Morning site briefing: weather and road closures
A morning briefing for each site: pours and lifts to avoid, heat precautions and road closures.
What it does
Every morning: the 5-day weather and the road closures around each of your construction sites, a briefing by xMap AI (pours and lifts to avoid, heat precautions, delivery delays), emailed and posted to the site channel.
In one sentence: Every day at 05:30, take your table, get the 5-day weather forecast, find road closures and roadworks, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then email the list to you and send message to a channel in Slack.
Why it is useful
Site managers check three apps before 6 am. One briefing per site with weather and closures saves the morning and avoids failed pours.
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 general contractor
- A road construction company
- A facade or crane contractor
What each run gives you
- An email
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Every day at 05:30. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 15 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My construction sitesYour 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.
- Forecast for 5 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Closures around each sitexMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Write the site briefingxMap 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.
- Post it to the site channelApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
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.
- Traffic incidents and road closures: Closures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- How to get rain alerts for your sites: A message when rain is forecast where it matters.
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- How to get a weekly satellite picture of your sites: See construction or land change without visiting.
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