Where my rival is and I am not

What it does

Every month: every branch of a rival brand in your city, how far each is from your nearest store, the ones with none of yours within 2 km, checked by an AI agent (who lives around, what else is there) and ranked on a map.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Montreal, find coffee shops in the area, find the nearest of your points, keep those where mystore_km ≥ 2, let the AI agent answer, score and rank them with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Where a rival has proven demand and you have no store is the safest place to open. This flow lists those gaps every month.

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 coffee chain chasing a market leader
• A fast food brand finding white space
• A telecom shop network

What each run gives you

• A map of gaps
• An email of the best ones

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is advanced: 9 blocks and 2 tools.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. Rival branchesxMap 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. My nearest storeWhere · Find nearestFor each place, finds the nearest of your own points from a CSV you upload, for example the nearest ambulance to each accident or the nearest branch to each new lead, and adds its name and the distance.
5. No store of mine within 2 kmLogic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
6. Size each gap 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}}.
7. 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).
8. Other cafes 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.
9. Rank the gaps with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
10. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
11. 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.