I built a Make automation that auto-generates job proposals from Gmail alerts — here's what I learned

I spent the last few weeks building a Make scenario that:

Watches Gmail for job alerts from LinkedIn and Freelancer
Uses AI to extract the job description
Automatically writes a tailored proposal
Saves everything to Google Sheets

A few things I learned along the way:

Always use HTML to Text parser before sending to OpenAI — raw HTML confuses the AI badly
Set Max Output Tokens to 800 — otherwise the AI cuts off mid-sentence
Use "Contains" filter for sender email, not exact match — LinkedIn uses different domains by country

The result: I went from manually checking job boards and writing proposals (1-2 hours/day) to having it all done automatically.
Happy to answer any questions or share more details!