Glass and aluminium fabricators for my facades
Glass and aluminium fabricators, approved for facades.
What it does
Every year: glass shops and aluminium suppliers in your region, the best-rated first, approved by the facade manager, in a subcontractor sheet.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Dubai and Sharjah, find glass & mirror shops and aluminum suppliers in the area, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Facades depend on good fabricators. The approved list is ready for every tender.
Who it is for
Construction & facility services. Contractors, building suppliers and facility managers finding work, watching sites and keeping crews safe. Every use case for construction & facilities
Best use cases
- A facade contractor
- A building contractor
- A developer
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 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.
- My regionWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Glass and aluminiumxMap 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.
- Approve the fabricatorsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Update the subcontractors sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- 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
- 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.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to get rain alerts for your sites: A message when rain is forecast where it matters.
- How to get a weekly satellite picture of your sites: See construction or land change without visiting.
More for Construction & facility services
- Where building is booming and suppliers are few: Where building is booming and building suppliers are few, with a market report.
- Contractors winning work: hiring site engineers: Contractors hiring site engineers, scored as buyers, with their procurement manager.
- A vetted list of subcontractors, every month: Contractors vetted from their ratings, likely to finish on time, every month.
- Property managers for my maintenance contracts: Property managers and who buys maintenance, into HubSpot every week.
- Morning site briefing: weather and road closures: A morning briefing for each site: pours and lifts to avoid, heat precautions and road closures.
- New buildings that need facility management: New large buildings and their facilities managers, into HubSpot every month.