Latest Company News Alert Workflow
This workflow automatically scans the user's calendar every morning, filtering out meetings related to clients or partners, extracting company names, and retrieving their latest news. Subsequently, a well-formatted news summary is sent to the user via email, ensuring they are up-to-date before the meetings. This automated process saves users time and enhances the efficiency and professionalism of meeting preparation, making it suitable for professionals in sales, client management, and business development.
Workflow Name
Latest Company News Alert Workflow
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automatically scans the day’s calendar events every morning at 7 AM, filtering meetings that start with “Meeting with” or “Call with.” It extracts the company names from these meeting titles and queries the News API to retrieve the latest news about those companies. Finally, the system formats the news summaries into a well-structured email and sends it to the user, ensuring they are up-to-date with the latest developments before calls or meetings with clients or partners.
Core Problems Addressed
Sales, account management, and business development professionals often need to quickly grasp the latest updates about clients or partners before meetings. Manually searching for news is time-consuming and prone to missing critical information. This workflow automates the integration of calendar and news resources, enabling users to efficiently access real-time news about target companies, thereby improving meeting preparation efficiency and professionalism.
Use Cases
- Sales representatives obtaining the latest information on potential clients before daily meetings
- Account managers staying informed about industry trends before partner calls
- Business development personnel quickly catching up on news hotspots related to target companies
- Any professionals needing timely company news based on calendar meetings
Main Workflow Steps
- Trigger the workflow daily at 7 AM.
- Read the user’s Google Calendar to retrieve all meetings scheduled for the day.
- Filter meetings whose titles start with “Meeting with” or “Call with.”
- Extract company names from the meeting titles, removing extraneous words and converting to lowercase.
- Query the News API for up to 20 relevant news articles published within the last 10 days about the extracted companies.
- Format the news content into an email-friendly HTML layout.
- Send the email containing the latest news summaries to a predefined recipient list.
Systems and Services Involved
- Google Calendar: To fetch the day’s meeting schedule.
- News API (https://newsapi.org): To obtain relevant company news data.
- Gmail: To send formatted news emails via OAuth2 authentication.
- n8n: For overall workflow management and automation execution.
Target Users and Value Proposition
Designed for sales professionals, account managers, business developers, and any professionals who need to quickly access the latest client or partner news before meetings. This workflow saves time, enhances meeting preparation efficiency, and strengthens professional communication by providing timely, relevant information—ultimately supporting business success.