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A workflow automation platform connecting apps, data and AI.

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Latest case update:2026-10-26

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Sales, Marketing & Support

Building your first WhatsApp chatbot

Product brochure PDF → vector knowledge base → WhatsApp trigger → AI sales agent → auto-reply

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Prerequisites: n8n instance, WhatsApp Business account with credentials (whatsAppTriggerApi, whatsAppApi), and OpenAI API key (openAiApi). The template has two parts: first build a product catalog vector knowledge base once, then enable the WhatsApp trigger and AI Agent for conversations. For production, replace the in-memory vector store with Qdrant or Pinecone.

n8n · WhatsApp Business

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Sales, Marketing & Support

n8n Email Summary Agent: Scheduled Fetch, AI Summarize, and Daily Team Report

Input: Gmail inbox; Processing: n8n scheduled trigger → fetch 24h emails → aggregate key fields → GPT-4o-mini extract points and action items → send HTML summary email; Output: team email summary report

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Prerequisites: accessible n8n instance; configured Gmail OAuth2 and OpenAI API credentials. After importing the template, replace the email query address, update sendTo/ccList, and adjust trigger times as needed.

n8n · gmail

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Content & Creative

🤖 Telegram Messaging Agent for Text/Audio/Images

Receive Telegram text/voice/image messages via n8n workflow, classify or analyze with AI, and auto-reply

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Prerequisites: accessible n8n instance (public HTTPS address required for Webhook), Telegram Bot Token (from BotFather), OpenAI API Key. Credential types: telegramApi, openAiApi. Cost: OpenAI API pay-per-use; n8n self-hosted or cloud pricing varies by plan.

n8n · telegram

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Content & Creative

Build a Company Document RAG Chatbot with Google Drive and Gemini

Input: Google Drive folder with company documents; Processing: n8n auto-indexes into Pinecone, Chat Trigger receives questions, AI Agent retrieves and generates answers; Output: Context-aware document Q&A chat

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Prerequisites: n8n instance (self-hosted or cloud), Google Cloud project with Vertex AI API enabled, Google AI Studio API Key, Pinecone account with an index named company-files, and a dedicated Google Drive folder. Costs: Google AI API and Pinecone billed per their pricing; n8n per instance plan. Boundaries: Triggers poll every minute (not real-time); index dimensions and metric must match the embedding model; no access control is configured—anyone with access to the Chat Trigger can ask questions.

n8n · google-drive · pinecone · gemini

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Work & Operations

n8n Template: DeepSeek V3 Chat & R1 Reasoning Quick Start

Connect DeepSeek in n8n four ways: credentials → conversational Agent with memory → Ollama local → HTTP Request direct API

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Prerequisites: a running n8n instance (self-hosted or Cloud). Prepare one or more credential sets: DeepSeek API Key (openAiApi type), Ollama local endpoint (ollamaApi type), HTTP Header Auth (for HTTP Request nodes). DeepSeek API base URL is https://api.deepseek.com, OpenAI-compatible. Local Ollama must have pulled deepseek-r1:14b or equivalent.

n8n · deepseek · ollama

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Sales, Marketing & Support

Build a Google Sheets Business Data Analyst Chatbot with n8n AI Agent

Type a natural-language business question → AI Agent auto-selects Google Sheets dataset → analyzes and returns structured insights

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Prerequisites: an n8n instance; an OpenAI API credential; a Google Sheets OAuth2 credential; at least one structured Google Sheet with clear column headers in the first row. This template is a learning/demo project and does not include real API keys.

n8n · google-sheets

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Sales, Marketing & Support

Auto-aggregate Slack, Zoom, Jira product signals into Google Docs PRD updates with n8n

Multi-source product signals → standardization → AI analysis → structured PRD output to Google Doc

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Import the workflow template into n8n, configure 7 credential types (Slack, Zoom OAuth2, Google Docs, Jira Cloud, Zendesk, Figma, OpenAI), replace placeholders (analytics endpoint, Google Doc URL), and activate. Signals enter via triggers or scheduled tasks, are normalized by Set nodes, merged, analyzed by a GPT-4o-mini-powered AI Agent, and written to Google Doc.

n8n · google-docs · slack · zoom · jira · zendesk · figma

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Work & Operations

Predict Jira Sprint Slip Risk with n8n and Notify Team via Slack

Scheduled Jira active sprint pull → compute health metrics → OpenRouter AI risk assessment → conditional Slack team alert

