Storm and outage helpline chat for my customers
A chat that tells customers the weather and road incidents around them in a storm or outage.
What it does
A chat page for your energy customers: an AI agent that tells them the weather and road incidents around their address and what to do in a storm or outage.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer.
Why it is useful
Call centres flood during storms with the same questions. A chat page answering with live weather and roads takes the load off.
Who it is for
Energy, EV & utilities. Fuel retailers, EV charging networks, solar companies and utilities planning sites and serving customers. Every use case for energy & ev
Best use cases
- An electricity utility
- A water utility
- A gas distributor
What each run gives you
- A chat page you can share or embed
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: 2 blocks and 2 tools.
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.
- HelplinexMap 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}}.
- The weather therexMap data · Weather forecastA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Road incidents therexMap data · Traffic incidentsA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
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.
- A chat page for your flow: Let anyone talk to a flow on a page or on your website.
- Answer on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: An assistant that replies in the same chat.
- Traffic incidents and road closures: Closures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
- 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.
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