Recycling drop-off finder chat
A chat that tells residents where to take what they throw away.
What it does
A chat for residents: they say where they are and what they want to get rid of (old paint, batteries, a sofa, a broken laptop), and an AI agent finds the nearest recycling centres and drop-off points, with distance and how to prepare it.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer, then reply to the sender.
Why it is useful
Residents call to ask where old paint or a sofa goes. The chat answers with the nearest drop-off point at any hour.
Who it is for
Water & waste utilities. Water utilities, waste collectors and recyclers planning routes, winning commercial contracts and keeping services running in bad weather. Every use case for water & waste utilities
Best use cases
- A city waste department
- A recycling company’s website
- A housing association
What each run gives you
- A chat page
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.
- Drop-off 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}}.
- Drop-off points 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 Water & waste utilities
- New restaurants and hotels for waste collection contracts: New restaurants, hotels and supermarkets scored for waste contracts.
- Where to put glass recycling banks: Spots with the most bars and restaurants, for glass recycling banks.
- Busy restaurants and markets for commercial collection routes: The busiest food businesses grouped into collection routes.
- Builders and roofers for skip hire: Builders and roofers graded as skip hire customers.
- Resorts and hotels for septic and wastewater service: Coastal resorts and hotels scored for septic and wastewater service.
- Clinics and dentists for medical waste collection: Clinics, dentists and labs scored as medical waste clients.