Weekly farm business brief
Weather, buyers and roads in one weekly farm brief.
What it does
Every Monday: the week’s weather on your farms, new buyers in nearby cities and closures on the roads to market, joined by xMap AI into a one-page brief.
In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Ho Chi Minh City, get the 7-day weather forecast, find wholesalers, supermarkets and produce markets in the area, find road closures, roadworks and other incidents, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A farm business needs one page each Monday. Three signals joined make it.
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
- A farm business
- A farm cooperative
- An agricultural extension officer
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our farming areaWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Forecast for 7 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- New buyersxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces 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.
- Closures this weekxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Write the farm briefxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
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
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The map: everything your AI employees found: Results, Map: every result as layers on one map, with filters, a time slider, a card for each result and Compare sites.
- 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.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- 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 get a weekly satellite picture of your sites: See construction or land change without visiting.
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.