Radar

How Radar finds people for you, how many it finds on each plan, where they go, and how to pause it or change its brief.

Radar finds people with a fresh reason to hear from you. It reads job posts, news and LinkedIn on its search days and compares what it finds to your brief. Use this page to read what Radar shows you and to control it.

Your brief is your description of who to look for, what you offer and who to leave out. Radar reads it before every search. See the glossary.

To start Radar for the first time, see Set up Radar.

What Radar does and doesn’t do

• It finds people and adds them to People.
• It doesn’t write to anyone.
• It doesn’t put anyone in a campaign on its own, unless a route is set. See How Radar people reach a campaign.

Radar people wait in To review, because review is on by default for Radar. They stay there until you mark them. No campaign receives them on its own unless a route is set.

How many people Radar finds

Plan	How many	Search days
Trial	Up to 3 people a day, 20 in all during the trial	Every weekday
Free	Up to 10 people a week, 5 of them visible	Every Monday
Paid	Up to 25 people a day	Every weekday
Older paid plans	Up to 25 people a day. The monthly limit of your plan still applies	Every weekday

These are upper limits. A search can bring fewer people, or nobody.

How the Free week works

• The week runs Monday to Sunday, counted in UTC. In the week your trial ends, it starts when the trial ended.
• Your first search can run on any weekday. It counts inside the same 10 for that week.
• Once 10 people are found, Radar doesn’t search again that week.
• People past the 5 visible ones are locked. The Overview tab says how many more were found this week and are waiting behind your plan, with a See plans link.
• They open when you upgrade.

Radar’s status

You see the status at the top of the Radar page and on the Radar row in Sources.

Status	What it means	What to do
Running	Radar searches on its search days	Nothing
First search running	The first search is under way	Wait. People show up on the Radar page
Search scheduled	The first search has a start time. The page tells you when, such as tomorrow morning	Wait. It starts on its own
Waiting to start	Radar is in line behind other new Radars	Wait. It starts on its own, and there is nothing to resume. See why it can wait
Paused	No new searches	Press Resume Radar, unless the page says B2B Signals paused it
Not set up	This workspace has no Radar yet	Press Set up Radar

The Radar page

Open Sources, then Open Radar. The page has four tabs: Overview, Brief, Where it looks and History.

If your workspace has more than one Radar, the Radar page and Sources show the running one. With none running, they show the most recent.

Overview

Overview shows the people found today and how this week compares with your target. If people came in today, Review today’s people opens them.

Radar's Overview: people found today, this week against the target, and the Good fit share. The target here is an example; yours depends on your plan.

It also shows:

• Good fit share: how many of the people you rated were a Good fit. Until you rate a few, it asks you to.
• What changed this week: what happened in your market and what Radar learned from your ratings. Radar can suggest a change to your brief here. Nothing changes until you accept it.
• The next search day. Your digest arrives when the new people do. When searches keep finding nobody, the digest part is left out. See When searches keep finding nobody.
• See who Radar skipped this week, and why: people it found and left out in the last 7 days, with the reason.

Ask about Radar opens Ask with Radar as the topic.

History

History has two parts:

• Brief changes shows every change to the brief, who made it and what it did. You can restore an earlier version. A restore shows up as a new change, so you can undo it too.
• Searches shows what each search brought in. A day with nobody shows why. See them on today’s row opens those people. Show older searches goes further back.

Where it looks

Radar picks where to look from your brief. Someone found in two places counts once. Each kind of place shows Most people, Some or A few.

You don’t have to change anything here. If you want to choose the places yourself:

1. Press Change sources by hand. It opens a week after Radar’s first search. Only owners and admins can use it.
2. Turn single places on or off. Anything you turn off stays off. Radar asks before turning on anything new.
3. To hand this back, press Let Radar decide again.

If Radar suggests a new place, open it with Review, then press Approve or Decline.

A place you can’t turn on shows why:

Label	What it means
Off · not useful for your brief	Radar turned it off because it doesn’t fit your brief
Turned off by B2B Signals	Our team turned it off
Needs setup first	It needs something connected first
Not part of your Radar	It isn’t included in your Radar
Not available yet	It isn’t ready to use

What the empty states mean

What you see	What it means	What to do
Radar isn’t set up for this workspace yet	No Radar exists here. Your other sources keep working	Press Set up Radar, or read the reason on screen
”Radar reads LinkedIn only during set hours, so your first search starts tomorrow morning.”	The first search is booked for the time shown	Wait. It starts on its own
”Your first search is running.”	The search is under way	Wait a few minutes
”Radar searched and found no matches for your brief yet.”	The search ran and nobody passed your brief	Wait for the next search. If it keeps happening, widen your brief
”The first search didn’t finish. Radar searches again on its next search day.”	The search stopped early	Wait for the next search day
”Radar couldn’t search LinkedIn that day: it searches only during set hours each day and none were open, so it found nobody.”	The search had no open hours. This wasn’t about your brief, so don’t change it	Wait for the next search. Radar retries a first search once when it ended empty for this reason
”Radar couldn’t search LinkedIn that day: it had reached its daily LinkedIn limits, so it found nobody.”	Radar had used its LinkedIn searches for the day. This wasn’t about your brief	Wait for the next search
Nothing new while Radar is paused	Radar is paused. The people it found before are still in People	Press Resume Radar
Radar is waiting in line	Radar is set up and starts by itself	Wait
Radar has no brief yet	Radar isn’t set up yet	Set up Radar
Radar has not searched yet	Where it looks fills in after the first search	Wait
”No searches yet. The first one appears here as soon as Radar has run.”	History fills in after the first search	Wait
”Nobody was skipped in the last 7 days.”	Radar left nobody out this week	Nothing

