Check shared industry opportunities with county data
When a team shares a local industry opportunity, retrieve County Business Patterns for its county and sector without losing the thread.
Trigger
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
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
Channel ideas about local markets can fade before someone checks whether the area has relevant business activity.
- Add a consistent county-level data point to team discussion.
- Keep the opportunity and its research follow-up connected.
- Make local industry comparisons easier to revisit.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Census bureau to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations or ask Notis to check industry opportunity posts.
- 3Use one plain-language instruction to identify a county and industry from a post and retrieve County Business Patterns.
- 4Choose New Channel Post and select a run-report channel.
- 5Test with a post that names both a county and industry.
Questions about this workflow
What must the channel post say?
It should identify a county and an industry or provide enough context for Notis to determine what should be checked.
What does the Census action return?
County Business Patterns provides county-level establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.
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