🎯 Automated B2B Cold Email Sequence with AI Personalization
Stop manually sending follow-ups. This workflow automates your entire cold email outreach with AI-powered personalization, smart scheduling, and automatic reply detection.
✨ What It Does
This workflow sends a perfectly-timed 3-email sequence to B2B prospects with:
- AI-generated personalized emails adapted to each prospect's sector, company size, and role
- Smart scheduling : Only sends Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday at optimal times (~9AM with randomization)
- Bilingual support : Auto-detects French or English prospects
- Reply detection : Automatically stops the sequence when someone replies
- Spam prevention : Randomized sending times, professional intervals
- Full tracking : Updates Google Sheets with send status and reply detection
- Slack notifications : Get alerted immediately when a hot lead responds
📊 Expected Results
Based on real usage:
- 10-15% reply rate (vs 3-8% for generic cold emails)
- 2-5 hot leads per 30 prospects contacted
- 90% time saved vs manual outreach
- Professional delivery that preserves sender reputation
🎬 How It Works
- Add prospect to Google Sheet (Email, Name, Company, etc.)
- Workflow triggers automatically on new row
- Time planning calculates optimal send dates (Tue/Wed/Thu only)
- Email 1 (J0): AI generates introduction with value prop (80-120 words)
- Wait 3 days
- Email 2 (J+3): Follow-up with new angle or case study (70-90 words)
- Wait 4 days
- Email 3 (J+7): Final soft close, respectful exit (60-100 words)
- Reply detection : Monitors Gmail → marks prospect "hot" → Slack alert → stops sequence
🚀 Perfect For
- Sales teams doing B2B cold outreach
- Agencies prospecting new clients
- SaaS founders building their pipeline
- Consultants/freelancers doing business development
- Anyone tired of manual follow-ups and low response rates
⚙️ Requirements
Required:
- Google Sheets (free)
- Gmail account (free)
- OpenAI API key (~$0.50 per 100 emails)
Optional:
- Slack (for notifications)
n8n version: Compatible with n8n 1.0+
