What This Workflow Does
Manually scouring Reddit for relevant discussions about your industry, competitors, or brand is incredibly time-consuming and inconsistent. This automation solves that by continuously monitoring selected subreddits (or all of Reddit) for your target keywords, analyzing each post with advanced AI, and organizing everything into a structured Notion database.
The workflow assigns relevance scores to discussions, generates suggested engagement comments, and can optionally send you daily email digests. It transforms the chaotic stream of Reddit conversations into actionable business intelligence—perfect for lead generation, market research, brand monitoring, and competitive analysis.
How It Works
1. Daily Automated Search
The workflow triggers once per day (configurable) and searches Reddit using the official API. You define specific keywords, subreddits, and search parameters. It captures new posts, comments, and discussion threads matching your criteria.
2. AI-Powered Analysis
Each discovered post is sent to GPT-5-Mini (OpenAI) for analysis. The AI evaluates sentiment, relevance to your business, potential lead quality, and generates a context-aware suggested comment for engagement. You can customize the analysis prompts for your specific needs.
3. Structured Storage in Notion
All analyzed data—including post content, author, subreddit, relevance score, AI insights, and suggested comments—is automatically added to your Notion database. This creates a searchable, filterable intelligence hub accessible to your entire team.
4. Optional Notification & Summarization
For high-priority mentions or daily summaries, the workflow can send formatted email alerts via Gmail. You receive clean HTML emails with the most important discussions, saving you from logging into multiple platforms.
Who This Is For
This automation is ideal for marketing teams tracking campaign sentiment, sales teams identifying potential leads, product managers gathering user feedback, founders monitoring brand mentions, competitive intelligence analysts, content creators seeking trending topics, and agencies managing multiple client brands. Any business that needs to understand market conversations without manual monitoring will benefit.
What You'll Need
- n8n instance (cloud or self-hosted) to run the workflow
- Reddit account (no special API credentials required for basic search)
- OpenAI API key for GPT-5-Mini analysis (paid, usage-based)
- Notion account with database creation permissions
- Gmail account (optional, for email notifications)
- 15-20 minutes for initial configuration
Pro tip: Start with 2-3 highly relevant subreddits and 5-7 specific keywords. Monitor for a week, then expand based on what you learn. This prevents information overload and helps refine your AI scoring criteria.
Quick Setup Guide
Follow these steps to implement this automation in under 30 minutes:
- Download and import the template JSON file into your n8n instance.
- Configure the Reddit search node with your target keywords and subreddits.
- Connect your OpenAI API credentials in the AI analysis node and customize the prompt if needed.
- Duplicate the provided Notion template and connect it using your integration secret.
- Test with a manual trigger to verify data flows correctly from Reddit → AI → Notion.
- Enable the schedule trigger for daily automatic execution.
- Optional: Configure Gmail notifications for high-priority alerts.
Key Benefits
Save 5-10 hours weekly on manual research. Instead of daily Reddit browsing, you get curated, analyzed insights delivered automatically.
Identify sales leads before competitors do. The AI scores discussion relevance and purchase intent, highlighting potential customers discussing problems you solve.
Track brand sentiment in real-time. Immediately know when people are talking about your company, products, or executives—with sentiment analysis included.
Centralize market intelligence. All Reddit insights live in a searchable Notion database accessible to marketing, sales, product, and leadership teams.
Scale without adding headcount. The automation handles thousands of posts daily, providing coverage no human team could match consistently.