The Scenario
The deduplication audit took three days. You are a data quality lead and the output is an Excel workbook with 120 Attio company record IDs in column A — all duplicates identified during the review, all confirmed safe to delete. The clean records are already tagged and marked. These are the ones that go.
You open Attio. You search for the first record ID. You open it. You click the menu. You click Delete. You confirm the dialog. You go back to the search bar. Next ID. That is five actions per record, times 120 records, with nothing stopping you from accidentally mistyping an ID or losing your place in the workbook.
The bad version:
- Delete all 120 by hand through the UI over the course of an afternoon, tracking your place with a color fill.
- Try Attio's bulk delete from a filtered view — realize recreating the exact dedup filter in Attio's UI is as much work as just doing the deletes.
- Ask someone to write a script. Hear that it's a two-week queue.
The data governance review is this week. The duplicates need to be gone before it starts.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. Through its built-in Attio integration it reads each record ID, calls the delete endpoint, and writes the result back — all 120 in one pass.
Read the Excel table 'DuplicateCompanies' — column A has Attio company record IDs. Delete each record from Attio and write the result into column B.
What You Get
- Column B fills with 'deleted' for each successful deletion.
- Any row that errors — record not found, already deleted, permission issue — shows the specific error message so you know exactly what failed.
- The operation runs in one pass, not 120 UI clicks.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want to do a dry run before committing
For each record ID in column A, look up the Attio company record and write the company name and domain into columns B and C; do not delete yet — this is a verification pass before the actual run.
The workbook has a mix of company and person record IDs
For each record ID in column A, determine whether it is a company or person record in Attio; delete it from the correct object; write 'deleted (company)' or 'deleted (person)' or the error into column B.
You want to archive rather than permanently delete
For each record ID in column A, archive the Attio company record rather than permanently deleting it; write 'archived' or the error into column B.
Verify type, check for duplicate tag, delete, and log in one pass
For each record ID in column A: confirm it is an Attio company record. Check that it carries the tag 'duplicate'. If both are true, delete it and write 'deleted' in column B. If not tagged 'duplicate', write 'skipped - no tag'. If not found, write 'not found'.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with the output of a deduplication or data hygiene audit, then ask it to run the deletions. The Attio integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. See also the spoke on bulk-updating company attributes, or the hub for a full overview of Attio integration methods.