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Get an annual market pulse without rebuilding the research

Choose a recurring schedule and the area and indicators you care about. Notis retrieves the latest ACS 1-year estimates and prepares a report for your chosen channel.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Get ACS 1-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography. use when you need the most recent annual acs data for a given area.

Why this helps

Annual market reviews often become a last-minute scramble for the newest comparable figures.

  • Put annual data review on a dependable schedule.
  • Reuse one defined geography and set of indicators.
  • Receive a compact report where your team already checks updates.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect 2chat and Census Bureau once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a clear name.
  • 3Tell Notis which geography and ACS indicators to retrieve and how to summarize the annual pulse.
  • 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports go.
  • 5Test with one real example before relying on the recurring report.

Questions about this workflow

Can this run without a WhatsApp message?

Yes. A Notis cron trigger starts the workflow on a recurring schedule; 2chat is connected as the source app but supplies no trigger event.

What period does the action retrieve?

The action retrieves ACS 1-year estimates for a specified geography. Ask Notis to use the latest available annual data and identify the period in the report.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link 2chat to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

2chat triggers

Census bureau actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Get ACS 1-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography. use when you need the most recent annual acs data for a given area.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get ACS 5-Year Estimates

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ActionInstant

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ActionInstant

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ActionInstant

Get County Business Patterns

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ActionInstant

Get Decennial Census Data

Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.

ActionInstant

Get Population Estimates

Tool to retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need population or demographic estimates for specific geographies.

ActionInstant

Get Variable Details

Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.

ActionInstant

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When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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