Weekly small business pulse
New small businesses each week, in a pulse note.
What it does
Every Monday: new small businesses in your cities by kind, against the shops that closed in your watch table, in a pulse note by xMap AI for the bank’s economist.
In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Jakarta, find restaurants, stores and 3 more in the area, keep only new ones, clean up their categories, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
New businesses show where the economy grows before statistics do. The note comes each Monday.
Who it is for
Banks, lenders & insurance. Banks, lenders, insurers and payment companies finding merchants, checking risk and planning branches. Every use case for banking & lending
Best use cases
- A bank’s economist
- A central bank research team
- A fintech strategy team
What each run gives you
- An email
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: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- New small businessesxMap 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.
- Only new onesLogic · Only newLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
- Sort by kindxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
- Write the pulse 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.
- 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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