Traffic desk assistant for presenters

What it does

A chat for presenters and producers: ask about any road or area and an AI agent answers from live road incidents and the weather, ready to read on air.

In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.

Why it is useful

Producers should not have to search five apps for one road. The assistant answers in a sentence ready to read.

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

• A radio traffic desk
• A TV news producer
• A city information line

What each run gives you

• A chat

The time it saves

Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 5 minutes each time, so it saves about 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 3 blocks and 2 tools.

The flow, block by block

1. ChatTrigger · ChatStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.
2. Traffic deskxMap 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}}.
3. Road incidentsxMap 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.
4. The forecast therexMap data · Weather forecastA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
5. ReplyAction · ReplyAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or Discord gets a reply in the same chat, through the account of the block that received it.

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.