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Master location. Focus strategy. Drive growth.

Location insights
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h3hex is a next-generation location data and strategic intelligence partner for ambitious brands.

We help owners and operators make better location decisions, combining leading market data, AI and decades of real-world experience in location strategy, to give our clients brand-tailored, commercially focused insight and recommendations, all without the cost and complexity.

Our mission is to make expert location intelligence accessible to more businesses. If you’re looking to grow, we’d like to hear from you.

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Introducing Prospect

Prospect shows you how well a location fits your brand, revealing customer demand, competitive pressures, market potential and portfolio fit. Prospect goes beyond the numbers, providing the strategic insight and expert recommendations to help you make the right site investment decisions.

Prospect

Better intelligence. Better location decisions.

Prospect gives you:

  • Actionable expert summaries
  • C-suite crib sheet
  • Evidence of your target customers and missions
  • Competitor overview and positioning
  • Category spend and market headroom assessments
  • Pitch quality and site accessibility
  • Robust portfolio benchmarks
  • Sales forecast where available

Created as a pay as you go service to give you the location expert's point of view only when you need it.

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The front page of a Prospect report
01 · Brand-tailored strategic insight

Tailored to your brand and your commercial mindset.

Prospect is read through your brand - your missions, your customer, your proposition. The characteristics that matter to you come forward. The ones that don't, step back.

Most location data is surface numbers, or thin analysis asked to carry a big decision. Prospect gives your brand the commercial case — and the verdict.

Too often, specialist data lands in non-specialist hands. Prospect connects complex data and analysis to your people, at every level. Our insights, your way.

Every site has a story. Get to know yours.
Interchange Retail Park, read as either:
118Investment index
The case for
The case against
StrengthCustomer
WeaknessMission
OpportunityNetwork fit
RiskMarket knowledge
02 · Scientific benchmarking

Scored against the stores you already trust.

We know where your brand trades, and every essential detail of the trading environment your stores operate in. We use this in a proprietary benchmark identification process to share with you the closest possible proven stores, and tell you why.

Reliable benchmarks give you reliable trading estimates - so make sure yours are the best they can be.

Bring your existing business into the heart of the conversation.
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Target site vs closest twinTarget Twin Not a twin
Mission profileSpend dynamicsCompetitionWorkforceVisitors

The closest match in the portfolio to Trafford is Glasgow - Braehead, a drive-thru at the edge of a major managed retail and leisure destination, trading its approach flow. Selected because it is the estate's environmental twin of this site: a drive-thru building an arrival-and-departure trade alongside a destination rather than inside it, at a coffee-shop spend index of 148.

03 · Expert models

The same destination as footfall and card data. A fraction of the cost.

Footfall and banking data are expensive, modelled too, and only ever see what already trades. Our models reach the same answers - and show what could trade there too.

Instead ofProspect gives you
Footfall panelsPitch and visitor context
Card spend dataSpend and market headroom
Traffic counts aloneTraffic mission and profile
What's there today - and what could be.
Illustrative, based on a Prospect report at the Trafford Centre, Manchester
04 · Read it, hear it, believe it

Briefings that do the thinking for you.

Prospect includes brand-informed briefings throughout which you can access any time. It cross-references relevant data points, draws out the insights that matter to you, and reads them through your brand's commercial DNA - all so you don't have to be a data expert to get to the real value. Read the insights or press play and listen.

Don't let complex data be a barrier to simple decisions.
Listen to a sample
Demand is moderate and customer fit is strong, in a market with room to grow now and into the future. The case rests on the morning commuter, and the risk sits with the brand's own stores nearby - so the question isn't whether the market can carry a store, but whether this one adds sales or moves them.
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05 · Built for every level in your business

One report fuelling every level, every process, every department.

From the first site conversation, to the investment committee, to the last day of trading - every part of your business can find a link into, and take learnings from, Prospect.

