I Built an AI Email Assistant in n8n (Community Challenge)
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Email management is silently eating hours every week โ and businesses that haven't automated yet are falling further behind. In this video, I walk you through the complete build of an AI-powered email classifier and autoresponder in n8n, created for the n8n Communโฆ
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Chapters (17)
The email automation problem (and why it's getting worse)
0:34
Project overview: what we're building and the challenge brief
1:01
Setting up two triggers: webhook + evaluation
2:33
Edit Set nodes: standardizing email fields (from, subject, body)
4:27
Combining inputs for classification
5:09
IF node: handling empty or null email bodies
6:39
Introducing the Text Classifier node
7:11
Email categories: pricing, setup, security, HR, escalation, spam
7:42
Configuring the Text Classifier (model, system prompt, batch processing)
9:14
Writing category descriptions and prompts
11:49
Response templates and document files
13:22
Reviewing the provided response documents
15:25
Model selection and context window considerations
17:27
Branching logic: auto-respond vs. escalate
19:31
Handling spam and misdirected emails (no response)
20:31
AI agent for drafting response emails
21:34
Building the pricing and product c
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