Cruchbase email outreach

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        "content": "## 🔁 **SECTION 1: Trigger + Company Fetching**\n\n**🧱 Nodes:**\n\n* 🔘 **Manual Trigger**\n* 🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Updated Companies List**\n\n---\n\n### 🚀 What This Section Does\n\n🔘 **Manual Trigger**\nThis allows you to manually run the automation anytime you want. Perfect for testing or when you only want to fetch founder data on demand (instead of a scheduled time).\n\n🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Updated Companies List**\nThis node connects to the **Crunchbase API** to get a list of the latest startups or companies that have been updated recently.\n\n#### 🔧 What You Can Customize\n\n🛠️ **Page Query**:\nIn the URL or query parameters, you'll find something like `page=1`.\n➡️ You can manually change this to `page=2`, `page=3`, etc., to explore other sets of companies.\n\n🛠️ **Date Filter**:\nThe `updated_since` parameter can also be changed to look for startups updated within a certain time window.\n\n---\n\n"
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        "content": "## 👤 **SECTION 2: Founder Profile Fetching + Field Mapping**\n\n**🧱 Nodes:**\n\n* 🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Founder Profiles by UUID**\n* ✏️ **Edit Fields – Extract Key Profile Data**\n\n---\n\n### 🔎 What This Section Does\n\n🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Founder Profiles by UUID**\nFor each company fetched in Section 1, this node pulls the **detailed profile** of one person (typically a founder, CEO, or C-level executive).\n\n✏️ **Edit Fields – Extract Key Profile Data**\nThis step takes the raw profile data and selects only the fields we care about:\n✅ Full Name,\n✅ Title,\n✅ Biography,\n✅ Education,\n✅ Social Links,\n✅ Associated Companies\n\n#### 🔧 What You Can Customize\n\n🔢 **Person Indexing**:\nIn this node’s configuration, you can find the list of people associated with a company.\n➡️ To switch from Founder #1 to Founder #2, change the **item number** or **array index** — for example, from `[0]` to `[1]`.\n\n💡 This is useful when a company has **multiple co-founders** or key executives you may want to evaluate separately.\n\n---\n\n"
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        "content": "## 🤖📨 **SECTION 3: AI-Powered Summary + Email Outreach**\n\n**🧱 Nodes:**\n\n* 🤖 **AI Agent – Generate Email Summary**\n* 📧 **Gmail – Send Founder Digest**\n\n---\n\n### 🧠 What This Section Does\n\n🤖 **AI Agent – Generate Email Summary**\nThis uses **OpenAI’s GPT model** with a **Structured Output Parser** to turn the extracted profile into a polished, professional email-ready summary.\nIt's trained to output:\n\n> Jane Doe is currently Co-Founder & CEO at Acme AI. She is a serial entrepreneur with 10+ years in AI and SaaS. Educated at Stanford (MBA). Connect on LinkedIn: [https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe](https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe)\n\n📧 **Gmail – Send Founder Digest**\nFinally, this node **sends the email** — which could go to your team, your CRM, or even directly to your inbox — with a subject like:\n\n> 🚀 Startup Founder Highlights for Outreach - June 6, 2025\n\n"
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        "content": "=======================================\n            WORKFLOW ASSISTANCE\n=======================================\nFor any questions or support, please contact:\n    [email protected]\n\nExplore more tips and tutorials here:\n   - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@YaronBeen/videos\n   - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaronbeen/\n=======================================\n"
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        "content": "## 🔁 **SECTION 1: Trigger + Company Fetching**\n\n**🧱 Nodes:**\n\n* 🔘 **Manual Trigger**\n* 🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Updated Companies List**\n\n---\n\n### 🚀 What This Section Does\n\n🔘 **Manual Trigger**\nThis allows you to manually run the automation anytime you want. Perfect for testing or when you only want to fetch founder data on demand (instead of a scheduled time).\n\n🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Updated Companies List**\nThis node connects to the **Crunchbase API** to get a list of the latest startups or companies that have been updated recently.\n\n#### 🔧 What You Can Customize\n\n🛠️ **Page Query**:\nIn the URL or query parameters, you'll find something like `page=1`.\n➡️ You can manually change this to `page=2`, `page=3`, etc., to explore other sets of companies.\n\n🛠️ **Date Filter**:\nThe `updated_since` parameter can also be changed to look for startups updated within a certain time window.\n\n---\n\n## 👤 **SECTION 2: Founder Profile Fetching + Field Mapping**\n\n**🧱 Nodes:**\n\n* 🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Founder Profiles by UUID**\n* ✏️ **Edit Fields – Extract Key Profile Data**\n\n---\n\n### 🔎 What This Section Does\n\n🌐 **HTTP Request – Fetch: Founder Profiles by UUID**\nFor each company fetched in Section 1, this node pulls the **detailed profile** of one person (typically a founder, CEO, or C-level executive).\n\n✏️ **Edit Fields – Extract Key Profile Data**\nThis step takes the raw profile data and selects only the fields we care about:\n✅ Full Name,\n✅ Title,\n✅ Biography,\n✅ Education,\n✅ Social Links,\n✅ Associated Companies\n\n#### 🔧 What You Can Customize\n\n🔢 **Person Indexing**:\nIn this node’s configuration, you can find the list of people associated with a company.\n➡️ To switch from Founder #1 to Founder #2, change the **item number** or **array index** — for example, from `[0]` to `[1]`.\n\n💡 This is useful when a company has **multiple co-founders** or key executives you may want to evaluate separately.\n\n---\n\n## 🤖📨 **SECTION 3: AI-Powered Summary + Email Outreach**\n\n**🧱 Nodes:**\n\n* 🤖 **AI Agent – Generate Email Summary**\n* 📧 **Gmail – Send Founder Digest**\n\n---\n\n### 🧠 What This Section Does\n\n🤖 **AI Agent – Generate Email Summary**\nThis uses **OpenAI’s GPT model** with a **Structured Output Parser** to turn the extracted profile into a polished, professional email-ready summary.\nIt's trained to output:\n\n> Jane Doe is currently Co-Founder & CEO at Acme AI. She is a serial entrepreneur with 10+ years in AI and SaaS. Educated at Stanford (MBA). Connect on LinkedIn: [https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe](https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe)\n\n📧 **Gmail – Send Founder Digest**\nFinally, this node **sends the email** — which could go to your team, your CRM, or even directly to your inbox — with a subject like:\n\n> 🚀 Startup Founder Highlights for Outreach - June 6, 2025\n\n#### 🛠️ What You Can Customize\n\n* ✍️ Change the **recipient** to your sales or outreach inbox\n* 🖋️ Modify the **subject line** to match your brand or campaign\n* 📬 Send to **multiple emails** using a comma-separated list\n\n---\n\n## ✅ Final Thoughts: How You Can Use This\n\nThis workflow is perfect for:\n\n* 🚀 Startup Scouts\n* 📬 Cold Outreach Campaigns\n* 🧠 VC Analysts or Tech Researchers\n* 🧩 Enriching founder data in your CRM\n\n💥 **No more copy-pasting Crunchbase profiles manually!**\nJust trigger the workflow, skim the summaries, and reach out.\n\n---\n\n"
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