Rival openings and closures every month

What it does

Every month: every branch of a rival brand across your cities, with what changed since last month (new branches, closed branches), emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in London, Manchester and Birmingham, find supermarkets and hypermarkets in the area, spot what changed, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

A rival's new branches show where it sees demand; its closures show where it failed. Both are worth knowing 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 supermarket chain watching a rival
• A pharmacy group
• An electronics retailer

What each run gives you

• A monthly note
• A map of rival branches

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 medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My citiesWhere · 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. New and closed branchesLogic · What changedLets through only the places this flow found before whose details changed since: closed, a rating that moved, a new phone or website, a new name or address, or any field you name.
5. Write the monthly notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
6. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
7. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

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.