Research assistant over live location data

What it does

A chat for your analysts: they ask about a place, an AI agent looks up the people, the businesses around it and live job postings, and answers with the numbers.

In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.

Why it is useful

Quick questions about a place should get numbers, not a ticket to the data team.

Who it is for

Investors, analysts & consultants. Investors, analysts and consultants who need location numbers they can trust, on a schedule. Every use case for investors & consultants

Best use cases

• A research team
• A consultant in a client meeting
• An investor screening an area

What each run gives you

• Answers in the chat

The time it saves

Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time, so it saves about 33 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 3 blocks and 3 tools.

The flow, block by block

1. 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.
2. Research assistantxMap 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}}.
3. Who lives around itxMap data · DemographicsA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itWho 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. Businesses around itxMap 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.
5. Job postingsxMap data · Job postingsA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itLive job postings: who is hiring, for what, and where.
6. ReplyAction · ReplyAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or Discord gets a reply in the same chat, through the account of the block that received it.

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.