Store locator chat
A chat that finds your nearest stores to any address.
What it does
A chat for your website: an AI agent finds the nearest stores to any address someone gives and answers with their address and rating.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
Shoppers ask where the nearest store is. The chat answers on your site.
Who it is for
Retail & franchise expansion. Expansion, real estate and network planning teams deciding where the next store or franchise goes. Every use case for retail & franchise
Best use cases
- A store chain’s website
- A brand with many stockists
- A pharmacy chain
What each run gives you
- A chat page
The time it saves
Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 5 minutes each time, so it saves about 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 3 blocks and 1 tool.
The flow, block by block
- ChatTrigger · ChatStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.
- Store finderxMap 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}}.
- Stores nearbyxMap 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.
- ReplyAction · ReplyAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or Discord gets a reply in the same chat, through the account of the block that received it.
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
- AI agents with tools and memory: An agent that answers questions using your blocks as tools.
- Answer on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: An assistant that replies in the same chat.
- A chat page for your flow: Let anyone talk to a flow on a page or on your website.
- 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.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
More for Retail & franchise expansion
- Expansion committee pack, every month: A monthly expansion committee pack: every block scored, the best 20 investigated, approved, mapped.
- Score every neighbourhood for a new branch: Every block of your city scored for a new supermarket, the 20 best on a map.
- Where my rival is and I am not: Every rival branch with none of yours within 2 km, with who lives around it.
- New homes with no supermarket yet: New apartment buildings with no supermarket nearby, scored as places for your next store.
- Busy stations with no convenience store: The train and metro stations with the fewest convenience stores around them, scored for a new one.
- Stores competing with each other: Your stores that sit within 1 km of each other, with the people around them.