The Scenario
The deduplication audit took three days. You are a data quality lead and the result is a Google Sheet with 120 Attio person record IDs — duplicates flagged during a data hygiene review. The clean records are already identified and tagged. These 120 need to go.
You open Attio. You find the first record by ID. You click the three-dot menu. You click Delete. You confirm. You go back to the search bar. You type the next ID. That is five clicks and a search per record, times 120 records, with nothing to stop you from accidentally skipping one or deleting the wrong row.
The bad version:
- Delete them one at a time through the UI, tracking your place in the sheet with a highlighter color.
- Try to find a bulk delete — realize Attio only supports bulk actions from filtered views, which requires recreating your exact dedup filter in the UI.
- Write a script, which is the right move but not before the end of the week when the data governance review is scheduled.
The audit is done. The list is correct. The mechanical part — sending 120 delete calls — is the only remaining step.
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 record ID, calls the delete endpoint, and writes the result back — one pass, no clicking through the UI.
Delete the Attio person records whose IDs are listed in column A of this sheet; write 'deleted' or the error message into column B for each row.
What You Get
- Column B fills with 'deleted' for each successful deletion.
- Any row that errors — record not found, already deleted, permission issue — shows the specific error message so you know exactly what failed.
- The operation runs in one pass rather than 120 manual UI actions.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want to verify each record exists before deleting it
You want to see what you're deleting before committing.
For each record ID in column A, look up the Attio person record and write their name and email into columns B and C; do not delete yet — this is a dry run to verify the list.
Some IDs in the sheet are company records rather than person records
Mixed audit output.
For each row in this sheet, check whether the Attio record ID in column A is a person record or a company record; delete it from the correct object type; write 'deleted (person)', 'deleted (company)', or the error into column B.
You want to archive rather than permanently delete
For each record ID in column A, archive the Attio person record rather than deleting it; write 'archived' or the error into column B.
Verify record type, confirm it's tagged 'duplicate', delete, and log in one pass
For each record ID in column A: verify it is an Attio person record. Check that the record has the tag 'duplicate'. If both conditions are true, delete it and write 'deleted' in column B. If the record is not tagged 'duplicate', write 'skipped - no duplicate tag'. If the record ID is not found, write 'not found'.
Add a safety check so only records explicitly tagged for deletion get removed.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with the output of a deduplication or data hygiene audit, then ask it to run the deletions. The Attio integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. See also the spoke on bulk-updating company attributes, or the hub for a full overview of Attio integration methods.