Help finder chat: food, shelter and clinics nearby
A chat that finds the nearest food, shelter or clinic for anyone.
What it does
A chat for people who need help: an AI agent asks where they are and what they need and answers with the nearest food bank, shelter or clinic, in their language, with how far each is.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
People in need often do not know what is near them. The chat answers any time, in their language, with the nearest help.
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 city helpline
- A charity’s website
- A shelter network
What each run gives you
- A chat page you can share
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 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 3 blocks and 1 tool.
The flow, block by block
- 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.
- Help finderxMap 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}}.
- Help 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.
- 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.
How to set it up
- AI agents with tools and memory: An agent that answers questions using your blocks as tools.
- Answer on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: An assistant that replies in the same chat.
- A chat page for your flow: Let anyone talk to a flow on a page or on your website.
- 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.
- AI agent: An AI that decides which tools to use to answer or complete a task.
- How to build a WhatsApp assistant that answers about places: Customers ask on WhatsApp; an AI agent searches and replies.
- How to run your AI employees from WhatsApp: Ask, build, run and pause flows from your phone, by message, voice note or call.
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.