What it does, in one sentence
While you work, Radar watches this machine's screen, filters out what isn't work, and sends only short summaries to your Orion account. Your day becomes a record without you typing anything.
Radar is one source, not the origin of everything
Orion already records your work with no app at all: what you agree to on WhatsApp, what arrives by email and what sits in your calendar becomes a record as soon as you connect those channels — that is the chapter on connecting Orion. None of it depends on Radar.
What no channel can see is the screen. The proposal you write in the text editor, the number you settle in the spreadsheet, the order you enter in your company's system, the research you did before deciding — none of that ever becomes a message, which is why it never reached Orion. That is the part Radar adds.
So: without Radar, Orion keeps working through the channels; with it, the part of your day that only existed on screen comes in too.
What never leaves your machine
Your screens and your full text stay on your computer — always. What travels are short summaries, already filtered. Passwords, card numbers and health matters are cut before anything is sent, and never even reach the local records. The app's Status tab shows you, at any moment, exactly what left and what stayed.
Installing
Download it from the Radar page on the website: there is an installer for macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 13+) and one for Windows (10/11, 64-bit).
On Windows, the "Windows protected your PC" warning shows up because the program is new — click More info → Run anyway. Check that the publisher is Y Managers Inc.: that is our signature.
From version 0.3.2 onward Radar updates itself: when a new version is out, it downloads quietly and tells you. You restart whenever you want, from the "Restart to update" item on the system-bar icon.
Connecting your machine to your account
The first time you open Radar, it asks for a connection code. To get one:
- In your browser, go to the website and sign in;
- Open Radar in the dashboard and click Connect a machine;
- Type the code you are shown into the app (valid for 10 minutes, single use).
That's it: the machine is yours, and the work captured there becomes a record in your account. As many machines as you want — each one appears in the list with its name, its version and when it last sent. If a machine goes missing or gets replaced, use Revoke: it stops sending that same moment, and what was on it stays there.
Without connecting, Radar records only on that computer and nothing is sent.
What you see in the app
- Status — whether the sensor is active, what went to Orion today (with the exact summary that reached your account) and what stayed on this machine, with the day's funnel and a 14-day chart.
- Filters — the lists of apps, windows and addresses Radar never looks at.
- Settings — start with your computer, data folder, version.
You own the filter
Any app, window or site on the Filters list is invisible to Radar. One click excludes; another undoes.
Sensitive apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, email) come excluded out of the box. You can switch any of them back on — the app tells you what changes before you accept: whatever gets captured there goes into your personal Radar list, and only becomes visible to other people if you attach it to a deliverable.
When the filter gets it wrong, you fix it on the spot: every summary sent has a "not work" button, and every cut has a "this is work". The list of cuts also shows the reason — what you excluded, and what is Radar's own built-in protection.
Pausing
From the icon on the system bar you can pause capture for as long as you want. While it is paused, the icon shows a line through it — you can tell without opening anything.
What happens on the other side: the Radar queue
What Radar (and your work conversations) pick up does not enter the record on its own. In the dashboard, under Radar, you'll find the queue of what is waiting for your confirmation — and every weekday morning Orion sends a batch of up to 5 items to your channel, to answer with one tap.
Every item arrives with its next step already worked out. Instead of raw text, the AI Manager proposes what to do:
- task in deliverable X — creates the task inside the deliverable, on the work plan;
- decision in team Y's decision log — records the decision where the team will find it;
- record on the deliverable — attaches the fact to its history;
- personal record — stays with you alone.
Confirming executes what is written. If the next step is not what you would do, click Change…: pick another destination (a different deliverable included) and confirm — your call beats the proposal. Later postpones it for three days; Dismiss discards it. Silence records nothing, and items left unanswered drop out of the queue after 14 days.
When a plan rule blocks the creation (for example, a deliverable that is not in a signed deliverables plan yet), the item is not lost: it becomes a pending item on your List and the app tells you why.
Where the records live
- Journal (dashboard → Memory → Journal tab) — everything you confirmed and the organization's logged decisions. Read-only: it is the history, not a draft.
- Notes (same page, Notes tab) — what Orion learned and uses to work. Here you correct and delete; correcting is teaching.
- List (dashboard → Tasks) — your personal pending items.
- Deliverables and plans — where the attached tasks and decisions show up for the team.
Autonomy: the Manager confirming on its own
In Governance there is the Radar autonomy switch. It is born off.
Turned on, the AI Manager confirms high-confidence proposals with a work destination on its own — up to 10 a day — and always reports back on your channel, item by item: what it did, where it went and why. If that notice cannot be delivered, it stops confirming until it can reach you: without accountability, there is no autonomy.
Nothing personal is confirmed on its own — a note and your personal list still wait for you. And any automatic confirmation can be undone within 7 days, in Radar → confirmed (they carry the 🤖 badge).
Three things Radar does not do
- It does not listen — it does not use the microphone, does not record audio, does not transcribe conversations.
- It does not record video — no screen recording is ever created.
- It does not read what you type — nothing from the keyboard or the clipboard.