Rain coming: riders and gear for the surge
A surge plan for the heaviest rain hours.
What it does
Every hour on rainy days: the rain expected in the next hours across your city, and a surge plan by xMap AI (more riders, rain gear, longer delivery times), posted to Slack.
In one sentence: Every hour at :00, in Mumbai, get the 1-day weather forecast, sort them by rain_mm and keep the top 4, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Rain doubles orders and slows riders. Planning riders and delivery times ahead keeps customers happy.
Who it is for
Food delivery & quick commerce. Delivery apps, quick commerce and courier operations signing restaurants and shops, placing dark stores and keeping riders safe and on time. Every use case for food delivery & quick commerce
Best use cases
- A delivery app’s ops team
- A quick commerce company
- A courier fleet
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Every hour at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 15 minutes each time; it runs about 720 times a month, so it saves about 40 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every hourTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Rain hour by hourxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Best 4 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Write the surge planxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post it to #opsApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- 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.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- 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.
- Lead scoring: Ranking prospects by how likely they are to buy.
More for Food delivery & quick commerce
- Well-loved restaurants that likely do not deliver yet: Well-loved restaurants likely without delivery, with the owner.
- Where to put the next dark store: Blocks with many people and few shops, for the next dark store.
- Rider rest hubs where restaurants cluster: Spots where restaurants cluster, for rider rest hubs.
- Campuses with the most students nearby, for promos: Campuses ranked by the students living nearby, for promos.
- Field sales routes to sign up new restaurants: New independent restaurants shared between your field reps in the best visiting order.
- Independent grocers, butchers and fruit shops for quick commerce: Independent grocers, butchers and fruit shops graded as partners.