Where my workers live, for shift buses
Where workers live, for shift bus routes.
What it does
Every quarter: the blocks within 8 km of your plant with the most working-age people, the 15 densest first, for planning shift bus routes, emailed with a map.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Pune, count who lives around, work out new fields, sort them by workforce and keep the top 15, write a report with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Shift buses work when they stop where workers live. This shows the densest blocks around the plant.
Who it is for
Manufacturing & industrial supply. Manufacturers, industrial distributors and plant teams finding distributors, suppliers and workers, and keeping plants running. Every use case for manufacturing & industrial
Best use cases
- A plant HR team
- An industrial park
- A staff transport company
What each run gives you
- A map
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Around the plantWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- People in every block around the plantxMap 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).
- Working-age peopleLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
- Best 15 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 bus planxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- 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.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- 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.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
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- Food manufacturers for my packaging sales: Food manufacturers scored as packaging buyers, with procurement.
- Industrial distributors in a new country: Industrial distributors in a new country, scored, with the managing director.
- Truck repair and machine shops for my spare parts reps: New workshops graded as spare parts buyers, to the reps.