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Map business scan

Map business scan searches online maps, live, for the businesses you ask for: cafes, pharmacies, gyms or your own search words. Point it at a city, the Area of interest before it, a circle, your own boundary, or the places that reach it from earlier blocks, and search it quickly at its centre or cover the whole area with a grid of searches. Every place comes back with its name, category, address, phone, website, rating, opening status and position, ready for the next blocks to filter, score, send or put on a map.

In the editor: Finds businesses on online maps live: name, category, rating, address, phone, website and whether it is open. Put Only new after it to get just the places it has not found before.

Settings

Also search for

Text

Words of your own, searched the same way as the types above, for what the list does not have: a brand, car dealers, banks, schools. They can be the whole search.

Your own search words, separated by commas, searched like the categories. Categories, search words or both.

Where

Pick one

Where to search. The choices below change which settings come next.

Uses the Area of interest block before this one.

Area of interest
Cities Search the cities you type in the next setting.
Around a point Search a circle: a point and a radius.
Around each incoming place
Custom area (GeoJSON) Search inside your own boundary.

Cities

A list you type

The cities to search, by name. Each one is searched within about 12 km of its centre.

Pick from 51 choices.

Center (latitude, longitude)

Text

The middle of the circle to search, as latitude, longitude.

Look for

Pick one

Finds places of the categories above around each incoming place.

Places of these categories
Each place itself

Radius (m)

A number

How far to search, in metres: from the point, or from each place that comes in.

Needed before the flow can run.

Pass on

Pick one

The places found near the incoming ones go on: what opens near your stores.

The places found
Each incoming place, with a count

Area (GeoJSON polygon)

Text, several lines

Your own boundary, pasted as a GeoJSON polygon. Only places inside it are kept.

How to search

Pick one

How thoroughly each area is searched. Online maps list a limited number of places for one search, so one search at the centre of a big city finds the places there first; a grid of searches finds the places across the whole area.

One search at the centre of each area: quick and cheap, but in a big area online maps list only the places they show first.

One search per area (quick) One search of each category at the centre of each area: the cheapest, and enough for a small area or a few results.
Cover the whole area (thorough) A grid of search points across each area, each searching every category: a whole city or a drawn district, edge to edge.

One search every

Pick one

How far apart the grid’s search points are. Closer points find more where there are many places, and cost more searches.

Closer points find more places where there are many. Automatic picks the closest spacing the search limit allows; a spacing that would need more searches is widened, and the step says so.

Automatic At least 500 m apart: one call when the points are then 2 km apart or closer, else as many as the area’s share of the run allows.
250 m For a few dense streets.
500 m For a district.
1 km For a town or part of a city.
2 km For a city.
5 km For a big city or a region.

Minimum rating

A slider

Leaves out places rated below this, out of 5. Places with no rating are left out too, unless this is 0.

Only the kinds searched

On or off

Keeps only places whose category matches what you searched for (a category above or your own words); online maps also return places of other kinds nearby. Those are left out and not charged.

Most places

A number

Optional. Keeps only the best-rated places, up to this number, so later blocks and credits stay small. A rating counts more when many people gave it. Leave empty to keep them all.

What comes out

Each item that leaves the block carries these fields, to use in the blocks after it as {{field}}.

Each place found

In every search, except the two choices below that pass on the incoming places.

name: The name of the place on the map.
category: Its category on the map.
address: Its street address.
city: The city or area it was found in.
lat: Latitude of its position.
lng: Longitude of its position.
rating: Its average rating out of 5, when it has one.
reviews: How many reviews it has. Only when the map gives the number, which is not often.
phone: Its phone number, when listed.
website: Its website, when listed.
status: Open, Closed for now or Closed.
hours: What the map says about its hours right now.
google_maps: A link to the place on the map.
place_id: The place’s ID on the map.
data_id: The ID that POI Intelligence uses to add more details.

Pass on: Each incoming place, with a count

Where is Around each incoming place. Your own places go on, each with three new fields.

places_nearby: How many places were found within the radius.
nearest_place: The name of the nearest one.
nearest_place_m: How far away it is, in metres.

Look for: Each place itself

Where is Around each incoming place. Each incoming place or company is looked up by its name, near where it is, and keeps its own fields plus these.

google_name: Its name as the map shows it.
address: Its street address.
lat, lng: Its position on the map.
rating, phone, website: As above, when listed.
status: Open, Closed for now, Closed, or Not found on online maps when no match was found.
hours, google_maps, place_id, data_id: As above.

