About
Why we're doing this
The modern news experience is broken. Not because there's too little information — because there's too much of it, competing for attention in all the wrong ways.
The problem
The attention economy is broken
Scroll through any major news app and you'll find the same pattern: sensational headlines, infinite feeds designed to keep you scrolling, and recommendation engines that slowly narrow your worldview.
The business model is simple — more time on screen means more ad impressions — and it comes at the cost of your focus, your mood, and your understanding of what's actually happening in the world.
The vision
What we wanted instead
A news experience that treats readers like adults. One that says: here are the important things that happened today across technology, science, business, and the world — summarised clearly, linked to the original source, and organised by topic instead of outrage potential.
No paywalls hiding public-interest reporting. No algorithmic bubbles. No notification spam engineered to spike anxiety. Just a clean, fast, intelligent briefing you can scan in five minutes and then get on with your day.
The approach
Why AI, specifically
A single human editor can monitor maybe 30–40 sources well. We wanted to watch hundreds — across geographies, disciplines, and languages — without sacrificing curation quality. AI lets us do the heavy lifting of ingestion, deduplication, topic clustering, and summarisation at scale, so the editorial layer can focus on what machines can't do: judgment calls about context, nuance, and importance.
We're transparent about where AI is involved and where it isn't. Every summary is machine-generated and labelled as such. Every source link points to the original publisher. We see AI as a tool for amplifying good journalism, not replacing it.
The mission
The bigger picture
Informed citizens make better decisions — for themselves, their communities, and the planet. If we can make it even slightly easier for busy people to stay genuinely informed, that's a contribution worth making. That's why we're building On Radar.