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Automated lead capture & business Q&A with GPT-4o, Pinecone, and Google Sheets

Needs changes

by Belgacem Dhiflaoui ✓ · 748 views · created 2025-07-17 · Lead Nurturing, AI Chatbot

Needs changes. This template uses 1 thing(s) that n8n 3.0 removes: AI Agent v1 (old agent modes). 1 breaking item(s) found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 15 nodes and runs on Google Drive events (file created) (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Google Drive, Pinecone Vector Store, Embeddings OpenAI and OpenAI Chat Model and 2 more.

How it runs

Trigger: On Google Drive events (file created) (plus 1 other trigger).

  1. Google Drive: download
  2. AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; 2 tools (newCompany_q, Append row in sheet in Google Sheets); memory: Window Buffer Memory
  3. 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 AnswerGoogle Sheets

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

1 thing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0. Fix it before you upgrade:

  • AI Agent v1 (old agent modes) in AI Agent (v1.7): replace with Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.

Rather not rewrite it? Many of these flows can be rebuilt in Make (free plan).

Removed in 3.0Replace with
AI Agent v1 (old agent modes)
AI Agent (v1.7)
Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.

Nodes used (12)

From the author

What Problem Does This Solve? This workflow automates the end-to-end process of capturing company information from Google Drive, storing it semantically in Pinecone, and interacting with users via an intelligent AI chatbot. It eliminates the need for manual…

Excerpt from Belgacem Dhiflaoui's description on n8n.io.

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