How to use it

Sales

New places every morning, only new

The everyday use: new places in your city every morning, ranked by xMap AI, in your inbox and on a map.

FMCG distribution

New shops on the delivery routes

A beverage distributor in Manchester wants every new grocery and supermarket on its routes the week it opens, before a competitor’s van gets there.

Before: Reps spotted new shops by chance, weeks after they opened.

With the flow: Every Sunday the route sheet has the shops that opened that week, with phone and address.

Retail

Competitors around each of my stores

Where: Around each incoming place, Pass on: Each incoming place, with a count. Every store gets places_nearby and nearest_place, so you see which ones face the most competition.

Delivery apps

Restaurants that are not on the app yet

A food delivery app wants its sales team to call well-rated restaurants in New York that have not joined.

Match with my table keeps only the places that are not in your partner list, so the CRM gets only real prospects.

Recruitment and B2B sales

Companies hiring near you

Look for: Each place itself finds each company that is hiring on the map and adds its address, phone, website and rating.

Banking and payments

Merchants around new malls

A payments company wants to visit shops and restaurants within 1 km of five malls that opened this year, best fits first.

Before: An analyst built the visit list by hand, one mall a week.

With the flow: The list for all five malls comes back in minutes, scored, in the CRM.

Real estate

What is around a plot

A developer compares two plots before an offer: how many places of the kinds it searches (cafes, pharmacies, gyms) are within 1 km of each.

With a count, each plot comes back with places_nearby and the nearest one, ready to compare.

FMCG distribution

Every pharmacy in a city, not just the centre

A health products distributor wants the full list of pharmacies in Vancouver to plan its sales routes, edge to edge.

Before: One search at the city centre listed the pharmacies near it, and the outer districts were missing.

With the flow: A grid of searches covers the whole city, and each month only the new pharmacies are added to the sheet.

Marketing agencies

A competitor map for a launch

An agency launching a gym brand in a new district wants every gym and its rating inside the client’s target area, on one map.

Before: A junior spent two days searching and copying listings.

With the flow: The map is ready the same morning and can be shared with the client by link.

Sales

Score prospects and send them to my CRM

xMap LLM gives each place a fit score and a reason; Filter keeps the good ones, which go to your CRM and a shared sheet.

Good to know

Only the kinds searched (on unless you switch it off) keeps the places whose category matches what you searched for: a Clinics search no longer keeps an astrologer, nor a Cafes search a crab house. With your own search words, the category or the name must have the word. The others are left out before anything is charged, and the step says how many.
Each run searches every type and search word you pick, in each area, up to 8 areas and 96 searches in all; past that, the run says which were left out.
Cover the whole area makes up to 40 searches a call (points x categories) and 160 a run, shared equally between the areas. A bigger area is cut into parts, the spacing is widened when the limit needs it, and an area too big even with points 10 km apart (a whole country) is searched at its centre instead. The step says when either happens.
The search can return places from outside your area. They are dropped, so what comes out is inside the area you asked for.
Some places come back from the online map with the point searched around as their position. Those are placed by their address when it is inside the area, and left out otherwise; the step says how many.
Searching by city, each place’s city is the city you searched, and what the map calls its part of town is in district.
One search in the middle of a country or a large region finds only what is near that point: pick cities, or Cover the whole area.
Most places keeps the best rated, up to the number you set: a rating counts more when many people gave it, so a 5.0 from one review does not push out a 4.8 from hundreds. Up to 500 places come out of one block in one run.
Around each incoming place searches around the first 8 incoming places that have a position. With a count, places closed for good are not counted.
Look for: Each place itself looks up at most 100 places a run, by name, near where each one is. Short or one-word company names can match the wrong business, so check the first results. A long name that finds nothing is tried once more with its first two words.
The data has no opening dates, and review counts only for some places. To get only places you have not seen before, put Only new after this block.
Credits: 2 for each place found, plus 12 for each search sent (each category or search word, in each area, or at each point of the grid when it covers the whole area). With a count, you pay for the places found near yours; with Each place itself, for each place looked up. Your own places cost nothing.
Runs in your account use live data, test runs included. Without an account, the home page runs one live search; other flows you build there show sample places.

