Market size of a category across cities
Every coffee shop in five cities, counted and summarised every month.
What it does
Every month: every coffee shop across five cities, counted per city with chains and independents, a market note from xMap AI, saved to a sheet and emailed.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in New York, Chicago and 3 more, find coffee shops and cafes in the area, remove duplicates, write a report with xMap AI, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Market sizing usually takes days of desk research. This flow does it every month with the same method, so trends are real.
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
- An investor looking at a category
- A consultant sizing a market
- A brand planning entry
What each run gives you
- A market note by email
- A data sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 480 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 8 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Every coffee shopxMap 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.
- Each one onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
- Write the market notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Save the data to a sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the listAction · 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.
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- 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.
- New openings into my database: New openings saved to your own database every week, classified.
- Monthly hiring index for a sector: A monthly hiring index for a sector across cities.