AI Deep Research Agent for Automated Report Generation

Overview

This AI Agent transforms your n8n instance into a powerful, autonomous research assistant. Simply provide a research topic, and the agent takes over. It intelligently breaks down the topic into sub-queries, scours the web for relevant information using Apify, scrapes and reads the content, and uses OpenAI's reasoning models to synthesize key learnings. The process is recursive, allowing the agent to go deeper with each loop, uncovering nuanced insights. Finally, it compiles all findings into a structured, detailed report and saves it to your Notion database, turning hours of manual work into a minutes-long automated task.

Key Features & Benefits

• Autonomous Research: Kick off complex research tasks with a simple prompt and let the agent handle the entire process asynchronously.
• Recursive Deep Dives: The agent recursively generates new search queries based on initial findings, allowing for comprehensive, multi-layered research that uncovers deep insights.
• AI-Driven Synthesis: Leverages OpenAI's advanced models to understand scraped web content, extract key learnings, and generate follow-up questions.
• Automated Report Generation: Automatically compiles all accumulated learnings into a well-structured markdown report.
• Seamless Notion Integration: Delivers the final, polished report directly to a specified Notion database, complete with source URLs for verification.

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
• OpenAI API Key with access to a reasoning model (e.g., o3-mini).
• Apify API Key for web scraping and search.
• Notion API credentials.
• A duplicated Notion database using the template provided in the workflow's sticky notes.
• (Optional) Google Gemini API Key for alternative AI processing.

1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file.
2. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
3. Configure the 'OpenAI Chat Model' nodes with your OpenAI API Key.
4. Configure the two 'Web Search' and 'Page Contents' HTTP Request nodes with your Apify API Key.
5. Configure all 'Notion' nodes with your Notion API credentials and select the correct Database ID for your duplicated research database.
6. Review the prompts in the LangChain nodes (e.g., 'Generate SERP Queries', 'DeepResearch Report') to align them with your specific research style and tone.
7. Activate the workflow. You can trigger it using the Form Trigger URL.