Create a Context-Aware Slack Assistant with Google Sheets, Pinecone & GPT-4o

This advanced n8n automation template empowers your Slack bot to act as an intelligent assistant: when a user asks a question or requests a suggestion (by mentioning the bot), it automatically retrieves the user’s historical data and previous interactions from both Google Sheets and Pinecone. Using GPT-4o, the bot analyzes past updates, status reports, and context to generate a personalized, context-aware response—directly in Slack.
Perfect for teams seeking instant, data-driven support, this workflow transforms your Slack bot into a smart knowledge assistant that references your own organizational history to provide relevant answers and suggestions.

What This Template Does (Step-by-Step)

Slack Bot Mention Trigger

• Listens for message or app_mention events where a user asks a question or requests a suggestion.
• Captures the message body and user ID.

User Profile & Data Fetch

• Uses the Slack API to retrieve the user’s profile.
• Queries Google Sheets and Pinecone to collect the user’s historical updates and interactions.

Contextual AI Lookup

• GPT-4o reviews the user’s past status reports, messages, and activity.
• Synthesizes a contextually relevant answer or suggestion based on prior data.

Personalized Response Generation

• The bot replies in Slack with a tailored answer, referencing the user’s previous updates and current context.

Auto-Fix & Schema Validation

• Ensures the generated response is well-structured and matches your organization’s data schema.

Document Update (Optional)

• Optionally logs the new interaction or suggestion back to Pinecone for future reference.

Required Integrations

• Slack Bot with channels:history, app_mentions:read, and users.profile:read
• Google Sheets OAuth2 (for lead or user status records)
• Pinecone Vector Store (for storing user status documents)
• Azure OpenAI or OpenAI GPT-4o (for document generation and merging)
• Cohere API (optional) for reranking relevance in vector search

Ideal For

• Remote teams running async daily standups
• People ops tracking onboarding or churn signals
• Founders building internal GPT-powered tools
• Managers consolidating Slack-based updates across teams
• Teams wanting a Slack bot that provides personalized answers and suggestions based on past activity
• Managers and team members seeking quick, AI-powered support and insights from their own work history
• Organizations aiming to leverage internal data for smarter, context-aware assistance in Slack