Home improvement and DIY retailers use catalog.xmap.ai to map competing big-box and independent hardware stores, track new openings, and weigh a candidate site against nearby residential density.
See every hardware and home-improvement competitor in a trade area.
Catch a competitor's new big-box location as soon as it opens.
Weigh a site by nearby contractor and trade-business density that drives bulk purchases.
Find trade areas underserved by both big-box and independent hardware stores.
catalog.xmap.ai is a self-serve database of 140M+ real business locations across 40+ countries. Every record is an actual, physically-located business (not an estimate) with up to 36 structured fields: name, full address, latitude/longitude, category (three levels deep), brand and chain affiliation, hours of operation, phone and website, star rating and review count, open/closed status, and more.
You filter the catalog by category, brand, or geography in a live web interface, watch the matching record count update as you narrow the search, and export the results as a clean CSV file, ready to open in a spreadsheet, load into GIS software, or join against your own data.
The dataset refreshes every 30 days, so an export reflects recent openings, closures, and changes rather than a static snapshot from years ago.
| Field | Type | Why it matters here |
|---|---|---|
| category_level_3 | string | Distinguishes big-box, independent hardware, and specialty trade supply |
| brand_name / chain_flag | string / boolean | Separates national chains from independent hardware retailers |
| traffic_score / dwell_time | numeric | Ranks candidate power-center sites by relative footfall |
| open_status | string | Flags recent openings and closures for monthly monitoring |
A DIY chain exports competing big-box and independent hardware coverage across two candidate sites, finds one with no big-box competitor within five miles, and prioritizes it for the next store.