Automate Your RFP Process with OpenAI Assistants
n8n template #2321Summary
Use templateThis n8n workflow demonstrates how to automate oftern time-consuming form filling tasks in the early stages of the tendering process; the Request for Proposal document or "RFP". It does this by utilising a company's knowledgebase to generating question-and-answer pairs using Large Language Models. How it works A buyer's RFP is submitted to the workflow as a digital document that can be parsed. Our first AI agent scans and extracts all questions from the document into list form. The supplier sets up an OpenAI assistant prior loaded with company brand, marketing and technical documents. The workflow loops through each of the buyer's questions and poses these to the OpenAI assistant. The assist
How to set it up
- Open template #2321 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
- Create 6 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, OpenAI Chat Model, Item List Output Parser, OpenAI. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
- Check the model in the OpenAI Chat Model node. The template may point at a model your account can't use; swap it for one you have access to.
- Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
- Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.
Hand off to your agent
Prompt
Help me set up the n8n workflow "Automate Your RFP Process with OpenAI Assistants" (https://n8n.io/workflows/2321). It uses: Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, Basic LLM Chain, OpenAI Chat Model, Item List Output Parser, OpenAI. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.
Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.
Apps and nodes
Questions
Yes. Jimleuk published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 8,946 views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.
Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, OpenAI Chat Model, Item List Output Parser, OpenAI. The other 1 node are built into n8n.
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