The Scenario
A newly formed platform team at a scale-up just got its own Linear workspace. Before engineers can log work, the label taxonomy needs to exist. The team agreed on 20 labels in a planning session — names and hex colors written into an Excel workbook. Someone needs to create all 20 in Linear before the first sprint starts.
The bad version:
- Open Linear, navigate to the Platform team settings, find the labels section, click "Add label," type the first label name, click the color picker, enter the hex code, save.
- Repeat 19 more times.
- The color picker is the worst part: Linear's hex input field doesn't always accept pasted values cleanly, so several colors take two tries.
The team lead is supposed to be writing the technical RFC, not creating labels one by one.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the label names and hex colors from your workbook and creates all of them in Linear for the team you specify.
Create a Linear label for each row in this workbook using column A as the label name and column B as the hex color, all under the team named in cell D1
What You Get
- 20 labels created for the Platform team in Linear, each with the name and color from your workbook.
- Labels appear immediately in the team's issue creation flow.
- Rows with invalid hex colors surface as warnings.
- A confirmation with the count of labels created.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Skip labels that already exist
Bulk-create all missing labels for the Platform team in Linear from the names in column A — skip any that already exist with the same name
The team name is in a cell
Create a Linear label for each row using column A as the name and column B as the hex color, for the team whose name is in cell D1
No colors in the workbook — use a default
Create a Linear label for each row in column A of this workbook, all for the Platform team, using the hex color #94A3B8 for all of them
Full label setup with writeback
For each label name in column A: check if a label with that name already exists for the Platform team — if it does, write "exists" in column C; if not, create it using the hex color in column B and write the new label ID into column C
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a list of label names and colors — then ask it to create all of them in Linear for your team. Once the labels exist, the bulk-create-issues guide shows how to apply them at issue creation time.