Two hunts that fit suppliers
- The busiest: ranked by how many reviews each business has, the clearest public sign of how many customers it serves. A chain counts once by default, so ten branches do not fill your list.
- Newly opened: at most 30 reviews, all from the past year, the latest from the past six months, newest first. Google gives no opening date, so this is an estimate, and Pinweaver says so.
Add “independent only” to leave out chains, franchises and groups that buy through a head office.
Who it suits
- Food, drink and packaging suppliers; linen, cleaning and maintenance services.
- Payment, booking and point-of-sale providers.
- Sign makers, printers, insurance brokers and accountants for new businesses.
Is Pinweaver right for you?
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A good fit if
- You sell to local businesses in a few trades and want the ones worth a visit or a call first.
- Timing matters to you: new businesses decide on suppliers in their first months.
- You work city by city and trade by trade.
Not the right tool if
- You need purchasing data, revenue or order volumes: Pinweaver ranks by public reviews, not by what a business spends.
- You sell to head offices of large chains: Pinweaver finds local businesses, and can leave chains out.
- You want every business in a region in one file: see the export limit below.
Limits to know
- Reviews follow customers, but some trades get fewer reviews per customer than others, so compare businesses of one kind at a time.
- Newly opened is an estimate from reviews: a business that moved can look new, and one with no reviews yet cannot be seen.
- The CSV export carries each business's Google Maps link, its score, and what its own website shows (an email it publishes, a person it names, what it lacks). Business names, phone numbers and addresses come from Google and stay in the app, as Google's terms require.
Sentences to try
Any city, any trade. Type it the way you would say it:
- “the 10 busiest cafés in Austin”
- “restaurants in Miami that opened this year”
- “busiest independent bakeries in Lyon”
Questions
- How does Pinweaver know a business is busy?
- From how many Google reviews it has, compared with the others of its kind in the same city. It is the clearest public sign of volume, not an exact count of customers.
- Can I run the same search every month?
- Yes, and you only pay for businesses you have not found before: one already returned in a past hunt is free.
- Can I leave chains out?
- Yes. Choose “independent only” on the plan card, or say “no chains” in the sentence.