Radar 1.0

What’s new

Capture directly from Chrome

Bring new deals into Radar without leaving Chrome. Capture supported deal rooms and webpages, including DocSend. Optional notifications tell you when the analysis finishes.

Connect to your favorite harness

Connect Radar to Claude Code, Codex, or other compatible harnesses through local MCP for ingestion, analysis, and reporting. You control their permissions.

Follow up faster with founders

Work through questions from an assessment, add responses inline, or copy them into an email to the founder. Follow-up questions stay collapsed until you need them.

More AI connection options

OpenAI is now available directly, alongside Anthropic and OpenRouter. Radar uses recommended model routing based on the connections you configure.

Updating from the beta

1. Check your encrypted backup and saved Recovery Kit.
2. Quit Radar and replace the app in Applications.
3. Open Radar. Your existing investments, lenses, documents, and history remain in your workspace.
4. If you use Chrome capture, choose Help → Set Up Chrome Capture, then reload Radar — Capture in Chrome’s extension settings.

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 13 or later.
• Keep Radar running while using Chrome capture or local MCP connectors.

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0.9.6 Beta — earlier release

Keep larger pitch documents in your local workflow.

Radar 0.9.6 raises the local document limit so you can save a full pitch deck on your Mac and ask for a review when you are ready.

Larger documents, saved locally

• The Mac app accepts documents up to 50 MB per file in Add to Radar and Chrome capture. Hosted intake remains limited to 4 MB per file.
• The original stays in your local Radar workspace and its local backups. Saving a document does not start AI work.
• When you request an analysis, Radar extracts readable text from the saved document and sends the relevant content directly to your configured AI provider. Vercel is not in that inference path.
• Text extraction does not interpret charts or image-only slides. Review the source and add context when important information is only visible in images.

Set up Chrome capture

1. Open Radar 0.9.6. In the Mac menu bar, choose Help → Set Up Chrome Capture…
2. In Chrome, open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
3. Choose Load unpacked. Select the whole extension folder inside the setup folder Radar opened, then click Select. Do not select a file inside it or the parent folder. Gray files are normal in this folder picker.
4. Click Chrome’s puzzle-piece Extensions icon. Pin Radar — Capture, then click the Radar logo.
5. Expand Connect to Radar. Under Pairing file, select Radar Chrome pairing.json from the setup folder. Wait for “Ready to capture.” Keep this file private; do not email or upload it.
6. Open a pitch or company webpage. Click the Radar logo, then Preview current page. Check the company name and captured content, tick the confirmation box, and click Send to Radar. Wait for “Saved to your Radar pipeline,” then open Pipeline in Radar.

Keep Radar open while sending. No API key is needed to save a capture, and saving does not start AI analysis. The full guide is always available inside Radar under Help & updates → Set up Chrome capture.

If setup gets stuck

• No Load unpacked button: turn on Developer mode. If your organization blocks extensions, ask its administrator.
• Cannot connect: open Radar on the same Mac, use Help → Set Up Chrome Capture again, and select that folder’s pairing file. If setup still reports an error after reopening Radar, use Help → Save Support Report.
• Updating the extension: after updating Radar, open its Chrome setup folder again, then click Reload on Radar — Capture in Chrome’s extension settings. If you previously loaded a different folder, remove that extension entry and load the folder Radar now provides. Reconnect if asked; existing pipeline records stay in Radar.

The extension reads the tab you choose, not your browsing history. It captures readable page content, not every hidden section or embedded document. Review what was captured before relying on it.

AngelList deal rooms have a dedicated capture flow. For DocSend, attach a complete PDF you are permitted to download; a visible-page preview is not the full deck. Radar does not bypass access or download restrictions.

Updating

Check your backup, quit Radar, and replace the app in Applications using the download on the Radar homepage. Your workspace stays on your Mac. Radar does not install updates automatically.

Apple Silicon Macs only. AI usage is billed through your configured connection. If anything gets in the way, email chandler.koglmeier@gmail.com.