Farm supply stores for agricultural loans
Farm suppliers in rural towns, as lending partners.
What it does
Every quarter: farm supply stores and agricultural cooperatives in your rural towns, the best-rated first, as partners for an agricultural lending programme, in a sheet for field officers.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Kampala, find agricultural cooperatives, animal feed stores and 3 more in the area, clean up their categories, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Farmers buy where they borrow. Suppliers make the best partners for a loan programme.
Who it is for
Banks, lenders & insurance. Banks, lenders, insurers and payment companies finding merchants, checking risk and planning branches. Every use case for banking & lending
Best use cases
- An agricultural bank
- A microfinance institution
- A development finance programme
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 90 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Rural townsWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Farm 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.
- Update the field officers’ 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.
- 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.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
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- Unbanked hotspots for my agent network: The most populated blocks with the fewest banks and agents, every month.
- Branch network review: which branches the area needs: A monthly review of which branches their area needs, with a note for the committee.
- Growing small companies for my business loans team: Small companies that are hiring, sized and scored for a working capital loan.
- New shops likely to want card payments: New shops likely to be cash only, given to the nearest sales agent every weekday.
- Busy places with the fewest ATMs nearby: Busy malls, markets and supermarkets with the fewest ATMs around, every month.