Van sales plan for tomorrow’s weather
A load note for each van route from tomorrow’s weather.
What it does
Every evening: tomorrow’s forecast for each van route in your table, with a load note by xMap AI (more cold drinks in the heat, more umbrellas in the rain), sent to the drivers on WhatsApp.
In one sentence: Every day at 19:00, take your table, get the 2-day weather forecast, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then send message in WhatsApp Business and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Heat sells cold drinks and rain sells umbrellas. Loading for the weather sells more.
Who it is for
FMCG & distribution field sales. Distributors and consumer brands whose reps cover outlets: new shops, routes, channels and stock. Every use case for fmcg & distribution
Best use cases
- A van sales distributor
- A beverage bottler
- An ice cream distributor
What each run gives you
- A WhatsApp message
The time it saves
Every day at 19:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 15 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our van routesYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Forecast for 2 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Write the load note with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Send it to the driversApp · WhatsApp BusinessSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.
- 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.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
More for FMCG & distribution field sales
- New outlets, graded and routed to each rep: New outlets graded, researched and routed to the nearest rep, with what to pitch at each.
- Hotels and restaurants to supply, researched: Hotels, restaurants and caterers matched to your products, with the buyer, in HubSpot.
- New outlets to CRM: New restaurants and cafes as leads in your CRM every morning, with a brief for the reps.
- Neighbourhoods without a grocery store: Blocks where people live with almost no grocery store, biggest gaps first.
- New outlets on my routes, prioritised, to the nearest rep: New grocery outlets on your routes, each assigned to the nearest rep, every weekday.
- Monthly outlet census of my city: Every food outlet in your city, by channel, the ones not in your CRM, every month.