Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs

What it does

Every month: who lives in every block of your city and how many warehouses are near, the most people per warehouse first, checked by an AI agent (roads and competition), on a heat map for your next micro-hubs.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Bangkok, count who lives around, count the warehouses and logistics services within 5 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by people_per_hub and keep the top 20, let the AI agent answer, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Fast delivery needs hubs close to customers. This flow finds dense areas with no warehouse nearby.

Who it is for

Logistics, fleet & delivery. Dispatch, fleet and delivery teams who keep goods moving around closures, weather and ports. Every use case for logistics & delivery

Best use cases

• A quick commerce company
• A grocery chain
• A parcel network

What each run gives you

• A heat map
• An email

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 360 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 6 hours a month (an estimate). It is advanced: 9 blocks and 2 tools.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. People in every block of the 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).
4. Warehouses around each blockxMap 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.
5. People per warehouseLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
6. Best 20 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.
7. Check each spot with the AI agentxMap 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}}.
8. Road incidents around itxMap data · Traffic incidentsA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
9. Supermarkets around itxMap 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.
10. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
11. 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.