Never Lose a Partnership Opportunity
Partnership opportunities often arrive via email: someone proposing a collaboration, a potential investor expressing interest, or another founder wanting to work together. If these emails just sit in your inbox, you miss opportunities or forget to follow up. This workflow automatically creates a dedicated Notion page for each partnership inquiry, so every opportunity gets the attention and follow-up it deserves.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Create Notion page
Creates a new empty page in a notion workspace.
Why this helps
Founders miss partnership and business development opportunities because incoming proposals get buried in email. An email arrives, you read it, and then it gets lost in the thread. Weeks later you realize you never responded, and the opportunity is gone.
- Every partnership inquiry automatically gets a dedicated page so nothing gets lost
- Organized tracking makes follow-up and evaluation much easier
- Built-in accountability ensures you respond to every opportunity
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Notion to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'When I receive an email about a potential partnership, collaboration, or business opportunity, create a new Notion page in my Opportunities database with the sender name, company, the date, their proposal summary, and a status field set to Under Review.'
- 3Notis will ask how to identify opportunity emails (from certain domains, with keywords like partnership or collaboration, or from people with an Opportunities label).
- 4Choose your Notion Opportunities database and properties (Partner Name, Company, Date, Proposal, Status, Contact Info, Next Steps, etc.).
- 5Select your notification channel so you're alerted to new opportunities, then test with an email proposing a collaboration.
Questions about this workflow
How does Notis know if an email is about a partnership vs. just a regular inquiry?
You define the criteria. Tell Notis: 'Emails with words like partnership, collaboration, joint venture, or co-marketing' or 'Emails from people with partner in their title or domain.'
Can I add follow-up tasks to each opportunity page?
Yes. Each opportunity page is a full Notion page where you can add action items, evaluation criteria, and notes. You can also ask Notis to create automatic follow-up reminders for opportunities.
How do I track the status as opportunities move forward?
Each opportunity has a Status field you can update: Under Review, Interested, Declined, In Progress, etc. Notion's database views let you see all opportunities by status so you can manage your pipeline.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Notion. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Notion actions
Email Sent
Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.
Add multiple content blocks (bulk, user-friendly)
Efficiently adds multiple standard content blocks to a notion page in a single api call with automatic markdown parsing. the 'content' field in notionrichtext blocks now automatically detects and parses markdown formatting including headers (# ## ###), bold (**text**), italic (*text*), strikethrough (~~text~~), inline code (`code`), links ([text](url)), and more. ideal for bulk content creation, ai agents, and replacing multiple individual add page content calls. supports automatic text formatting, content splitting, and up to 100 blocks per request.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Add content to Notion page
Deprecated: appends a single content block to a notion page or a parent block (must be page, toggle, to-do, bulleted/numbered list, callout, or quote); invoke repeatedly to add multiple blocks.
Append complex blocks (advanced, full control)
Appends complex blocks with full notion block structure to a parent block or page. use for advanced scenarios requiring precise control: code blocks, tables, embeds, nested children within blocks, or when working with pre-built notion block objects. requires full notion api block schema - use add multiple page content for simpler content creation.
Archive Notion Page
Archives (moves to trash) or unarchives (restores from trash) a specified notion page.
Create comment
Adds a comment to a notion page (via `parent page id`) or to an existing discussion thread (via `discussion id`); cannot create new discussion threads on specific blocks (inline comments).
Create Notion Database
Creates a new notion database as a subpage under a specified parent page with a defined properties schema; use this action exclusively for creating new databases.
Create Notion page
Creates a new empty page in a notion workspace.
Delete a block
Archives a notion block, page, or database using its id, which sets its 'archived' property to true (like moving to "trash" in the ui) and allows it to be restored later.
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