The Scenario
You are a lead gen agency account manager. A client just handed you 400 scraped email addresses in a Google Sheet. They want them added to an Instantly campaign by Friday.
The problem: you have no idea if those emails are real. Sending to bad addresses destroys your sender reputation and your client's domain. Your SLA says you verify before you send.
The Monday morning plan was to run them through a verifier, clean the sheet, and import the valid ones. It is now Wednesday at 3 PM.
The bad version:
- Export the sheet as CSV
- Upload to a standalone email verifier, wait for the job to finish
- Download the results CSV
- VLOOKUP the results back into the original sheet
- Filter to "valid" rows
- Export a new CSV, import into Instantly
- The filter broke the row mapping and you do not trust the results.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads your email list and calls the Instantly verifier on each address, writing the result directly back to the same sheet so you never leave your spreadsheet.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Verify every email address in column A using Instantly and write the verification result (valid, invalid, or risky) into column B. Then add a filter to the sheet showing only valid rows.
SheetXAI runs each address through Instantly's email verifier, writes the result into column B, and applies a filter to the sheet. Valid addresses are visible. Everything else is filtered out but still in the data.
What You Get
400 addresses verified and the sheet ready for import:
- Column B — "valid", "invalid", or "risky" for every row
- Filter applied — so only valid rows are visible when you are ready to import
- Original rows preserved — the full list is still in the sheet, the filter just surfaces the clean ones
- No round-trip CSV — everything stays in the sheet you started with
The risky category is the one worth reviewing by hand. Some risky addresses will send fine. Some will not. The column makes it easy to sort and decide.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Scraped lists arrive in messy shapes. SheetXAI handles cleanup and verification in one pass.
When the email column has formatting noise
Scraped emails often come with surrounding quotes, angle brackets, or extra spaces. A verifier will mark all of them invalid even if the underlying address is real.
Clean all emails in column A by removing surrounding quotes, angle brackets, and extra whitespace. Then verify each one through Instantly and write the result into column B.
When you want to add a "Safe to Send" boolean instead of the raw status
Your import template expects a TRUE/FALSE flag in a specific column.
Verify every email in column A through Instantly. Write TRUE into column B if the result is "valid", FALSE if the result is "invalid" or "risky". Then filter the sheet to show only TRUE rows.
When you want to immediately add valid addresses to the campaign
You do not want a second step. Verify and import in the same operation.
Verify every email in column A through Instantly. For every address that comes back as "valid", add it as a lead to campaign 'Client ABC April' using the first name in column B and company in column C. Write the verification result and import status into column D.
When the list has duplicates that should be deduplicated before verification
No point verifying the same address twice, or importing a duplicate.
Deduplicate column A by email address, keeping the first occurrence of each. Then verify the deduplicated list through Instantly and write the result into column B. Mark the removed duplicates as "duplicate" in a helper column C.
The pattern: normalize, verify, import — one prompt instead of three separate tools.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any scraped email list, then ask it to verify and import in one go. The Instantly integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to bulk-add leads to a campaign or the Instantly in Google Sheets overview.