Know what's happening before you go live

You go live at eight. At six you need to know what the audience already saw today, who put it in front of them, what the other shows are leading with, and whether the story you planned is still the story.

That is two surfaces working together. Social radar answers what is happening — one question, a time window, a cited briefing back. Chat's social reach answers who and what specifically — the accounts, the posts, the comment threads, the trend charts. Radar hands its answer to a chat, so the second half happens in the same conversation as the first.

Start wide, in a window

Open Social radar, set the recency control to how far back you want to look — it opens on the last 24 hours, and goes down to the last 30 minutes for a story that is moving — and ask. The window is the point: it is what stops Endless answering from what it already knew and makes it go and look.

What's happening in Buenos Aires right now around the transport strike? Group it by theme, lead with the newest, separate what's confirmed from what's still rumour, and put a link behind every claim.

The pills under the composer are the live trends for wherever the request appears to come from; selecting one writes the prompt for you. If the briefing comes back thin, that is the honest answer for that window rather than a failure — widen it and ask again.

Radar searches the web, X and Reddit. Everything else — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook — comes from the next step.

Then get specific, in the same chat

Sending from Radar hands off to a normal conversation, so keep going in it. These are ordinary questions; you never name a tool.

Which accounts are actually driving this? For each one, pull the profile and the post that started it, tell me how big the account is, and read me the top comments on the biggest post.

What have @lasegunda, @rednoticias and @canalmetro posted in the last 24 hours across Instagram, X and TikTok? One line each with the engagement, and flag anything that touches tonight's story.

Search TikTok and Instagram for what creators are posting about this in the last 24 hours. Give me the five most-viewed, the angle each one takes, and the sound they're using.

Instagram adds stories and highlights; X can list who liked or reposted a specific post; TikTok goes at hashtags and at every video using one sound. Nothing stops a question crossing platforms — the reply just makes more lookups.

Turn it into something you can put on air

The research and the writing happen in one conversation, so the last step is another message rather than another tool.

Build tonight's opening from that: a 90-second rundown in three beats, the exact post or clip to show on each, two questions for the guest, and a one-line correction for the claim you flagged as false.

Three things worth knowing

Radar can be switched off. It is one of the surfaces a workspace can turn off for everyone, a team or one person; where it is off there is no entry in the sidebar and a saved link takes you home. Trending topics on X ride the same switch — that single lookup goes with it, and every other social lookup keeps working. See feature availability.

Nothing here is saved. Radar has no watchlist, no tracked accounts and no history of its own. Each question is a fresh search, and the only thing that persists is the conversation it starts, which lives in chat history like any other. If you want the same sweep every day without asking for it, that is a scheduled task — put this prompt on a timer and read the result when it lands.

Radar without leaving your chat. Type @radar in an ordinary composer and the same recency control appears there, armed at the last 24 hours. Useful when you are already mid-conversation about tonight's rundown and just need the live half.