Where rival operators opened shops
Rival operators’ new shops and which of yours they hurt.
What it does
Every month: new branded shops of a rival operator in your cities, the new ones only, with the nearest of your own shops and a note by xMap AI for retail.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Accra, find cell phone stores and telecommunications service providers in the area, keep only new ones, count the cell phone stores within 1 km of each, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A rival shop next door takes customers. The retail team knows the month it opens.
Who it is for
Telecom & connectivity. Mobile operators, internet providers and phone retailers planning shops, dealers and network capacity. Every use case for telecom
Best use cases
- A mobile operator’s retail team
- A phone retailer
- A franchise network
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 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Rival shopsxMap 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.
- Only new onesLogic · Only newLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
- Our shops nearbyxMap 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.
- Write the note with xMap AIxMap 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.
- 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.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- 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.
- 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.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
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