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Turn a Telegram market question into a local estimate

Ask in Telegram about a place and population group, then get the latest annual ACS estimates for a quick market sizing pass.

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 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.

Why this helps

Market research can stall when finding a credible local baseline means leaving the conversation and hunting through datasets.

  • Get an annual demographic baseline while the idea is fresh.
  • Reduce manual searching across Census tables.
  • Keep the request and result close to the team's Telegram discussion.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Telegram and Census bureau to Notis once in the portal.
  • 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally for a Telegram market-size lookup.
  • 3Use one plain-language instruction to identify the requested geography and population group and retrieve relevant ACS 1-year estimates.
  • 4Select New Message Received as the trigger and choose where Notis should report runs.
  • 5Test with a real geography and confirm the returned estimates fit the question.

Questions about this workflow

What should the Telegram message include?

Name the geography and the population group or measure you want to understand. Notis can interpret the request and retrieve relevant annual ACS estimates.

Does this use the latest annual estimates?

The workflow uses Census bureau's ACS 1-year estimates action, intended for the most recent annual ACS data available for an area.

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

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 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.

TriggerInstant

Get American Business Survey

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

ActionInstant

New Channel Post

Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.

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

Callback Query Received

Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.

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

Message Edited

Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.

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 Chat Member

Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.

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.

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

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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