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Prerequisites: n8n instance; Jira Software Cloud credentials (board and sprint access); OpenRouter API credential (tool-calling chat model); Slack API credential (bot can post to target channel). Set JIRA_DOMAIN, JIRA_BOARD_ID, STORY_POINTS_FIELD (e.g., customfield_10016), DONE_STATUSES, and SLACK_CHANNEL in the Config node. Default schedule is weekdays at 08:00 (cron: 0 8 * * 1-5).

n8n · jira · slack

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Sales, Marketing & Support

Auto-qualify and route dental leads with GPT-4 into GoHighLevel

Unify website forms, Twilio SMS, and Meta Lead Ads leads; AI-score, classify, sync to CRM, send follow-ups, and generate weekly reports

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Prerequisites: n8n instance; OpenAI API key; API credentials for Twilio, SMTP, Slack, Google Calendar, Postgres, Pinecone, Meta Lead Ads, and GoHighLevel. Replace all YOUR_* placeholders in the template. Two toolWorkflow nodes (Check Calendar Openings, Sync with GoHighLevel) require separate sub-workflows to be built and their IDs substituted.

n8n · twilio · meta-ads · pinecone · gohighlevel · slack · google-calendar · postgres

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Content & Creative

Build a Recipe Recommendation Engine with Bright Data MCP & OpenAI

Input a recipe search URL → Bright Data MCP paginated scraping → GPT-4o-mini structured extraction → loop over single pages → output JSON files and Webhook notifications

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Prerequisites: self-hosted n8n instance (community node MCP Client is self-hosted only); Bright Data account with a Web Unlocker zone; OpenAI account. In n8n, configure a Header Auth credential (Bearer Token = Bright Data Web Unlocker Token) and an OpenAI API credential. After importing the template, update the three fields in the 'Set the Recipe Extract URL' node.

n8n · local disk

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Work & Operations

Recipe recommendations with Qdrant and Mistral

Scrape web menu → Mistral embeddings → Qdrant vector store + Recommend API → SQLite backup → AI Agent chat recommendations

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Prerequisites: available n8n instance; Mistral.ai account (API key); Qdrant vector database instance with API credentials. Create the collection first in Qdrant: PUT collections/hello_fresh with vectors distance=Cosine, size=1024. The template scrapes the HelloFresh UK site (hellofresh.co.uk) weekly menu; site structure changes may break scraping.

n8n · mistral

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Work & Operations

Auto-Schedule Weekly Focus-Time Blocks: Google Calendar + OpenAI + Slack

Input next week's calendar events → calculate weekday free gaps → auto-book Focus Time and generate a Slack deep-work plan

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Requires an n8n instance; credentials for Google Calendar (read + write calendars), OpenAI (Chat Model), and Slack. After importing the template, adjust the ⚙️ My Preferences node (working hours, minimum block length, max blocks per week) and set your Slack username in both Slack nodes. Activate the workflow; it runs automatically every Sunday at 18:00.

n8n · google-calendar · slack

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Content & Creative

Auto-Triage School Emails into Google Calendar and Drive

New school email in Gmail → AI extracts schedule, items-to-bring, notices, and contacts → routes into Google Drive and Calendar with a daily reminder

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Requires an internet-connected n8n instance (self-hosted or cloud). Prerequisites: Google account with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive enabled; Google OAuth2 credentials configured in n8n. The Workflow Configuration node needs Drive folder IDs (photosFolderId, noticesFolderId, contactsFolderId) and a reminderEmail. The AI node uses an OpenAI API key. The reminder email uses the Japanese placeholder 持ち物 (items to bring), which should be adapted to your school’s language.

n8n · gmail · google-drive · google-calendar

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Content & Creative

Scrape and Summarize News Posts Without RSS

Scheduled trigger → fetch list page, extract links and dates → filter recent posts → fetch each article → GPT-4 summary and keywords → save to NocoDB

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Prerequisites: n8n instance; OpenAI API account (ChatGPT consumer account is not sufficient); NocoDB database and API token. Basic CSS selector knowledge required to adapt to target sites. Note: the source code filter uses a configurable lookback (sample shows -70 days) and must be synced with the cron schedule; CSS selectors are site-specific and must be adjusted.

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Sales, Marketing & Support

Scrape Competitor Reviews & Generate Ad Creatives with Bright Data & OpenAI

Input Amazon product URL → Bright Data scrapes reviews → OpenAI summarizes pain points & generates 1080×1080 image → Gmail sends to media buyers

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Prerequisites: n8n instance; Bright Data account and API key; OpenAI API key; Google Sheets OAuth2; Gmail OAuth2. Copy the author's Google Sheets template first, then import the workflow JSON into n8n and update credentials. Runtime cost depends on Bright Data scraping volume and OpenAI usage.

n8n · Bright Data · Google Sheets · Gmail

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