The metro station where life is just starting
Rohit buys flats in Pune to rent out. He owns six, and wants his next two near the city’s new metro line.
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The challenge
Everyone knows rents rise near a new metro station, so prices at the obvious stops have jumped. The trick is the station where life is just starting: new cafes, gyms and coworking spaces. Rohit walks stations every weekend, and still guesses.
How the flow works
With xMap Flows, Rohit built Signal. Signal is an AI employee: a flow of 6 blocks.
Every Saturday at eight,
Every Saturday at 8 (Schedule)
Signal draws a ten-minute walk around each new metro station,
10-minute walk of each stop (Travel area)
finds the cafes, gyms and coworking spaces that opened there in the last year,
Cafes, gyms, coworking (Nearby places)
keeps the ones new this week,
New this week (Only new)
puts them on a map, station by station,
Stations on a map (Show on a map)
and emails Rohit his Saturday brief.
His Saturday brief (Email)
What it solves
- Obvious stops, priced in: solved by Travel area and Nearby places
- Weekends on foot: solved by Schedule and Show on a map and Email
- Still a guess: solved by Only new and Show on a map
The result
Within two months, one station pulled ahead: around Vanaz, eleven new cafes and two gyms had opened, more than anywhere else on the line. Rohit bought a two-bedroom flat there, before the asking prices caught up.
Rohit stopped buying where the metro is. He buys where the life is starting.
An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.
The flow, block by block
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10-minute walk of each stop
The area you can reach within a travel time (15 minutes by car) or a distance by road (10 km), on foot, by bike or by car, from each incoming place or from places you pick.
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Cafes, gyms, coworking
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.
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New this week
Lets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
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Templates to build it
Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.
- Rivals within 10 minutes’ drive of each storeThe new rival shops within 10 minutes’ drive of each of your stores.
- Who runs the businesses around my storesWho runs the restaurants and cafes around your stores, every week.
- Catering leads: offices and venues near my kitchenOffices, banks, hospitals and universities near your kitchen, with who orders, and a pitch.
- Independent dental clinics to call, every weekdayIndependent dental clinics with a phone or website, new ones only, straight into your call sheet.
- New hotels opening across Southeast AsiaNew hotels across Southeast Asian cities, every month, for your sales team.
- New exchange and remittance shops in my cityNew money transfer and exchange shops in your city, every week.
Industries
Learn how it works
- Drive time vs radiusTwo ways to draw the area around a site, and when each is good enough.
- 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.
- Compare sites side by sideTwo or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- An instant site report of any spotPaused for now while xMap improves the data behind it. Reports already made still open.
- 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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