Every building site checked from space before payday
Hamad is project director at a large property developer in Doha. He has twelve buildings going up at once, from Lusail to West Bay.
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The challenge
Every month each contractor claims how far along it is, and the payment follows the claim. Hamad cannot visit twelve sites a month, and a drone survey costs more than he can justify. Last year he paid for a floor that was not there yet.
How the flow works
With xMap Flows, Hamad built Skyline. Skyline is an AI employee: a flow of 5 blocks.
Every second Monday,
Every second Monday (Schedule)
Skyline reads the sites under construction from the project list,
Sites under construction (My data)
finds the newest clear satellite picture of each one,
Newest clear picture (Satellite images)
adds each one to the site log,
Into the site log (Google Sheets)
and emails Hamad all twelve pictures, with the day each was taken.
Twelve pictures for Hamad (Email)
What it solves
- Twelve sites, one man: solved by My data and Satellite images
- Drone surveys cost a lot: solved by Satellite images
- Paid on claims alone: solved by Google Sheets and Email
The result
Before each payment meeting, Hamad flips through twelve pictures from the last few days. Eleven sites match their claims. One still shows bare ground where the contractor claims a finished podium, so that payment waits.
Hamad still trusts his contractors. Now he checks from space first.
An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.
The flow, block by block
- 1
- 2
Sites under construction
Brings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- 3
Newest clear picture
Recent satellite pictures (Sentinel-2, about 10 m per pixel, a new pass every few days) of each incoming place, a point or the Area of interest: when it was taken, how cloudy, and the picture itself.
- 4
- 5
Templates to build it
Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.
- Forest plots checked for clearing, every monthForest plots checked for clearing from space, with a field check flag.
- Camp growth seen from space, every monthHow each camp is changing, seen from space every month.
- Remote site perimeters, from space every weekWeekly satellite pictures of remote site perimeters, with notes.
- Beaches and coastline from space, every monthEach coastal site from space every month, with notes on change.
- Landfills and dumpsites from space, every monthLandfills and dumpsites from space every month, with notes.
- Container terminal yard from space, every weekHow full each terminal yard looks, from space every week.
Industries
Learn how it works
- Data enrichmentAdding details to records you already have.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2)Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to score candidate store sitesCompare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
- Satellite imagesThe latest clear picture of each site.
- Your own tables and lists (My data)Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
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Build this flow on your own city
Run a live search on the home page without an account, or let Ask xMap build the flow from one sentence.