Add Census demographic context to Salesforce accounts
Get a focused demographic snapshot alongside account changes, so you can prepare for a conversation without switching tools to research the area.
Trigger
Account Created or Updated
Triggers when an Account is created or updated in Salesforce. Uses LastModifiedDate high-watermark to capture both creations and updates.
Action
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.
Why this helps
Looking up population and demographic context by hand adds another research task to every account update.
- Summarize relevant ACS estimates for an account's known geography.
- Keep account research together with the Salesforce change that prompted it.
- Use only geographies and variables available in the Census dataset.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Salesforce and Census bureau once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation with a name and report channel.
- 3In one instruction, describe the account geography source, ACS year, variables, and the brief you want.
- 4Choose Account Created or Updated as the trigger, then test with one real account example.
Questions about this workflow
What geography does this use?
The instruction should identify where the account geography comes from, such as an address or a geography value included in the event. If that information is absent or ambiguous, provide it before relying on the result.
Can it choose Census variables for me?
You can ask Notis to help interpret the data, but name the measures you need or first retrieve variable details for the dataset and year.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Salesforce to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Salesforce 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.
Account Created or Updated
Triggers when an Account is created or updated in Salesforce. Uses LastModifiedDate high-watermark to capture both creations and updates.
Get American Business Survey
Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.
Contact Updated
Triggers when an existing Salesforce Contact record is modified. Emits changed fields alongside relevant timestamps.
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.
Record Updated (Generic SObject)
Triggers when monitored fields change on any Salesforce SObject. You specify the SObject type and which field values should be returned in the payload. The trigger uses SystemModstamp to detect changes regardless of which specific field changed.
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.
New Contact Trigger
Triggers when a new Contact is Created in Salesforce.
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.
New Lead Trigger
Triggers when a new Lead is created in Salesforce.
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.
New or Updated Opportunity
Triggers when a Salesforce Opportunity is created or updated.
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.
Salesforce and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
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