The Radar: a card deck for triaging rising topics one at a time

The Radar screen is where you triage the rising topics the market radar finds. It deals them as a deck of cards, one topic at a time: decide, then move on. What a snapshot holds and when the radar is lit is on From the market radar; this page covers the screen.

What the Radar shows#

The deck spans the projects of the organization picked in the project switcher. When that organization has more than one project, a dropdown in the header narrows it to one; the default is All projects. Changing it deals a fresh deck.

Cards come momentum first (breakout, then rising, then building), then by novelty, then by recency. Each card shows:

• the topic's headline, its project and when the snapshot was taken;
• chips for momentum and novelty, and a change chip against the project's previous snapshot: New on radar, Heating up or Cooling;
• a verdict on the strongest topics: Hot pick — act within 48h for a breakout that your plan does not already cover, Worth a look for other breakouts and for new rising topics;
• the summary, then the article angles it could become, each with its positioning;
• Why it's moving: the drivers and the evidence, each linking to its source when a link exists.

With one project selected, a strip under the header shows the head terms' Google Trends trajectory. It orients you on the niche and does not score the topics.

Lit, dormant and preview cards#

Each card carries its project's radar state. A lit radar takes a fresh snapshot about once a day. A dormant radar's cards come from its last sweep, now refreshed weekly. A preview card comes from the one snapshot taken when the project was created. Dormant and preview cards work like any other card; they carry a Dormant or Preview chip, and a banner under the header explains the state. When exactly one project is dormant, the banner links to Light your radar on its overview, where a research run relights daily sweeps for 30 days.

Where the data comes from#

The deck reads your projects' stored radar snapshots and loads more cards as you go. Angles are generated as a card nears the top and then cached.

What you can do here#

• Pick angles. One angle is selected for you: the first that is not already in your plan or a near-duplicate of something there. Tap angles to change the selection. Angles already added are marked; near-duplicates name the suggestion they resemble.
• Custom positioning or POV. Type a point of view and press Generate to add angles written from it.
• Keep (or swipe right, or the right arrow key) adds the selected angles to the content plan, and each starts its brief. Keep needs at least one angle selected.
• Dismiss (swipe left, left arrow) removes the topic. An Undo in the notice brings it back within five seconds; after that the dismissal is stored.
• Later (top-left of the card, or the up arrow) sends the card to the back of the deck for this session.

The header keeps a tally of kept, added and passed. When the deck runs out, the screen says when the next sweep is due, or that none is scheduled for an unlit project.

The same work over MCP#

• list_radar_topics returns one project's latest snapshot: the topics, their index, and how many suggestions came from each.
• expand_radar_topic returns the angles for one topic; pass customPov for the Generate behavior.
• add_radar_topic is Keep: it adds the chosen angles and starts their briefs.

Dismiss and Later have no MCP tool; they exist only on this screen.