# Monitor HARO Workflow HARO publishes source requests three times every weekday — 5:35am, 12:35pm, and 5:35pm ET. This workflow reads every edition the moment it lands, matches queries to your beats, and alerts you in Slack or email. Built by the company that operates HARO. [Start with this template](https://featured.com/workflows?template=monitor-haro) ## Ways PR pros run Monitor HARO HARO's three weekday editions, matched to your beats as they land. Tap a setup and Featured's chat will configure it with you. ### Never miss an edition > Set up a workflow that monitors every HARO edition for queries about personal finance and emails me matches within the hour. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20monitors%20every%20HARO%20edition%20for%20queries%20about%20personal%20finance%20and%20emails%20me%20matches%20within%20the%20hour.) ### Pipe matches to Slack > Set up a HARO monitor for queries mentioning cybersecurity, ransomware, or data breaches, delivered to our #haro Slack channel as each edition lands. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20HARO%20monitor%20for%20queries%20mentioning%20cybersecurity%2C%20ransomware%2C%20or%20data%20breaches%2C%20delivered%20to%20our%20%23haro%20Slack%20channel%20as%20each%20edition%20lands.) ### Skim one edition > Set up a workflow that monitors only the 5:35am HARO edition for parenting and education queries and sends me one email by 7am. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20monitors%20only%20the%205%3A35am%20HARO%20edition%20for%20parenting%20and%20education%20queries%20and%20sends%20me%20one%20email%20by%207am.) ### Watch the gift guide season > Set up a workflow that monitors HARO's Gift Bags and Gift Guides category and alerts me when product roundups fit a sustainable home goods brand. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20monitors%20HARO%27s%20Gift%20Bags%20and%20Gift%20Guides%20category%20and%20alerts%20me%20when%20product%20roundups%20fit%20a%20sustainable%20home%20goods%20brand.) ### Cover a keyword cluster > Set up a HARO monitor for queries about real estate investing, mortgage rates, or first-time home buying, batched into a daily digest. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20HARO%20monitor%20for%20queries%20about%20real%20estate%20investing%2C%20mortgage%20rates%2C%20or%20first-time%20home%20buying%2C%20batched%20into%20a%20daily%20digest.) ### One monitor per client > Set up separate HARO monitors for my four clients — fitness, legal, SaaS, and restaurants — each alerting its own Slack channel. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20separate%20HARO%20monitors%20for%20my%20four%20clients%20%E2%80%94%20fitness%2C%20legal%2C%20SaaS%2C%20and%20restaurants%20%E2%80%94%20each%20alerting%20its%20own%20Slack%20channel.) ### Flag the urgent ones > Set up a workflow that monitors HARO for health and pharma queries and flags any with deadlines under 24 hours as urgent. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20monitors%20HARO%20for%20health%20and%20pharma%20queries%20and%20flags%20any%20with%20deadlines%20under%2024%20hours%20as%20urgent.) ### Wake up to drafts > Set up a HARO monitor for small business marketing queries that drafts a response using my bio whenever a strong match appears, ready for my review. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20HARO%20monitor%20for%20small%20business%20marketing%20queries%20that%20drafts%20a%20response%20using%20my%20bio%20whenever%20a%20strong%20match%20appears%2C%20ready%20for%20my%20review.) ### Own a lifestyle category > Set up a workflow that monitors HARO's Travel and Lifestyle categories for queries a boutique hotel group could answer, daily to email. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20monitors%20HARO%27s%20Travel%20and%20Lifestyle%20categories%20for%20queries%20a%20boutique%20hotel%20group%20could%20answer%2C%20daily%20to%20email.) ### Watch enterprise queries > Set up a HARO monitor for queries seeking CIOs or IT leaders on enterprise software, cloud costs, or AI adoption, delivered as they land. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20HARO%20monitor%20for%20queries%20seeking%20CIOs%20or%20IT%20leaders%20on%20enterprise%20software%2C%20cloud%20costs%2C%20or%20AI%20adoption%2C%20delivered%20as%20they%20land.) ### The Sunday catch-up > Set up a workflow that summarizes every HARO query from the past week matching sustainability and climate topics, sent Sunday evening with what's still open. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20summarizes%20every%20HARO%20query%20from%20the%20past%20week%20matching%20sustainability%20and%20climate%20topics%2C%20sent%20Sunday%20evening%20with%20what%27s%20still%20open.) ### Claim queries as a team > Set up a HARO monitor for our insurance expertise that posts each match to Slack as its own message, so teammates can claim queries in threads. [Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20HARO%20monitor%20for%20our%20insurance%20expertise%20that%20posts%20each%20match%20to%20Slack%20as%20its%20own%20message%2C%20so%20teammates%20can%20claim%20queries%20in%20threads.) ## How this workflow is configured - **What it matches:** Every query in every HARO edition — matched against your topics, keywords, and expertise described in plain language, across categories from Business and Finance to Travel to Gift Guides. - **When it looks:** As each edition lands — morning, afternoon, and evening — or batched into a daily or weekly digest if you'd rather skim once. - **Where results go:** Email or Slack. Solo experts use their inbox; teams post matches to a channel where anyone can claim a query. ## How Workflows work Tell Featured what to monitor, when to look, and where to send results. 