Add population context to planning decisions
Turn a sent planning note into a population estimates lookup for the places under consideration.
Trigger
Email Sent
Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.
Action
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.
Why this helps
Population checks are easy to lose between planning emails and separate data tools.
- Attach population figures to the planning conversation that prompted them
- Use a specified Census vintage and dataset for the lookup
- Surface missing geography or vintage details for follow-up
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Census bureau once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation and describe the population lookup outcome in one instruction.
- 3Pick Email Sent as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 4Test with one sent planning email that identifies geographies and a vintage.
Questions about this workflow
Can the workflow compare multiple places?
It can retrieve estimates for specified geographies. Any comparison should be limited to the returned data and the vintage or dataset specified.
Will it choose the Census vintage automatically?
The automation should use the vintage and dataset in your instruction or the email. If those are not clear, its report should ask for the missing detail.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Census bureau actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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