Email drafting & news research assistant with OpenAI, Gmail, Tavily & Perplexity

AI Agent MCP for Email & News Research

Build a chat-first MCP-powered research and outreach agent. This workflow lets you ask questions in an n8n chat, then the agent researches news (via Tavily + Perplexity through an MCP server) and drafts emails (via Gmail through a separate MCP server). It uses OpenAI for reasoning and short-term memory for coherent, multi‑turn conversations.

Watch build along videos for workflows like these on: www.youtube.com/@automatewithmarc

What this template does

Chat-native trigger: Start a conversation and ask for research or an email draft.

MCP client tools: The agent talks to two MCP servers — one for Email work, one for News research.

News research stack: Uses Tavily (search) and Perplexity (LLM retrieval/answers) behind a News MCP server.

Email stack: Uses Gmail Tool to generate and send messages via an Email MCP server.