🎣 AI-powered cold call machine with LinkedIn, OpenAI & Sales Navigator
⚡ 5,304 views · 🎣 Lead Generation & Enrichment
💡 Pro Tip — If you’re pulling LinkedIn data through HTTP requests or dealing with API restrictions, there’s a community node called ScraperNode that handles this natively. It has dedicated scrapers for profiles, companies, jobs, and people search — you just pass a URL and get structured data back.
Description
🔧 AI-Powered Cold Call Machine
🎯 Purpose
The AI-Powered Cold Call Machine is a fully automated workflow designed to generate qualified leads from LinkedIn, evaluate them using AI-based scoring, identify key decision-makers, and generate personalized cold call scripts. All results are saved to a Google Sheet-based CRM.
⚙️ How It Works
1. Initialization
- Triggered either manually or via schedule.
- Pulls configuration from a Google Sheet’s Settings tab (e.g., target product, keywords, company size, API key).
2. Company Search on LinkedIn
- Uses the Ghost Genius API to search for companies based on cleaned, relevant keywords extracted by OpenAI.
- Handles pagination, up to 1000 companies per batch.
3. Company Filtering
Each company goes through:
- Data enrichment via Ghost Genius (website, size, followers, etc.).
- Filtering:
- Must have a LinkedIn page with a website.
- Must have 200+ followers.
- Deduplication: checks if the company already exists in the CRM.
4. AI-Based Company Scoring
- A specialized AI model scores each company from 0 to 10 based on:
- Industry fit.
- Size/location alignment.
- Potential pain points that match your offering.
- If the company is new and relevant (score ≥ 7), it is saved in the Companies sheet.
5. Decision Maker Identification
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Uses Sales Navigator API (via Ghost Genius) to find employees with targeted job titles.
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For each matching profile:
- Enriches contact data (title, bio, etc.).
- Retrieves phone number (if available).
- Generates a 20-second personalized cold call script using OpenAI, based on company and profile data.
- Saves all information in the Leads tab of the CRM.
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If no decision maker is found, the company status is marked accordingly.
📈 Outcome
- A fully enriched, qualified lead database.
- Custom cold call scripts ready to be used by SDRs or founders.
- Zero manual work – from search to lead generation, everything is automated.
💡 Use Case
Perfect for SDRs, founders, or growth marketers looking to scale cold outreach without sacrificing personalization or running into LinkedIn scraping limits.
🔗 Nodes Used
Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Stop and Error, Schedule Trigger, Filter, OpenAI
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File