See business activity in a target county
When a county or industry becomes relevant to a deal, send the request to Notis. It retrieves County Business Patterns and gives you a useful summary of establishments and employment.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Get County Business Patterns
Retrieves county-level business establishment and employment statistics for a year.
Why this helps
Founders can lose time assembling county and industry context from separate research sessions before deciding whether a market merits attention.
- Retrieve establishment and employment statistics for a specified county and industry.
- Bring Census business activity into market research without a separate manual query.
- Create a concise summary to support an Affinity deal discussion.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Affinity and Census bureau once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it for the county industry scan.
- 3Tell Notis the county, industry, year, and summary you want from County Business Patterns.
- 4Pick a webhook trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real county and industry request, then review the returned data.
Questions about this workflow
What data does County Business Patterns provide here?
The action retrieves county-level business patterns, including establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography for a specified year.
Can I send the county and industry through the webhook?
Yes. Include the requested county and industry details in the webhook input so Notis can make the query.
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