The Scenario
You're a cloud architect evaluating Bonsai for a new multi-region search deployment. Someone on the product team sent you a message this morning: "Can you put together a workbook showing all the Bonsai regions we could deploy to, with the cloud provider and path for each one?" They want it before the vendor comparison call at 3 PM.
You've never pulled the Bonsai spaces list before. You know it exists — it's in the API docs — but you've never actually looked at it in structured form.
The bad version:
- Open the Bonsai API documentation, find the spaces endpoint, and manually call it using curl or Postman to see what comes back.
- Copy the JSON response into a text editor, parse out the fields you need, and start pasting them into the workbook — space path, region, cloud provider — one record at a time.
- Realize the response has more entries than you expected, lose count of where you were, and end up with a workbook that's missing three rows at the bottom.
You have a vendor comparison call in four hours. The workbook is supposed to take fifteen minutes. It's already taken forty-five and you still haven't started the comparison itself.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It connects to Bonsai's spaces endpoint and writes the full list into your workbook — no API calls, no JSON parsing, no manual row counting. Open the sidebar and type the prompt.
List all available Bonsai provisioning spaces and write the space path, geographic region, and cloud provider into columns A, B, and C — with headers in row 1
What You Get
- Row 1 with headers: Space Path, Region, Cloud Provider
- One row per available Bonsai space, written starting at row 2
- Every space the API returns, including regions you might not have been tracking
- A workbook that's ready for filtering or comparison before the call
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You only want spaces from a specific cloud provider
List all available Bonsai provisioning spaces on AWS and write the space path and region into columns A and B
You want to add a fourth column for notes or selection status
List all available Bonsai provisioning spaces and write space path, region, and cloud provider into columns A, B, and C — leave column D blank for notes
You need to cross-reference spaces against a list of regions already in the workbook
I have target region names in column A starting at row 2. Check each one against the list of available Bonsai spaces and write the matching space path and cloud provider into columns B and C — mark unmatched regions in column D as "not available"
You want a full planning snapshot in one pass
Fetch all available Bonsai provisioning spaces, group them by cloud provider, sort each group by region alphabetically, and write space path, region, and cloud provider into this workbook — add a blank row between each provider group
The underlying pattern: describe the grouping, sorting, and write behavior in a single prompt and let SheetXAI handle the sequencing.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook you're using for infrastructure planning — then ask it to pull the full Bonsai spaces list before your next vendor or region selection conversation. You can also look at pulling your Bonsai cluster inventory or go back to the Bonsai integration overview.