Activity at industrial sites from space
Activity at industrial sites from space, into your database.
What it does
Every month: the latest satellite picture of each factory, mine or port in your watch table, with an activity note by xMap AI, saved to your database for a research model.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, get satellite pictures, write a summary of each with xMap AI, save them to your database, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Stockpiles and trucks show output before reports do. The notes feed your model.
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 hedge fund’s research team
- A commodity analyst
- A supply chain risk team
What each run gives you
- Rows in your database
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Sites we watchYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Latest picture of each sitexMap data · Satellite imagesRecent satellite pictures (Sentinel-2, about 10 m per pixel, a new pass every few days) of each incoming place, a point or the Area of interest: when it was taken, how cloudy, and the picture itself.
- Read the picture with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Save to my databaseYour data · Save to my databaseSaves the items into a table of your own database (PostgreSQL, BigQuery or Snowflake): each field goes into the column of the same name, the others are left out.
- Email me the resultsAction · 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Satellite images: The latest clear picture of each site.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
More for Investors, analysts & consultants
- Market entry study, refreshed monthly: A market entry study refreshed every month: size, chains, demand, the best areas and the risks.
- Competitor density around each site: People per competitor around each of your sites, ranked.
- Store visit route for a due diligence trip: The branches of a chain you are studying, the strongest and the weakest marked, in the best order to visit them.
- Who lives around new places: The new cafes in your city with the people living around each.
- Market size of a category across cities: Every coffee shop in five cities, counted and summarised every month.
- New openings into my database: New openings saved to your own database every week, classified.