Does this find or scrape leads for me?

No. It only works with contacts you already have in your own sheet. Where those contacts come from, and whether you have the right to email them, is your responsibility.

Can it send emails automatically once I trust the drafts?

Not as shipped — it's intentionally draft-only. If you later want to automate sending, that's a bigger compliance decision (opt-in consent, unsubscribe handling, sender reputation) that's on you to set up carefully.

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AI Personalized Outreach Drafter

Point this workflow at your own lead list in Google Sheets (name, company, role, and a short note about each contact), and every morning it drafts a short, specific outreach email per new lead using AI — saved back into the sheet for a human to review and send themselves from their own inbox. It never sends anything in bulk; it only writes drafts. You're responsible for making sure everyone on your list has given consent or has an existing relationship with you — see the compliance note in the setup guide.

Automation flow

Step 1

Daily Check

Runs every morning at 9AM, looking for new rows with no draft yet.

Step 2

Read New Leads

Pulls contacts from your Leads sheet that haven't been drafted.

Step 3

AI Drafts Email

The AI writes a short, specific subject and body per contact.

Step 4

Save Draft

The draft is written back into the same row — nothing is sent.

Step 5

Notify Team

Slack pings your team that a new draft is ready to review.

How it works

1Every morning at 9AM, the workflow reads rows in your Leads sheet where Draft Status is still empty.
2For each one, the AI writes a short, specific draft subject and body based on the Name/Company/Role/Note columns.
3The draft is saved back into the same row (Draft Status becomes "Ready for review"), never sent.
4Slack gets a ping per new draft so your team knows to go review it.
5You copy the reviewed draft into Gmail (or your email client of choice) and send it yourself, one at a time.

Services used

OpenAI-compatible APIGoogle SheetsSlack

What you'll need

An n8n Cloud or self-hosted account
Your own lead list in Google Sheets
An OpenAI API key (or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — Claude, Gemini, and local models work with a small URL/body change)
A Slack workspace (optional but recommended)
A Gmail account you'll send the reviewed drafts from (manually — not part of this workflow)

What's included

Drafts only — a human sends every email themselves
Personalization driven by a short note column, not a generic template
Bring your own AI API key
Built-in compliance note in the setup guide

Estimate what this could save you

Times per week

Minutes each time

Your hourly value ($)

3.6 hours/month

≈ $108/month in your time

A rough estimate based on what you enter above — not a guarantee. Actual time saved depends on your process.

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Questions about this template

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Structurally validated: automatically checked for valid n8n format before every deploy.

Difficulty: Easy
Setup time: ~15 min
Integrations: 3
Node count: 6
Format: .json + guide