A construction site from space, for a follow-up story
Every clear satellite picture of a site you follow, monthly, with notes.
What it does
Every month: every clear satellite picture of a site you are following (a stadium, a new district) in the last 30 days, with a note by xMap AI on what changed, emailed to the reporter.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Milan, get satellite pictures, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Big projects are slow and their progress is easy to miss. Pictures from above show what changed, ready for a follow-up story.
Who it is for
Media, newsrooms & publishing. Newsrooms, broadcasters, publishers and media sales teams who need local stories, audiences and advertisers first. Every use case for media & publishing
Best use cases
- An investigations desk
- A construction trade paper
- A city affairs reporter
What each run gives you
- An email with the pictures
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 5 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The siteWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Pictures of the sitexMap data · Satellite imagesRecent satellite pictures (Sentinel-2, about 10 m per pixel, a new pass every few days) of each incoming place, a point or the Area of interest: when it was taken, how cloudy, and the picture itself.
- Note what changed with xMap AIxMap 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Satellite images: The latest clear picture of each site.
- 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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