Next week’s jobs planned around the weather
Next week’s jobs planned around the dry and wet days.
What it does
Every Friday: next week’s forecast in your service cities, the rainy days first, with a scheduling note by xMap AI (outdoor jobs on dry days, indoor jobs on wet ones), posted to the dispatch channel.
In one sentence: Fridays at 13:00, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, get the 7-day weather forecast, sort them by rain_mm and keep the top 10, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Outdoor jobs on rainy days get cancelled. Planning by the forecast keeps crews busy all week.
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 painting company
- A gutter cleaning business
- A landscaping firm
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Fridays at 13:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 5 times a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every FridayTrigger · 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 7 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Best 10 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 scheduling notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post it to #dispatchApp · 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.
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- 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.