What rival manufacturers are hiring for
What rival manufacturers are hiring for, by function.
What it does
Every month: job postings of the rival manufacturers you name, sorted by xMap AI by function (R&D, production, quality, sales), written up as a competitor note for the strategy team.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Tokyo and Osaka, find companies hiring for “battery engineer”, clean up their categories, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Job postings reveal new products and plants before announcements. Strategy sees them monthly.
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 strategy team
- A battery maker
- An industrial analyst
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our marketWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Rivals’ job postingsxMap data · Job postingsLive job postings: who is hiring, for what, and where.
- Sort by functionxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
- Write the competitor 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Job postings: companies that are hiring: Hiring signals by role and place, with the full posting.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- How to find companies hiring for a role near you: Hiring signals by role and city, with the company's details and the person to call.
- 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.