The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business
On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
The extension for Chrome (and Edge, Brave and other browsers built on Chrome) keeps xMap Flows one click away while you look at businesses. Open a company’s own website, or open a place on an online map so its own details show, and press the xMap button in the toolbar (or Alt+Shift+X). A panel opens beside the page with:
- The business as xMap reads it from its website: its name, what it does, its city and the kind of place it is. On a map, the place is found in xMap’s own places data at the spot the map shows. If xMap read it wrong, press the city or the kind of place and change it.
- Its market: how many places of that kind there are within 5 km of the city’s centre (for a place on a map, within 2 km of the place itself), how many are chains and how many independent, their average rating and how many opened in the last year (where xMap’s places data has opening dates), with the closest, the best rated and the newest openings by name.
- AI employees to hire for it: two or three, such as a Sales scout for new places to sell to, an Opening watcher for new competitors or a Hiring scout. Hire opens xMap Flows on that employee, its city and kind of place already filled in.
Install it from the Chrome Web Store: press Add to Chrome, then Add extension. To keep the button in view, press the puzzle piece in Chrome’s toolbar and pin xMap Flows.
Signed out, the panel shows a short free preview. Sign in in the panel to see everything and hire in one click: you sign in to xMap Flows in a small window and allow the extension. A look-up uses a few credits of the organization you pick (the price is shown in the panel), once a day for each website or place: looking the same one up again that day is free, and sample figures are free.
The panel shows the answer for the tab it was looked up in. Switch to another tab, or open another page or another place in that tab, and it asks you to press the button again; come back to the first tab and its answer is still there.
What it reads and keeps. The extension learns which page is open only when you press its button, and sends xMap Flows only that page’s address. xMap Flows then reads that website’s own home page, and only when the site’s robots.txt allows it: never the page you have open and never anything you typed in it. On a map, only the place’s name and position in the page’s address are used: nothing is read from the map’s page, and every figure the panel shows is xMap’s own. Pages of social and professional networks and marketplaces are never read: the panel asks for the company’s own website instead. The extension keeps only your sign-in, in your browser. Its key can read and look businesses up, nothing else: it cannot change, run, deploy or delete flows. Sign out in the panel forgets it; to end it everywhere, delete its key under Settings, API keys and AI assistants.