Policy Radar settings

Overview

The Settings page is where you control how Policy Radar runs — scan frequency, alert thresholds, email notifications, catalog syncing, and on-demand scans.

Scan frequency

The scan frequency dropdown sets how often Policy Radar checks vendor policy pages. Four options are available:

• Every day: Checks all targets every 24 hours. Catches changes the fastest.
• Every 2 days: Default. Checks all targets every 48 hours.
• Every 3 days: Checks every 72 hours. A good middle ground if you have a large number of targets.
• Every week: Checks every 168 hours. Uses the fewest resources but takes longer to catch changes.

After picking a frequency, click Save frequency to apply it across all of your targets.

Alert threshold

The alert threshold controls which severity levels appear in the Changes feed by default. Low-severity changes (formatting tweaks, date updates) are auto-dismissed and hidden unless you lower the threshold.

• Critical only: Only show critical changes
• High and above: Show critical and high changes
• Medium and above: Default. Show critical, high, and medium changes
• All changes: Show everything including low-severity changes

This setting is saved per-user in your browser. It also sets the default filter on the Changes page when you first open it.

Email notifications

Each team member can independently opt in to email notifications for policy changes. The section includes:

• Enable checkbox: Check "Notify me when a policy change is detected" to turn on email alerts. Each team member controls this for their own account.
• Threshold selector: When email is enabled, a dropdown appears letting you choose the minimum severity to be notified about — critical only, high and above, medium and above, or all changes.
• Weekly digest: A separate checkbox, "Send me a weekly summary of all changes", delivers a digest email once a week regardless of the per-change threshold.

Changes to any of these settings are saved automatically as you toggle or select.

Sync vendor catalog

Click Sync vendor catalog to update your vendor list with the latest built-in catalog. This adds new vendors that have been added to the catalog since your last sync and updates any URLs that have changed. Running it more than once is safe — existing data is preserved.

After syncing, a message tells you how many new vendors and targets were imported.

Manual scan

Click Run scan now to trigger an immediate scan. A dropdown appears with three scan modes:

• Scan due pages: Only pages that are past their scheduled check interval. This is the most efficient option for a routine check.
• Scan all pages: Every monitored page regardless of schedule. Useful when you want a complete refresh.
• Scan new pages only: Only pages that do not have a baseline snapshot yet. Ideal after adding new vendors.

After selecting a mode, a progress modal opens showing real-time scan progress. The scan fetches each page, compares it to the last stored version, and creates change records for any differences it finds. When it finishes, you will see how many targets were scanned, how many changes turned up, and how many pages could not be reached.

LLM API key configuration

Policy Radar uses a large language model to analyze changes — classifying severity, direction, and compliance impact. That analysis needs an LLM API key, which you configure in the AI Gateway settings (not on this page).

Without an LLM key, scans still detect changes by comparing page content, but you will only see the raw diff. AI summaries, severity levels, and framework references will not be generated.