Where to open a new showroom
Blocks with many buyers and few dealers, for a showroom.
What it does
When planning a showroom: blocks of your city with the most adults aged 30 to 49 and the fewest car dealers within 5 km, ranked, with a note by xMap AI.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Casablanca, count who lives around, count the car dealers within 5 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by per_dealer and keep the top 20, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Showrooms sell where buyers live and rivals are few. The blocks are ranked.
Who it is for
Automotive & mobility. Car dealers, rental, parts suppliers and mobility operators following drivers and the places they go. Every use case for automotive & mobility
Best use cases
- A car brand
- A dealership group
- A Chinese car brand entering a market
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 180 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Car dealers within 5 kmxMap 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.
- Buyers per dealerLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
- Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Write the site notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- 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.
- 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.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- 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 score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
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