The next clinic, where the people are

The challenge

For every site, her team spends two weeks on spreadsheets and visits. Who lives nearby? How many clinics already compete? The answers are always out of date. The last clinic opened in a street full of offices: busy at lunch, empty every evening.

How the flow works

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

1. Whenever her team adds a possible site,

   A new site to check (New rows)

2. Atlas draws everything within fifteen minutes by car,

   15 minutes by car (Travel area)

3. counts the children and older people living inside,

   Who lives there (Demographics)

4. finds the clinics already there,

   Clinics already there (Nearby places)

5. works out how many people each clinic serves,

   People per clinic (Calculated field)

6. and sends the board a report the same day.

   Site report for the board (Make a report)

What it solves

• 2 weeks per site: solved by New rows and Make a report
• Data already old: solved by Travel area and Demographics and Nearby places
• Empty every evening: solved by Calculated field

The result

This month her team tested twenty-two sites, not four. In Bang Na, two hundred and ten thousand people live within fifteen minutes, one clinic for every nineteen thousand. That site went to the board on Monday and was approved on Friday.

Ploy stopped guessing where people live. Now she opens where they need her.

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 site to check

   New rows

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

2. 2

   15 minutes by car

   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

   Who lives there

   Demographics

   Who lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).

4. 4

   Clinics already there

   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.

5. 5

   People per clinic

   Calculated field

   Adds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.

6. 6

   Site report for the board

   Make a report

   Turns the items that reach it into a clean PDF report with your logo and colour: the summary an xMap LLM block wrote for the whole list, the figures, charts of kinds and cities, a map and the list.

Templates to build it

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

• Neighbourhood facts and a blurb for every listing in my sheetAdd a listing to a sheet and get its neighbourhood facts and a walkability score.
• Who my warehouse reaches in 15 minutes, for same-day deliveryHow many people your warehouse reaches within 15 minutes, for same-day delivery.
• Impact report for donors: people around each siteThe reach section of the donor report, from the people around each site.
• Who and what is within a 15-minute walk of a planned stationThe people, offices and schools within a 15-minute walk of a planned station.
• Districts with no pharmacy close byBlocks with many people and few pharmacies, ranked.
• Where young adults lack mental health careBlocks with many young adults and few mental health services.

Industries

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.
• Catchment areaThe area a store or service draws its customers from.
• 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.
• Ask the map a questionHow many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.

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