Weekly competitive intelligence for my cafes

What it does

Every Monday: the best cafes around each of your branches, rated by xMap AI from their ratings and number of reviews, sorted by price tier, each rival profiled by an AI agent, and a strategy note for the week on Slack and by email.

In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, take your table, find coffee shops and cafes nearby, remove duplicates, score and rank them with xMap AI, clean up their categories, let the AI agent answer, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack, email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

Most cafe owners only see rivals when they walk past. This flow rates every rival, sorts them by price, profiles each one with an AI agent and tells you three things to do this week.

Who it is for

Restaurants & cafes. Owners and operators of restaurants, cafes and food brands watching competitors, reviews and the next branch. Every use case for restaurants & cafes

Best use cases

• A cafe brand with several branches
• A restaurant group planning a menu change
• A franchise operator defending its area

What each run gives you

• A weekly strategy note
• A Slack post for managers
• A map of rivals by review score

The time it saves

Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 16 hours a month (an estimate). It is advanced: 11 blocks and 2 tools.

The flow, block by block

1. Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My branchesYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
3. Cafes around each branchxMap 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. Each cafe onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
5. Rate how customers see them, with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
6. Sort them by price tierxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
7. Profile each rival with the AI agentxMap AI · AI agentAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.
8. Who lives around itxMap data · DemographicsA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itWho 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).
9. What is around itxMap data · Nearby placesA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itPlaces 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.
10. Write the strategy notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
11. Post to the managersApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
12. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
13. 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.