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Gmail to Slack: AI-scored Upwork job alerts with OpenRouter

Ready for 3.0

by James Francis ✓ · 1,285 views · created 2025-07-08 · Personal Productivity, AI Summarization

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 10 nodes and runs on Gmail events. Along the way it connects OpenRouter Chat Model, Gmail and Slack.

How it runs

Trigger: On Gmail events.

  1. Mark as Read (Gmail): mark as read
  2. Convert To Markdown (Markdown): converts between Markdown and HTML
  3. Job Data Extractor (Information Extractor): extracts structured fields from text with AI, with model: OpenRouter Chat Model
  4. Opportunity Scorer (Information Extractor): extracts structured fields from text with AI, with model: OpenRouter Chat Model
  5. Edit Fields (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 2 fields: evaluation, job
  6. Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition
  7. Send Slack Alert (Slack): uses Slack

Services it uses

OpenRouter Chat ModelGmailSlack

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

  • Still check Gmail Trigger below v1.4 runs as v1.4 (drafts skipped, max emails per poll) (Get Filtered Messages).

Nodes used (8)

From the author

This workflow contains community nodes that are only compatible with the self-hosted version of n8n. Overview When applying for freelance jobs on Upwork, minutes matter. The first quality application is more often than not the one that's ultimately selected.…

Excerpt from James Francis's description on n8n.io.

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