Our story
h3hex is a location-intelligence company founded in 2024. It sells site strategy reports, store-location data for retail and leisure brands across EMEA, market sector reports and Estate Diligence. We saw how location data and strategy were delivering tangible benefits for larger operators, and wanted to offer that same success factor for smaller brands. AI has now changed the economics of this process - what used to require a large development team can now be assembled quickly and at lower cost. h3hex exists to leverage this and pass on the value created.
Twenty years in location and network strategy. Fifteen years leading network strategy for global brands across EMEA; shaping portfolios by proposition, leveraging segmentation; commercial real estate advisory; and product and sales leadership at a SaaS scale-up.
Built by an operator
Two decades making and defending network decisions. The method in every report comes from the room where those calls get made.
We know what moves the answer
Hundreds of measures exist. A handful change a site decision. Every report leads with those, and says why.
Data you can check
Every record verified store-level, carrying its source and a confidence rating, refreshed monthly.
A person behind the product
A walkthrough on your first reports, and a direct line when a decision needs more than a report.
Growing brands are underserved by data and by expertise.
AI platforms give you numbers without meaning. Traditional consultancies give you meaning at a price built for the largest brands.
That gap matters most where the stakes are highest. For a growing brand, every site is a larger share of the estate: a wrong decision costs more, and a right one carries the business further. Getting it right takes experience - knowing which few measures genuinely move a site decision, and what they mean for a particular brand.
h3hex are here to fill that gap, and give you the support you deserve.
Growing brands have the most to gain from getting location right.
A proven model on its way to proven scale, where each new site shapes what the business becomes.
Experience is what turns evidence into a decision.
h3hex offers decades of network strategy experience - knowing what to look for, what to ignore, and when the numbers are telling you something the brand needs to hear.
Experience-led AI is the hybrid approach that makes it accessible to all.
AI puts trained expertise to work on every site - empowering human judgement rather than replacing it with surface-level answers.
Three leading capabilities, focused on one shared goal.
Market intelligence, brand-tailored AI strategists, and proven expertise combine into the ultimate solution for your business challenge:
Proprietary data and models
h3hex data lake covers 400+ brands store by store, with population, workforce, spend and movement, refreshed monthly - and the models built on it: pitch, spend, headroom and traffic mission.
Agentic powerBrand-tailored AI strategists
AI that links your brand to the data and our proven location strategy expertise - your customer, your missions, your competitors, your best next step - shared in your language.
Proven expertiseFull life-cycle experience
Knowledge of the techniques, data, and approaches that make a difference at any stage of your journey, and the hard-earned judgement that can be applied wherever a decision needs it.