Approve LinkedIn Outreach Openers in n8n (Apify + OpenAI + Gmail)

Approve Daily LinkedIn Outreach Openers—Generated by Apify + OpenAI, Sent for Your Approval in Gmail

This n8n workflow finds public LinkedIn profiles every day, generates a personalized under-30-word opener using OpenAI, and emails each draft to you in Gmail for approval—then saves only the approved contacts to Google Sheets. No more guessing what to send or risking low-quality messages.

What this workflow does

• Runs on a daily schedule to keep your outreach pipeline fresh.
• Searches for matching LinkedIn profiles using Apify using your configured role query and max results.
• Filters out profiles whose headlines are too short to personalize from.
• Skips profiles already seen in previous workflow runs to avoid duplicate outreach.
• Uses OpenAI to draft a single opening line grounded in the person’s LinkedIn headline—returning “skip” when it can’t be specific.
• Sends each draft to you in Gmail and pauses until you approve or decline within the configured wait window.
• Appends approved profiles + opener to Google Sheets; declined items stop with no data saved.

Use cases

• SaaS operators qualifying prospects daily and wanting a human-in-the-loop approval step before outreach.
• Automation engineers building reliable LinkedIn prospecting with Apify and OpenAI, while controlling message quality via Gmail approvals.
• Growth teams capturing approved leads and message snippets into Google Sheets for tracking and follow-up.

Technical details

• Integrations/credentials: Apify, OpenAI, Gmail, Google Sheets.
• n8n nodes used: if, set, no op, gmail, slack, filter.
• Configurable setup: search query, what you sell, approver email address, max items, target Google Sheets document/tab.
• Recommended test: run once manually to confirm you receive approval emails and approved rows write to the sheet.