At every new restaurant before it settles in

Madison sells card machines and payment apps to restaurants in Miami, on her own commission. A new restaurant is still trying things in its first weeks, and that is when it switches how it takes payment. Madison drives Little Havana and Wynwood looking for new signs, but most weeks she finds them months late, locked into a rival’s contract. With xMap Flows, Madison built Pilot. Every Monday at seven, across Miami, Pilot finds the restaurants and cafes that opened in the last three months, skips the ones it has already sent her, sorts them into cafes, food trucks and full restaurants, keeps the best rated twenty, and emails her the week’s list. This Monday her list had twenty-six new places, among them nine new cafes in Wynwood. Madison visited the best twenty by Wednesday, every one still in its first months, and signed six of them by Friday. Madison stopped hunting for opening signs. The new places now come to her inbox.

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