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Reply to Linkedin Messages with Openai Gpt and Escalate Complex Cases to Discord

ByAllan Vaccarizi @growthai on n8n.io

This workflow is for sales teams, growth agencies, and solo operators running LinkedIn outreach campaigns who want to automate prospect reply handling without losing the human touch on complex cases. A webhook receives incoming LinkedIn message events and filters out invalid…

Webhook trigger★★★★☆ complexityAI-powered23 nodesHTTP RequestAgentDiscordOpenAI ChatOutput Parser Structured
AI & RAG Trigger: Webhook Nodes: 23 Complexity: ★★★★☆ AI nodes: yes Added:

This workflow corresponds to n8n.io template #15658 — we link there as the canonical source.

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About this workflow

This workflow is for sales teams, growth agencies, and solo operators running LinkedIn outreach campaigns who want to automate prospect reply handling without losing the human touch on complex cases. A webhook receives incoming LinkedIn message events and filters out invalid…

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/15658/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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