Rivals near me whose rating drops
A note when a nearby rival’s rating falls below 4, with a way to win its customers.
What it does
Checked every day: when a plumber, electrician or air conditioning contractor within 5 km of your base falls below a 4 rating, a note by xMap AI on how to win the customers they are disappointing, posted to the team in Slack and emailed. A quiet day costs only the check.
In one sentence: When a plumber near Our base drops below 4 stars, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Unhappy customers look for someone new right away. Knowing which rival is slipping tells you where to advertise and what to promise.
Who it is for
Home services & trades. Cleaning, plumbing, electrical, pest control, moving and repair businesses filling their vans, winning contracts and planning around the weather. Every use case for home services & trades
Best use cases
- A plumbing company
- An electrical contractor
- An air conditioning service
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
- An email
The time it saves
When it is started. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 4 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- A rival’s rating drops below 4Trigger · When something changesStarts the flow when something changes around your places, instead of on a timer: a new place of a kind opens nearby, a rating drops below a line, a place closes, or a road is closed near a site.
- Write the idea with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post to the team channelApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Run a flow when something changes: A new place nearby, a rating that drops, a place that closes, a road closed near a site.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- 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.
- Lead scoring: Ranking prospects by how likely they are to buy.
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- New apartment buildings for cleaning contracts: New apartment buildings with the property manager, for cleaning contracts.
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