A week of walking, scored before her coffee

Ana is an independent consultant in Porto. She helps restaurant owners choose where to open. Each client sends a shortlist of streets, and she walks every one at lunch and dinner, counting rival tables. A shortlist takes her a week, so she can take only three clients a month. And her memos are mostly gut feeling. With xMap Flows, Ana built Vista. Each time a client adds a street to their shortlist, Vista counts the rival restaurants around it and how they are rated, measures how busy the roads around it are, scores the street for that client’s kind of restaurant, ranks the shortlist, and emails the client a memo. When a client adds six streets in Ribeira and Bonfim, the memo arrives before Ana finishes her coffee. She still walks the top two, at dinner, to be sure. She now takes ten clients a month, and her memos have numbers. Ana still walks the streets. Just the two worth walking.

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