Monthly Demographics, No Effort Required
Every month before your planning meetings, Notis delivers a demographic snapshot of your key markets. Current data, zero manual work.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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
Monthly planning meetings run on outdated demographic assumptions. Pulling fresh data is tedious, so it gets skipped.
- Monthly demographic snapshots ready for planning
- Never run planning meetings on stale data
- Automatic, zero-effort reporting
- Informed decisions based on current demographics
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Linear and Census Bureau to Notis.
- 2Ask Notis: 'On the first Monday of each month, generate a demographic snapshot of population and key metrics for our key markets.'
- 3Specify which markets or geographies to include in the monthly report.
- 4Choose your Slack, email, or other channel for the report.
- 5Test by requesting a manual monthly snapshot and confirm the format and metrics are right for your planning.
Questions about this workflow
When exactly does the monthly report arrive?
Notis sends it before your planning meeting. You set the day and time - commonly the first Monday of the month, morning.
Can I include multiple geographies in one snapshot?
Yes, Notis compares all your key markets side by side in the monthly snapshot.
What if data for a market isn't available?
Notis includes all available geographies and notes any where data wasn't published yet. You'll see the latest for each market.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear triggers
Census bureau actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get ACS 5-Year Estimates
Tool to retrieve 5-year american community survey estimates for a specified year. use when detailed acs data by geography and variables is required.
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
Get American Business Survey
Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Get Community Resilience Estimates
Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
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.
Private Team Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is posted on an issue in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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.
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Linear and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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