Audio-visual and rental suppliers for my productions
The best AV, lighting, tent and rental suppliers near you.
What it does
Every quarter: audio-visual rental, stage lighting, tent and party rental suppliers within 20 km, the best-rated of each kind, in a Google Sheet for the production team.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Chicago, find audiovisual equipment rental services, stage lighting equipment suppliers and 2 more in the area, clean up their categories, sort them by rating and keep the top 30, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Productions need backups for every supplier. A fresh list sorted by kind saves calls on a busy week.
Who it is for
Events, venues & exhibitions. Venues, event organisers, exhibition companies and wedding planners filling dates, booking suppliers and keeping guests safe. Every use case for events & venues
Best use cases
- An event production company
- A wedding planner
- A conference organiser
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 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.
- Our baseWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Production suppliersxMap 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.
- Sort by kindxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
- Best 30 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.
- Update the suppliers sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- 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
- 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.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- 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.
- How to get rain alerts for your sites: A message when rain is forecast where it matters.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
More for Events, venues & exhibitions
- Exhibitors for my trade show: companies hiring sales: Companies hiring sales in your show’s industry, sized, with the marketing manager.
- New offices near my venue, for corporate events: New offices near your venue, scored, with the person who books events.
- My wedding vendor shortlist, kept fresh: The top florists, photographers, caterers and DJs near your venue, in one sheet.
- Hotels near the convention centre for room blocks: Hotels near the convention centre, best-rated first, for room blocks.
- Caterers to add to my preferred list: Well-rated caterers near your venue, approved for your preferred list.
- Brands expanding near my venue, for sponsorships: Brands opening branches near your venue, with a sponsorship idea.