The city’s favourite kitchens, on the food floor

The challenge

Every mall chases the same big chains, and they drive hard bargains. The local favourites with queues out the door are harder to find, and nobody on his team has time to eat their way across Metro Manila. The empty units cost the mall every month.

How the flow works

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

1. On the first of every month,

   First of the month (Schedule)

2. across Metro Manila,

   Metro Manila (Area of interest)

3. Matchmaker finds the independent restaurants rated four and a half or more,

   Independents rated 4.5+ (Nearby places)

4. keeps the ones with hundreds of reviews,

   Hundreds of reviews (Filter)

5. scores how well each would fit the mall’s food floor,

   Fit for the mall (xMap LLM)

6. keeps the top fifteen,

   The top fifteen (Sort and limit)

7. and sends each owner a first hello, once Paolo approves it.

   A first hello (Outreach)

What it solves

• Same chains, hard deals: solved by Nearby places
• Local gems are hidden: solved by Filter and xMap LLM
• Empty units cost money: solved by Sort and limit and Outreach

The result

This month, Matchmaker found forty-two loved local restaurants with a single branch. Paolo’s team met the top fifteen, and three signed, including a family-run lechon place from Quezon City that now has a queue on the second floor.

Paolo stopped chasing the chains. Now the city’s favourites come to him.

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

   First of the month

   Schedule

   Starts the flow on a timetable.

2. 2

   Metro Manila

   Area of interest

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

3. 3

   Independents rated 4.5+

   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

   Hundreds of reviews

   Filter

   Keeps only the items that match a rule.

5. 5

   Fit for the mall

   xMap LLM

   Tell the AI what to do in plain words.

6. 6

   The top fifteen

   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

   A first hello

   Outreach

   Writes to each result for you: a first message, then up to two follow-ups a few days apart, and stops when they reply.

Templates to build it

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

• Office towers for window and facade cleaningThe biggest office buildings scored for window and facade cleaning.
• Neighbourhoods without a grocery storeBlocks where people live with almost no grocery store, biggest gaps first.
• Neighbourhoods far from a hospitalNeighbourhoods with no hospital within 5 km, most populated first.
• Where to open sample collection pointsThe blocks of your city with the most adults and the fewest labs, scored and approved every month.
• Where to open serviced apartmentsThe blocks where business travellers need serviced apartments, scored and approved.
• Where to put scooter and bike hubsThe blocks for scooter and bike hubs, near stations and people, approved every month.

Industries

Learn how it works

• Location intelligenceUsing where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
• Site selectionChoosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
• How to find new businesses in a city every morningA daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
• Build your first flow in ten minutesFrom a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
• Write to people with OutreachA first message and follow-ups to each result, approved first, stopping when they reply.
• 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.

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