platform's terms of service.
Who it is for
People who answer journalist requests themselves, without paid credits, such as one-person agencies.
Not for: Anyone who wants pitches written or sent for them: it sorts requests, it never writes and never sends.
What it solves
- The free request feeds are mostly noise, and reading them eats the morning. A daily routine with decision rules in a set order, and scripts. Test one, 2026: 49 requests read, 6 worth reading, 0 usable leads.
- Paid credits are the usual answer to a bad feed. One filtered search found more opportunities than the default feeds, with no credit spent. 512 opportunities on one filtered search, read by hand in 2026, no capture kept.
- Reading a platform with a script can cost you the account. The scripts are written to stay within each platform's terms of service, as re-read in 2026. Platform screens re-read in 2026.
Price and access
Files and their updates are delivered in English.
Waiting list: Press Radar
No ship date is set: a system goes on sale once the points under “What we have not verified yet” that hold it back are closed and a live purchase of it has been tested. You get one dated note that day, with the price and the proof attached. No other emails, no countdown.
On sale now: The Domain-Only Website Kit, $129. Free: chapter one of Press Radar, by email.
What is inside
Version 1 of the playbook, dated 2026, has nine sections in a fixed order. Three more are not written yet: the tools section and the two dated registers (what is not verified, and the version journal). This page will count them the day they exist.
What the free chapter contains
How a journalist request reads on each platform, the result of the first dated test, and the terms-of-service rules we work within. The paid playbook adds the working sections and the scripts. Get chapter one free by email.
What you need
A free account on each platform it covers (Qwoted and Connectively), Node.js and Playwright for the scripts (one npm dependency, installed by you), and about ten minutes a day, by our estimate. You install and run the scripts from a terminal, so you need to be comfortable typing commands. No paid credits, no journalist database, no automation that sends anything.
What we measured on the sites we manage
Not on sale yet: this product goes on sale once the points under “What we have not verified yet” that hold it back are closed and a live purchase of it has been tested.
Measured with: the scripts' own outputs for both tests, kept in dated audit folders: one capture file per platform, the merged report and the summary its sorting rules produce. The record of our answers and the platform screens were re-read later in 2026.
The proof is kept in 3 dated audit folders and shared on request; every figure is also on our figures page.
What we have not verified yet (unverified)
- The name: A web search in 2026 found no live product using it; the trademark registers have not been searched yet.
- Time-to-first-placement: One answer was published in 2026, eight days after it was sent, as a named mention without a link. One result is not a rate, and no time to placement is promised.
- Whether it suits first-time founders: We have not heard from enough of them yet to say.
- Third dated test: Two tests of the procedure are on record, both in 2026, with their captures. The third has not been run. The three-test check stays partial until it has, and the platform coverage will be restated then, because Featured stopped serving a request board in 2026.
- The 512 figure: The filtered search that returned 512 opportunities was read by hand in 2026 and no capture was kept. It is a reading we stand behind, not a test of the scripts.
Press Radar: questions
Does Press Radar send pitches for me?
No. It sorts the free request feeds and gives you decision rules and a daily routine. You write and send every pitch yourself, from your own account, within each platform's terms of service.
Which platforms does it cover?
The free journalist-request feeds we run ourselves (Qwoted and Connectively), with a page for each platform (quotas, how a request reads, what is worth reading and what is noise) as read on the dates in the playbook. Featured was covered too until it stopped serving a request board in 2026; its sheet stays in the playbook as a dated record.
Why publish a test that found zero usable leads?
Because that is what the default feeds returned, and the filtered search that found 512 opportunities is the method. A playbook that hid the zero would be selling the wrong lesson.