The Scenario
A consulting firm is kicking off ten new client engagements at once. Each engagement needs its own Manus project so tasks can be organized correctly from the start. The project names are already in column A of a Google Sheet. The person responsible for setup is an operations manager whose job today is to make sure all ten projects exist before the kick-off calls start at noon.
It's 10:45.
The bad version:
- Open Manus, click "New project," type the first client name from the sheet, save, copy the project ID, switch to the sheet, paste it into column B, switch back to Manus, click "New project" again.
- Get to project six and realize you misread the client name — it should be "Hartwell & Associates" not "Hartwell Associates" — go back, rename it, continue.
- Finish at 11:40 and realize you forgot to capture the project ID for project four because you lost track during the rename correction.
Ten projects, done manually, is a small disaster waiting to happen.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the project names from column A, creates each project in Manus, and writes the returned project IDs into column B — in one pass.
Create a Manus project for each project name in column A of this sheet and write the returned project ID into column B
What You Get
- A new Manus project created for each row in column A.
- The project ID for each created project written into column B.
- Any row that fails (duplicate name, API error) is flagged in column B with the error detail.
- All ten IDs in place before the first kick-off call.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some names in column A already exist as Manus projects — skip those
For each row in column A, create a Manus project if one with that name doesn't already exist — write the returned project ID into column B, or write 'already exists' if it was skipped
I need to use a standardized naming format before creating
For each row in column A, create a Manus project with the name formatted as 'Client: [name] — Q2 2026', and write the returned project ID into column B
Some rows in column A are blank — skip those
Create a Manus project for each non-empty row in column A and write the project ID into column B — skip any blank rows entirely
Create the projects, capture IDs, then link each row to downstream task creation
Bulk-create 10 Manus projects from column A, write the project IDs into column B, then for each row add a formula in column C that pre-fills a task creation URL using the project ID from column B
Having the task creation link per row means the next person on the team doesn't have to look up project IDs — they can start spawning tasks immediately.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a list of project names in column A, then ask it to create the Manus projects and capture the IDs. Once the projects exist, see bulk task creation to populate them, or go back to the Manus hub.