🎣 Automated NASA patent lead generation & scoring with OpenAI, Google, and Notion

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Description

Who is this for

This workflow is designed for Innovation Managers, Tech Transfer Offices, and Business Development Representatives looking to find commercial partners for new technologies.

What it does

This template automates the process of scouting startups that might be a good fit for NASA patents.

  1. Search: It fetches patents from the NASA Tech Transfer API based on a keyword you define.
  2. Find: It searches Google to identify startups operating in related fields.
  3. Enrich: It crawls the identified startup’s website to extract context about their business.
  4. Analyze: Using OpenAI, it scores the “fit” between the patent and the startup and drafts a personalized outreach email.
  5. Save: High-scoring leads are enriched with LinkedIn company pages and saved directly to a Notion database.

How to set up

  1. Configuration: In the Configuration node, set the keyword variable to the technology topic you want to search for (e.g., “robotics”).
  2. NASA API: Get a free API key from api.nasa.gov and enter it in the NASA Patents API node parameters.
  3. Apify: Connect your Apify account credential. You will need credits to run the google-search-scraper and website-content-crawler actors.
  4. OpenAI: Connect your OpenAI credential.
  5. Notion: Create a database with the following properties and connect it in the Create Notion Lead node:
    • Company (Text)
    • Website (URL)
    • LinkedIn (URL)
    • Email (Email)
    • Score (Number)
    • Draft Email (Text)
    • NASA Tech (Text)

Requirements

🔗 Nodes Used

HTTP Request, Notion, OpenAI

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup