Storm coming: where to send roofing crews after
A crew and marketing plan for the cities a storm will hit.
What it does
Every morning in storm season: the wind and rain forecast across your service cities, the hardest hit first, with a crew and marketing plan by xMap AI for the days after the storm, posted to Slack.
In one sentence: Every day at 06:00, in Dallas, Houston and Atlanta, get the 3-day weather forecast, sort them by wind_max_kmh and keep the top 5, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
After a storm, roofers who are already there get the work. Planning the day before puts crews in place.
Who it is for
Home services & trades. Cleaning, plumbing, electrical, pest control, moving and repair businesses filling their vans, winning contracts and planning around the weather. Every use case for home services & trades
Best use cases
- A roofing company
- A storm damage restoration firm
- A home insurer’s repair network
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Every day at 06:00. 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 medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Service citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Forecast for 3 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Best 5 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 storm planxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post it to #operationsApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- 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.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- 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.
- Lead scoring: Ranking prospects by how likely they are to buy.
More for Home services & trades
- Office towers for window and facade cleaning: The biggest office buildings scored for window and facade cleaning.
- Where to launch laundry pickup: Young, busy blocks with few laundries, to launch pickup.
- Universities at semester end, for student moves and storage: Campuses ranked by the students around them, for moving and storage.
- New apartment buildings for cleaning contracts: New apartment buildings with the property manager, for cleaning contracts.
- Busy restaurant kitchens for deep cleaning: The busiest kitchens graded for deep cleaning, to the sales team.
- Franchise territories by households: Your city split into franchise territories with similar populations.