The Scenario
You are an engineering lead. The sprint starts Monday and fifteen engineers each need a feature branch database environment in Neon, isolated from production, branched from the main branch of their respective projects.
The project IDs and desired branch names are already in a planning sheet. Column A has the project ID, column B has the branch name that matches the feature ticket. You have thirty minutes before standup.
The bad version of the next thirty minutes:
- Open the Neon dashboard
- Navigate to project one, click "Branches," click "New Branch," type the name, click create
- Copy the branch ID into column C
- Navigate to project two, repeat
- By branch eight you have clicked through the same four-step flow eight times and you are still not done
- Standup starts. Seven branches are still missing.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the planning sheet and calls the Neon API to create each branch, so you never click through the dashboard for bulk branch work.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For every row in my sheet with a project_id in column A and branch name in column B, create a new Neon branch and write the branch ID and parent branch ID into columns C and D.
SheetXAI iterates through all fifteen rows, creates each branch in its respective Neon project, and writes the branch ID and parent branch ID back to the sheet. Every engineer has their environment before standup.
What You Get
A complete branch tracking sheet with:
- Column C — branch ID for each new environment
- Column D — parent branch ID confirming each branch was created from the right source
- Consistent naming — the branch names in column B are used exactly, no dashboard typos
If a project ID is invalid or the branch already exists, SheetXAI flags the row instead of silently skipping it.
Want the branch endpoint hostname as well? Add it to the prompt and SheetXAI writes it into column E.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Branch creation sheets often have naming inconsistencies or stale data. SheetXAI handles both in the same prompt.
When branch names have spaces or uppercase characters
Your engineers named their branches with spaces and mixed case from the ticket system, but Neon branch names should be lowercase with hyphens.
Normalize the branch names in column B to lowercase with hyphens. Then create a Neon branch for each row using the project ID in column A and the normalized name, and write the branch ID and parent branch ID into columns C and D.
When some rows already have a branch ID from a previous run
You ran a partial provisioning last week and some rows already have branch IDs in column C. You only want to process the ones that are still empty.
Skip any row where column C already has a value. For the remaining rows, create a Neon branch using the project ID in column A and the branch name in column B, then write the branch ID and parent branch ID into columns C and D.
When the sheet covers multiple sprints and you only want the current one
The sheet has a Sprint column. This week is Sprint 24. You do not want to create branches for sprints that are not current.
Filter to rows where the Sprint column says 'Sprint 24'. Create a Neon branch for each filtered row and write the branch ID and parent branch ID into the adjacent columns.
When the sheet also needs a connection string per branch
Your engineers need the connection URI for the new branch environment, not just the branch ID.
For every row in my sheet with a project_id in column A and branch name in column B, create a new Neon branch. Write the branch ID into column C, the parent branch ID into column D, and the connection URI for the default role on that branch into column E.
The pattern: one prompt to create all the branches and populate all the tracking columns. You never touch the dashboard for batch work.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sprint planning sheet with project IDs and branch names, then ask it to create the Neon branches. The Neon integration is included in every plan. For related infrastructure workflows, see how to provision Neon projects from a sheet or the Neon in Google Sheets overview.