Find distributors in a new country
Wholesalers and distributors in a new country, scored as partners.
What it does
Every quarter: wholesalers and distribution companies in the main cities of a new market, scored by xMap AI as partners, the best ones saved to a sheet and emailed.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakesh, find wholesalers and distribution services in the area, score and rank them with xMap AI, sort them by fit score and keep the top 15, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Entering a new market starts with the right distributor. This flow builds a scored shortlist in a few minutes.
Who it is for
FMCG & distribution field sales. Distributors and consumer brands whose reps cover outlets: new shops, routes, channels and stock. Every use case for fmcg & distribution
Best use cases
- A brand entering Morocco
- An exporter looking for partners
- A consultant running a market entry
What each run gives you
- A shortlist sheet
- An email
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 new marketWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Wholesalers and distributorsxMap 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.
- Score them as partnersxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 15 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.
- Save the shortlistApp · 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.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
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- New outlets to CRM: New restaurants and cafes as leads in your CRM every morning, with a brief for the reps.
- Neighbourhoods without a grocery store: Blocks where people live with almost no grocery store, biggest gaps first.
- New outlets on my routes, prioritised, to the nearest rep: New grocery outlets on your routes, each assigned to the nearest rep, every weekday.
- Monthly outlet census of my city: Every food outlet in your city, by channel, the ones not in your CRM, every month.