Chains against independents, city by city
Chains against independents in several cities.
What it does
Every quarter: cafes in several cities, split into chains and independents with their average rating, in a report by xMap AI for a consumer research brief.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in London, Paris and 2 more, find cafes and coffee shops in the area, write a report with xMap AI, then create file from text in Google Drive and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
The share of chains tells how mature a market is. The comparison is ready each quarter.
Who it is for
Investors, analysts & consultants. Investors, analysts and consultants who need location numbers they can trust, on a schedule. Every use case for investors & consultants
Best use cases
- A consumer research firm
- A coffee brand entering a market
- A franchise consultant
What each run gives you
- A report in Google Drive
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Cities to compareWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- CafesxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces 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.
- Write the comparisonxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Save the report to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
More for Investors, analysts & consultants
- Market entry study, refreshed monthly: A market entry study refreshed every month: size, chains, demand, the best areas and the risks.
- Competitor density around each site: People per competitor around each of your sites, ranked.
- Store visit route for a due diligence trip: The branches of a chain you are studying, the strongest and the weakest marked, in the best order to visit them.
- Who lives around new places: The new cafes in your city with the people living around each.
- Market size of a category across cities: Every coffee shop in five cities, counted and summarised every month.
- New openings into my database: New openings saved to your own database every week, classified.