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Run a county market check from your sent email

Keep market research moving after the conversation leaves your draft folder.

Trigger

New Sent Message

Triggered when a new message is sent from the Outlook mailbox.

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

Post email commitments create a second task that is easy to forget.

  • Turns commitments into action
  • Uses the sent message as context
  • Provides county level business evidence

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Outlook and Census bureau in Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation named County market check after send.
  • 3Tell Notis to identify counties, industries, and year from the sent email and retrieve County Business Patterns data.
  • 4Select New Sent Message as the trigger and choose the report destination.
  • 5Test with one real market research email.

Questions about this workflow

Can it handle more than one county?

Yes. Ask for each named county and a comparison summary.

What if the email has no year?

Notis should flag the missing year for you to resolve.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Outlook to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Outlook triggers

Census bureau actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

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.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

New Contact Added

Triggered when a new contact is added in the Outlook contacts.

TriggerInstant

Get American Business Survey

Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.

ActionInstant

Calendar Event Changes

Triggered when a new calendar event occurs (created, updated, or deleted) in the Outlook calendar.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

New Calendar Event

Triggered when a new calendar event is created in the Outlook calendar.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

New Outlook Message

Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

New Sent Message

Triggered when a new message is sent from the Outlook mailbox.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Outlook and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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