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Document Q&A system with OpenAI GPT, Pinecone Vector DB & Google Drive integration

Ready for 3.0

by Mohan Gopal ✓ · 1,457 views · created 2025-07-09 · Internal Wiki, 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 24 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 2 other triggers). Along the way it connects Google Drive, Pinecone Vector Store, Embeddings OpenAI and OpenAI Chat Model and 1 more.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 2 other triggers).

  1. Google Drive: work with file folder
  2. AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; 1 tool (Answer questions with a vector store); memory: Simple Memory
  3. AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; 1 tool (Answer questions with a vector store); memory: Simple Memory
  4. Google Drive: download
  5. Respond to Webhook: sends the response back to the webhook caller
  6. Pinecone Vector Store: stores documents in the Pinecone vector store, with embeddings: Embeddings OpenAI; document loader: Default Data Loader

Services it uses

Google DrivePinecone Vector StoreEmbeddings OpenAIOpenAI Chat ModelVector Store Question Answer

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 (13)

From the author

This workflow contains community nodes that are only compatible with the self-hosted version of n8n. 🤖 AI-Powered Document QA System using Webhook, Pinecone + OpenAI + n8n This project demonstrates how to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system…

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