A rival brand’s new physical stores

What it does

Every week: new stores of a rival online brand in your country’s cities (by its name), each with what is around it, written up by xMap AI for the growth team, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg, find clothing stores and shoe stores in the area, keep only new ones, count the shopping malls, coffee shops and train stations within 500 m of each, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

When an online rival opens stores, it is betting on certain kinds of spots. Seeing them early informs your own plans.

Who it is for

E-commerce & D2C brands. Online stores and direct-to-consumer brands choosing pickup points, stockists, pop-ups and cities, and keeping deliveries on time. Every use case for e-commerce & d2c

Best use cases

• An online fashion brand
• A mattress brand
• An eyewear brand

What each run gives you

• An email
• A map

The time it saves

Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. Our citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. The rival’s storesxMap 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. What is around each storexMap 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.
6. Write the rival notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
7. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
8. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

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.