n8n for Project Coordination and Site Work: Templates for Filing, Meeting Actions, and Field Reports

Construction administration is a stream of small mechanical jobs around a few real decisions. A drawing arrives and must be filed. A meeting produces actions that must be owned. A site visit produces photos that must become a record. The n8n templates below handle the mechanical parts. Each entry says what the template does as published and what a firm changes. The decisions stay with the architect.

This page is one part of a larger map. The full list of 24 templates across every AEC job is in n8n for architecture and construction firms. Where a job has a step-by-step walk-through, it is linked under the heading.

File RFIs, submittals, and drawings

Walk-through: File RFIs, submittals, and drawings, step by step.

Organize Gmail attachments in Google Drive folders based on sender’s email (fit 5 of 5). Watches an inbox, pulls out attachments from incoming mail, and files them into a per-sender Google Drive folder, creating the folder if it doesn’t exist yet. What a firm changes: Route by sender domain (consultant/contractor/owner’s rep) or by subject-line keyword (RFI, submittal, addendum) instead of raw sender email, and point the destination folders at the project’s Drive structure.

Gmail attachment manager with Google Drive upload and smart filtering (fit 5 of 5). Pulls attachments off incoming emails one at a time, uploads them to a Drive destination with optional type/size filtering, and posts a Slack notification when done. What a firm changes: Filter for drawing/spec file types (DWG, RVT exports, PDF sets) and post the Slack notification to a project-specific channel so the PM knows new drawings landed.

Extract & classify invoices & receipts with Gmail, OpenAI and Google Drive (fit 4 of 5). Scans a date range of inbox mail for PDF attachments, uses OpenAI to classify each as an invoice or receipt, and uploads the sorted files into the matching Drive folder. What a firm changes: Retrain the classification prompt to sort submittals vs. RFIs vs. shop drawings vs. addenda instead of invoice/receipt, and route the sorted files into the project’s document-control folder structure or a Notion/ClickUp intake board.

Turn meeting notes into owned tasks

Walk-through: Turn meeting notes into owned tasks, step by step.

Fireflies transcripts to meeting summaries & task extractor to Slack & ClickUp (fit 5 of 5). Fires when Fireflies finishes transcribing a call, summarizes it and extracts action items with an LLM, then posts the summary to Slack and creates the action items as ClickUp tasks. What a firm changes: Keep as-is for weekly OAC/coordination calls recorded via Fireflies/Zoom; just relabel the ClickUp list per project and route the Slack summary to the project channel.

Transform Meeting Notes into Asana Tasks & Slack Summaries with GPT-4o (fit 4 of 5). Takes pasted meeting notes through a form, has GPT-4o pull out action items/decisions, creates an Asana task per action item, and posts a Slack summary. What a firm changes: Swap the Asana node for ClickUp (or the firm’s PM tool) and change the intake form to accept OAC/design-coordination meeting notes so action items map to punch-list-style tasks with the responsible discipline as assignee.

Summarize Zoom meetings and create tasks with Claude, ClickUp, Calendar, Slack, and Sheets (fit 4 of 5). Runs daily, pulls every Zoom recording from the last 24 hours, transcribes/summarizes each with Claude, emails participants the summary, creates ClickUp tasks for action items, books follow-up meetings, and logs everything to Sheets. What a firm changes: This is the most complete version of the meeting-to-tasks job , point it at the firm’s Zoom account, keep ClickUp as the task destination, and use the Sheets log as a lightweight meeting-minutes archive per project.

Site observations and photo reports

Walk-through: Site observations and photo reports, step by step.

Manage construction projects with tasks, photo reports, Telegram & Google Sheets (fit 5 of 5). Lets field workers submit task updates and photo reports through Telegram, which get logged into a Google Sheet with timestamps and completion status. What a firm changes: Explicitly construction-tagged already , works close to as-is for site-observation logging; consider swapping Telegram for a Jotform-based site-report form if field staff prefer a structured form to a chat bot, and route the Sheet rows into a punch-list or field-report record instead of a generic task list.

Automate vehicle inspections & maintenance workflows with OpenAI & Jotform (fit 4 of 5). Captures a photo-and-checklist inspection form submission, uses GPT-4 to flag critical vs. routine issues, logs everything to Sheets, and emails the maintenance team and driver. What a firm changes: Replace the vehicle checklist with a site-observation/punch-list form (photo + location + trade + severity), keep the AI triage step to flag safety-critical items for immediate escalation, and route the Gmail alert to the super/PM instead of a driver.

Construction and real-estate specific

Estimate construction costs from text with Telegram, OpenAI and DDC CWICR (fit 3 of 5). Lets someone describe a scope of work in plain language via Telegram, then parses it with AI and looks it up against a 55,000-item open construction cost database to return a labor/material/equipment cost breakdown. What a firm changes: Explicitly construction-tagged; useful as-is for quick budgetary/order-of-magnitude estimates during early design or pre-RFP conversations , swap the Telegram front end for a Slack command if that’s the firm’s chat tool.

Automate real estate open house follow-ups with SignSnapHome, HubSpot, and Twilio (fit 3 of 5). Captures open-house sign-ins, scores the visitor, syncs the contact to HubSpot and a Monday.com board, and runs a scripted email+SMS follow-up sequence over the following week. What a firm changes: Real-estate-tagged and adaptable to an AEC ‘site visit / walkthrough’ sign-in sheet (e.g., a prospective client tour) , swap SignSnapHome for a Jotform sign-in and drop the Twilio SMS step if the firm doesn’t text prospects.

Qualify and route real estate leads with Anthropic Claude, MLS/CRM, and Google Sheets (fit 3 of 5). Periodically pulls prospects from MLS/CRM/email sources, has Claude assess buying intent and priority, and routes high-value leads to the right agent while logging engagement to Sheets. What a firm changes: Repoint the HTTP pull at a public-notice or opportunity source (permits, DOB filings, bid boards) instead of MLS, and change the AI’s scoring criteria from buyer intent to fit against the firm’s target project types.

Before you import one

Read the template page and its node list. Check which accounts it needs. If you do not have an n8n account yet, n8n Cloud is the hosted option. Import into a test workspace, replace the source with yours, rename fields to the words your office already uses, and send notifications to the one person who owns that job. Run it beside the manual process for two weeks before switching the manual one off.

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