Not one sofa caught in the afternoon storm

Gabriela runs a small furniture delivery business in Panama City, with two vans and a lot of sofas. In the rainy season the afternoon storms arrive like clockwork. A sofa carried through a downpour is a ruined sofa, and flooded streets trap her vans for hours. She rebooks customers one call at a time, usually too late. With xMap Flows, Gabriela built Skywatch. Every morning at six, Skywatch takes the day's deliveries, checks the rain forecast at each address, and where heavy rain is coming, moves the delivery to tomorrow morning in her calendar, tells the customer the new time, and plans the vans' route through the rest. On Tuesday, Skywatch sees heavy rain coming for six of her fourteen addresses. Those customers get a message at seven with a new morning slot, and the vans do the other eight before lunch. Not one sofa gets wet, and Gabriela makes no calls. Gabriela can't stop the storms. She just stopped driving into them.

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