Find a trusted tradesperson: a chat for homeowners
A chat that finds well-rated tradespeople near a homeowner.
What it does
A chat for your homeowners’ app: they say what broke and where, and an AI agent finds the best-rated plumbers, electricians or handymen near them, with phone numbers.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
When something breaks, homeowners want someone good, now. The chat answers with the best nearby.
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 homeowners’ app
- A home insurer’s app
- A property management portal
What each run gives you
- A chat page
The time it saves
Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 5 minutes each time, so it saves about 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 3 blocks and 1 tool.
The flow, block by block
- ChatTrigger · ChatStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.
- Tradesperson finderxMap AI · AI agentAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.
- Trades nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itPlaces 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.
- ReplyAction · ReplyAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or Discord gets a reply in the same chat, through the account of the block that received it.
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
- AI agents with tools and memory: An agent that answers questions using your blocks as tools.
- Answer on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: An assistant that replies in the same chat.
- A chat page for your flow: Let anyone talk to a flow on a page or on your website.
- 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.
- AI agent: An AI that decides which tools to use to answer or complete a task.
- How to build a WhatsApp assistant that answers about places: Customers ask on WhatsApp; an AI agent searches and replies.
- How to run your AI employees from WhatsApp: Ask, build, run and pause flows from your phone, by message, voice note or call.
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