Hi everyone,

I’m looking to build an AI-powered quotation system for an electronic components trading business and would appreciate advice from anyone experienced with n8n, Gmail, OpenAI, or AI automation.

The main problem is that we already have thousands of previous quotation emails from suppliers/brokers, and many of those emails already contain our final quoted selling price.

I want to automate the process like this:

Customer Email → n8n → Extract MPN & Quantity → Search Existing Quotation Emails → Find Matching Previous Quote → Use Existing Quoted Price → Prepare Our Quotation → Human Approval → Send Email

For example:

Previous quotation:
STM32G031G8U6TR — 50,000 pcs — USD 2.40/pc

New customer enquiry:
STM32G031G8U6TR — 20,000 pcs

The system should find the previous quotation and use USD 2.40/pc.

It should NOT add another margin, because the existing price is already our selling price.

It should also check:

• Exact MPN
• Manufacturer
• Customer quantity vs quoted quantity
• Previous quotation date
• Price validity
• MOQ
• Lead time
• Stock
• Supplier/source
• Multiple previous quotations

If the previous quotation is expired or the quantity is different, it should flag the item for manual confirmation rather than making up a price.

What I want to know

Would n8n + Gmail + OpenAI + a database be the best way to build this?

And what would you recommend for storing/searching thousands of previous quotation emails?

Any practical workflow examples or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I live in Kashmir and my house is next to an open piece of land where people regularly play cricket. The main issue is that cricket balls keep coming into our property.

I have asked them many times to be careful, but the problem continues. Even though there are other open areas where they could play, they keep playing at the same spot near our house. Sometimes, when the ball comes inside our property, some of them enter our house area without taking permission to retrieve it.

There has been no major damage to my house so far, but it is uncomfortable having balls frequently come inside and people entering our property. The noise and shouting also disturb our household.

I have also heard/seen that a window of a nearby school was broken because of cricket balls, which makes me more concerned about safety.

My mother is often alone at home, and I also have CCTV footage showing some of these incidents.

I am from a minority community, so I want to handle this situation carefully and peacefully without creating unnecessary tension.

What would be the best way to deal with this? Should I speak to them again, contact the landowner, or take some other step?

Has anyone faced a similar situation?

Hi everyone,

I'm 25 years old and recently had mild pain in my big toe for about 1–2 days. One night the pain suddenly got much worse.

Around that time, I was drinking very little water and eating a lot of chicken as my main source of food/protein. Because of the pain, I got my uric acid tested and it came back at 10.4 mg/dL.

My doctor gave me anti-inflammatory medication, and the pain improved significantly within about 2 days. Now I only have a small amount of pain left around the big toe/foot area.

What makes me unsure is that I go to the gym 6–7 days a week, and I think my big toe may have been bumped or hit multiple times during workouts, so I'm wondering if this could be an injury rather than gout.

So I recently gave an exam for radio broadcasting and somehow got selected. Then I passed the voice audition too. I’ve been doing training for the last 3 days, and now they want me to go live on air.

The problem is… I already have a speech block/stutter and a lot of anxiety while speaking, especially when saying my own name. Sometimes my mind freezes on certain words and the more I try to force them out, the worse it gets.

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Has anyone here worked in radio, public speaking, podcasting, or live media while dealing with stuttering or anxiety?

How did you handle the pressure of speaking live for the first time?

I really don’t want fear to make me quit something I genuinely worked hard for.