A day care centre within a short walk

The challenge

When a family asks for a day care centre, she phones round for a week. The ones with places are too far for frail legs, and the near ones are full or badly reviewed. Meanwhile the family is worn out, and so is she.

How the flow works

With xMap Flows, Aiko built Hawk. Hawk is an AI employee: a flow of 6 blocks.

1. Whenever she adds a new client,

   A new client (New rows)

2. Hawk draws a fifteen-minute walk from their home,

   15-minute walk (Travel area)

3. finds the day care centres inside it,

   Day care centres (Nearby places)

4. keeps the ones rated four or more,

   Well reviewed (Filter)

5. picks the best five,

   The best five (Sort and limit)

6. and emails the family a shortlist that evening.

   Shortlist to the family (Gmail)

What it solves

• A week on the phone: solved by Nearby places and Gmail
• Too far for frail legs: solved by Travel area
• Families worn out: solved by Filter and Sort and limit

The result

Last week, a new client's daughter asked on Tuesday morning. By evening she had five centres, all within a short walk, all rated above four. Her father started on Friday. Aiko now spends that week with her clients, not on the phone.

Aiko used to search for care. Now she has time to give it.

An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.

The flow, block by block

1. 1

   A new client

   New rows

   Starts the flow when new rows appear in a Google Sheet or in a table in My data.

2. 2

   15-minute walk

   Travel area

   The area you can reach within a travel time (15 minutes by car) or a distance by road (10 km), on foot, by bike or by car, from each incoming place or from places you pick.

3. 3

   Day care centres

   Nearby places

   Places around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.

4. 4

   Well reviewed

   Filter

   Keeps only the items that match a rule.

5. 5

   The best five

   Sort and limit

   Puts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.

6. 6

   Shortlist to the family

   Gmail

   Email service by Google

Templates to build it

Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.

• Restaurants worth reviewing this monthYoung, well-loved restaurants worth reviewing, every month.
• Malls with no store of mine nearbyMalls far from any of your stores, the busiest first, every month.
• Buyers for my produce near my farmsBuyers for your produce near your farms, scored and sent from your own Gmail.
• Office towers for window and facade cleaningThe biggest office buildings scored for window and facade cleaning.
• Neighbourhoods without a grocery storeBlocks where people live with almost no grocery store, biggest gaps first.
• Neighbourhoods far from a hospitalNeighbourhoods with no hospital within 5 km, most populated first.

Learn how it works

• Drive time vs radiusTwo ways to draw the area around a site, and when each is good enough.
• Location intelligenceUsing where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
• POI data (points of interest)Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
• Compare sites side by sideTwo or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
• An instant site report of any spotPaused for now while xMap improves the data behind it. Reports already made still open.
• The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this businessOn a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.

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