The Scenario
You are a DevOps engineer at a SaaS company. It is 2 PM on a Tuesday and the product team has confirmed that twenty new customer tenants go live by end of week.
Each tenant needs its own Neon project — provisioned in the right region, running the right Postgres version, with the connection URI written back to the onboarding tracker. That tracker is an Excel workbook on OneDrive. The configuration data is already there: column A has project names, column B has regions, column C has Postgres versions. Four days, twenty projects, and a customer success team waiting on column E.
The bad version of the next two hours:
- Open the Neon dashboard in the browser
- Click "New Project" twenty times, reading from the Excel tab each time
- Copy each project ID and connection URI back into the workbook by hand
- Realize you misread row 14 and provisioned the wrong region
- Delete the project, reprovision, update the row
- You finish at 5:45. Rows 17 through 20 are still blank.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads the configuration rows and calls the Neon API for each one, so you never use the dashboard for bulk provisioning.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Read all rows in this workbook and create a Neon project for each one using the name, region, and quota settings in columns A, B, C — then fill in the project ID, default branch ID, and connection string in the next columns.
SheetXAI reads all twenty rows, provisions each project, and writes the results back into the workbook. The tracker is complete and accurate.
What You Get
A fully populated onboarding tracker with:
- Column D — Neon project ID for each tenant
- Column E — default branch ID
- Column F — connection string ready to hand off to customer success
Errors write as flags, not silent gaps. If a region string is invalid or a project name conflicts, SheetXAI writes the error into column D so you know exactly which row to fix.
Want a timestamp of when each project was provisioned? Add it to the prompt.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Onboarding workbooks are often assembled from multiple sources and arrive messy. SheetXAI cleans and provisions in the same prompt.
When region names are inconsistent
The workbook has "US East," "us-east-1," and "AWS US EAST" in column B. The Neon API expects a specific format.
Normalize the region values in column B to the Neon API format (e.g. aws-us-east-1). Then create a Neon project for each row using the normalized region and write the project ID and connection URI into columns D and E.
When some rows are missing a Postgres version
Half the rows have a version in column C, the rest are blank.
For any row where column C is blank, use Postgres 16. Then create a Neon project for each row and write the project ID and connection URI into columns D and E.
When you only want to provision rows with a specific status
The workbook has a Status column. Some rows say "Approved," others are still pending.
Filter to rows where the Status column says 'Approved'. Create a Neon project for each filtered row and write the project ID and connection URI into the adjacent columns.
When the workbook needs a provisioning summary for the manager
The manager wants a cell they can read before the end-of-day check-in, not a wall of IDs.
Normalize region values in column B. Default blank Postgres versions in column C to 16. Create a Neon project for each row and write the project ID, connection URI, and creation timestamp into columns D, E, and F. Write a summary in cell H1 showing how many projects were created, how many rows were skipped, and a list of any project names that errored.
The pattern: one prompt handles the data cleanup, the API calls, and the status summary.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with Neon configuration data, then ask it to provision the projects. The Neon integration is included in every plan. For more on managing Neon from a workbook, see how to export your full Neon infrastructure inventory to Excel or the Neon in Excel overview.