Weekly utility operations brief
Weather, roadworks and new developments in one weekly utility brief.
What it does
Every Monday: the weather in your service area, roadworks this week and new developments to connect, joined by xMap AI into a one-page brief for the operations director.
In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Athens, get the 7-day weather forecast, find roadworks and road closures, find apartment complexes and shopping malls in the area, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Utility operations need one page each Monday. Three signals joined make it.
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 utility operations director
- A waste company manager
- A city works coordinator
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Service areaWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Forecast for 7 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Roadworks this weekxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- New developmentsxMap 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.
- Write the ops briefxMap 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.
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 map: everything your AI employees found: Results, Map: every result as layers on one map, with filters, a time slider, a card for each result and Compare sites.
- 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.
- 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.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
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.