Classrooms by the station, with few rivals around

The challenge

He needs classroom space near a station, with few rival schools close by. He walks the streets around Umeda and Tennoji, checks the agents’ windows, and counts rival signs by hand. By the time he finds a good floor, someone else has signed the lease.

How the flow works

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

1. Every morning at eight,

   Every morning at 8 (Schedule)

2. around Osaka’s busiest stations,

   Osaka’s main stations (Area of interest)

3. Chalk finds the office space for rent within five minutes’ walk of a station,

   Office space for rent (Regional data sources)

4. keeps the new ones,

   New since yesterday (Only new)

5. counts the cram schools around each,

   Rival cram schools (Nearby places)

6. keeps the floors with two rivals or fewer,

   Two rivals or fewer (Filter)

7. and posts them to his team.

   To the branch team (Microsoft Teams)

What it solves

• Walking the streets: solved by Regional data sources
• Counting rivals by hand: solved by Nearby places and Filter
• Leases gone first: solved by Schedule and Only new and Microsoft Teams

The result

On Tuesday, Chalk finds a second floor four minutes from Tennoji station, listed overnight, with only one cram school nearby. Haruto views it at ten and signs by lunch. It opens in spring with sixty students.

Haruto stopped walking the streets for space. Now he sees it first.

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

   Osaka’s main stations

   Area of interest

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

3. 3

   Office space for rent

   Regional data sources · Regional data

   xMap’s regional datasets: pick a country, then a dataset, such as real estate transactions in Saudi Arabia, property for rent or for sale listed right now in the United States, Japan and the United Arab Emirates, or Road traffic history in the United Arab Emirates (cars counted hour by hour since 2021).

4. 4

   New since yesterday

   Only new

   Lets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.

5. 5

   Rival cram schools

   Nearby places

   Places around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.

6. 6

   Two rivals or fewer

   Filter

   Keeps only the items that match a rule.

7. 7

   To the branch team

   Microsoft Teams · Teams

   Runs an action in Microsoft Teams.

Templates to build it

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

• Shop space for rent near stations in TokyoNew shop and restaurant space for rent near Tokyo’s stations, every Monday, best value first.
• New homes for sale near the best-rated schoolsNew homes for sale near the best-rated schools in your city, every Monday.
• Wedding and event partners for my banquet teamWedding planners and venues scored as partners for your banquet team, every week.
• New warehouses that need security systemsNew warehouses graded as clients for access control and cameras.
• Warehouses near my base for forklift service contractsWarehouses and factories near your base, scored for forklift service.
• New small offices that need IT supportNew small offices scored as managed IT clients.

Industries

Learn how it works

• 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.
• Catchment areaThe area a store or service draws its customers from.
• The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this businessOn a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
• Build your first flow in ten minutesFrom a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
• What xMap remembers about your companyYour city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.

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