Automate Content Publishing with GPT-4 via Google Sheets to Email & Slack Approval

Streamline the final stage of your content production workflow by automating publishing, formatting, metadata generation, and approval routing. This AI-powered subworkflow pulls optimized drafts from Google Sheets, enriches them with SEO metadata, converts them into publish-ready HTML, and delivers them via email and Slack for approval or distribution. Ideal for teams managing high-volume content pipelines with structured review processes. ✨📝🚀

What This Template Does Triggers via chat to start the content publishing process. 💬 Fetches the latest optimized content draft from Google Sheets using a content ID. 📄 Prepares metadata such as topic, intent, platform, and parameters. 🧩 Uses an AI agent (GPT-4) to generate SEO metadata, HTML-formatted article, tags, and structured publish data. 🤖 Enforces JSON structure to ensure consistent output formatting. 🧱 Saves the publish-ready content (title, meta description, HTML, tags) back into Google Sheets for version tracking. 📊 Sends the content to an approver via Gmail with a previewed HTML body. 📧 Awaits approval and branches based on decision. 🔀 If approved, sends the final published content to the intended recipient via Gmail. 📨 Sends a success confirmation message to Slack for team visibility. 📢

Key Benefits ✅ AI-generated SEO optimization, metadata, and HTML formatting ✅ Centralizes content versioning within Google Sheets ✅ Automates approval workflows and content delivery ✅ Ensures consistent output structure with JSON parsing ✅ Reduces manual formatting, editing, and routing tasks ✅ Delivers instant Slack notifications for team transparency

Features Chat-triggered publishing workflow Google Sheets content retrieval and storage AI-driven formatting, metadata generation, HTML conversion Structured JSON enforcement for clean automation Gmail integration for approval + publishing Slack notifications for successful publication Short-term memory support for context persistence

Requirements Google Sheets OAuth2 credentials OpenAI API key (GPT-4 or GPT-4 mini) Gmail OAuth2 credentials for sending and receiving approval messages Slack API credentials with chat:write access Preconfigured Google Sheet containing optimized content drafts

Target Audience Content operations teams handling recurring content workflows SEO and marketing teams producing high-volume articles Agencies managing structured approval pipelines Automation specialists building content publishing systems Teams needing standardized, AI-enhanced HTML content

Step-by-Step Setup Instructions Connect your Google Sheets OAuth2 credential and replace the sheet/document IDs. 🗂️ Add your OpenAI API key for the AI Publishing Agent. 🔑 Connect Gmail credentials for both approval and final publishing emails. 📧 Update all email addresses and Slack channel IDs with your own. ✏️ Modify metadata fields (topic, intent, platform) if needed. 🎯 Run the workflow with a sample content ID to verify the flow. 🔍 Enable and integrate as a subworkflow inside your main content pipeline. 🚀