The Scenario
A key-account manager spent two weeks collecting 40 executive email addresses from event badges, conference apps, and LinkedIn — the kind of contacts that don't appear in any database. She's put them all in an Excel workbook: first name, last name, company, email. Before she adds any of them to a drip sequence, she wants to know exactly which ones are deliverable, which ones are from free providers, and which ones have a reason code that suggests a problem.
The bad version:
- Open Bouncer's single-check interface and paste each address in one at a time, waiting for each result before moving to the next
- Copy the status and reason code manually into the workbook row by row, losing track of which row you're on around number 18
- Notice that three addresses returned "risky" with no reason code shown in the UI and have to look up what that means in Bouncer's documentation separately
Forty rows is small enough to feel like it should be quick. It never is. By the time you've manually verified ten addresses, matched results back to rows, and started second-guessing whether row 14 or row 15 was the one that returned "invalid," the afternoon is gone and nothing else got done.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your contact data and runs Bouncer's real-time single-email verification on each address individually, writing back the full result set — status, reason code, and provider flags — without you touching a single row by hand.
For the 40 email addresses in my Excel workbook, run individual Bouncer verification on each one and add columns showing whether each is valid, the sub-status reason, and whether it is a free-provider address.
What You Get
- A deliverability status column: valid, invalid, risky, or unknown
- A reason code column with the actual Bouncer sub-status (mailbox_not_found, smtp_error, catch_all, etc.) — not a summarized label
- A free-provider flag column: true or false
- Every row filled in one operation — no cursor-click-wait loop
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some emails have trailing spaces or extra characters from copy-pasting event apps
Trim all emails in column A, strip any trailing punctuation, then verify each cleaned address with Bouncer's single-email API and write the status, reason code, and is_disposable result to columns B, C, and D.
You also need to flag which addresses come from free providers
For each email in column A, run Bouncer single-email verification and write to columns B through E: deliverability status, reason code, is_disposable, and is_free_provider — flag any row where is_free_provider is true in yellow.
Three contacts have the same domain and you want to know if it's a catch-all before verifying the individuals
Before running individual checks, verify the unique domains in column A with Bouncer's domain check and add a Domain-Level column. Then run single-email verification on each address and add status, reason code, and is_disposable columns. Note in a summary which domains are catch-alls.
Full executive list prep in one prompt
Clean all emails in column A (lowercase, trim whitespace), verify each one with Bouncer's real-time single-email API, write status, reason code, is_disposable, and is_free_provider to columns B through E, flag any row where status is not valid in orange, and give me a summary count of how many addresses are valid, invalid, risky, and unknown.
Cleanup, verification, annotation, and summary — one prompt, one pass through the workbook.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook with your hand-collected executive contacts. Ask it to run Bouncer's single-email check on each one and write back the full result set. For larger list verification, see how to bulk verify a full campaign list or return to the Bouncer integration overview.