Drivers in place before the storm breaks

The challenge

When a storm breaks over the city, ride requests jump in minutes. Drivers are on the wrong side of town, riders wait in the rain, and half of them cancel. Her team only learns where the rain hit from the complaints, an hour later.

How the flow works

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

1. Every morning at five and again at noon,

   5 am and noon (Schedule)

2. Rainwatch looks at her twelve busiest districts,

   Twelve busy districts (My data)

3. checks how much rain is coming to each one today,

   Rain today (Weather forecast)

4. saves every forecast in the team's sheet,

   Every forecast, kept (Google Sheets)

5. picks the districts where heavy rain is coming,

   Heavy rain coming (Filter)

6. and tells the dispatch room to send drivers there early.

   Tell the dispatch room (Microsoft Teams)

What it solves

• Storms catch them out: solved by Weather forecast
• Riders wait, then cancel: solved by Filter and Microsoft Teams
• No record of the rain: solved by Google Sheets

The result

At five, Rainwatch sees heavy rain coming for Cau Giay and Ba Dinh. Dispatch moves one hundred and twenty drivers there before the afternoon rush. Waits stay under five minutes, and the sheet shows which districts fill up every time it pours.

Linh's drivers no longer chase the storm. They are already there.

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

   5 am and noon

   Schedule

   Starts the flow on a timetable.

2. 2

   Twelve busy districts

   My data

   Brings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.

3. 3

   Rain today

   Weather forecast

   The weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.

4. 4

   Every forecast, kept

   Google Sheets

   Create, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online

5. 5

   Heavy rain coming

   Filter

   Keeps only the items that match a rule.

6. 6

   Tell the dispatch room

   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.

• High UV days: advice for my clinics' patientsOn high UV days, a short sun safety tip for each clinic's patients.
• Heat stop for outdoor work, every hourA WhatsApp heat stop to supervisors when a site reaches 45 degrees.
• Wind alert for crane liftsA Slack alert to stop crane lifts when strong wind is forecast.
• Frost warning for my farmsA WhatsApp frost warning to farm managers when nights get cold.
• Weather-driven promotions per storeA promotion idea for each store when heat or rain is coming.
• Heavy rain at my properties, with a checklistAn alert to facilities when heavy rain is coming at your properties.

Industries

Learn how it works

• Data enrichmentAdding details to records you already have.
• How to score candidate store sitesCompare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
• How to build a WhatsApp assistant that answers about placesCustomers ask on WhatsApp; an AI agent searches and replies.
• Weather forecastUp to 16 days for each place or city.
• Your own tables and lists (My data)Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.

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