How it works
This workflow automates your entire LinkedIn content strategy, from ideation to publishing.
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Daily Idea Generation: Every day, the workflow uses an advanced AI agent (Anthropic's Claude model) to generate a new, viral-optimized LinkedIn post idea, complete with a title, full text, and a detailed image description. It analyzes your past posts from a Google Sheet to ensure content is fresh and aligns with one of your four content pillars: timeless principles, case studies, growth hacks, or controversial ads.
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AI Image Creation: It then uses OpenAI's DALL-E to create a custom, high-quality image based on the generated description and a style reference image you provide, ensuring brand consistency.
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Review & Approval Workflow: The generated post and its accompanying image are automatically saved as a new row in a Google Sheet, marked with a "review" status. This gives you full editorial control.
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Automated Publishing: Once you approve a post by changing its status to "ready" in the Google Sheet, a separate part of the workflow picks it up and automatically publishes it to your LinkedIn profile at a scheduled time.
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Status Tracking: After publishing, the workflow updates the status in your Google Sheet to "posted," so you always have a clear overview of your content pipeline.
Setup steps
This workflow integrates several services. Follow these steps to get it running:
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Copy the Google Sheet: Make a copy of the AI Posts Content Machine Google Sheet template and select your copy in the
Get Past Ideas , Save Post , Get Ready Posts , and Update Status nodes.
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Set Up Credentials: You will need to create and add API credentials for the following services within the corresponding n8n nodes:
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Google Sheets & Google Drive: Create a Google credential.
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Anthropic: Add your API key in the
Anthropic Chat Model node.
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OpenAI: Add your API key as a Header Auth credential in the
OpenAI Image node.
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Perplexity AI: Add your API key as a Header Auth credential inside the
Perplexity Research sub-workflow.
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LinkedIn: Create a LinkedIn credential.
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Customize Your Content:
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Idea Generator node, adjust the system prompt to reflect your specific audience, topics, and content style.
- Create a folder in Google Drive for your post images. Add a reference image to this folder that defines your desired visual style.
- Paste the shareable link to your style reference image into the
Image Style node.
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Activate the Workflow: Enable the workflow to start the automated content creation and publishing process.
