🎯 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

1. Add prospect to Google Sheet (Email, Name, Company, etc.)
2. Workflow triggers automatically on new row
3. Time planning calculates optimal send dates (Tue/Wed/Thu only)
4. Email 1 (J0): AI generates introduction with value prop (80-120 words)
5. Wait 3 days
6. Email 2 (J+3): Follow-up with new angle or case study (70-90 words)
7. Wait 4 days
8. Email 3 (J+7): Final soft close, respectful exit (60-100 words)
9. 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+