Weekly home services ops brief
Weather, roads and new rivals in one weekly ops brief.
What it does
Every Monday: the week’s weather, road closures in your service area and new rival businesses, joined by xMap AI into a one-page brief for the operations manager.
In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Dallas, get the 7-day weather forecast, find road closures, roadworks and other incidents, find cleaning services, pest control services and air conditioning repair services in the area, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A home services manager needs the week on one page. Three signals make it.
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 home services operations manager
- A franchise owner
- A facilities team
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Service areaWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Forecast for 7 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Closures this weekxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- New rivalsxMap 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.
- Write the ops briefxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Email me the listAction · 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.
- The map: everything your AI employees found: Results, Map: every result as layers on one map, with filters, a time slider, a card for each result and Compare sites.
- 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.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- 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.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
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- 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.