Where to open sample collection points
The blocks of your city with the most adults and the fewest labs, scored and approved every month.
What it does
Every month: the blocks of your city with the most adults, the labs within 2 km of each, the people per lab, scored by xMap AI, the strong ones approved by you, emailed and mapped.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Bangkok, count who lives around, sort them by adults_20_59 and keep the top 50, count the medical laboratories and diagnostic centers within 2 km of each, work out new fields, score and rank them with xMap AI, keep those where fit score ≥ 70, wait for approval, then email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
Sample collection points live or die by how many people live close and how far the nearest lab is. This flow ranks every block on both, so the expansion team starts from a shortlist.
Who it is for
Healthcare & pharma. Clinic groups, pharma companies and medical suppliers planning coverage, finding partners and watching their network. Every use case for healthcare & pharma
Best use cases
- A lab chain adding collection points
- A diagnostics company planning kiosks
- A health ministry planning testing sites
What each run gives you
- A shortlist to approve
- An email
- A map of the best blocks
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is advanced: 11 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Adults in every blockxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Best 50 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.
- Labs nearbyxMap 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.
- Adults per labLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
- Rate each block with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Fit score ≥ 70Logic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
- Approve the shortlistLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
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.
- 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.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
More for Healthcare & pharma
- Launch targets: specialist clinics and their directors: Specialist clinics for a launch, prioritised, with the director, a visit note and a medical affairs check.
- Where seniors need home care most: The blocks where the most seniors live with the fewest home care providers, every month.
- Pharmacies near schools for a vaccination drive: Pharmacies near schools ranked by the children around.
- Small clinics for my telehealth software: Small clinics scored as telehealth buyers, approved.
- New clinics for my medical reps, by specialty: New clinics in your territory every week, sorted by specialty and given to the nearest medical rep.
- Where children are far from a paediatrician: Blocks with many children and few paediatricians.