Routes for the weekly surplus food pickup
Bakeries and supermarkets shared between your vans in the best pickup order.
What it does
Every Friday: the best-rated bakeries and supermarkets in your area, shared between your two vans in the best visiting order from the food bank and back, with directions for each stop, in a pickup plan by xMap AI emailed to the drivers and mapped.
In one sentence: Fridays at 07:00, in Dublin, find bakeries and supermarkets in the area, share the stops between 2 reps and plan their routes, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
Surplus food spoils while volunteers drive in circles. A clear route for each van collects more in less time.
Who it is for
Non-profits, charities & humanitarian. NGOs, charities, aid agencies and community groups who need to reach people in need, find partners and report their impact. Every use case for non-profits & humanitarian
Best use cases
- A food bank
- A community kitchen
- A food rescue charity
What each run gives you
- An email with each route
- A map of the routes
The time it saves
Fridays at 07:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 5 times a month, so it saves about 5 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every FridayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our areaWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Bakeries and supermarketsxMap 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.
- Routes for 2 vansLogic · Route plannerPuts the places that reach it in the best order to visit them in a day, from a start you pick: one route, one for each rep (by a field such as owner), or shared out between a number of reps.
- Write the pickup planxMap 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.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
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.
- Territory planning: Dividing a market into areas for reps or teams.
More for Non-profits, charities & humanitarian
- Growing companies to invite as donors: Fast-growing local companies with a decision maker, as donors.
- Neighbourhoods far from a food bank: The blocks furthest from food help, for the next distribution point.
- Cooling centres near the most seniors: Cool places near the most seniors, with a public message, on heatwave days.
- Bakeries and supermarkets to ask for surplus food: Food shops near you, asked for their surplus with an approved message.
- Where school kits are needed most: Where children are most stretched for schools, for kit distribution.
- Where to hold the next blood drives: Busy places far from a blood bank, scored as blood drive sites.