n8n Workflow: Publish LinkedIn AI Ops Posts from RSS

Turn RSS AI stories into ready-to-publish LinkedIn Company Page posts (automatically)

This n8n workflow runs daily at 08:00 (UK) to pull AI operations signals from TechCrunch, The Verge, and the OpenAI Blog, uses OpenAI to editorially select and write a LinkedIn post + hashtags, generates a poster image, then publishes to your LinkedIn Company Page—while logging outcomes to Airtable and sending a posting report via Gmail.

What this workflow does

• Runs on a schedule: executes every day at 08:00 UK time.
• Collects sources via RSS: reads the latest AI-related articles from TechCrunch, The Verge, and the OpenAI Blog, then merges them into a single list.
• Curates content: cleans, deduplicates, and balances items by source before creating a consolidated text brief.
• Selects a publishable operational signal: uses GPT-5 to choose the strongest “operational AI signal,” or marks the run as skip if quality is below a threshold.
• Writes and QA-checks the post: if approved, GPT-5 drafts and refines the LinkedIn post and derives up to two hashtags.
• Generates and verifies an image: creates an editorial poster image (via an external screenshot service or the OpenAI Images API), then QA-checks the image with OpenAI and retries on failure.
• Publishes + records results: uploads the approved image, publishes the Company Page post, updates Airtable with the LinkedIn URN/URL, and emails a posting log via Gmail.

Use cases

• SaaS teams that want consistent LinkedIn Company Page thought-leadership from curated AI news
• Automation engineers building an n8n pipeline for RSS → OpenAI editing → social publishing
• Operators who need an auditable workflow with Airtable logs and email reporting

Technical details

• OpenAI credentials required: OPENAI_API_KEY (used for GPT-5 text and image/QA HTTP requests)
• Nodes/integrations used: if, code, gmail, merge, airtable, sticky note