Automated B2B lead generation & cold emails with OpenAI, Apify, Gmail & Telegram
This end-to-end automation transforms your sales process by scraping B2B prospects via Apify and using AI to extract verified contact information. It intelligently drafts personalized outreach emails with customized tones, delivers them through Gmail, and provides real-time progress updates directly to Telegram. Every lead and interaction is neatly logged in Google Sheets, ensuring your pipeline remains organized and automated from start to finish.
Run this with your team's AIWhat This Recipe Does
This automated lead generation system transforms how sales teams capture and nurture prospects. Instead of manually tracking inquiries and drafting individual follow-ups, this workflow creates a seamless pipeline from initial contact to active engagement. When a prospect submits a form, the system immediately logs their data in Google Sheets, categorizes the lead, and triggers a personalized outreach campaign via Gmail. To ensure you never miss a high-priority opportunity, the automation sends real-time notifications to your Telegram account, allowing you to respond instantly from any device. By utilizing intelligent wait steps and batch processing, the workflow maintains a natural communication cadence that increases response rates while preventing your inbox from being flagged as spam. This solution eliminates the administrative burden of lead management, ensuring that every inquiry is captured, tracked, and contacted without a single manual step. It allows your sales team to focus on closing deals rather than managing spreadsheets and drafting repetitive emails.
What your team gets
Forms and dashboards, so it is not a script only one person understands
Runs on your schedule in the cloud, so it does not stop when a laptop closes
Endpoints, so the rest of your stack can trigger the same work
Telegram, Google Sheets, BigMailer, Jotform connected for the team, not per person
How It Works
- 1
Open the recipe and connect your accounts
Connect Telegram and Google Sheets once, in your team cloud, and nobody has to do it again on their own machine
- 2
Tell your own agent what is different about your process
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, whichever your team already uses. It adapts the recipe to how you actually work
- 3
Run it, then leave it running
It lives in your team cloud, so it keeps going after you close the laptop and every teammate's AI can use it
Who Uses This
- Sales teams looking to automate the transition from form submission to the first discovery call scheduled.
- Marketing agencies managing lead magnets who need to deliver assets and track engagement automatically.
- Real estate professionals who need instant mobile alerts for new property inquiries while logging data for long-term follow-up.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to keep the application open to send emails?
No. Once the workflow is activated, it runs automatically in the background 24/7, even when your computer is turned off.
Can I customize the delay between the initial contact and follow-up emails?
Yes. The wait nodes can be adjusted to any timeframe, such as minutes, hours, or days, to match your specific sales cycle.
Is it possible to connect a different messaging platform instead of Telegram?
While this recipe is optimized for Telegram, the notification step can be swapped for Slack, Microsoft Teams, or SMS alerts.
How does the system prevent sending too many emails at once?
The workflow includes batch processing logic that staggers outgoing communications, ensuring your email deliverability remains high and your account stays secure.
Coming from n8n?
This recipe uses nodes like Telegram, GoogleSheets, If, Filter and 9 more. On Runwork, you don't need to learn n8n's workflow syntax. Describe what you want to your own AI agent in plain English.
Based on n8n community workflow. View original
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