Weekly field operations brief
Weather, convoy roads and new suppliers in one weekly brief.
What it does
Every Monday: the weather at your sites this week, closures on the convoy route and new suppliers near the mine towns, joined by xMap AI into a one-page brief for the operations director.
In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, take your table, get the 7-day weather forecast, find road closures and roadworks, find mining equipments and tire shops nearby, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Field operations need one page each Monday. Three signals joined make it.
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 operations director
- A site manager
- A mining contractor
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our sitesYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Forecast for 7 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Closures around each sitexMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- New suppliers nearbyxMap 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.
- Write the field briefxMap 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.
- The map: everything your AI employees found: Results, Map: every result as layers on one map, with filters, a time slider, a card for each result and Compare sites.
- 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.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
- 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.
More for Mining, oil & gas
- Mining companies graded as equipment buyers: Mines and quarries graded as equipment buyers, with procurement.
- 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.