1. **Describe your beats** — Topics, keywords, and the expertise you can credibly speak to — plain language, not boolean strings. The workflow matches every HARO query against it. 2. **Pick edition-time or digest** — Get alerts as each of the three daily editions lands, or batch matches into a daily or weekly digest. Deadlines are surfaced either way. 3. **Claim, draft, send** — From any alert, Featured's chat drafts your response in your voice — helpful, authentic, relevant, on time — and you review before it goes anywhere. ## Why monitor HARO through Featured Plenty of tools watch HARO from the outside. One company operates it. - **Operator — From HARO's home.** Featured owns and operates HARO. The workflow reads editions the moment they publish — no scraping lag, no missed editions, no secondhand data. - **3×/day — Every edition, covered.** Morning, afternoon, and evening editions — 5:35am, 12:35pm, 5:35pm ET — matched and delivered before the queries you fit expire. - **Matched — Your beats, not your inbox.** HARO's emails carry every query in your categories. The workflow reads them all and surfaces only what you could credibly answer — with the deadline attached. ## Want more than HARO? The Journalist Requests workflow adds Connectively's live feed plus Substack and X source requests to the same alerting. - [See Journalist Requests workflow](https://featured.com/product/workflows/journalist-requests) - [Try it in chat first](https://featured.com/?prompt=Find%20HARO%20queries%20from%20the%20last%2024%20hours%20that%20I%20could%20answer%20about%20%5Byour%20expertise%5D.) ## Pricing Every plan includes HARO monitoring. Plans differ only in usage. - **Free** — $0. Free forever. - **Lite** — $39. Per month. - **Pro** — $79. Per month, billed annually at $948. - **Pro+** — $239. Per month, billed annually at $2,868. - **Team Lite** — $159. Per month, billed annually at $1,908. - **Team Pro** — $399. Per month, billed annually at $4,788. - **Team Pro+** — $1,199. Per month, billed annually at $14,388. ## Monitor HARO workflow — frequently asked questions **What is HARO?** HARO — Help a Reporter Out — is the platform journalists have used since 2008 to request expert sources. It publishes queries in three daily email editions, and sources reply to get quoted. Featured acquired HARO from Cision in April 2025 and operates it today; it sent more than 100 million emails to sources in the last year and remains free for journalists and sources. **What times do HARO editions go out?** Weekdays at 5:35am, 12:35pm, and 5:35pm Eastern. This workflow reads each edition as it lands and alerts you on matches immediately — or holds everything for a daily or weekly digest, your choice. Deadlines ride along either way, so you always know which queries expire first. **Is HARO free? Why pay for monitoring?** HARO is free and staying free — subscribe and you'll get every edition by email. The workflow is for people who don't want to read three emails a day: it matches every query against your specific expertise, filters the rest, flags deadlines, and can pre-draft responses. You pay for the filtering and the speed, not for HARO. **How fast are the alerts?** Matches from a new edition can reach your Slack or inbox within the hour of publication. On competitive queries, that timing matters — reporters often collect the responses they need within hours of an edition going out. **Can the workflow draft responses for me?** It can draft; you send. Tell it to prepare a response using your bio whenever a strong match appears, and you'll review a ready draft instead of a blank page. The human-in-the-loop step is deliberate — journalists increasingly filter fully automated pitches, and your credibility is the asset. **Do I need a paid plan?** Workflows are part of Featured's paid plans — $39/month (Lite) or $79/month (Pro, billed annually). Every plan includes every feature; only usage scales. You can search HARO queries manually in Featured chat on the free plan to feel the matching first. **Monitor HARO or the Journalist Requests workflow — which one?** Monitor HARO watches HARO exclusively, edition by edition. The Journalist Requests workflow widens the net to Connectively, Substack, and X. HARO loyalists run this one; most teams eventually run the wider version. Same setup either way — switching later is one sentence. ## Explore - Workflow: [Journalist Requests](https://featured.com/product/workflows/journalist-requests) - Workflow: [All-in-One](https://featured.com/product/workflows/all-in-one) - Feature: [Journalist Requests](https://featured.com/product/features/journalist-requests) - Company: [HARO](https://featured.com/) - Industries: [PR for your industry](https://featured.com/industries)