# AI lead gen & personalized email agent with Sheets and Apify: n8n workflow

> Started by an event in a connected app, and works across Gmail and Google Sheets. It hands the judgement calls to OpenRouter.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/ai-lead-gen-and-personalized-email-agent-with-sheets-and-api (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

[Automation library](https://millionrounds.com/workflows) · [Lead generation](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?category=Lead+generation#library)

# AI lead gen & personalized email agent with Sheets and Apify

Started by an event in a connected app, and works across Gmail and Google Sheets. It hands the judgement calls to OpenRouter. 18 steps, 1 branch, 1 loop or waits: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium Calls a model: OpenRouter

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**18 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**1** Branch: places the flow splits

**1** Loop or waits

**2** Services it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Model 2 Logic 8 Service 7

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **When clicking ‘Test workflow’** Manual trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **Lead Configuration** Set *Logic*
- 3 **OpenRouter Chat Model** Lm Chat Open Router *Model*
- 4 **Read URLs from Sheet1** Google Sheets *Service*
- 5 **Split Out** Split Out *Logic*
- 6 **E Mail Personalizer** Chain Llm *Model*
- 7 **Trim URL1** Function Item *Service*
- 8 **HTTP Request** Http Request *Service*
- 9 **Update Google Sheets** Google Sheets *Service*
- 10 **Check Valid URL1** If *Logic*
- 11 **Map Response** Set *Logic*
- 12 **Send a message** Gmail *Service*
- 13 **Fetch Website1** Http Request *Service*
- 14 **Filter** Filter *Logic*
- 15 **Filter1** Filter *Logic*
- 16 **Remove Duplicates** Remove Duplicates *Logic*
- 17 **Loop Over Items** Split In Batches *Logic*
- 18 **Google Sheets** Google Sheets *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** An event in a connected app
- **Steps:** 18, with 1 branch, 1 loop or waits
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** Gmail, Google Sheets
- **Model:** OpenRouter

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Gmail and Google Sheets accounts, and a key for OpenRouter. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an event in a connected app.

Does it use AI?

Yes. It calls OpenRouter. Model calls are billed by the provider, not by n8n.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 18 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 18 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fai-lead-gen-and-personalized-email-agent-with-sheets-and-api)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[Gmail](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Gmail#library)[Google Sheets](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Google+Sheets#library)

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Also lead generation, with the same services where possible, closest in size first.

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- [**Draft personalized cold emails from Google Sheets with Gemini** 18 steps · calls a model · Google Sheets](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/draft-personalized-cold-emails-from-google-sheets-with-gemin)