Where to open a yoga and pilates studio

What it does

When planning a studio: blocks of your city with the most adults aged 20 to 49 and the fewest yoga and pilates studios within 1 km, ranked, with a note by xMap AI.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Vancouver, count who lives around, count the yoga studios and pilates studios within 1 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by per_studio and keep the top 20, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Studios fill with people who live within walking distance. The gaps are ranked.

Who it is for

Fitness, beauty & wellness. Gym, studio, salon and spa brands choosing locations, watching rivals and filling classes. Every use case for fitness, beauty & wellness

Best use cases

• A yoga studio founder
• A pilates franchise
• A wellness real estate developer

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 180 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.

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. People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho 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).
4. Studios within 1 kmxMap 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.
5. Adults per studioLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
6. Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
7. Write the site notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
8. 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.