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About this workflow
Answer HR and company policy questions via Slack, powered by a Knowledge Base of internal documents stored in S3. The assistant uses vector search and an OpenAI Chat Model to retrieve accurate answers.
Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/7745/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →
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