24/08/2026
How to Build an AI Email Classifier using n8n?
If you are a business owner, you may receive a lot of messages everyday. Some may be related to sales, some may be related to reviews, some may be related to complaint. There might be some other categories such as general and spam.
So you have to hire someone to find out the important messages or you have to invest some time by yourself.
But what if I tell you that everything can be done by AI Automation.
In this video, I will build an AI Automation using n8n will go to your inbox in gmail after every minute and find out new messages. And it will automatically classify into one of the 6 categories. And not only that, it will also give you the priority, summary of the messages and recommmended action and create a log in google sheets so that you can make decision by just simply looking at the google sheets.
In this step-by-step n8n tutorial, you'll learn how to:
Create a Gmail-triggered workflow
Receive incoming emails automatically
Pass email data to an AI model
Build an effective AI classification prompt
Use Structured Output Parser in n8n
Generate structured JSON from an LLM
Classify emails based on business intent
Determine email priority
Generate AI summaries and recommended actions
Connect n8n with Google Sheets
Map data between different n8n nodes
Store AI-generated results automatically
Test your AI workflow with different types of emails
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