Where to see it in person: a chat for shoppers
A chat that shows shoppers where to see your products nearby.
What it does
A chat on your store: an AI agent tells shoppers which shops near them stock your kind of products and what the weather is for a visit, then points back to buying online.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
Shoppers who can see a product nearby buy with more confidence. The chat answers in seconds and points back to the store.
Who it is for
E-commerce & D2C brands. Online stores and direct-to-consumer brands choosing pickup points, stockists, pop-ups and cities, and keeping deliveries on time. Every use case for e-commerce & d2c
Best use cases
- A D2C brand’s website
- An online beauty store
- A furniture brand
What each run gives you
- A chat page
The time it saves
Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 5 minutes each time, so it saves about 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 3 blocks and 1 tool.
The flow, block by block
- ChatTrigger · ChatStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.
- Shopping assistantxMap AI · AI agentAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.
- Shops nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itPlaces 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.
- ReplyAction · ReplyAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or Discord gets a reply in the same chat, through the account of the block that received it.
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
- AI agents with tools and memory: An agent that answers questions using your blocks as tools.
- Answer on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: An assistant that replies in the same chat.
- A chat page for your flow: Let anyone talk to a flow on a page or on your website.
- 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.
- AI agent: An AI that decides which tools to use to answer or complete a task.
- How to build a WhatsApp assistant that answers about places: Customers ask on WhatsApp; an AI agent searches and replies.
- How to run your AI employees from WhatsApp: Ask, build, run and pause flows from your phone, by message, voice note or call.
More for E-commerce & D2C brands
- Pickup point partners near where people live: Shops near the most people, scored as parcel pickup partners.
- Independent beauty boutiques to stock my brand: Independent boutiques with their owner and an approved wholesale pitch.
- Where to run my next pop-up store: The malls with the most young adults nearby, for a pop-up.
- Independent shops to sign up as marketplace sellers: Independent shops graded as marketplace sellers, with the owner.
- A rival brand’s new physical stores: A rival brand’s new stores and what is around them.
- Gift shops and home stores to stock my products: Independent gift and home stores graded as stockists, in a sheet every week.