The Follow-Up Radar
Never lose a thread again.
You asked. They went quiet. Nobody on earth is tracking that they owe you — so the deal stalls, the invoice ages, and the client wonders if you're on top of things. The Radar keeps a ledger of everything you're owed and refuses to let any of it die quietly.
Works with Gmail and Outlook · Nags you, never your contacts · Free during early access
The follow-up black hole
The most expensive task is the one nobody wrote down
Your to-do list tracks what youowe. Nothing tracks what you're owed— the proposal awaiting sign-off, the redlines legal promised, the invoice that's been “processing” for three weeks. Those threads live in your sent folder, which is where good intentions go to be forgotten.
A dropped follow-up isn't a productivity slip. It's a stalled deal, a ghosted retainer, a reputation quietly eroding one unanswered email at a time. The Radar exists so that never happens again.
How it works
Say it once. The Radar takes it from there.
Four moves, and none of them involve a spreadsheet named followups_v3.xlsx.
Register the wait
Type one line — “waiting on Dave for Q3 numbers by Friday” — and the Radar parses who, what, and when. Or forward a sent email to your capture address and accept the waiting-for it detects. Either way: ten seconds, done.
The Radar watches
While the reply window is open, the Radar stays silent. No check-in rituals, no “did they answer yet?” tab-switching. You get your attention back until the deadline actually passes.
Nudges escalate
The window passes, and the Radar starts emailing you — politely at first, then daily with escalating subject lines. Every nudge arrives with a pre-drafted bump, so following up costs one paste instead of ten minutes of wordsmithing.
One tap resolves
Sent it. Got reply. Snooze. Drop. Four links at the bottom of every nudge, and they work from any mail client on any device — no login, no app switch. Resolution happens where you already are: your inbox.
Anatomy of a nudge
An email that does the awkward part for you
The hard part of following up was never remembering — it was composing. Finding words that are firm without being rude, for the third time, about the same thing. Every nudge ships with a draft already written in your chosen tone, ready to paste into a reply from your own address, in your own voice.
- A subject line that tells you the count at a glance
- The context: what you asked for, when, and from whom
- A ready-to-send bump — gentle, direct, or final
- Action links that resolve the item without logging in
Still waiting on Dave — day 3
The situation
You asked Dave for the Q3 budget numbers last Tuesday and expected them by Friday. It's Monday. Still nothing.
Your draft — direct tone
“Hi Dave — circling back on the Q3 numbers. I need them to lock the board deck by Wednesday. Can you send what you have today, even if it's rough?”
Links work from any mail client, with a quick confirm step — so an overeager email scanner can't resolve your follow-ups for you.
An important distinction
The Radar nags you — never your contacts
Nothing goes out to Dave unless you send it. The Radar drafts the bump, but you decide when it leaves, from your own email address, sounding like you. Your clients never receive a robotic “reminder from a system” — they receive a well-timed, human follow-up that happens to arrive exactly when it should.
You stay the sender. The Radar is just the part of your brain that never forgets — outsourced.
Anti-nag-fatigue design
Persistent, not annoying
A reminder system you start filtering to a folder is a reminder system you don't have. Every detail below exists to keep the nudges welcome.
Quiet hours and weekend respect
Nudges arrive during your business hours, in your timezone, and never on weekends. A follow-up reminder at 11 PM on Saturday helps nobody — it just trains you to ignore the sender.
Escalation that matches reality
First nudge when the reply window passes, then one business day later, then daily — with subject lines that keep count. Urgency grows the way it actually grows, not all at once on day one.
Three tones, your call
Gentle for the client you're courting, direct for the colleague on deadline, final for the invoice that's 40 days past due. Pick per item; the draft matches the moment.
The 7-nudge ceiling and the graveyard
After seven nudges, the Radar stops emailing and moves the item to a weekly graveyard review. Some threads deserve a deliberate decision — chase harder, or let go — not an infinite drip of guilt.
Snooze without shame
Dave's on vacation until Thursday? One tap pushes the whole cadence back. The Radar resumes when the new window passes — no red badges accumulating while you wait.
You hold the send button
Every bump goes out from your address, in your words, when you choose. The Radar supplies memory and a draft — the relationship stays entirely yours.
Built for
People whose money is stuck in someone else's inbox
Fractional executives
Invoice 47 has been “with accounting” for three weeks, and asking a fourth time feels desperate. The Radar remembers so you don't have to rehearse — and hands you a final-tone draft that gets it paid.
Agency owners & account leads
The campaign can't ship until the client sends brand assets, and the client went quiet nine days ago. The Radar tracks every asset, approval, and answer you're owed across every account — and makes sure the bump goes out before the timeline slips.
Anyone whose projects stall silently
Recruiters waiting on hiring managers. Founders waiting on term sheets. Freelancers waiting on feedback. If your work depends on other people replying, the Radar is the difference between “it stalled” and “I caught it on day two.”
Resolved Radar items feed your daily command center, and forwarded emails become Radar items automatically via email-in capture. Coming from a task app that forgot the waiting-for half of your job? See how LoopVantage compares to Todoist and Motion.
FAQ
Fair questions about the Radar
Does the Radar email the people I'm waiting on?
How does it know when someone replies?
What if I'm waiting on a lot of people?
Will the reminders just become noise I ignore?
What does it cost?
The next thread you drop could be a retainer.
Put a radar under everything you're owed. Free during early access — set up in 60 seconds.