Score Sales Outreach Opportunities From RSS Feeds with Claude and Gmail

The workflow JSON

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        "content": "## Sales outreach radar workflow\n\n### How does it work\nWatches an RSS feed daily, scores each new item 1-10 as a sales-outreach opportunity against your offering using an LLM, and emails a digest of the best ones.\n\n### Setup\n1. Add **Anthropic API** credentials to the **Anthropic Chat Model** node.\n2. Add **Gmail (OAuth2)** credentials to the **Gmail** node.\n3. Open **Config** and set: `feedUrl`, `offering`, `recipientEmail`\n   (optionally also: `scoreThreshold`, `maxItems`, `digestTitle`).\n4. Any RSS feed works \u2014 subreddit `.rss`, blog, job board, forum.\n   Adjust the schedule in **Schedule Trigger** if needed.\n\n**Tip:** Gmail can be swapped for Slack, Telegram, or Discord. Replace the final node."
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        "content": "**RSS Read**\n\nFetches the latest items from the feed in Config (feedUrl). Use a subreddit URL + /new/.rss?limit=50."
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Credentials you'll need

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• anthropicApi
• gmailOAuth2

About this workflow

This workflow runs on a weekly schedule, reads an RSS feed (for example, a subreddit RSS), scores recent items with Anthropic Claude as sales-outreach opportunities against your offering, and emails a ranked digest of the best matches via Gmail. Runs on a weekly schedule. Reads…

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