Bring monthly economic trends into Slack
Make recurring economic indicators easier to track. Notis can retrieve the Census Bureau measures you specify and share a monthly digest with your team.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Post message to channel
Deprecated: posts a message to a slack channel, direct message, or private channel. use `send message` instead.
Why this helps
Economic trends are harder to spot when teams repeatedly gather figures from scratch and have no concise update in their day-to-day workspace.
- Keep requested economic measures visible in Slack.
- Spend less time collecting recurring figures by hand.
- Help the team notice changes across scheduled updates.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Census Bureau and Slack once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it.
- 3Describe the economic indicators and comparison summary you want in one instruction.
- 4Choose a monthly schedule and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real example and review the Slack digest.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis compare this month's figures with the previous month?
Ask for a comparison in the instruction. Whether it can make that comparison depends on the retrieved data including the relevant periods.
Does the automation establish a historical baseline?
It can compare data available in the retrieval or context provided to it. If a required baseline is not available, supply it in the instruction or source context.
Can the digest include interpretation?
You can ask Notis to summarize what the requested measures suggest, while keeping the interpretation grounded in the retrieved Census Bureau data.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Census bureau to Slack. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Census bureau triggers
Slack actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Set snooze duration
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Webhook trigger
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Add reaction to message
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Census bureau and Slack, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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