How customers rate solar installers
The most trusted solar installers, as a consumer guide.
What it does
Every quarter: the solar installers in your region, judged by xMap AI from their rating and number of reviews, written up as a consumer guide to the most trusted installers, saved to Google Drive.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Perth, find solar energy companies and solar energy system services in the area, score and rank them with xMap AI, sort them by review_score and keep the top 15, write a report with xMap AI, then create file from text in Google Drive and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Homeowners want an installer they can trust. A guide built from how customers rate them earns readers and trust.
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 consumer energy website
- A solar marketplace
- A city energy advice service
What each run gives you
- A guide in Google Drive
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time, so it saves about 8 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My regionWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Solar installersxMap 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.
- Rate how customers see them, with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 15 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Write the consumer guidexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Save the guide to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
- 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- A written report about the whole list: One summary of everything a run found.
- 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.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
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.