How to Use Radar: Free Check, Full Audit, and AI Visibility Fixes

What Is Radar, and How Do You Use It?

Radar is Pixelmojo's AI visibility audit platform. As of October 2026, you use it in two steps: a free check that scores how ready your site is for AI systems to read, then a paid full audit that samples what AI answers actually say about your business. This guide walks through both, then shows how to read the results and turn a finding into a fix you can recheck.

Prefer to watch first? This one-minute walkthrough covers the same journey, from the free check to the recheck.

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Does AI describe your business accurately? Let's take a closer look with Radar. Enter your domain and email, confirm the six-digit code, then run your free check. Six technical checks give you a readiness score and a first look at your site. A paid full audit covers thirteen tools, including AI-response checks across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Inspect the responses and citations. Here, the sample report reveals confusion with another business. Review the top priority. Generate a prompt to help draft the fix. Your team reviews and makes the change. After the change, recheck. See what still needs attention. I'm Scout, your guide to Radar.

How Do You Run the Free Check?

You run the free check from the Radar page at www.pixelmojo.io/platform. It takes your domain, your email and a six-digit code, and it costs nothing: one audit per domain, no credit card.

1. Go to the free check on the Radar page.
2. Enter your domain and your email address.
3. Confirm the six-digit code Radar sends to that email.
4. Run the check. Radar runs the free readiness check and opens the result page.
5. Look for the email. Radar sends you a link to the same result, so you can return to it later.

The result page shows your readiness score, your letter grade and the top issue Radar found. The seven AI-response tools stay locked on the free check. That is deliberate: the free check answers whether AI systems can read your site, and the full audit answers what they say about you.

If you have already used the free check for a domain, Radar tells you so rather than running it again. To go further on the same domain, run the full audit.

What Does the Free Check Cover?

The free check scores technical readiness, meaning whether AI crawlers can reach your pages and whether the pages are structured for machines to read. It covers six areas, rolled into one AI Readiness score.

These are the checks you can act on directly in your own code and content. They do not tell you what an AI answer says about your business. A site can pass every one of them and still be missing from the answers buyers read, which is why Radar keeps the two kinds of evidence apart. Our post on AI monitoring versus AI technical readiness explains why both layers matter.

How Do You Read the Score and the Grade?

The readiness score is a number out of 100, and the letter grade comes from one scale Radar uses everywhere: A from 85, B from 70, C from 50, D from 30, and F below 30. The same score always reads as the same letter, on the result page, in the dashboard and in the emails.

Read the score as a starting point, not a verdict:

• The grade tells you how much technical work is in front of you. A low grade points to access or structure work to do first. A high grade means the foundations are in place, and the bigger questions sit in the AI answers.
• The top issue tells you where to start. It is the single most useful thing to fix first on the technical side.
• A blocked crawl says nothing about your content. If AI crawlers cannot reach your site, fix that access problem first. The free check is one per domain, so recheck with a full audit once the fix is live. In the dashboard, a tool that cannot measure your site is marked withheld rather than scored.

If you want to know exactly how the score is built, our post A Score You Can Defend walks through it, and the Radar methodology page documents the method.

What Does the Paid Full Audit Add?

The full audit runs all 13 Radar tools. The six technical tools run again, and seven more add Reddit monitoring and checks that sample what AI answers say about your business across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.

These tools need to know who you are. Before you run the audit, open Advanced options in the audit form and check the brand name and category. Radar tries to detect them for you, and a wrong brand name means every AI-response tool asks about the wrong company.

“A crawl check helps inspect access. A sampled answer shows what a model returned to a question. Those are different observations.”

Scout, "Website Access vs AI Answers" (Pixelmojo, September 2026)

Scout explains that split in 30 seconds:

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The site loads. But what does AI say? A crawl check helps inspect access. A sampled answer shows what a model returned to a question. Those are different observations. Start with the client's question. Check access when that's the concern. Inspect the answer to understand the description. I'm Scout, your guide to Radar.

How do you pay for a full audit, and how do you sign in?

