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AI Contact Form Classifier & Router

Version: 1.0.0 | Last Updated: 2025-07-24

Integrates with:

OpenAI Google Sheets n8n SMTP
Core AI Power
4/10
Automation Level
8/10
Integration Reach
3 systems
Setup Simplicity
5/10
Adaptability
8/10

Overview

Unlock Automated Inquiry Management with this AI Agent

This AI Agent acts as an intelligent front desk for your website's contact form. It reads a user's message, uses OpenAI to understand the intent, and then automatically routes the submission to the right team (e.g., Sales, Support, General Inquiries) via email. It's a fire-and-forget solution to stop manually triaging your inbox.

Key Features & Benefits

  • AI-Powered Classification: Leverages OpenAI's language models to accurately determine the intent behind user messages (e.g., sales inquiry, support request, order question).
  • Automated Departmental Routing: Instantly forwards submissions to the correct email inbox (e.g., quotes@, support@, orders@) based on the classification.
  • Centralized Logging: Automatically saves every submission and its assigned category to a Google Sheet for easy tracking, reporting, and analysis.
  • Eliminates Manual Triage: Frees up your team from the tedious task of manually reading and forwarding every single message.
  • Faster Response Times: Gets customer and lead inquiries to the right person immediately, improving customer satisfaction and conversion rates.
  • Highly Adaptable: Easily change the classification categories, routing rules, and connected systems to fit your exact business process.

Use Cases

  • Automatically route B2C eCommerce inquiries about orders, product info, or returns to the correct support queue.
  • Qualify and direct B2B SaaS demo requests and sales questions from a website form straight to the sales team's inbox.
  • Filter general feedback from urgent customer support issues, ensuring critical problems are addressed faster.
  • Create a centralized, categorized database of all customer communications in Google Sheets for lead tracking or sentiment analysis.

Prerequisites

  • An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
  • OpenAI API Key with access to a model like gpt-4o-mini.
  • Google Sheets API credentials.
  • SMTP server credentials for sending outbound emails.

Setup Instructions

  1. Import the workflow JSON into your n8n instance.
  2. In the 'OpenAI' node, select your OpenAI credential.
  3. Customize the categories in the 'Text Classifier' node to match your business departments (e.g., 'Sales', 'Support', 'Billing').
  4. Update each of the 'Email Send' nodes with the correct recipient email address and your SMTP credentials.
  5. Configure each of the 'Google Sheets' nodes with your credentials and specify the target spreadsheet and sheet.
  6. Replace the 'On form submission' trigger with a Webhook node to connect your live website form (e.g., from Webflow, WordPress, etc.).
  7. Activate the workflow.

Tags:

AI AgentOpenAILead Generationn8nGoogle SheetsText Classification

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