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AI-Powered Lead Qualification & Routing with OpenAI, Slack, and Airtable

Ready for 3.0

by Xavier Tai ✓ · 913 views · created 2025-10-07 · Lead Nurturing, AI Summarization

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 12 nodes and runs when an HTTP POST request hits its webhook URL. Along the way it connects OpenAI Chat Model, Airtable and Slack.

How it runs

Trigger: When an HTTP POST request hits its webhook URL.

  1. Acknowledge Receipt (Respond to Webhook): sends the response back to the webhook caller
  2. Enrich Lead Data (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 3 fields: leadId, timestamp, source
  3. AI Lead Qualification (Basic LLM Chain): sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: OpenAI Model; output parser: Parse AI Response
  4. Route by Quality (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
  5. Save to Airtable (Hot Leads) (Airtable): append
  6. Save to Airtable (Nurture Queue) (Airtable): append
  7. Alert Team (Slack) (Slack): send
  8. Send Confirmation Email (Hot) (Send Email): sends an email over SMTP
  9. Send Nurture Email (Send Email): sends an email over SMTP

Services it uses

OpenAI Chat ModelAirtableSlack

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 (10)

From the author

AI Lead Qualifier & Router An intelligent lead management system that automatically captures incoming leads via webhook, uses AI to analyze and score each prospect, then routes them to the appropriate team or campaign based on qualification score—delivering…

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