Works well with

Area of interest: Sets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
Only new: Lets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
POI Intelligence: Adds details to each place found by Map business scan: categories (cuisine), price level, opening hours, phone, website, amenities and a short description, and if you want them its latest reviews.
xMap LLM: Tell the AI what to do in plain words.
Filter: Keeps only the items that match a rule.
Sort and limit: Puts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
Email: Sends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Show on a map: Shows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

Templates that use it

New outlets to CRM: New restaurants and cafes as leads in your CRM every morning, with a brief for the reps.
Companies hiring near you: Companies hiring sales staff near you, with phone, website and rating.
New places every morning, only new: New places of your type in your city every morning, only the new ones, ranked by xMap AI.
Watch new competitors: Competitors that opened in your city since yesterday, every morning.
How customers rate competitors: How customers rate your competitors, every week, the weakest first.
What opens near my stores: New places opening within 1 km of each of your stores, every week.
Watch my target accounts: Check your target accounts every week and get told what changed.
Where to open next: Areas of your city scored for a new branch, every week, on a map.
Score new leads from a Google Sheet: Each lead added to a Google Sheet is found on the map and scored by xMap AI.
Decision makers at new cafes: New cafes scored by xMap AI, with the owner and managers from Apollo.
Growing companies and who buys there: Growing companies, sized with Apollo, with their purchasing managers.
Who lives around new places: The new cafes in your city with the people living around each.
New businesses in my territory, researched, into HubSpot: Every new business in your territory, scored, with the decision maker, straight into HubSpot.
Enrich a lead sheet and push it to HubSpot: Add a business name to a sheet and get it enriched, scored and in HubSpot with an opening line.
Companies hiring buyers, and who to call: Companies hiring buyers this week, sized and scored, with their purchasing managers in HubSpot.
Changes at my key accounts, with what to do: What changed at your key accounts this week: closures, ratings, phones and websites.
More businesses like my best customers: Businesses that look like your best customers, near them, not yet in HubSpot.
Prospects not yet in my CRM: Supermarkets and groceries not in HubSpot yet, scored and added every week.
Alert when a branch’s rating drops: An alert when a branch's rating drops, with where it now stands.
Retail tenants for my vacant units: Retailers hiring store managers, scored as tenants for your vacant units.
Customers that closed or moved, with what to do: Customers that closed, moved or changed phone this week.
Field visit notes into a daily briefing: Each field visit logged in a sheet becomes a briefing for the sales manager.
Businesses with low ratings and no website: Local businesses with weak ratings and no website, with the owner, as agency prospects.
Rating watch for my clients: Every client's rating watched daily, with where it stands when it moves.

And 62 more in the template gallery.

Stories with it

The morning a rival slips, she knows (Phone repair)
Two hundred dealers, checked every Sunday night (Luxury watches)
One clean prospect list, every shop once (Organic cosmetics)
A loan officer who sees the street before she lends (Small business lending)
Two shopping streets, read every Monday (Retail property)
A garage that is really there when a car breaks down (Car rental)
Every rooftop in Osaka, seen from above (Solar installation)
The next charging stations, where drivers have none (EV charging)
Where Lima buys phones, and has no store (Mobile retail)
A new rival station, known the next morning (Fuel retail)
Calling the companies about to move (Business telecom)
The next contractor yard, chosen in a morning (Building supplies)

Help articles

Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
Map business scan: A live scan of online maps by type or your own search words.

Guides and terms

How to find companies hiring for a role near you: Hiring signals by role and city, with the company's details and the person to call.
POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
Outlet universe: The complete list of points of sale a brand could sell through.
Data enrichment: Adding details to records you already have.

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Settings

Categories

Also search for

Where

Cities

Center (latitude, longitude)

Look for

Radius (m)

Pass on

Area (GeoJSON polygon)

How to search

One search every

Minimum rating

Only the kinds searched

Most places

What comes out

Each place found

Pass on: Each incoming place, with a count

Look for: Each place itself

How to use it

New places every morning, only new

New shops on the delivery routes

Competitors around each of my stores

Restaurants that are not on the app yet

Companies hiring near you

Merchants around new malls

What is around a plot

Every pharmacy in a city, not just the centre

A competitor map for a launch

Score prospects and send them to my CRM

Good to know

Works well with

Templates that use it

Stories with it

Help articles

Guides and terms

Industries that use it

Try it