# Empower your AI chatbot with OpenAI and Gmail: n8n workflow > Started by someone opening a chat with it, and works across Gmail, Google Docs and Telegram. Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/empower-your-ai-chatbot-with-openai-and-gmail (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) [Automation library](https://millionrounds.com/workflows) 路 [Chat assistants](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?category=Chat+assistants#library) # Empower your AI chatbot with OpenAI and Gmail Started by someone opening a chat with it, and works across Gmail, Google Docs and Telegram. It puts OpenAI behind a retrieval step, so answers are drawn from documents you supply rather than from the model alone. 22 steps, 1 branch: large, and worth reading before you trust it with anything live. Large Calls a model: OpenAI Retrieval [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fempower-your-ai-chatbot-with-openai-and-gmail) **22 steps** Large: read it before trusting it with anything live **1** Branch: places the flow splits **0** Loops or waits **3** Services it connects to ## The flow Starts it 2 Model 11 Logic 3 Service 6 The steps in the order they run, from what starts it. - 1 **When Executed by Another Workflow** Execute Workflow trigger *Starts it* - 2 **OpenAI Chat Model2** Lm Chat Open Ai *Model* - 3 **OpenAI Chat Model3** Lm Chat Open Ai *Model* - 4 **馃摛Send Memories to Telegram** Tool Workflow *Model* - 5 **馃摣Send Memories to Gmail** Tool Workflow *Model* - 6 **馃Save Memories** Tool Workflow *Model* - 7 **馃攷Retrieve Memories** Tool Workflow *Model* - 8 **馃くWindow Buffer Memory** Memory Buffer Window *Model* - 9 **馃OpenAI Chat Model** Lm Chat Open Ai *Model* - 10 **鈸傦笍 When chat message received** Chat trigger *Starts it* - 11 **Memory Tool Router** Switch *Logic* - 12 **Prepare Telegram Message** Chain Llm *Model* - 13 **Prepare Gmail Message** Chain Llm *Model* - 14 **馃 AI Agent w/Long Term Memory** Agent *Model* - 15 **Save Long Term Memories** Google Docs *Service* - 16 **Retrieve Long Term Memories** Google Docs *Service* - 17 **Retrieve Long Term Memories2** Google Docs *Service* - 18 **Retrieve Long Term Memories3** Google Docs *Service* - 19 **Send Success Message to Telegram** Telegram *Service* - 20 **Email Workflow Stats** Gmail *Service* - 21 **Saved response** Set *Logic* - 22 **Respond with long term memories** Set *Logic* ## How it's built - **Starts on:** Someone opening a chat with it - **Steps:** 22, with 1 branch - **Size:** Large: read it before trusting it with anything live - **Connects to:** Gmail, Google Docs, Telegram - **Model:** OpenAI - **Retrieval:** Answers are drawn from documents you supply, not from the model alone ## Questions What does it need to run? An n8n account, plus your own Gmail, Google Docs and Telegram accounts, and a key for OpenAI. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included. What starts it? It starts on someone opening a chat with it. Does it use AI? Yes. It calls OpenAI. Its answers draw on documents you give it, not on the model alone. Model calls are billed by the provider, not by n8n. How long does it take to set up? Take your time. At 22 steps it is large: read it before trusting it with anything live. 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 22 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 鈫梋(https://millionrounds.com/n8n) - **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fempower-your-ai-chatbot-with-openai-and-gmail) - **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 Docs](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Google+Docs#library)[Telegram](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Telegram#library) ## Workflows like it Also chat assistants, with the same services where possible, closest in size first. - [**AI agent - RAG Telegram chatbot n8n with OpenAI** 22 steps 路 calls a model 路 Google Drive, Supabase vectors](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/ai-agent-rag-telegram-chatbot-n8n-with-openai) - [**AI-powered Telegram task assistant with Notion** 22 steps 路 calls a model 路 Notion, Telegram](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/ai-powered-telegram-task-assistant-with-notion) - [**Audit landing page conversions with DeepSeek and Google Sheets** 22 steps 路 calls a model 路 Gmail, Google Sheets](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/audit-landing-page-conversions-with-deepseek-and-google-shee) - [**Create an AI knowledge base assistant with Ollama and PGVector** 22 steps 路 calls a model 路 Telegram](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/create-an-ai-knowledge-base-assistant-with-ollama-and-pgvect) - [**Detect multi-source transaction fraud and reconcile finances** 22 steps 路 calls a model 路 Gmail, Postgres](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/detect-multi-source-transaction-fraud-and-reconcile-finances) - [**Generate AI camera moves with Seedance** 22 steps 路 calls a model 路 ClickUp, Google Drive](https://millionrounds.com/workflow/generate-ai-camera-moves-with-seedance)