Calendly to Slack AI Briefing Workflow (Bright Data + GPT-5.6)

Get a 200-word AI pre-call briefing from Calendly—then post it straight to Slack (Bright Data + GPT-5.6)

Stop scrambling before every meeting. This n8n automation workflow turns each new Calendly booking (or a manual n8n form submission) into a concise, research-backed AI briefing and posts it to your Slack channel—using Bright Data for LinkedIn, web, and news lookups and OpenAI GPT-5.6 to write the summary.

What this workflow does

• Triggers when a Calendly invitee is created, or when you submit the included “Brief me on this person” n8n form for manual testing.
• Extracts key details including the person, work email, company/domain, meeting time, and any invite notes—then skips enrichment for free-mail addresses that don’t map to a company.
• Enriches with Bright Data by searching for the company’s LinkedIn page (Bright Data SERP) and fetching the LinkedIn company record from a Bright Data dataset.
• Reads the company homepage using Bright Data Web Unlocker to extract a short positioning/pitch summary.
• Finds relevant news by searching recent Google News results via Bright Data SERP and selecting a small set of matching headlines.
• Generates an evidence-based brief and prompts OpenAI GPT-5.6 to produce a <200-word briefing (who they are, what changed, three questions, and one thing to avoid), then posts the formatted brief and sources to Slack.

Use cases

• Sales or CS teams want instant context before joining discovery calls booked in Calendly.
• SaaS operators who qualify leads faster by combining LinkedIn, website positioning, and recent news.
• Automation engineers testing a reliable end-to-end workflow from booking → enrichment → AI brief → Slack notification.

Technical details

• Calendly trigger (invitee.created) and/or included n8n form trigger.
• Bright Data HTTP Header Auth with configured zones for SERP and Web Unlocker.
• OpenAI credential using model name gpt-5.6-terra.
• Slack node to post the AI briefing.
• Workflow logic nodes: if, set, code, no op, merge, slack.