Create financial newsletters with Perplexity Research, GPT drafting, and Gmail approval flow
Ready for 3.0Ready 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 21 nodes and runs on a schedule (every week at 08:00) (plus 2 other triggers). Along the way it connects Gmail and OpenAI.
How it runs
Trigger: On a schedule (every week at 08:00) (plus 2 other triggers).
- Week ranges + run_key (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Respond to Webhook: sends the response back to the webhook caller
- Decode (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Research LLM (Perplexity): uses Perplexity
- Normalize (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Parse Perplexity JSON (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Check Action Type (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
- Enrich for Editorial (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Create Final Draft for Editor (Gmail): work with draft
- If: checks a condition and branches into true / false
…plus 8 more steps. See the full node list below.
Services it uses
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.
- Still check Always Output Data on multi-output nodes (If/Switch) now adds an empty item only when every output is empty (Check Action Type).
Nodes used (8)
- Schedule Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger - Code
n8n-nodes-base.code - Gmail
n8n-nodes-base.gmail - Respond to Webhook
n8n-nodes-base.respondToWebhook - Perplexity
n8n-nodes-base.perplexity - OpenAI
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi - Webhook
n8n-nodes-base.webhook - If
n8n-nodes-base.if
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