n8n RAG Assistant: Answer product questions When a teammate messages your Telegram bot with a Telegram Alert
This n8n + AI recipe watches for when a teammate messages your Telegram bot and pulls the relevant policy or spec and replies accurately. The result: instant, accurate answers grounded in your content, completely hands-off.
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Trigger when a teammate messages your Telegram bot
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Telegram Triggerstarts the workflow the moment a teammate messages your Telegram bot. - 2
Retrieve the right context
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Vector Storenode (Pinecone) fetches the most relevant passages from your indexed content so the answer is grounded in your own material. - 3
Hand it to the AI agent
An
AI Agentnode running Claude pulls the relevant policy or spec and replies accurately. The prompt is pre-written and scoped to this one job so results stay consistent. - 4
Deliver the answer
The result is sent to Telegram — instantly, no clicks needed.
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Add a safety net (optional)
Insert an
IF/human-approval step before anything is published or emailed, so you stay in control until you trust the output.
Frequently asked questions
How much does the AI part cost to run?
Pennies. Each run sends a small amount of text to the model, so most teams spend a few dollars a month even at hundreds of runs. You set the model and can cap volume in n8n, so costs never surprise you.
Can I trust the AI to get the answer right?
The prompt is tightly scoped to one job and you can add a human-approval step in n8n before anything is sent or published. Start with review-mode for a week, and once you trust the output, switch it to fully automatic.
Does this need n8n Cloud or can I self-host?
Either works. The workflow is a standard n8n export, so you can run it on n8n Cloud or on your own self-hosted instance — you only connect your own app credentials.
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