Check business activity in a county from Telegram
Ask whether a county has the establishment and employment footprint relevant to your idea, using County Business Patterns.
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 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
Choosing a launch area is harder when local industry activity requires a separate, multi-step data search.
- Bring county level industry context into a planning chat.
- Check establishment and employment statistics together.
- Make early location 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 through the portal or by asking Notis for a county industry lookup.
- 3Describe in one instruction how Notis should interpret a county and industry request and retrieve County Business Patterns.
- 4Select New Message Received and choose a run-report channel.
- 5Test with a county and industry you are actively researching.
Questions about this workflow
What request works well?
Name a county and the industry you want to investigate. The workflow retrieves establishment and employment statistics from County Business Patterns.
Is this intended for national company lists?
No. This action is for county-level business pattern statistics filtered by industry and geography.
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