CEOThe answer, firstOne headline, one index, one line on what it means.
FinanceEvery figure, sourcedDemand, spend, saturation and headroom, each with its base.
PropertyThe site in contextCatchment, competition and the twin stores it resembles.
OperationsHow it will tradeMissions, dayparts and how customers arrive.
MarketingWho to talk toThe customer, the occasions and the local proposition.
DevelopmentWhat to buildFormat fit, access and the approach to the site.
06 · Everything you need, when you need it the most

Digital twin

Prospect allows you to explore your stores' trading environment, enriched with our market intelligence and proprietary model outputs - even if you are offline.

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Controls
Layers
2.5 km
View only · not exportable
Demand more than data. Expect intelligence

The right location changes everything. Prove it before you commit.

Prospect brings together the essential data, models and strategic insights to help you assess locations like the experts:

Reduce risk.Build consistency.Drive returns.

Is the demand there?

01Are your customers actually here?Prospect links your brand's target customer profile to the site and tells you how good the match is.
02Who else already attracts your customer?Prospect knows which other brands are good for you and whether they are already priming the market for you.
03Are your customers there to spend with you?Prospect knows your brand's missions and value drivers, and reports whether they are in play.

Can you win it?

04How competitive is it?Prospect knows your competitor set and tells you whether the competition is too fierce or manageable.
05Is this market already saturated?Prospect understands customer spending and shows whether you are too late or just in time.
06Will this grow your business or take from another site?Prospect knows where else you trade, overlays this site and identifies any crossover.

Will it pay off?

07How does it compare to sites that already work for you?Prospect knows the location characteristics of your whole portfolio and finds robust benchmarks.
08What could this site be worth to you?Prospect can link to sales forecasting and your commercial models to estimate potential returns.
09How confident should you be in this decision?Prospect brings the benchmarks and supporting evidence together so you decide with certainty.
£300per site report
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Pulse · market intelligence

The data that powers our intelligence is available to you to power your own

Brand POI location data
400+brands available

Verified store-level networks for every significant UK brand - coordinates, format and trading status, with openings and closures flagged every cycle.

Example record
brandChaiiwala
storeBedford - Interchange Retail Park
lat, lon52.1084, -0.4855
formatstandard
statustrading
FormatCSV
DeliveryInstant download
FreshnessRefreshed monthly
from £20per brand file
Shop location data
Brand intelligence reports
400+brand profiles

The commercial dossier, brand by brand: position and scale, competitors, price point and proposition, customer and missions, formats, property and growth strategy, performance and momentum.

Brand intelligence reportBetter burger
operatorPosition · competitors · proposition · growth
FormatPDF
DeliveryInstant download
FreshnessRefreshed annually
from £175Brand Snapshot £175 · Brand Pack £995
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Sector intelligence reports
11retail and leisure sectors

A whole sector, covering: market sizing, market value and key trends; the brands operating within it, each profiled to detail their value proposition, commercial strategy, and performance.

Coffee & caféFood-to-go & bakeryRestaurants & QSRGrocery & convenienceForecourt & fuelFashion & apparelHealth & beautySports & leisureHome, DIY & tradesGeneral retail & valueGambling
FormatPDF
DeliveryInstant download
FreshnessRefreshed annually
from £1,495per sector report · custom sectors on request
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Need something the store doesn't carry?Bespoke extracts, other markets, custom layers or a feed into your own systems - tell us what you need and we'll scope it.
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Who we work with

Built for brands on the way up

Founders · early growth

Find the recipe, then repeat it.

  • Mirror the brands you emulate
  • Co-locate with the brands you trust
  • Identify the recipe you know is right
Franchisees · multi-unit operators

Professionalise your growth.

  • Use the scale of the master brand to inform your location strategy
  • Invest in skills and expertise, not expensive headcount
  • Empower your team with the support they need, when they need it
Master brands · scaling networks

Move at the speed of the market.

  • Brand-tailored location assessments, at the quality you have grown to expect
  • Delivered by the next working day after the agent's offer
  • Free your team to focus on the business questions that demand their attention

Make your next site decision with confidence.

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