Location insights
made easy
h3hex is a next-generation location strategy consultancy for ambitious multi-site brands.
We help owners and operators make better growth decisions by combining the power of data and AI with decades of real-world experience in location strategy. More than just location data, we give you tailored intelligence.
Our mission is simple: to make world-class location strategy accessible to every growing business. If you are looking to scale your business then we would like to hear from you.
Introducing Prospect
Prospect is the only product on the market giving you brand-tailored location intelligence, as and when you need it. Combining key customer and market data with brand-tailored strategic insights in an accessible solution that brings the location strategist view to you.
Intelligence, not just data
Prospect brings together:
- Intelligent summaries
- C-suite crib sheet
- Demographic and traffic profiles
- Competitor and complementary brands
- Spend and headroom capacity
- Pitch and site accessibility
- Digital twin interactive map
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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Prospect - a new generation of location intelligence
Leading data and models; the strategic narrative; a digital twin of your trade zone - all in one tool, all tailored to your brand.
“Get actionable answers tailored to you, not generic data blocks.”
Is the demand there?
Can we win it?
Will the site convert it?
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
A UK data lake - 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.
The data that powers our intelligence is available to you to power your own
Verified store-level networks for every significant UK brand - coordinates, format and trading status, with openings and closures flagged every cycle.
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.
operatorPosition · competitors · proposition · growth
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.
Expert consultancy
When your business needs an extra boost, h3hex brings the expertise, data and strategic thinking to solve any challenge, unlock commercial opportunities, and keep your business moving forward.
Support expansion
Where to open next, and how many stores a market can carry. National network plans, site selection and acquisition - drive-thru and roadside included.
Support rationalisation
A store-by-store view of the estate: where to invest, where to relocate, where to exit - and how to limit the drag of under-performers.
Support optimisation
Right-size the format, the offer and the price point to each local market, and find the location factors that actually drive your sales.
Sector intelligence
A whole sector sized and read - every brand, where the growth is, and where the white space sits - before you commit to entering it.
Built for brands on the way up
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
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
Move at the speed of the market.
- Brand-tailored location assessments, at the quality you have grown to expect
- Delivered the same day as the agent's offer
- Free your team to focus on the business questions that demand their attention
Our story
h3hex was founded in 2024. 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.
What people ask before their first report
Who is h3hex for?
Growing multi-site brands - roughly from the fifth store to a few hundred - and the founders, franchisees and master brands behind them.
Is this AI?
Yes - experience-led AI. A proven site-assessment method, built from two decades of network strategy, runs across the data, and a virtual strategist explains it through your brand. When a decision needs human judgement, that is what our consultancy is for.
What is a Prospect report?
A location report for any UK site. It reads demand, competition, movement and market headroom through your brand, benchmarks the site against your own estate, and explains what it all means in plain English - written and spoken.
Do I need to be a data specialist to use it?
No. Every report leads with the answer and explains itself - built so a CEO, a finance team, and property and operations teams can each take what they need from the same report.
How is it tailored to my brand?
Each report is read through a profile of your brand - your customer, your missions and your proposition - and compared against the stores in your own estate most like the site. The same location, for two brands, gives two different answers.
Where does the data come from?
A UK data lake built in-house: population, workforce, spend, movement and store-level locations for 400+ brands, verified and refreshed monthly.
Make your next site decision with confidence.
h3hex - next generation location strategy support