Builders’ merchants within 15 minutes of my new site
The suppliers a truck reaches within 15 minutes of a new site.
What it does
When a new site starts: the building materials stores, hardware stores and ready-mix concrete suppliers a truck can reach within 15 minutes of the site (the area drawn on the roads), the best rated first, each once, added to a Google Sheet, mapped and emailed to the site manager.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take the area within 15 minutes by car of New site, find building materials stores, hardware stores and ready mix concrete suppliers in the area, remove duplicates, then add row in Google Sheets, show them on a map and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A missing bag of fixings stops a crew for an hour. Knowing the suppliers within 15 minutes on the roads, before the site opens, keeps the work moving.
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 site manager
- A construction company’s procurement team
- A builders’ merchant planning a branch
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
- A map
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- 15 minutes by truck of the siteWhere · Travel areaThe area you can reach within a travel time (15 minutes by car) or a distance by road (10 km), on foot, by bike or by car, from each incoming place or from places you pick.
- Suppliers within reachxMap 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.
- Each place onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
- Add them to the site suppliers sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- 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
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- An instant site report of any spot: Paused for now while xMap improves the data behind it. Reports already made still open.
- 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.
- 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.