Tired of rebuilding the same workflows? Here are my 5 most-requested n8n templates - steal them:
Been building these repeatedly for clients. Time to open source them.
🎯 **1. THE INVOICE ASSASSIN**
3 nodes that saved a client $34k/month:
- Email trigger with attachment filter
- PDF Vector extract (handles ALL formats, even handwritten) - Direct to QuickBooks/Xero/Google Sheets
What it catches: Vendor, invoice #, date, line items, totals, tax
Accuracy on 10,000 real invoices: 99.2%
Your setup time: 15 minutes
📄 **2. THE CONTRACT SCANNER**
What every law firm actually needs:
- Watch folder (Dropbox/Drive/OneDrive)
- Extract: Parties, dates, amounts, termination clauses
- Create database record with tagged PDFs
- Slack notification for contracts over $50k
Currently processing 5,000 contracts/month across 3 firms
Their favorite feature: It finds dates buried in paragraph 47
🔬 **3. THE RESEARCH COLLECTOR**
Built for content agencies drowning in manual research:
- Input: Topic or keywords
- Search: PubMed + Google Scholar + ArXiv simultaneously
- Filter: Last 2 years, peer-reviewed only
- Output: Formatted citations + abstracts + relevance scores
Processes 100 papers in 3 minutes vs 3 hours manual
Includes impact factor and citation count
📊 **4. THE TABLE LIBERATOR**
For those nightmare financial PDFs:
- Handles: Merged cells, nested tables, rotated pages
- Preserves: Formulas, formatting, relationships
- Outputs: Perfect CSV/Excel
- Works on: Scanned documents (yes, really)
Tested on Fortune 500 financial reports - 98.7% accurate
🗂️ **5. THE DOCUMENT SORTER**
Mixed folder of PDFs? This sorts them:
- Analyzes content (not filename)
- Categories: Invoice/Contract/Report/Letter/Form/Other
- Routes to appropriate workflow
- Maintains audit trail
Processing speed: 1,000 documents in 8 minutes
I wasted 6 months rebuilding these for every client. Now it's copy, paste, configure, done.
Which one would save you the most time TODAY? I'll help you customize it 🛠️