Check business establishment counts when an industry question comes in
When a local industry question arrives through an Ably-connected process, get county-level establishment and employment statistics in a focused report.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Get County Business Patterns
Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.
Why this helps
Answering questions about local business density often means searching for the right industry code, year, and geography across separate tools.
- Retrieve county-level establishment and employment statistics.
- Use the year, industry, and geography included in the request.
- Receive a concise summary for market screening.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Ably and Census bureau once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Notis and give it a clear name.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to retrieve County Business Patterns for the requested year, industry, and geography, then summarize the returned establishment and employment statistics.
- 4Choose the webhook trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Send one real request through your Ably-connected client and review the returned summary.
Questions about this workflow
Does this workflow infer an industry code?
The instruction can ask Notis to use an industry identifier supplied in the request. If the request does not contain enough information to identify the industry, Notis should report what is missing.
What level of geography does this Census action support?
The listed action is for county-level business patterns. Provide a county geography in the request.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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Ably triggers
Census bureau actions
Recurring trigger
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