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Use this page to start Radar in a workspace that doesn’t have one, or to find out why you can’t. Setup takes two steps: tell us what you sell, then check the brief we write. Nothing is sent to anyone. There is no preview search: the first real search is your preview.

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Who can set it up

Owners and admins of a workspace can set up Radar, on any plan. Each workspace has one Radar. Other members see “Only owners and admins can set up Radar. Ask one of them to do it.”

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Set it up

1

Open setup

Open Sources and press Set up Radar.
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Tell us what you sell

Enter Your website and press Continue. We read the site and suggest who to look for. No website? Press No website? Describe what you sell and write a sentence or two instead.
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Check your brief

Under Here’s who we’ll look for, click any underlined part to change it, or tell us what to change in words. Your changes save as you go. You need what you sell, who buys it and where.
Set up Radar page showing the brief in six parts and the Start Radar button

Step 2 of 2: the brief, the plan's limits and Start Radar.

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Press Start Radar

Press Start Radar. The screen tells you when the first search starts. Got it closes the message.
If you leave, you can come back: we keep your draft for 30 days.

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If we can’t read your site

You see We couldn’t read that site. Tell us in one line what you sell, or press Try the site again.

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Limits on writing a brief

When you reach a limit, the screen tells you, and you can still change the brief by hand.

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What your plan gets

The What your plan gets card shows your limits before you start. See How many people Radar finds. If your workspace is on an older free plan, a note appears before you start: “Starting Radar moves this workspace to the Free plan, with its Radar limits. On Free, campaigns don’t launch and nothing is pushed to your other tools until you upgrade.” Looking at the setup page doesn’t move your workspace. Only Start Radar does.

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Why setup can be refused

The page shows Radar can’t be set up yet and one of these reasons.
Radar can't be set up yet, with the reason about the last payment and an Open billing button

Setup refused after a failed payment. Open billing leads to the fix.

These can appear when you press Start Radar:

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When the first search starts

After you press Start Radar, you see one of these. After the first search, Radar follows your plan’s search days. See Radar.

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Why the first search can wait

There are two reasons. It waits for the right hours. Radar’s status shows Search scheduled, and the page says when it starts. You don’t need to do anything. It waits in line. Only a limited number of new Radars start each day. Past that limit, trial and Free workspaces wait in order and start by themselves. The status shows Waiting to start. The date shown is an estimate.
  • Paid plans never wait in this line. If you upgrade while waiting, Radar starts without waiting.
  • There is nothing to resume. If you try, you see “Radar is waiting in line behind other new Radars. It starts by itself, nothing to resume.”
  • If a payment fails while you wait, Radar tells you to fix it in Billing. It starts by itself at the next daily start after that.
  • If the plan is canceled while you wait, Radar stops waiting and stays paused.

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If the first search finds nobody

Check the reason on the Radar page. See What the empty states mean. If Radar couldn’t search LinkedIn, the search says why, and the reason isn’t your brief:
  • “it searches only during set hours each day and none were open”. Radar retries a first search once, unless your Free week is already full.
  • “it had reached its daily LinkedIn limits”. The next search runs on its next search day.
For every message, see What the empty states mean.

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What to do next

  • Check the Brief. You can edit it at any time.
  • Choose Where new people go.
  • When people arrive, review them. They wait in To review, and no campaign receives them on its own unless a route is set.

Radar

Statuses, limits, pause and resume.

Plans

Compare what each plan includes.

Billing

Choose a plan or fix a payment.

Review people

Decide who is a Good fit.