Weekly catastrophe brief

What it does

Every Monday: the week’s weather in your biggest insured cities, road closures there and the number of people living in them, joined by xMap AI into a one-page catastrophe brief.

In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Sydney and Melbourne, get the 7-day weather forecast, find road closures, roadworks and other incidents, count who lives around, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Catastrophe teams need one page each Monday. Three signals joined make it.

Who it is for

Insurance. Insurers, brokers and agents preparing for storms, building distribution, checking claims and growing commercial and health books. Every use case for insurance

Best use cases

• A property insurer’s cat team
• A reinsurer
• A broker’s risk team

What each run gives you

• An email

The time it saves

Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. Biggest insured citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. 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.
4. Closures this weekxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
5. People in each cityxMap 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).
6. Write the catastrophe briefxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
7. 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.