Weather-driven promotions per store
A promotion idea for each store when heat or rain is coming.
What it does
Every morning: the 3-day forecast at each of your stores, the ones facing heat or rain, a promotion idea for each from xMap AI, posted to the store channel and emailed.
In one sentence: Every day at 06:00, take your table, get the 3-day weather forecast, keep those where temp_max ≥ 40, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Weather moves what people buy. Store teams get a ready idea for the next three days instead of reacting after the fact.
Who it is for
Retail & franchise expansion. Expansion, real estate and network planning teams deciding where the next store or franchise goes. Every use case for retail & franchise
Best use cases
- A convenience chain
- A fashion retailer
- A pharmacy chain
What each run gives you
- A Slack post per day
- An email of promotions
The time it saves
Every day at 06:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 15 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My storesYour 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 3 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Hot or rainy daysLogic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
- A promotion for each storexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post to the store channelApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- 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.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
More for Retail & franchise expansion
- Expansion committee pack, every month: A monthly expansion committee pack: every block scored, the best 20 investigated, approved, mapped.
- Score every neighbourhood for a new branch: Every block of your city scored for a new supermarket, the 20 best on a map.
- Where my rival is and I am not: Every rival branch with none of yours within 2 km, with who lives around it.
- New homes with no supermarket yet: New apartment buildings with no supermarket nearby, scored as places for your next store.
- Busy stations with no convenience store: The train and metro stations with the fewest convenience stores around them, scored for a new one.
- Stores competing with each other: Your stores that sit within 1 km of each other, with the people around them.