Turn a business research question into an ABS lookup
When your question calls for American Business Survey data, describe the research need in Telegram and retrieve the relevant annual endpoint data.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
Get American Business Survey
Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.
Why this helps
Founders can abandon a research question when they need to work out which business survey source to query.
- Keep a business survey request attached to its discussion.
- Retrieve annual ABS data for a specified endpoint.
- Reduce the friction of starting a data lookup.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Census bureau to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create an automation from the portal or ask Notis to handle ABS research requests from Telegram.
- 3In a single plain-language prompt, tell Notis how to identify the requested year and endpoint and retrieve ABS data.
- 4Pick New Message Received and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with a concrete business survey question and verify the endpoint.
Questions about this workflow
What details should I include?
State the business survey question and, when known, the year and endpoint you need. Notis can use those details for the lookup.
Will this action retrieve every type of Census business data?
It retrieves American Business Survey data for a specified year and endpoint. Other business questions may fit a different Census bureau action.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Census bureau actions
Recurring trigger
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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