Three days’ warning before the wind

Youssef runs operations at one of Casablanca’s biggest catering firms. Every week they serve thirty weddings and parties in garden villas. Most are outdoors. When the Atlantic wind picks up or rain rolls in, his team scrambles for tents at double the price. Last June, a storm soaked a wedding of four hundred guests in Anfa, and that family has not booked them since. With xMap Flows, Youssef built Planner. Every morning at six, Planner reads this week’s events, checks the forecast at each venue three days ahead, asks whether rain or strong wind is coming, warns the client and the tent crew on WhatsApp, and marks the rest as planned in the prep sheet. On Tuesday, Planner sees gusts of fifty kilometres an hour coming on Saturday in Ain Diab. Youssef has three days, not three hours. The tent comes at the normal price, the guests stay dry, and the bride’s mother sends him flowers. Youssef still cannot stop the wind. He just sees it coming three days early.

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