The first steel call on every new tower

The challenge

The big jobs are won long before the tender. By the time a project reaches the papers, the general contractor already has three steel prices. Dylan’s team reads the city’s permit pages by hand, an hour each morning, and still misses half of them.

How the flow works

With xMap Flows, Dylan built Cadence. Cadence is an AI employee: a flow of 7 blocks.

1. Every weekday at six,

   Weekdays at 6 am (Schedule)

2. Cadence reads the city’s new building permits,

   New building permits (Web page watch)

3. keeps the buildings of ten floors or more,

   Ten floors or more (Filter)

4. finds the builder behind each one,

   The builder behind it (Map business scan)

5. skips the jobs already in his bid list,

   Not bidding already (Match with my table)

6. estimates the steel each one needs,

   The steel, roughly (xMap LLM)

7. and posts them to the estimators.

   The estimators’ channel (Microsoft Teams)

What it solves

• An hour of reading: solved by Web page watch
• Half the permits missed: solved by Schedule and Web page watch and Filter
• Three prices already in: solved by Map business scan and xMap LLM and Microsoft Teams

The result

This Tuesday, Cadence finds a twenty-two floor tower in Long Island City, filed the day before. The builder hears from Dylan before any other fabricator. Three weeks later, his team is pricing the steel with the drawings in hand.

Dylan stopped reading about jobs he lost. Now he calls about the ones he’ll win.

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

   Weekdays at 6 am

   Schedule

   Starts the flow on a timetable.

2. 2

   New building permits

   Web page watch

   Watches web pages for you.

3. 3

   Ten floors or more

   Filter

   Keeps only the items that match a rule.

4. 4

   The builder behind it

   Map business scan

   Finds businesses on online maps live: name, category, rating, address, phone, website and whether it is open.

5. 5

   Not bidding already

   Match with my table

   Looks each incoming item up in one of your tables or saved lists (My data), for example your customers.

6. 6

   The steel, roughly

   xMap LLM

   Tell the AI what to do in plain words.

7. 7

   The estimators’ channel

   Microsoft Teams · Teams

   Runs an action in Microsoft Teams.

Templates to build it

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

• Decision makers at new cafesNew cafes scored by xMap AI, with the owner and managers from Apollo.
• Prospects not yet in my CRMSupermarkets and groceries not in HubSpot yet, scored and added every week.
• Busy employers with low ratings, for HR compliance adviceEmployers hiring a lot with low ratings, as HR compliance clients.
• Busy employers for workers’ compensation coverEmployers hiring many workers, scored for workers’ compensation.
• Employers hiring from abroad, for my immigration practiceEmployers sponsoring visas, with their HR director, every Monday.
• Newly opened businesses for my advertising sales teamNew businesses scored as advertisers, with the owner, every weekday.

Industries

Learn how it works

• Data enrichmentAdding details to records you already have.
• How to build a B2B lead list from the mapEvery business of a type in your territory, with contacts, scored, in a sheet or CRM.
• How to find companies hiring for a role near youHiring signals by role and city, with the company's details and the person to call.
• Enrich a list onceA CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
• Build your first flow in ten minutesFrom a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
• Watch web pages for changesA page that changed, said in plain words, or the new entries of a list such as tenders or listings.

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