Sixty dealers watched, three worth a visit

The challenge

She hears about trouble too late. A dealer closes, and orders keep going to an empty shop for weeks. Another one’s rating slides from four point five to three, and nobody asks why until sales fall. Farah has time to visit ten dealers a month.

How the flow works

With xMap Flows, Farah built Watchman. Watchman is an AI employee: a flow of 7 blocks.

1. Every Monday at eight,

   Every Monday at 8 (Schedule)

2. Watchman takes her sixty dealers,

   Her sixty dealers (My data)

3. looks each one up on the map,

   Each dealer itself (Map business scan)

4. keeps only the ones that closed or slipped,

   Closed or rating slipped (What changed)

5. puts the worst first,

   Worst first (Sort and limit)

6. adds them to the dealer sheet,

   The dealer sheet (Google Sheets)

7. and tells Farah who to visit first.

   Farah’s Monday list (Email)

What it solves

• Shops close unseen: solved by Map business scan and What changed
• Ratings slide quietly: solved by What changed and Sort and limit
• Ten visits a month: solved by Email

The result

This Monday, Watchman flags three dealers. One in Shah Alam closed on Friday, and its orders stop that morning. Another in Cheras fell to three point two, and Farah visits it on Tuesday. The other fifty-seven stay off her list.

Farah no longer finds out when sales fall. She finds out when ratings do.

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 Monday at 8

   Schedule

   Starts the flow on a timetable.

2. 2

   Her sixty dealers

   My data

   Brings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.

3. 3

   Each dealer itself

   Map business scan

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

4. 4

   Closed or rating slipped

   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

   Worst first

   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.

6. 6

   The dealer sheet

   Google Sheets

   Create, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online

7. 7

   Farah’s Monday list

   Email

   Sends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Templates to build it

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

• Merchants at risk of leaving, every weekMerchants likely to close or leave you, scored weekly, riskiest first.
• Rating scorecard for my clinicsA weekly rating scorecard of each of your clinics, the weakest first.
• Partner restaurants customers rate lowestPartner restaurants customers rate lowest, for the quality team.
• How customers rate body shops in our repair networkHow customers rate the body shops in your repair network.
• Charging sites drivers rate lowestWhich of your charging sites drivers rate lowest, every week.
• Clients that closed or changed, for my insolvency teamClient businesses that closed, moved or changed, with what to do.

Learn how it works

• Data enrichmentAdding details to records you already have.
• POI data (points of interest)Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
• Competitor mappingKnowing where competitors are, what opens and how they are rated.
• Enrich a list onceA CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
• Map business scanA live scan of online maps by type or your own search words.
• Your own tables and lists (My data)Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.

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