Press Radar
Press Radar is a 12-block playbook plus zero-dependency scripts for triaging the free journalist-request feeds (Qwoted, Connectively, Featured) without paid credits. It does not write or send pitches. Its first dated run, 2026-08-21 to 24, read 49 default-feed cards to 6 worth reading to 0 usable leads, then found 512 opportunities on one filtered search.
What it does: Triage the free journalist-request feeds in a daily routine (about ten minutes, our estimate, not yet timed), with decision rules and scripts that stay inside every platform's terms of service.
What it will never do: Will never write pitches for you and never sends an email. That is doctrine, not a missing feature.
Instrument: manual triage of the free request feeds, logged 2026-08-21 to 24; pitch registry 2026-08-28; press platform screens re-read 2026-09-03.
Proof files (private audit folder, dated): AUDIT/press-2026-08-24/ · AUDIT/press-2026-08-29/. See the ledger for the public reading.
JustReachOut Starter: $147 / month, 100 emails a month PRIMARY source
Featured.com Pro: about $50 / month plus credits, from a third-party comparison, not confirmed on the vendor page SECONDARY
Press Radar: $149 once, scripts included. It triages free request feeds; it does not send your emails or hold a journalist database. Read the prices as context, not as a swap.
Primary = read on the vendor’s own pricing page on that date. Secondary = a third-party read, not confirmed on the vendor page. No calculator, no “breakeven”, no “profit”: the readings are context, not a swap.
What is inside
Twelve blocks, in this order: a header card (version, owner, filling rule); the executive summary with the first-run capture; the terms-of-service frame that became the doctrine; one sheet per platform (quotas, card anatomy, veins versus noise); the daily routine (about ten minutes, an estimate we have not timed yet); the decision rules, ordered; the scripts with an editable configuration; what we recommend versus what we actually configured; the measurement block with KPI definitions; a maintenance annex; the register of what is not verified, dated; and the version journal.
What the free extract contains
Blocks one to three and the two register blocks: the card anatomy, the dated first-run result and the full table of contents. The paid playbook adds the seven operational blocks and the scripts.
What you need
A free account on each platform, Node.js and Playwright for the scripts (one npm dependency, installed by you), and ten minutes a day. No paid credits, no journalist database, no automation that sends anything.
Waitlist: Press Radar
No ship date is set: a system goes on sale the day its payment test passes. You get one dated note then, with the price frozen and the run proof attached. No sequence, no countdown.
- The name: Knockout search on the web, npm, GitHub and domain records done on 2026-09-07: pressradar.com has been registered since 2005 and is parked, pressradar.store has lapsed, and the -Radar suffix is crowded in adjacent markets. No live product blocks the name; the trademark registers themselves have not been searched yet.
- Time-to-first-placement: One “selected” on 2026-09-03 is not a placement. Nothing published yet; the ledger row updates when it is.
- Founder demand: The 5 founder verbatims needed before any copy addresses first-time founders are not on file. Practitioners only in the copy until then.
Press Radar: questions
Does Press Radar send pitches for me?
No. It triages the free request feeds and gives you decision rules and a timed 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, Connectively and Featured), with a platform sheet each (quotas, card anatomy, what is signal and what is noise) as read on the dates in the playbook.
Why publish a run 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.