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Pre-call research report when a prospect books

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Summary: Pre-call research report when a prospect books is an AI-agent recipe for small businesses in the Sales & leads category. Problem it solves: Walking into sales calls cold. Built with n8n; difficulty: Intermediate. Cost: Template: $0 on n8n.io. Running n8n and the connected APIs costs extra (not priced here). Verified against its primary source on 2026-10-16.

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Problem it solves: Walking into sales calls cold
What it does: On a new booking, looks up the lead's LinkedIn URL in Sheets, scrapes the profile via Relevance AI, researches with Perplexity, and emails an HTML report with pain points and ideas
Who it's for: Consultants, agencies, B2B SMB
Agent / tools: n8n + calendar + Google Sheets + Relevance AI + Perplexity + LLM
Inputs: Calendar booking; lead sheet with LinkedIn URLs
Outputs: Emailed research report
Prerequisites: n8n, Relevance AI, Perplexity, LLM
Difficulty: Intermediate
Cost (as stated by the source): Template: $0 on n8n.io. Running n8n and the connected APIs costs extra (not priced here).
Warnings: Relies on LinkedIn scraping via a third party: check LinkedIn's terms
Primary sources: https://n8n.io/workflows/6535

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What it does

On a new booking, looks up the lead's LinkedIn URL in Sheets, scrapes the profile via Relevance AI, researches with Perplexity, and emails an HTML report with pain points and ideas

Warnings & notes

Warnings & notes: Relies on LinkedIn scraping via a third party: check LinkedIn's terms

Details

Problem it solves
Walking into sales calls cold
Who it's for
Consultants, agencies, B2B SMB
Agent / tools
n8n + calendar + Google Sheets + Relevance AI + Perplexity + LLM
Inputs
Calendar booking; lead sheet with LinkedIn URLs
Outputs
Emailed research report
You'll need
n8n, Relevance AI, Perplexity, LLM
Difficulty
Intermediate
Cost
Template: $0 on n8n.io. Running n8n and the connected APIs costs extra (not priced here).
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Verified against source

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