Rival plants from space, every quarter
Rival plants from space every quarter, looking for expansion.
What it does
Every quarter: the latest clear satellite picture of each rival plant in your table, with a note by xMap AI on new buildings, yards or parking that suggest expansion.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, get satellite pictures, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
New buildings and bigger yards show expansion months before announcements.
Who it is for
Manufacturing & industrial supply. Manufacturers, industrial distributors and plant teams finding distributors, suppliers and workers, and keeping plants running. Every use case for manufacturing & industrial
Best use cases
- A manufacturer’s strategy team
- An industrial investor
- A market analyst
What each run gives you
- An email with the pictures
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 5 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Rival plantsYour 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.
- Latest picture of each plantxMap data · Satellite imagesRecent satellite pictures (Sentinel-2, about 10 m per pixel, a new pass every few days) of each incoming place, a point or the Area of interest: when it was taken, how cloudy, and the picture itself.
- Look for expansion with xMap AIxMap 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Satellite images: The latest clear picture of each site.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
- 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.
More for Manufacturing & industrial supply
- Where to build the next plant: workforce and logistics: Industrial areas ranked by workforce and logistics, as a site memo.
- Factories hiring production staff, for my equipment sales: Factories hiring operators, scored as equipment buyers.
- Metal fabricators for welding supply sales: Fabricators graded as welding supply buyers, with the owner.
- Food manufacturers for my packaging sales: Food manufacturers scored as packaging buyers, with procurement.
- Industrial distributors in a new country: Industrial distributors in a new country, scored, with the managing director.
- Truck repair and machine shops for my spare parts reps: New workshops graded as spare parts buyers, to the reps.