Site helper chat for contractors on the road

What it does

A chat for contractors travelling to your sites: an AI agent finds the nearest hospital, police station and fuel station to any site or town, with distance and phone, and the weather there this week.

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

Why it is useful

Contractors arrive at remote sites not knowing where help is. The chat answers in seconds, before they set off and on the road.

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

• A mining company’s contractor portal
• A remote site services firm
• An exploration camp operator

What each run gives you

• A chat page

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 17 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. Site helperxMap 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. Hospital, police and fuel nearbyxMap 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.
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.