AI-powered chatbot or agent workflow in n8n — RAG pipeline, vector DB, multi-channel, production-hardened.
Automations built to last.
Your team has documents everywhere — PDFs in Google Drive, runbooks in Notion, policies in Confluence. Your staff spends hours searching for answers. Your customers email support with questions already answered in your docs.
I build an n8n-native RAG pipeline that ingests your documents, chunks and embeds them into a vector database, and wires a chatbot that answers questions from your actual knowledge base — with citations, confidence thresholds, and human handoff when the AI doesn't know.
No discovery call. You send the brief with your doc sources and preferred chat channel. I send a written scope confirmation. You fund the milestone. I ship.
NDA-friendly · Fixed-price · Money-back guarantee
FIG · RAG chatbot pipeline
Fit
Who this is for
You run an SMB with institutional knowledge scattered across PDF manuals, Notion wikis, Confluence spaces, or Google Drive folders.
Your support team answers the same 40 questions every week — questions already answered in existing documentation that nobody can find fast enough.
Or you want a lead qualification chatbot on your website that handles the first interaction intelligently, asks the right questions, and routes qualified leads to your sales team — without a human sitting in the chat queue 14 hours a day.
Or you inherited a half-built chatbot that hallucinates, doesn't cite sources, and has no fallback to a human when it doesn't know the answer. You want it rebuilt properly.
Deliverable
What you receive
A complete RAG-powered agent system running on n8n, delivered as a production-ready ZIP with everything below.
Document ingestion pipeline
PDF, web page, Notion export, Confluence export, or Google Drive sync → chunking (configurable chunk size + overlap) → embedding generation (OpenAI or Cohere) → upsert into your vector database. Incremental — re-run adds new docs without re-processing the entire corpus.
RAG query workflow
User question → semantic search against vector DB → top-k retrieval with relevance scoring → LLM synthesis (Claude or GPT, configurable) → answer with inline citations referencing the source document and page. The prompt is tuned to refuse hallucination — if the corpus doesn't contain the answer, the bot says so.
Chat interface integration
Single-channel in Tier 1: Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, or a website chat widget (Chatwoot or custom). Multi-channel in Tier 2 — same RAG backend, multiple frontends. Each channel respects its platform's formatting, rate limits, and message-size constraints.
Fallback handling + human handoff
Confidence thresholds configured per deployment. Below threshold → the bot acknowledges uncertainty and routes the conversation to a human (Slack channel, email, or helpdesk ticket). No silent failures, no confident-sounding hallucinations.
Tool use (Tier 2)
The agent can call external tools — look up order status, check inventory, query a database, create a ticket — via n8n sub-workflows wired as callable tools. Each tool is documented and sandboxed.
Monitoring + DLQ
Failed queries land in a dead-letter queue with the original question, retrieval context, and error preserved. Monitoring hooks on query latency and failure rate. Alerts to your channel of choice.
Runbook
Plain English. How to add new documents. How to update the embedding model. How to tune the confidence threshold. How to debug a bad answer. How to rotate API keys.
Scope exclusions
What's NOT included
- Training or fine-tuning custom ML models. This uses pre-trained LLMs (Claude, GPT-4) via API.
- Fine-tuning LLMs on your data. RAG retrieval is the architecture — not fine-tuning.
- Mobile app development. The chat interface is Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, or web widget — not a native iOS/Android app.
- Real-time voice. Text-based chat only. Voice-to-text pre-processing is a v2 add-on.
- Multi-language support beyond English. Translation layer is a v2 scope item.
- Hosting infrastructure. You bring the n8n instance and the vector DB (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, or Supabase pgvector). I configure and populate them.
- Ongoing operations. For monthly oversight see SKU I — Retainer.
Process
How it works
- 01
You buy.
$2,497 (Tier 1) or $4,497 (Tier 2). Fund the milestone via Upwork or direct invoice.
- 02
You send the brief.
Document sources (Google Drive folder, Notion workspace, PDF uploads, Confluence space URL). Preferred chat channel. Preferred LLM (Claude or GPT — I'll recommend if unsure). Any tool-use requirements (Tier 2).
- 03
I send a written scope confirmation within 48 hours.
Locked list of what's being built, document sources included, channel(s) wired, and the delivery date.
- 04
I build.
Ingest your documents. Configure the RAG pipeline. Wire the chat interface. Test against your actual corpus. Mid-build written check-in at 50% completion.
- 05
I deliver the ZIP.
n8n workflow JSON exports, ingestion scripts, runbook PDF, and a short Loom walking through a live demo against your documents.
Pricing
Pricing
| Tier | Scope | Price | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 — Single-channel RAG bot | One chat channel, document ingestion, RAG query, fallback handling, monitoring, runbook | $2,497 | 10 days |
| Tier 2 — Multi-channel + tool use | Multiple chat channels, tool-use agent, everything in Tier 1 | $4,497 | 21 days |
Fixed price per tier. No hourly drift. The scope confirmation locks what's in and what's deferred before you fund the milestone.
Questions
FAQ
Which LLM do you use?
Which vector database?
What latency should I expect?
What are the ongoing costs?
Is my data private?
Can I add more documents after delivery?
What if the chatbot gives a wrong answer?
Can this replace my entire support team?
Ready to build your AI agent ?
NDA-friendly · Fixed-price · Money-back guarantee
Async. Written. RAG pipeline + chat interface in 10–21 days.
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