The board brief that writes itself on Monday

The challenge

His company already has AI employees watching rivals, openings and closures across the city. But every Monday he spends the morning copying their numbers into slides for the board. By the time the deck is ready, the week has moved on.

How the flow works

With xMap Flows, Tomas built Quill. Quill is an AI employee: a flow of 5 blocks.

1. Every Monday at six,

   Every Monday at 6 (Schedule)

2. Quill reads what the other AI employees found this week against last,

   This week against last (Team findings)

3. writes a short brief from their figures,

   A short brief (xMap LLM)

4. turns it into a report,

   The board report (Make a report)

5. and emails it to the board before they arrive.

   To the board (Microsoft Outlook)

What it solves

• A morning of copying: solved by Team findings and xMap LLM
• Numbers in ten emails: solved by Team findings and Make a report
• Old news by the board: solved by Schedule and Microsoft Outlook

The result

This Monday, the brief leads with five new rival chargers within a kilometre of their sites in Smichov and Karlin, and two closed stations in Chodov. The board reads it over breakfast. By ten they agree on two new sites.

Tomas stopped reporting on the week. Now he gets to act on 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. 1

   Every Monday at 6

   Schedule

   Starts the flow on a timetable.

2. 2

   This week against last

   Team findings

   Reads everything your other AI employees found and turns it into findings with their figures: openings, closures and strong fits by city this week against the week before, rivals’ new branches near your own places, who is hiring, road incidents.

3. 3

   A short brief

   xMap LLM

   Tell the AI what to do in plain words.

4. 4

   The board report

   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.

5. 5

   To the board

   Microsoft Outlook · Outlook

   Runs an action in Microsoft Outlook.

Templates to build it

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

• A monthly brief on your store networkOne monthly brief on your store network from everything your AI employees found.
• A weekly brief from your AI employeesOne brief a week from everything your AI employees found.
• Impact report for donors: people around each siteThe reach section of the donor report, from the people around each site.

Industries

Learn how it works

• Location intelligenceUsing where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
• Site selectionChoosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
• Lead scoringRanking prospects by how likely they are to buy.
• The Market analyst: a weekly briefAn AI employee that reads what your other employees found and writes the brief, with charts and plain findings.
• 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.

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