Monitor daily HR risks and standup summaries with Monday.com and GPT-4o-mini

📊 Description This workflow automates the daily HR standup by continuously monitoring active hiring and HR tasks, identifying risks and blockers, and generating an intelligent, action-oriented summary using AI. Every morning, HR and leadership teams receive a clear overview of priorities, overdue items, and potential risks — without any manual preparation. By combining structured task data with AI-driven analysis, the workflow ensures teams start the day aligned, informed, and ready to act. The automation is designed for real-world HR operations, scaling seamlessly as task volume grows while maintaining concise and consistent reporting.

🔁 What this automation does Automatically triggers every morning using a scheduled Cron trigger. Retrieves all HR and hiring-related tasks from a Monday.com board. Filters out completed items to focus only on active and relevant work. Aggregates all remaining tasks into a single structured dataset. Analyzes task status, ownership, and due dates to identify blockers and risks. Uses AI (GPT-4o-mini) to generate a concise, structured daily standup report. Delivers the final standup update to HR via email for immediate visibility.

🧠 Key design decisions Uses a scheduled trigger to ensure consistent, hands-free execution Applies task filtering via a Code node to overcome API limitations Aggregates all tasks to produce a single, consolidated standup report Leverages AI for insight generation, not raw data repetition Excludes completed tasks to reduce noise and improve signal quality Prioritizes concise, actionable output suitable for leadership review

⭐ Key benefits Eliminates manual standup preparation Ensures overdue tasks and blockers are surfaced early Improves visibility and accountability across HR operations Saves daily operational time for HR and managers Produces consistent, professional summaries every day Scales efficiently as teams and task volume increase 🛠️ Tools & services used n8n – Workflow orchestration and automation Monday.com – HR and hiring task management OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini) – Intelligent analysis and summarization Gmail – Delivery of daily standup reports Cron – Scheduled execution

🔐 Requirements Monday.com OAuth credentials OpenAI API key Gmail OAuth credentials n8n (cloud or self-hosted) HR board with status and due date columns

🎯 Target audience HR and Talent Acquisition teams Hiring managers Operations and RevOps teams Startups and scaling organizations Automation teams building internal HR tooling