Over the past few months I’ve been building Radar, an open-source media intelligence and social listening platform that anyone can self-host.

The project started with a simple observation: most media monitoring platforms are incredibly powerful—but they’re also expensive, closed, and often lock users into proprietary AI services.

I wanted to explore a different approach.

What is Radar?

Radar is a self-hostable platform for monitoring news and public media sources using AI.