Campus life chat for new students
A chat that helps new students find what is near campus.
What it does
A chat for new and international students: an AI agent finds cafes, supermarkets, pharmacies and housing near any campus, in a few friendly lines.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
New students ask the same questions in their first week. The chat answers them.
Who it is for
Education & training. Schools, nurseries, universities and training companies planning campuses, enrolment and partners. Every use case for education & training
Best use cases
- A university’s international office
- A student union
- A student housing company
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.
- Campus guidexMap 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}}.
- Places near campusxMap 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 Education & training
- Open day ads: the right blocks and the right words: The blocks to target with open day ads, and the ad line for each, approved.
- Where to open a nursery: The blocks with the most young children and the fewest nurseries, scored and approved.
- Where families need after-school activities: The blocks with the most children and the fewest after-school activities.
- Companies hiring graduates, for my training programmes: Companies hiring graduates, with their HR manager, for your training programmes.
- Student housing around each university: Student housing around each university and the young adults nearby, every month.
- Stationery shops near schools for back to school: Stationery shops near the most schools, with the owner.