At every new restaurant before it settles in

The challenge

A new restaurant is still trying things in its first weeks, and that is when it switches how it takes payment. Madison drives Little Havana and Wynwood looking for new signs, but most weeks she finds them months late, locked into a rival’s contract.

How the flow works

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

1. Every Monday at seven,

   Every Monday at 7 (Schedule)

2. across Miami,

   Miami (Area of interest)

3. Pilot finds the restaurants and cafes that opened in the last three months,

   Opened in the last 3 months (Nearby places)

4. skips the ones it has already sent her,

   Not seen before (Only new)

5. sorts them into cafes, food trucks and full restaurants,

   One clean type each (Place classifier)

6. keeps the best rated twenty,

   The best rated twenty (Sort and limit)

7. and emails her the week’s list.

   Her Monday list (Email)

What it solves

• Driving to spot signs: solved by Nearby places and Sort and limit
• Locked in elsewhere: solved by Schedule and Nearby places
• Months too late: solved by Only new and Email

The result

This Monday her list had twenty-six new places, among them nine new cafes in Wynwood. Madison visited the best twenty by Wednesday, every one still in its first months, and signed six of them by Friday.

Madison stopped hunting for opening signs. The new places now come to her inbox.

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

   Miami

   Area of interest

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

3. 3

   Opened in the last 3 months

   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.

4. 4

   Not seen before

   Only new

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

5. 5

   One clean type each

   Place classifier

   Assigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.

6. 6

   The best rated twenty

   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.

7. 7

   Her 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.

• New solar installers in my regionNew solar installers in your region, by focus.
• New construction companies in my regionNew contractors in your region, by trade.
• New restaurants opening near my branchesNew restaurants opening within 2 km of your branches, by cuisine, every week.
• New openings into my databaseNew openings saved to your own database every week, classified.
• New fuel stations in my region, by brandNew fuel stations in your region, sorted by brand, every week.
• New spas in my city, by kindNew spas in your city, sorted by kind, every month.

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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