You buy full audits as credits, either one at a time or in a pack, and credits do not expire. Teams that audit every month can choose the Pro plan instead, which adds watched domains and weekly re-scans. Current prices are in the Radar pricing section; we keep them there so this guide cannot drift out of date.

After you pay, Radar emails a sign-in link to the address you paid with, and the link opens your dashboard. On another device, open the dashboard and enter the email on your paid account to get a fresh link.

How Is the Radar Dashboard Organized?

The dashboard is where a full audit lives. It opens on an overview that groups all 13 tools into five categories, and six tabs take you from the summary to the evidence to the fix.

The five categories on the Overview are Crawlability (Crawl Check, Robots.txt, llms.txt), Content (AI Readiness, AEO Audit, Schema Audit), Citations (Citations, Citation Test, Prompt SOV), Community (Reddit, Source Influence) and Trust (Hallucination Check, Brand Disambiguation). A category shows which part of your visibility is weakest before you open a single tool.

The six tabs, in order:

1. Overview: the overall score, the five categories and the highest-priority actions.
2. Actions: every recommended fix, ranked, with a prompt you can generate for each.
3. Details: each tool's full result, including the prompts and per-engine results behind the AI-response findings.
4. History: your saved runs, so you can compare an audit with an earlier one.
5. Competitor: the same tools run on a competitor's domain, side by side with yours.
6. Threads: multi-step fixes, each step tied to the tools that verify it.

How Do You Read the Evidence Behind a Finding?

Every finding in Radar points back to evidence you can open. In the Details tab, the AI-response tools show the prompts, separate per-engine mention and link results for answers that name your brand, and the counts behind every rate. Hallucination Check and Brand Disambiguation report what was wrong or confused in those answers. That is the difference between a score and a finding you can act on.

Read a finding in three passes:

• Is it a mention or a correct description? Being named is not the same as being described correctly. Check the Trust tools before you count a mention as a win.
• Where did it come from? Check the cited links and the domains in Source Influence. If answers lean on a directory or a forum, that is where a correction may need to happen.
• Is it one engine or all of them? A problem in one engine and a problem in four call for different responses.

The public Radar sample report shows what this looks like on a real, de-identified audit. In that July 2026 baseline, three of four engines described a different, same-named business. Scout walks through that finding, from the evidence to who owns each step of the fix:

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AI found your client's name. Great. But is it talking about the right business? I'm Scout. Let's untangle one real Radar finding. This public sample report is a de-identified travel agency's July 2026 baseline. It flagged five identity confusion issues. Three marked high severity. Perplexity mixed in similarly named agencies. Gemini described a company profile that still needs the client's confirmation. Those details matter more than a headline score. Start by confirming the business facts with your client. The official name, location, history, and services. Your content owner makes those details clear on the website. Your web team adds matching organization markup. Then align relevant business listings, that's a practical assignment, with people responsible for it. After the update, check the page and its markup. Repeat comparable AI questions. Record the date, providers, prompts, and responses. Does the confusion remain? No follow-up result is published here. A changed answer doesn't prove your edit caused it. Now, the client gets a clear plan, the evidence, the owner, and the next check. One issue becomes a decision your team can explain and act on. That's Radar, the decision layer for AI visibility. I'm Scout, your guide to Radar.

If a finding like that turns up in your audit, our guide to brand disambiguation covers the fixes in detail.

How Do You Decide What to Fix First?

The Actions tab answers that. It ranks every recommended fix, so the first item is the one Radar would start with, and each action carries the evidence that produced it.

For any action, choose Generate AI prompt. Radar builds a copy-and-paste prompt with the context of the finding, ready for an AI assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. The prompt helps your team draft the change; your team still reviews it and makes it. Our post on how Radar fix prompts work covers this step in depth.

When you want to talk a finding through, open the Strategist chat (Ask the Strategist). It is briefed on your audit, so you can ask why a finding matters, what to do first for your situation, or how two findings relate. A paid audit includes unlimited Strategist messages for that audit.

Three habits make the Actions tab work better:

• Fix one thing, then measure. Changing many things at once makes it hard to tell what moved the result.
• Start with access and identity. If AI crawlers cannot reach the site, or the engines confuse you with another business, other fixes cannot land.
• Write down who owns each fix. A fix that touches the website, the content and an outside listing has three owners.

