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Answer support chat questions from uploaded documents with OpenAI

Ready for 3.0

by isaWOW ✓ · 22 views · created 2026-08-22 · Support Chatbot, AI RAG

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 13 nodes and runs when an HTTP POST request hits its webhook URL (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Embeddings OpenAI and OpenAI Chat Model.

How it runs

Trigger: When an HTTP POST request hits its webhook URL (plus 1 other trigger).

  1. Support agent (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: Chat model - Support agent; 1 tool (Knowledge base agent); memory: Conversation memory
  2. Store documents in vector store (Simple Vector Store): stores documents in the Simple vector store, with embeddings: Embeddings OpenAI; document loader: Data Loader - Split uploaded files
  3. Format reply (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: data
  4. Send reply (Respond to Webhook): sends the response back to the webhook caller

Services it uses

Embeddings OpenAIOpenAI Chat Model

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (11)

From the author

Quick overview This workflow lets you upload PDF/CSV/TXT documents into an in-memory vector store and exposes a header-authenticated webhook that answers support questions using OpenAI chat models, optionally retrieving facts from the uploaded documents while…

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