diff --git a/src/airflow/dags/eqtl_preprocess.py b/src/airflow/dags/eqtl_preprocess.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0031759d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/airflow/dags/eqtl_preprocess.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+"""Airflow DAG for the Preprocess part of the pipeline."""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import common_airflow as common
+from airflow.models.dag import DAG
+from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow import (
+    DataflowTemplatedJobStartOperator,
+)
+
+# CLUSTER_NAME = "otg-preprocess-finngen"
+# AUTOSCALING = "finngen-preprocess"
+
+EQTL_CATALOG_SUSIE_LOCATION = "gs://eqtl_catalog_data/ebi_ftp/susie"
+TEMP_DECOMPRESS_LOCATION = "gs://eqtl_catalog_data/tmp_susie_decompressed"
+DECOMPRESS_FAILED_LOG = "gs://eqtl_catalog_data/tmp_susie_decompressed.log"
+
+with DAG(
+    dag_id=Path(__file__).stem,
+    description="Open Targets Genetics — eQTL preprocess",
+    default_args=common.shared_dag_args,
+    **common.shared_dag_kwargs,
+):
+    start_template_job = DataflowTemplatedJobStartOperator(
+        task_id="decompress_sussie_outputs",
+        template="gs://dataflow-templates/latest/Bulk_Decompress_GCS_Files",
+        location="europe-west1",
+        project_id="open-targets-genetics-dev",
+        parameters={
+            "inputFilePattern": f"{EQTL_CATALOG_SUSIE_LOCATION}/**/*.gz",
+            "outputDirectory": TEMP_DECOMPRESS_LOCATION,
+            "outputFailureFile": DECOMPRESS_FAILED_LOG,
+        },
+    )
+
+    # (
+    #     common.create_cluster(
+    #         CLUSTER_NAME,
+    #         autoscaling_policy=AUTOSCALING,
+    #         master_disk_size=2000,
+    #         num_workers=6,
+    #     )
+    #     >> common.install_dependencies(CLUSTER_NAME)
+    #     >> [finngen_summary_stats_preprocess, finngen_finemapping_ingestion]
+    #     >> common.delete_cluster(CLUSTER_NAME)
+    # )
+
+    start_template_job
diff --git a/src/airflow/requirements.txt b/src/airflow/requirements.txt
index e9fd45142..97bbcc796 100644
--- a/src/airflow/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/airflow/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 apache-airflow-providers-google==10.10.1
+apache-airflow-providers-apache-beam==5.6.1
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9