Never driving into the wind again
Emre is a freelance tower technician in Istanbul. He climbs mobile phone masts for the telecom companies.
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The challenge
Above fifty kilometres an hour of wind, he cannot climb. Too often he crosses the Bosphorus in two hours of traffic, only to stand under a mast in a gale and drive home again. Each wasted trip is a day he isn’t paid.
How the flow works
With xMap Flows, Emre built Maple. Maple is an AI employee: a flow of 6 blocks.
An hour before each site visit on his calendar,
An hour before each visit (Google Calendar event)
Maple finds the mast in his list of sites,
The mast in his list (Match with my table)
checks the wind there,
Wind at the mast (Weather forecast)
looks for closures and accidents around it,
Road trouble near it (Traffic incidents)
weighs it all up,
Go or no-go (xMap LLM)
and tells him on Telegram whether to go.
Go or stay (Telegram Bot)
What it solves
- Two hours in traffic: solved by Traffic incidents
- Too windy to climb: solved by Weather forecast and xMap LLM
- Unpaid wasted days: solved by Google Calendar event and Telegram Bot
The result
On a Thursday, Maple warns him the mast in Sariyer will see winds of sixty-five by noon. He swaps it for the Kadikoy job, where the air is calm. That month, he loses not one day to the wind, and finishes six more jobs.
Emre still climbs in Istanbul’s wind. He just never drives into 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
An hour before each visit
Google Calendar event · Calendar event
Starts the flow when something happens in Google Calendar: a new record, a message, a change.
- 2
The mast in his list
Looks each incoming item up in one of your tables or saved lists (My data), for example your customers.
- 3
Wind at the mast
The weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- 4
Road trouble near it
Road closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- 5
- 6
Templates to build it
Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.
- Weekly disruption watch at logistics hubsWeather and road closures at logistics hubs, every week.
- Morning site briefing: weather and road closuresA morning briefing for each site: pours and lifts to avoid, heat precautions and road closures.
- Weekly security brief: incidents, weather and nightlifeIncidents, weather and nightlife in one weekly security brief.
- Harbour master’s morning briefShips, weather and roads in one morning brief for the harbour master.
- Road closures and storms at today’s install sitesClosures and weather at each install site, to the engineers each morning.
- Weekly club brief: weather, roads and rivalsWeather, roads and new rival venues in one weekly club brief.
Industries
Learn how it works
- 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.
- Location intelligenceUsing where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Reverse geocodingTurning coordinates into a street, district or address.
- Build your first flow in ten minutesFrom a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list onceA CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Traffic incidents and road closuresClosures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
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