When searches keep finding nobody

If Radar’s latest searches under your current brief all brought nobody new, Overview and the Radar row on Sources say so, with an Edit your brief link. It shows after at least 2 searches in a row, on at least 2 different days, in the last 21 days.

What you see	What it means
”Radar has searched N times since a date and found people, but none matched your brief closely enough. Your brief may be too narrow.”	Radar looked at people and left them all out
”Radar has searched N times since a date and found nobody who matches your brief. Your brief may be too narrow, or two parts of it may disagree.”	Radar found nobody to look at

Press Edit your brief to open the Brief tab. See Change your brief.

The notice goes away once a search brings someone. Searches that couldn’t read LinkedIn don’t count toward it, and neither do searches under an older version of your brief. It doesn’t show while Radar is paused, waiting in line or running its first search.

Change your brief

Open the Brief tab. Only owners and admins can change the brief. Changes send nothing to anyone.

1. Pick a section

   Press Edit on the section you want. For What Radar watches for, press Change.

2. Make your change

   Edit the fields, then press Save. The change applies from the next search.

3. Undo it if you need to

   The message after saving has an Undo button. Later, you can undo any change from History.

Section	What it holds
Who	Roles, the kind of company, company size, where and language. An empty Where means anywhere
Offer and voice	What you offer and how your messages sound
What Radar watches for	The reasons that make someone worth finding
Leave out	Kinds of company, roles, companies, competitors, current clients and people
Examples	People you mark Good fit or Not a fit. Radar compares new people to the ones you picked. Pick people, not companies

People already in a campaign and everyone on Do not contact are always left out.

You can also ask for a change in Ask. It shows up as Change to your brief, with what to expect. Press Apply, Ask for another change or Not now.

More options

Option	What it does
How close a match	Strict: only people who match every part of the brief. Balanced: close matches and similar job titles. Recommended. Open: anyone near the brief, and you’ll mark more as Not a fit. Applies from the next search
Past customers to watch	Upload a CSV with a name and a LinkedIn profile link for each person, up to 2 MB. When one of them starts a new job, Radar brings them to you. The people also show as the watchlist “Past customers”
Website visitors	Not available yet. See Website visitors

Pause and resume

Only owners and admins can pause or resume Radar. Pausing doesn’t change your plan, and you can undo it.

1. Open the menu

   On the Radar page, open the ⋯ menu and press Pause Radar.

2. Choose how long

   Pick Until I resume it, or For one week, then it starts again on its own.

3. Confirm

   Press Pause Radar. The message that follows has an Undo button.

What a pause does:

• Radar stops searching. A search that hasn’t started yet is canceled. One that is already running finishes.
• People it already found stay in People.
• Campaigns keep writing to them. Pausing Radar doesn’t stop a campaign. To stop sending, pause the campaign itself.
• Your watchlists keep running.

To start again, press Resume Radar. Radar searches on its next search day, not right away.

If the page says Paused by B2B Signals, you can’t resume it yourself. Contact us.

Where new people go

Open the ⋯ menu on the Radar page and press Where new people go. Only owners and admins can change this. It applies to everyone Radar finds from now on, not to people it has already found.

Setting	What it does
New people go to the list	The list Radar adds new people to. A new Radar starts with its own list. Lists that belong to an agent or watchlist aren’t offered here
Review new people before campaigns	On by default. Recommended while Radar is still learning your taste

Where new people go: the list Radar adds people to, and the review switch.

This dialog doesn’t choose a campaign. It sets a list and the review switch.

How Radar people reach a campaign

Finding someone doesn’t put them in a campaign. These are the ways a Radar person gets into one.

Route	What happens
You mark them Good fit, and a live campaign uses a list they’re on	They join that campaign, if it takes new people. See Add people
You set up a first campaign at signup	It runs on Radar’s list and takes only people you mark Good fit. It adds up to 3 new people a day, one person per company per week, and each message waits for your approval. See Approvals
You add them to a campaign by hand	They join if they’re past review. See Add people

With review on, a person in To review stays out of campaigns, by any route, until you mark them Good fit. Marking them Good fit is what can start messages, so check which campaigns use the list first.

If you don’t have a live campaign on the list, marking someone Good fit sends nothing. They stay in People until you add them to a campaign.

On the Free plan, campaigns don’t launch until you upgrade.

Set up Radar

Who can set it up, and why it might refuse or wait.

Review people

Mark people Good fit or Not a fit.

Add people to a campaign

Move people from a list into a campaign.

Plans

What each plan includes.