The Scenario
The quarterly roadmap cycle starts Monday. Your head of product dropped a message Friday afternoon asking for an Excel workbook with all 200-plus open Productlane feedback threads by end of day — customer name, company, pain level, and the linked Linear issue title for each one.
You have access to Productlane. You do not have a ready export.
The bad version:
- Open Productlane, filter to open insights, and start scrolling through the list one page at a time, copying each row into the workbook by hand.
- When you hit an insight with no linked Linear issue, decide whether to leave the cell blank or go look up the issue separately in Linear.
- After two hours, realize the workbook has 80 rows and you are a quarter of the way through.
Your head of product has a roadmap prioritization session first thing Monday. This data needs to be ready, sorted, and usable before that — not still being assembled at 9 PM Sunday.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook and talks to Productlane on your behalf, pulling insight data directly into your columns without you ever opening the Productlane UI.
Export all Productlane insights created in the last 90 days into this Excel workbook with columns: insight title, state, pain level, company name, contact email, linked project name — sort by pain level descending
What You Get
- Column A: insight title as it appears in Productlane
- Column B: insight state (open, closed, etc.)
- Column C: pain level score as a number
- Column D: company name linked to the contact on the insight
- Column E: contact email address
- Column F: linked Productlane project name, or "none" if unlinked
The rows arrive sorted by pain level descending, highest pain at the top.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The workbook includes closed and archived threads mixed in
List all Productlane insights where state is open and write title, contact email, company name, and pain level into columns A through D — skip any insight where state is not open
Some rows are missing a company name
List all open Productlane insights and write title, contact email, company name, and pain level into columns A through D — for any insight where company name is blank, write "no company" in column C instead of leaving it empty
You need insights grouped by linked project
Pull all open Productlane insights and write title, contact email, company, pain level, and linked project name into columns A through E — sort by project name ascending, then by pain level descending within each project group
Full cleanup and export in one shot
Pull all open Productlane insights, sort by pain level descending, write title into column A, contact email into column B, company into column C, pain level into column D, and linked Linear issue title into column E — for rows missing a contact email write "unknown" and for rows missing a Linear issue write "unlinked"
Ask for the filter, the sort, and the writeback together so the workbook is usable the moment the task finishes.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook you use for roadmap planning, then ask it to pull your open Productlane insights sorted by pain level. You can also explore how to bulk import contacts into Productlane from an Excel workbook or export your project progress report for the same review cycle.