The Scenario
You are a lead researcher. Last week you imported 500 leads into an Instantly list called 'Q3 Targets'. They are raw contacts — scraped names, emails, and company names, but nothing beyond that. No job titles, no company tech stack, no recent news.
Your sales team will not touch a list that thin. They want job role insights, verified email status, and at least one company data point before they start writing sequences.
The AI enrichment feature in Instantly can do this. But triggering it for a full list and tracking what came back is not obvious from the UI. You have been putting it off. The sales team's deadline is end of this week.
The bad version:
- Log into Instantly
- Find the 'Q3 Targets' list
- Click around the enrichment settings
- Trigger the enrichment job
- Wait, unsure if it ran
- Come back the next day, check which leads got enriched
- Export the results, paste them into a sheet by hand
- It is Friday afternoon and you still have 200 unenriched leads.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI triggers the Instantly AI enrichment job and pulls the results back into your sheet so the sales team gets a complete picture without you doing anything by hand.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Run Instantly AI enrichment on the lead list named 'Q3 Targets' to enrich all leads with job role insights, email verification status, and funding news. Write the enrichment results to this sheet with columns for email, job title, company, verification status, and latest funding note.
SheetXAI triggers the enrichment job on the 'Q3 Targets' list, waits for completion, pulls the enriched data, and writes one row per lead to the sheet. The sales team has a complete, enriched list without you exporting anything manually.
What You Get
A sheet with enriched data for every lead in 'Q3 Targets':
- Job title — inferred from public profile data
- Email verification status — valid, invalid, or risky per lead
- Company funding note — recent funding event or "no recent news"
- One row per lead — the same email as the source list, matched by address
The verification status column is what your SDRs will sort by first. They want to sequence the "valid" leads immediately and hold the "risky" ones for manual review before adding them to a campaign.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Enrichment results from any platform are never uniform, and the list you started with may have its own issues.
When some leads already have job titles and should be skipped
You partially enriched the list two weeks ago. Running again on already-enriched leads wastes credits.
Pull the current lead data from the 'Q3 Targets' list in Instantly. Write it to this sheet. Then run AI enrichment only on rows where the job title column is blank. Write results into the existing rows.
When you want to filter the enriched results by job seniority before handing them to sales
Your SDRs only work director-level and above. The rest go to a nurture list.
Run Instantly AI enrichment on the 'Q3 Targets' list. Write the results to this sheet. Then add a Seniority column: mark "TARGET" for any lead with a job title containing Director, VP, Head, Chief, or C-Level. Mark "NURTURE" for all others.
When you need to combine the enrichment results with your existing lead data from a CRM
You have some existing company data from Salesforce in another tab. You want to merge the Instantly enrichment results with what you already have.
Run Instantly AI enrichment on 'Q3 Targets'. Write the results to the Enriched tab. Then look up each email in the CRM Data tab and merge in the Salesforce account name and deal stage where available. Write the final merged row to the Master tab.
When the enrichment finishes and you want to immediately add high-quality leads to a campaign
You do not want a second step. Enrich and then route the best leads to a campaign in one session.
Run Instantly AI enrichment on 'Q3 Targets'. Write results to this sheet. Then add all leads with a verification status of "valid" and a job title containing Director or above to Instantly campaign 'Q3 Director Outreach'. Write the routing result into column F.
The pattern: enrich, filter, route — the full data preparation pipeline in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any lead tracking sheet, then ask it to trigger Instantly enrichment and pull the results. The Instantly integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to verify emails before importing or the Instantly in Google Sheets overview.