New openings into my database

What it does

Every week: places that opened in the last six months across your cities, only the new ones, classified, saved to your own database for your models.

In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in London and Dubai, find restaurants, coffee shops and 2 more in the area, keep only new ones, clean up their categories, save them to your database, then email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Analysts want raw data in their own models. This flow feeds your database with new openings on a schedule.

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 data science team
• A fund building signals
• A research firm

What each run gives you

• Rows in your database
• An email

The time it saves

Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 8 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. New openingsxMap 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.
4. Only new onesLogic · Only newLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
5. Classify themxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
6. Save to my databaseYour data · Save to my databaseSaves the items into a table of your own database (PostgreSQL, BigQuery or Snowflake): each field goes into the column of the same name, the others are left out.
7. 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.