Score and pitch podcast guest leads with Apify, OpenAI, Gmail and Google Sheets

## Score podcast guest leads against your expertise, then draft the pitch Being a podcast guest is the cheapest distribution a founder, author or consultant has. The work is not the interview, it is the booking: finding shows that actually take guests, that are still publishing, that have a reachable host, and then writing a pitch that reads as though you listened first. That is an afternoon a week, and most of it is reading shows that were never a fit. This workflow does the reading. Apify searches Apple Podcasts for your niche, keeps only active shows with interview signals and a real contact address in the RSS feed, and remembers every show it has already handed you. Then n8n's own OpenAI node scores each show against your written talking points, says in one phrase where the overlap is, and names the episode you could deliver. Only the shows above your fit score get a pitch written, and each pitch lands in your Gmail drafts folder, addressed to the host, ready for you to read and send. Every show that was scored is written to Google Sheets, including the ones it turned down and why, so the list is a record of who you have already looked at. Read every draft before you send it. The prompt forbids inventing numbers and only quotes the proof points you wrote, but a model can still phrase a claim more strongly than you would. ### What you need - An Apify account and the Podcast Guest Finder Actor, which reads the Apple Podcasts index and every show's RSS feed for the host's email. - An OpenAI API key for the two AI steps. - Google Sheets, for the record of every show scored. - Gmail, where the drafts are created. Nothing is ever sent by the workflow. - Telegram, so you know drafts are waiting.