Site advisor chat for the expansion team
A chat where your expansion team names any address and gets people, competitors and a verdict.
What it does
A chat for your expansion team: they name any address, an AI agent counts the people and the competitors around it live and answers with a verdict.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
Quick questions about a site should not wait for an analyst. The team asks the chat and gets the numbers in seconds.
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
- An expansion manager on a site tour
- A broker preparing a pitch
- A franchise developer
What each run gives you
- Answers in the chat
The time it saves
Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 15 minutes each time, so it saves about 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 3 blocks and 2 tools.
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.
- Site advisorxMap 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}}.
- 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).
- Competitors 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.
- 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.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- 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.