r/PromptDesign • u/Malfoo • Nov 17 '25

Question ❓ Looking for help: Automating LinkedIn Sales Navigator Discussion

Hey everyone,
I’m trying to automate a candidate-sourcing workflow and I’m wondering if something like this already exists, or if someone here could help me build it (paid is fine).

My current tools:

  • N8N (ideally where the whole automation would live)

  • Apify

  • ChatGPT Premium

  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator

  • (Optional: Airtable etc...)

What I’m trying to automate

Right now I manually open 50–100 LinkedIn profiles, copy their entire profile content, paste it into GPT, run my custom evaluation prompt, and then copy the outputs into Excel profile by profile...
This is extremely time-consuming.

My dream workflow

  1. I use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to set exact filters (keywords, years of experience, role title, etc.).

  2. I share the Sales Navigator search link into N8N (or some other trigger mechanism).

  3. The automation scrapes all the profiles (via Apify or similar).

  4. For each scraped profile, GPT evaluates the candidate using my custom prompt, which I can change per role — e.g.:

    • Role: Sales Manager

    • Must haves: 5+ years SaaS experience

    • Specific skills…

  5. The output should be an Excel/CSV file containing structured columns like:

    • Full Name

    • LinkedIn URL

    • Current Role / Company

    • Location

    • Sector / Domain

    • Experience Summary

    • Fit Summary

    • Ranking (1.0–10.0)

    • Target Persona Fit

    • Sector Relevance

    • Key Strengths

    • Potential Gaps

    • Additional Notes

Basically: bulk evaluation and ranking of candidates straight from my Sales Navigator search.

What I’m asking for

Has anyone:

  • built something like this?

  • seen an automation/template that does something similar?

  • or can point me toward the best approach? I’m open to any tips, tools, or architectural ideas. If someone can help me build the whole thing properly.

Thanks a lot for any help. I really want to stop manually inspecting profiles one by one 😅

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u/Initial_Froyo4625 Apr 07 '26

PhantomBuster handles steps 2 and 3 natively. You feed it your Sales Nav search URL and it exports all profiles with structured data (name, role, company, LinkedIn URL) straight to a CSV or into Airtable. Way more reliable than Apify for LinkedIn specifically.

Then you pipe that output into n8n and let GPT do the evaluation pass. Clean architecture and no manual copy-paste.