How to automate real work with AI agents
39 step-by-step recipes for n8n, Make, Zapier Agents, Lindy, Claude and ChatGPT, in 8 categories. Each one is based on a real, public write-up by someone who built it, linked at the bottom of the page, with the tools needed, the catches they hit and a copyable prompt template. Updated 2026-10-15.
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Triage support emails and draft replies with n8nA shared support inbox mixes urgent problems with routine questions. Reading, sorting and drafting an answer for every message eats…Auto-resolve support tickets and escalate the rest with n8nMany tickets can be answered from your docs or the customer's order data, while billing and security issues need a person quickly. Doing…Answer WhatsApp customer questions with an AI agent and hand off to humans (n8n)Customers message on WhatsApp at all hours with the same questions, but a bot that guesses wrong can do more harm than no reply at all.Triage service requests into Airtable and auto-reply with n8nA local service business (the source example is a car repair shop) gets web-form requests of every kind. Sorting them by job type and…Score leads and draft outreach emails with human approval in n8nScoring each new lead and writing a first email by hand is slow, but fully automatic outreach risks sending bad emails to real prospects.Turn new Gmail emails into researched Notion CRM leads with Zapier AgentsPotential customers are buried among ordinary email. Copying them into a CRM and researching each sender is tedious, so leads slip through.Research meeting guests and post a daily Slack briefing with Zapier AgentsBefore calls with external people someone has to look up who they are and what their company does, usually in a rush right before the…Draft follow-up emails automatically when nobody replies (Lindy)Emails that never get an answer are easy to forget, and remembering to nudge each one costs attention.Find local businesses that need a website with an AI research agentFinding local businesses with no website, or a slow one, means hours of clicking through map listings before you can pitch web-design…Extract invoice data into a bookkeeping sheet with n8n and OpenAIReceipts and invoices arrive as photos and PDFs. Typing date, merchant, amount and VAT into a spreadsheet and filing the file is slow…Send overdue invoice reminders with an AI agent that adjusts its tone (n8n)Chasing late payments is awkward. Reminders should be gentle for a few days overdue and firmer after weeks, and nobody wants to write…Generate and email invoices from a template with MakeFreelancers who send several invoices a week rebuild the same document by hand each time.Set up a supplier-invoice approval pipeline from Gmail with n8nSupplier invoices arrive by email and each one needs data extraction, duplicate and supplier checks, approval for larger amounts and an…Turn payment notification emails into one weekly digest with n8nPayment and transaction notifications arrive as a stream of separate emails (about 15 a week for the author), so it is hard to see the…Reconcile a bank statement with invoices using Claude CoworkMatching each bank transaction to an invoice every month, cleaning vendor names and spotting missing receipts takes an afternoon.Find forgotten subscriptions in your bank statements with Claude CoworkSmall recurring charges are easy to forget. The author's example was a €5/month subscription noticed seven months late.List subscriptions and renewal dates from Gmail with ChatGPT AgentRenewal notices are scattered through years of email, so it is hard to know what you pay for and when it renews.Triage unread email with Make's AI Agent and get a morning summaryWaking up to a full inbox means sorting newsletters, follow-ups and urgent items before doing any real work.Turn booking confirmation emails into calendar events with n8nTravel and booking confirmations pile up in the inbox (the source built this for a CEO) and someone has to copy each one into the calendar.Bulk-unsubscribe from Gmail newsletters with Claude Cowork and Claude in ChromeDozens of newsletters you no longer read keep arriving, and unsubscribing one by one is a chore.Run Claude on a schedule for a personal morning briefingYou want a short, personal briefing every morning without opening a dozen apps, and a way to hand small tasks to an assistant by message.Summarise newsletters into a Notion database with n8nUseful newsletters go unread because there are too many of them; you want the key points, with links, in one searchable place.Track new arXiv papers in Notion every day with n8n and GeminiKeeping up with new papers on a topic means checking arXiv every day and skimming abstracts.Turn any article URL into a structured Notion note with n8nSaving articles as bare links means you never find or reread them; you want a summary, key insights and tags stored with each one.Build a Telegram second brain for saving and searching links (n8n)Links you send yourself in chats get lost. You want to save them in one tap and later ask questions about what you saved.Summarise a YouTube channel's latest video into a Google Doc daily with MakeFollowing a channel you like means checking for new uploads every day just to see whether they are worth watching.Build a daily newsletter briefing with Claude Cowork and an n8n MCP bridgeYou subscribe to many newsletters and want a short daily briefing, ideally as audio, instead of reading them all.Mine Reddit threads into Notion insight reports with n8n and GeminiMarketers want to know what customers complain about and ask for in a subreddit, without reading hundreds of threads.Get a weekly competitor-monitoring brief from ClaudeChecking competitors' sites for pricing changes, launches and hiring signals is a weekly chore that usually gets skipped.Auto-post blog summaries from RSS to Bluesky with Zapier AgentsEvery new blog post should be promoted on social media, but writing a hook for each one is easy to skip.Write, design and publish social posts from a Google Sheet with MakeProducing a caption and an image for every post, then scheduling it, takes much longer than coming up with the idea.Repurpose a newsletter into carousel, reel and LinkedIn content with Claude CoworkEach newsletter could feed a week of social posts, but rewriting it for every platform takes hours.Email daily ClickUp task digests to each project's stakeholders with MakeStakeholders want a daily view of open action items for their project, without logging into ClickUp.Replace daily standups with async updates and AI summaries (Zapier Agents)Daily standups take a lot of team time for information that could be written down in a minute.Write end-of-sprint changelogs from completed Linear tickets with Claude CoworkWriting release notes every sprint means rereading every finished ticket and translating it into user-facing language.Sort hundreds of PDFs into folders with Claude CoworkA folder of hundreds of unsorted PDFs is useless until someone opens each file and files it.Review GitHub pull requests automatically with an n8n AI agentSmall teams want a first review pass on every pull request, checked against their own coding conventions, before a human looks.Monitor new CVEs and get AI-scored alerts with n8nSecurity teams need to know quickly when a relevant vulnerability is published, without reading every advisory feed.Diagnose Kubernetes alerts with an n8n agent and MCP serversWhen an alert fires at night, the on-call engineer spends the first minutes gathering context from several dashboards before they can…
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