Car washes by district, for a water saving programme
Every car wash in town with a water saving offer.
What it does
Every year: car washes in your city counted by district, each with a water saving offer by xMap AI (recycling systems, rebates), for the water utility’s outreach team.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Phoenix, find car washes in the area, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then add row in Google Sheets, email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
Car washes use a lot of water and most can recycle it. Reaching each one with a clear offer saves water at scale.
Who it is for
Environment, climate & sustainability. Sustainability teams, environmental consultancies, recyclers and city climate offices who need facts about places to act on. Every use case for environment & climate
Best use cases
- A water utility
- A water recycling equipment company
- A city conservation team
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
- A map
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · 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.
- Car washesxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces 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.
- Write the offer with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Add them to the outreach sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- 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.
- 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.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- 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.
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- People per recycling centre, block by block: The blocks furthest from a recycling centre, for the recycling plan.
- Companies hiring sustainability managers, for ESG advisory: Companies hiring for ESG, with the sustainability lead, every Monday.
- Energy-hungry buildings for energy audits: Big energy users with their facility manager, approved for audits.
- Busy restaurants for food waste collection: The busiest kitchens graded as food waste collection clients.