Laboratories for assays near our projects
Laboratories near your projects, approved for assays.
What it does
Every year: laboratories within 100 km of your exploration projects, the best-rated first, each with what they likely test by xMap AI, approved by the geology team.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Medellin and Bogota, find laboratories in the area, write a summary of each with xMap AI, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Fast, reliable assays keep exploration moving. An approved list of labs nearby saves weeks.
Who it is for
Mining, oil & gas. Mining companies, oil and gas operators and their suppliers keeping remote sites safe, supplied and on good terms with their neighbours. Every use case for mining, oil & gas
Best use cases
- An exploration company
- A mining consultant
- An environmental monitoring team
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Project regionWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- LaboratoriesxMap 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.
- Describe each lab with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Approve the labsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Update the labs sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · 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.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- 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.
- 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 find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
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- Quarries and concrete plants as customers: Quarries and concrete plants scored as equipment customers.
- Local businesses for our supplier development programme: Local businesses graded as suppliers for the supplier development programme.
- Gas companies and industrial gas suppliers for B2B sales: Gas companies scored as distribution partners, with the commercial manager.
- ESG section: people, services and land around each site: People, services and land around each site, as an ESG section.
- Heat at remote sites: work and rest cycles: Tomorrow’s heat at each remote site, with a work-rest cycle.