Two shopping streets, read every Monday

The challenge

Rents follow the street. When neighbouring shops close and sit empty, tenants push for a discount before Louis sees it coming. Twice a year he walks both streets with a clipboard, and by then the numbers are months old.

How the flow works

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

1. Every Monday at seven,

   Every Monday at 7 (Schedule)

2. along Avenue Louise and Rue Neuve,

   Avenue Louise, Rue Neuve (Area of interest)

3. Tracker scans every shop on both streets,

   Every shop on both streets (Map business scan)

4. spots the ones that closed or changed since last week,

   Closed or changed (What changed)

5. sorts them into fashion, food, beauty and services,

   Fashion, food, beauty (Place classifier)

6. writes what it means for the fund’s rents,

   What it means for rents (xMap LLM)

7. and emails Louis a Monday note.

   His Monday note (Email)

What it solves

• Walks with a clipboard: solved by Map business scan
• Numbers months old: solved by Schedule and What changed
• Surprised at renewals: solved by Place classifier and xMap LLM and Email

The result

In September, Tracker showed that four fashion shops on Rue Neuve had closed in six weeks. When Louis’s biggest tenant asked for a discount in October, he already had the figures, and offered a shorter lease instead.

Louis stopped walking the streets twice a year. Now he knows them every Monday.

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 7

   Schedule

   Starts the flow on a timetable.

2. 2

   Avenue Louise, Rue Neuve

   Area of interest

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

3. 3

   Every shop on both streets

   Map business scan

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

4. 4

   Closed or changed

   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

   Fashion, food, beauty

   Place classifier

   Assigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.

6. 6

   What it means for rents

   xMap LLM

   Tell the AI what to do in plain words.

7. 7

   His Monday note

   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.

• 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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