The Scenario
The event wrapped Thursday evening. You are a demand-gen manager and the badge scanner exported 180 attendee emails into a Google Sheet before the conference venue's system reset. Your job is to get every one of those people into the Attio list called "Event Leads Q2" so the SDR team can start sequencing on Monday.
You know how Attio lists work. Each list entry links to a person record. To add someone to a list you need their Attio record ID. To get their record ID you need to look them up by email. Then you add the entry. That is three steps per person, times 180 people.
The bad version:
- Copy each email from the sheet, search for the person in Attio, click their record, copy the record ID, open the list, click "Add Entry," paste the ID, submit. Next email.
- Look for a "bulk add to list" button in Attio — find that it doesn't exist for person records.
- Export the list, merge it with the badge scanner output, find the gaps, add the new ones in batches of whatever Attio's UI can handle.
The SDR team is not waiting until Thursday for a list of 180 leads. This needs to be done today.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. Through its built-in Attio integration it reads each email, finds the matching person record, adds them to the named list, and logs the result back to the sheet.
For each email in column A of this sheet, look up the matching Attio person record and add them as an entry to the Attio list named 'Event Leads Q2'; write 'added' or any error into column B.
What You Get
- Column B fills with 'added' for each person successfully added to the list.
- Emails where no matching Attio person was found show an error note — you can decide whether to create those records first or flag them for manual follow-up.
- The list in Attio reflects all 180 entries once the prompt runs — no clicking through the UI per person.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some people in the sheet don't have an existing Attio person record yet
You want to create them and then add them to the list in one operation.
For each email in column A, look up the matching Attio person; if found, add them to the list 'Event Leads Q2'; if not found, create a new Attio person record with that email and then add them to the list; write 'added (existing)' or 'added (created)' or any error into column B.
The sheet has first name and last name alongside the email
You want those set on any newly created records.
For each row, look up the Attio person by email in column C; if found add them to 'Event Leads Q2'; if not found, create the person with first name from column A, last name from column B, and email from column C, then add them to the list; write the result in column D.
You want to add a custom list attribute when adding each entry
Attio lists support per-entry attributes. You want to record which event each lead came from.
For each email in column A, find the Attio person and add them to the list 'Event Leads Q2'; set the list entry attribute 'source_event' to 'ProductSummit2026'; write the entry ID in column B or an error if not found.
Validate emails, create missing records, add to list, set source attribute, log in one pass
Validate each email in column A (must contain @ and a domain). For valid emails: look up or create the Attio person; add to 'Event Leads Q2' with source_event set to 'ProductSummit2026'; write 'added' or 'created+added' in column B. For invalid emails write 'bad email' in column B.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a list of contacts you need in an Attio list — event leads, inbound signups, webinar attendees — and ask it to add them. The Attio integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. See also the spoke on exporting Attio list entries, or the hub for a full overview of Attio integration methods.