Farm helpline chat: weather and suppliers
A helpline chat that gives farmers the week's weather and the nearest suppliers.
What it does
A chat page for farmers: an AI agent that gives the week's weather at their farm and the nearest agri suppliers, and remembers each farmer's conversation.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer.
Why it is useful
Farmers call advisors for the same two answers: the weather and where to buy. A chat answers both, remembers each farmer and never closes.
Who it is for
Agriculture & food supply. Growers, agri suppliers and food supply teams watching fields and weather and finding buyers and dealers. Every use case for agriculture & food supply
Best use cases
- An agri input brand
- A farmers' cooperative
- An agriculture extension service
What each run gives you
- A chat page you can share or embed
The time it saves
Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 5 minutes each time, so it saves about 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 2 blocks and 2 tools.
The flow, block by block
- ChatTrigger · ChatStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.
- Farm helplinexMap AI · AI agentAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.
- The weather therexMap data · Weather forecastA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Suppliers near the farmxMap data · Nearby placesA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itPlaces 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.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- AI agents with tools and memory: An agent that answers questions using your blocks as tools.
- A chat page for your flow: Let anyone talk to a flow on a page or on your website.
- Answer on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: An assistant that replies in the same chat.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- How to get rain alerts for your sites: A message when rain is forecast where it matters.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to build a WhatsApp assistant that answers about places: Customers ask on WhatsApp; an AI agent searches and replies.
More for Agriculture & food supply
- Where growers need a cold store: Grower areas with the fewest cold stores, scored for a packhouse, approved.
- Land offers, checked from space and the ground: Every plot offered to you checked from space and the ground, scored and approved.
- Buyers for my produce near my farms: Buyers for your produce near your farms, scored and sent from your own Gmail.
- Agri input dealers for my field officers: Agri input dealers sorted by what they sell, routed to the nearest field officer.
- Irrigation plan for my fields, every morning: An irrigation plan for each field from the week's heat and rain.
- Weekly field watch from space: The latest clear satellite picture of each field, with the week's weather and a note.