Road closures around our warehouses after a storm
Blocked roads around every aid warehouse, every hour after a storm.
What it does
Every hour after a storm: road closures and incidents around each of your aid warehouses and distribution points, with a routing note by xMap AI for the logistics team on WhatsApp.
In one sentence: Every hour at :00, take your table, find road closures, roadworks and other incidents, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then send message in WhatsApp Business and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
After a storm, trucks waste hours on blocked roads. The logistics team gets a routing note for every site each hour.
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 disaster relief NGO
- A food aid programme
- A civil protection agency
What each run gives you
- A WhatsApp message
The time it saves
Every hour at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time; it runs about 720 times a month, so it saves about 40 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every hourTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our warehouses and distribution pointsYour 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.
- Closures around each sitexMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Write the routing note with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Send the notes to logisticsApp · WhatsApp BusinessSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.
- 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Traffic incidents and road closures: Closures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
- 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.
- Reverse geocoding: Turning coordinates into a street, district or address.
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- 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.