The Scenario
You are an engineering lead. Sprint planning finished an hour ago and fifteen engineers each need a feature branch database environment in Neon before they can start coding. The project IDs and desired branch names came out of the sprint planning session and are already in an Excel workbook: column A has the project ID, column B has the branch name that matches the ticket.
Standup is in forty-five minutes.
The bad version of the next forty-five minutes:
- Open the Neon dashboard
- Navigate to project one, click "Branches," click "New Branch," type the name
- Copy the branch ID back into the workbook
- Navigate to project two, repeat
- By branch ten you are clicking through a four-step flow for the tenth time and you still have five left
- Standup starts. Six engineers have no environment.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the planning workbook and calls the Neon API to create each branch, so you never use the dashboard for batch branch creation.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Create a Neon branch for each row in my Excel sheet — use the project ID in column A and the desired branch name in column B, then write the new branch ID and creation timestamp into columns C and D.
SheetXAI iterates through all fifteen rows, creates each branch in its respective Neon project, and writes the branch ID and timestamp back into the workbook. Every engineer has their environment before standup.
What You Get
A complete branch tracking workbook with:
- Column C — branch ID for each new feature environment
- Column D — creation timestamp confirming when each branch was provisioned
- Consistent naming — branch names from column B are used exactly, no dashboard typos
Rows with invalid project IDs get flagged in column C rather than silently skipped.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Sprint planning outputs are rarely clean. SheetXAI normalizes and provisions in the same prompt.
When branch names have spaces or mixed case
Your sprint planning tool exported branch names with spaces and capital letters.
Normalize the branch names in column B to lowercase with hyphens. Then create a Neon branch for each row using the project ID in column A and the normalized name, and write the branch ID and creation timestamp into columns C and D.
When some rows already have a branch ID from last sprint
Column C has branch IDs for some developers who carried over environments.
Skip any row where column C already has a value. For the remaining rows, create a Neon branch and write the branch ID and creation timestamp into columns C and D.
When you only want the branches for the current sprint
The workbook tracks multiple sprints and you only want Sprint 24.
Filter to rows where the Sprint column says 'Sprint 24'. Create a Neon branch for each filtered row and write the branch ID and creation timestamp into the adjacent columns.
When engineers also need the connection URI for their environment
Branch IDs alone are not enough — your engineers need the full connection string to configure their local setup.
For every row in my workbook with a project ID in column A and branch name in column B, create a new Neon branch. Write the branch ID into column C, the creation timestamp into column D, and the connection URI for the default role on that branch into column E.
The pattern: the workbook is the sprint planning artifact and the environment tracker at the same time.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sprint planning workbook with project IDs and branch names, then ask it to create the Neon branches. The Neon integration is included in every plan. See also how to provision Neon projects from an Excel workbook or the Neon in Excel overview.