The morning a rival slips, she knows

The challenge

Seven repair shops sit within a short walk. When one of them slips, its customers go looking, and she finds out months later. Last spring a rival closed, and its regulars walked straight past her door to a chain store.

How the flow works

With xMap Flows, Elsa built Sentinel. Sentinel is an AI employee: a flow of 6 blocks.

1. Every morning at eight,

   Every morning at 8 (Schedule)

2. across Södermalm,

   Södermalm (Area of interest)

3. Sentinel searches the map for phone repair shops,

   Phone repair shops (Map business scan)

4. spots any whose rating fell or that closed,

   Rating fell or closed (What changed)

5. explains what it means for her shop,

   What it means for her (xMap LLM)

6. and sends it to her phone on WhatsApp.

   To her phone (WhatsApp Business)

What it solves

• Rivals’ slips missed: solved by Map business scan and What changed
• News comes months late: solved by Schedule and WhatsApp Business
• Customers walk past: solved by xMap LLM and WhatsApp Business

The result

In March, Sentinel tells her a rival’s rating fell from four point six to three point eight in two weeks. Elsa puts a same-day promise in her window and online. Within a month, twenty-three new customers mention the other shop by name.

When a rival stumbles, Elsa’s door is already open.

An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.

The flow, block by block

1. 1

   Every morning at 8

   Schedule

   Starts the flow on a timetable.

2. 2

   Södermalm

   Area of interest

   Sets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.

3. 3

   Phone repair shops

   Map business scan

   Finds businesses on online maps live: name, category, rating, address, phone, website and whether it is open.

4. 4

   Rating fell or closed

   What changed

   Lets through only the places this flow found before whose details changed since: closed, a rating that moved, a new phone or website, a new name or address, or any field you name.

5. 5

   What it means for her

   xMap LLM

   Tell the AI what to do in plain words.

6. 6

   To her phone

   WhatsApp Business · WhatsApp

   Send text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.

Templates to build it

Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.

• Clients that closed or changed, for my insolvency teamClient businesses that closed, moved or changed, with what to do.
• Alarm monitoring clients that closed or movedMonitoring clients that closed, moved or changed, with the next step.
• Partner restaurants that closed or movedPartner restaurants that closed, moved or changed, for account managers.
• Monthly store closures indexTracked shops that closed, as a monthly index.
• My dealerships whose rating movedYour dealerships whose rating moved, with a note.
• Changes at my key accounts, with what to doWhat changed at your key accounts this week: closures, ratings, phones and websites.

Industries

Learn how it works

• How to find companies hiring for a role near youHiring signals by role and city, with the company's details and the person to call.
• Location intelligenceUsing where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
• POI data (points of interest)Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
• Enrich a list onceA CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
• Build your first flow in ten minutesFrom a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
• Map business scanA live scan of online maps by type or your own search words.

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