Green living assistant for residents
A chat that tells residents where to recycle, charge and buy local.
What it does
A chat for residents: an AI agent answers where to recycle, charge an electric car, rent a bike or buy local food, with the nearest places from live data.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
People want to do the right thing when it is easy. The chat makes it easy with the nearest places.
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 city sustainability website
- A recycling programme
- An eco brand’s app
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.
- Green living 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}}.
- Green places 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.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to build a WhatsApp assistant that answers about places: Customers ask on WhatsApp; an AI agent searches and replies.
More for Environment, climate & sustainability
- Where to plant trees first: many people, few parks: The blocks with many people and few parks, where trees matter most.
- Busy shopping places with the fewest EV chargers: Busy shopping places with the fewest EV chargers, scored as charger sites.
- 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.