How Do You Track a Fix and Recheck It?

Threads turn a multi-step fix into a tracked plan. Each thread breaks the fix into steps, and each step names the Radar tools to re-run once it is done, so you verify the change instead of assuming it worked.

The loop looks like this:

1. Open the thread for the issue you chose in Actions.
2. Work through the steps. Generate a prompt for a step if it helps your team draft the change.
3. Re-run the tools the step names once the change is live.
4. Save the run with the S key or the save control, so it appears in History.
5. Compare in History. Set the new run against the earlier one and see what changed.

“AI still chooses its own answers. Radar shows you what to check, and what to fix first.”

Lloyd and Scout, "What Is Decision-Stage AI Visibility?" (Pixelmojo, October 2026)

A recheck shows you what changed between two runs. It does not prove why it changed. AI answers vary from one run to the next: a September 2026 study of product queries found the recommended products often changed across repeated requests (Uberti-Bona Marin et al., 2026). Other things move at the same time too, so treat a single improved answer as a signal to keep watching, not a final result.

How Do You Compare Against a Competitor?

After your own audit, open the Competitor tab and enter a competitor's domain. Radar detects the brand name and category, which you can correct, and runs the same tools on their site so you can compare results side by side.

Use the comparison to answer specific questions rather than to rank yourselves:

• If a competitor appears in AI answers you are missing from, open their result in Details and see which sources those answers cite.
• If your technical scores are higher but their answers are better, the gap is probably not access. Look at the content and the sources around each answer.
• If both of you are missing from the same answers, the category may be dominated by sources neither of you controls, which is a Source Influence question.

What Patterns Should You Look For?

These are patterns we look for when we read a Radar audit. They are our interpretation of how the results fit together, not rules about how AI systems behave.

Strong technical scores, weak AI-response results. The site is readable, but the answers still miss or misdescribe the business. Spend your next effort on the content and the outside sources the answers cite, not on more technical work. Being readable is necessary; it does not by itself get you mentioned.

Good site-level checks, weak page-level checks. Crawl Check, Robots.txt and llms.txt look fine, but the AEO Audit or Schema Audit scores are low. The site is reachable, but individual pages are hard for machines to extract. Fix the pages that matter most: clear answers near the top, structured data that matches the page, and comparisons in tables.

Identity flags in the Trust category. Hallucination Check or Brand Disambiguation finds wrong facts or a same-named business. Fix identity first, because every other improvement can end up attributed to the wrong company.

One engine out of line with the others. Three engines describe you correctly and one does not. Check that engine's cited sources before changing anything on your own site.

Which Keyboard Shortcuts Does the Dashboard Support?

The dashboard has a handful of shortcuts for people who run audits often. As of October 2026:

The single-key shortcuts pause while you are typing in a field, and they ignore key combinations with Ctrl, Cmd or Alt, so they never clash with your browser's own shortcuts.

Who Is Radar For?

Radar is built for teams who need to see how AI systems describe a business and decide what to fix: SEO, web and growth agencies auditing client sites, and in-house marketing teams looking after their own.

• Agencies usually start with a free check on a client's domain, run a full audit when the client wants the evidence, and use the Competitor tab and PDF export in client conversations.
• In-house teams usually run a full audit, work through the Actions tab one fix at a time, and compare runs in History.
• Teams auditing every month tend to choose the Pro plan for watched domains and weekly re-scans.

For the strategy behind the audit, from a first free check to an ongoing plan, read From Free Audit to AI Visibility Strategy. This guide sticks to how the product works.

What Changed in This Guide?

Earlier versions of this guide described an older access model, with an email access token and all 13 tools free. That is no longer how Radar works, and Radar has launched publicly. As of October 2026, there is no access token to request: start with the free check, and use a full audit or the Pro plan when you need the AI-response tools. We rewrote this guide on 1 October 2026 to match the product as it works today, and we date anything that may change.

Start With the Free Check

The fastest way to learn Radar is to run it on your own site. Start with the free check to see whether AI can read your pages, then decide whether you need the full audit to see what AI answers say about you.