# Generate personalized startup ideas with Claude and Gmail: n8n workflow

> Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Gmail. It puts Claude behind a retrieval step, so answers are drawn from documents you supply rather...

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/generate-personalized-startup-ideas-with-claude-and-gmail (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Generate personalized startup ideas with Claude and Gmail

Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Gmail. It puts Claude behind a retrieval step, so answers are drawn from documents you supply rather than from the model alone. 19 steps: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium Calls a model: Claude Retrieval

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**19 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**0** Branches: places the flow splits

**0** Loops or waits

**1** Service it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 3 Model 10 Logic 5 Service 1

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

- 1 **Form** Form trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **Scheduled trigger once a day** Schedule trigger *Starts it*
- 3 **When clicking ‘Execute workflow’** Manual trigger *Starts it*
- 4 **Idea Generator Parser** Output Parser Structured *Model*
- 5 **Idea Generator Model** Lm Chat Anthropic *Model*
- 6 **Idea Critic Model** Lm Chat Anthropic *Model*
- 7 **Sentiment Analysis Model** Lm Chat Anthropic *Model*
- 8 **Idea Critic Parser** Output Parser Structured *Model*
- 9 **Sentiment Analysis Parser** Output Parser Structured *Model*
- 10 **Simple Memory** Memory Buffer Window *Model*
- 11 **Prepare Data** Set *Logic*
- 12 **My Information** Set *Logic*
- 13 **Idea Generator Agent** Agent *Model*
- 14 **Idea Critic Agent** Agent *Model*
- 15 **Sentiment Analysis** Agent *Model*
- 16 **Merge Analysis** Merge *Logic*
- 17 **Data Aggregation** Code *Logic*
- 18 **Email Creator** Code *Logic*
- 19 **Send Startup Idea via Email** Gmail *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** Someone submitting a form
- **Steps:** 19
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** Gmail
- **Model:** Claude
- **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 account, and a key for Claude. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on someone submitting a form.

Does it use AI?

Yes. It calls Claude. 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?

Plan an afternoon. 19 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 19 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%2Fgenerate-personalized-startup-ideas-with-claude-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)

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