How to Connect Aeroleads to Excel (4 Methods Compared)

The Problem With Getting Sheet Data In and Out of AeroLeads

You have an Excel workbook full of LinkedIn profile URLs — a Sales Navigator export, a scraped attendee list, a set of target accounts your team pulled together over the last quarter. You need those URLs turned into real contact records: names, verified emails, phone numbers, company data. You need it written back into the workbook, where the rest of your sales workflow lives.

AeroLeads is good at pulling that contact data from LinkedIn profiles. But the gap between AeroLeads and your Excel workbook is where the afternoon goes. The default flow is exporting results from AeroLeads as a CSV, opening it alongside your workbook, manually matching the columns, and copying everything across — and then repeating that process every time you have a new batch of URLs.

Below are the four common ways teams handle this. Only the last one scales.

Method 1: Manual CSV Export

The default for Excel users. You paste your LinkedIn URLs into AeroLeads in batches, wait for enrichment, download the results as a CSV, and open it next to your workbook. Then you figure out which columns to transfer — name here, email there, phone number in this other column — and paste them across row by row, or if you're feeling adventurous, with a VLOOKUP.

The VLOOKUP only works if AeroLeads returned the URL in the same format your workbook used, which it often doesn't.

When you have fifty contacts, you can get through it. When you have three hundred, and the outreach window opens in two days, this workflow starts consuming the actual work you were supposed to be doing. The column mismatch alone can take an hour to untangle. And next week's batch is already waiting.

Method 2: Power Automate

Power Automate has AeroLeads connector options. You can build a flow triggered by a new row appearing in your workbook — or on a schedule — that fires an enrichment call and writes the results back.

Before reading further: are you comfortable with Power Automate's connector interface? Do you know how to map fields, configure triggers, and authenticate a third-party API? If those feel unfamiliar, this isn't the right path. Skip to Method 3 or 4.

For those still here: the flow works. You authenticate the AeroLeads connector, select your trigger, map column A's LinkedIn URL to the lookup input, and map each return field — name, email, phone, company — back to their destination columns.

But one-row-at-a-time trigger flows are not the same as bulk enrichment.

Three hundred LinkedIn URLs means three hundred separate flow runs. Three hundred API calls. A run history that becomes impossible to audit when row 84 fails silently and the columns for that contact stay empty with no error message to indicate why.

You probably just need the contact data. You probably have no idea how to wire a Power Automate flow, and that's a reasonable place to be — most people who need enriched prospect data are not automation engineers. So you put in a request to whoever handles these workflows, and now you're waiting. And explaining the workbook structure. And waiting some more.

Once you need conditional logic — only write back rows where the email was verified, skip anything already in the CRM — you've moved beyond what the trigger pattern handles without significant additional configuration.

Method 3: The Previous Generation — Connector Add-Ons

Until recently, the best repeatable option for workbook ↔ AeroLeads workflows was a category of add-ons that let you set up a column mapping once and re-run it on demand. You selected your URL column, tagged your output fields, saved the config, and ran it against each new batch.

That was a real improvement. The output was consistent. You didn't have to rebuild the mapping every time.

But the configuration was entirely your responsibility. Which rows to include, which fields to pull, how to handle mismatches. If AeroLeads updated its output schema, or your worksheet gained new columns that shifted the layout, your saved config needed manual repair. The tool moved the data. The operator still did all the thinking.

This is the previous generation. It solved the CSV round-trip, but it replaced one kind of manual work with another.

The Easy Way: Using SheetXAI in Excel

There is a different way entirely. SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook, understands the layout — which column holds the LinkedIn URLs, which columns are waiting for enrichment output — and through its built-in AeroLeads integration it can run the lookup and write the results back for you. No connector configuration, no Power Automate flow, no CSV cleanup.

Example 1: Bulk enrich a prospect list from a target industry search

For every LinkedIn URL in column A, look up the contact details via AeroLeads and write name, email, phone, and company to columns B through E

SheetXAI reads the column, sends the URLs to AeroLeads in sequence, and writes each field back to the correct row. Rows with no match get flagged so nothing disappears quietly.

Example 2: Enrich and filter for decision-maker contacts

For each LinkedIn URL in this workbook, fetch contact details from AeroLeads and write the name, email, company, and title to columns B through E, then filter to show only VP-level or above contacts

The pattern: instead of enriching the full list and then filtering manually, you ask for both in one prompt. SheetXAI handles the conditional logic inline.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a column of LinkedIn URLs. Ask it to enrich the list with AeroLeads and write the results into your target columns. The AeroLeads integration is included in every SheetXAI plan.