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THE BACK OFFICE, ON AUTOPILOT.

LinkedIn Content Engine

A week of on-brand LinkedIn posts, waiting for your thumbs-up.

Starts
Twice a week, plus your Slack reply
Size
20 nodes · 20 connections
Tools
PerplexityAnthropic ClaudeAirtableSlackLinkedIn
Category
SEO & Content · enterprise
Status
Reference architecture
linkedin-content-engine.jsonn8n canvas

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Part 1 The problemWhy teams need this

01 · THE PROBLEM

Consistent LinkedIn presence wins deals, and almost nobody sustains it because the research and drafting eat the time. This does the reading and the first draft in your voice, and leaves you the only part that matters: deciding what goes out under your name.

Part 2 How it worksWhat it does, step by step

02 · WHAT IT DOES

Twice a week it researches your topics from RSS sources and an AI search, saves the raw material and keeps what's relevant to your audience. For each story it picks a content pillar and drafts a post in your voice, then scores it. Drafts go to Slack. Reply approve and it's published; reply with feedback and it's rewritten and sent back.

03 · HOW IT RUNS

Step by step, as built.

  1. Research twice a week

    RSS sources and an AI search run in parallel and are merged.

  2. Keep what's relevant

    Raw content is saved and a classifier keeps only what matters to your audience.

  3. Draft in your voice

    A content pillar is chosen and Claude drafts the post from real examples of your writing, then scores it.

  4. Review in Slack

    Drafts arrive in Slack. You reply approve or give feedback.

  5. Publish or rewrite

    Approved posts publish to LinkedIn; feedback triggers a rewrite that comes back for another look.

04 · WHERE A PERSON STAYS IN

The machine drafts. A person decides.

Nothing is published without your approval in Slack. Feedback loops back into a rewrite, not a repost.

05 · TOOLS AND APPS

Built around the systems already in the process.

Perplexity
PerplexityTrigger or source
Anthropic Claude
Anthropic ClaudeProcessing and orchestration
Airtable
AirtableProcessing and orchestration
Slack
SlackProcessing and orchestration
LinkedIn
LinkedInDestination or delivery

06 · WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS

Failure is designed in.

  • 9nodes retry automatically when an external API fails.
  • 2decision points (IF or Switch) check the data before it moves on.
  • ✓Anything unhandled triggers our central error workflow, so a crash gets reported instead of failing silently.

Standard on every build

  • Schema validation before downstream writes
  • Retry and error routes for external API failures
  • Duplicate-safe processing and idempotent updates
  • Human approval where the action carries business risk
  • Execution logging for support and audit review

Part 3 The impactWhat it's worth, and how we'd build yours

07 · PROJECTED IMPACT

What it should change in the business.

01Two researched drafts every weekProjected
02Written in your voice, from your examplesProjected
03Zero posts without approvalProjected

Projections for a typical deployment. The calculation below shows the math, and you can put in your own numbers.

08 · ROI CALCULATION

How it pays back in your business.

The starting numbers are a hypothetical deployment sized to the projections above. Change any of them to your own volumes and costs, and the math updates underneath.

Projected net value per year$4,068115 hours back per year
Full-time equivalent freed
0.1 people
Gross value
$4,608
Running cost
−$540
Return per $1 of running cost
$8.5

The math: 8 LinkedIn posts × 90 min × 12 months × 80% ÷ 60 = 115 hours a year × $40/hour = $4,608. Net value = gross value − $540 running cost a year.

09 · HOW WE'D BUILD YOURS

How we'd build yours.

  1. Discover: map the current process, systems, volumes, owners and exceptions.
  2. Design: define the canonical data model, approvals, retries and system boundaries.
  3. Build: implement credentials, nodes, validation and observable error routes.
  4. Prove: run controlled data through success, duplicate and failure scenarios.
  5. Operate: publish runbooks, ownership and measurable service levels.

SAME SYSTEM

The back office, on autopilot.

Reference builds of the integrations that keep a service business running: bookings into the CRM, client email filed by an AI agent, contracts approved and signed, calls turned into records, payments into onboarding, failures fixed before anyone notices, and a content engine that waits for your yes.

YOUR VERSION

Want this, wired to your tools?

Tell us what the process looks like today: the systems, the volumes, the step everyone hates. We'll come back with the n8n version and where a person stays in charge.

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