The Scenario
Last week you ran an NPS survey. Thirty contacts responded and indicated which product issues they cared most about — the survey mapped each respondent to the issue IDs they voted for. Now the data is in a Google Sheet: column A has the Productlane issue ID, column B has the contact email.
The PM wants those upvotes in Productlane before the roadmap session Thursday.
The bad version:
- Open Productlane, search for the first issue ID, find the upvote button, look up which contacts match from the sheet, and add them one by one.
- Switch back to the sheet to confirm you got the right contact, switch back to Productlane to continue.
- After the third issue you realize contacts need to already exist in Productlane for the upvote to attach — and six of the survey respondents are not in the system yet.
You are halfway through the first issue and the tab-switching is already exhausting. There are 30 rows.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads each row and calls the Productlane API to record the upvote linking the contact (looked up by email) to the issue ID, writing the result back into column C row by row.
For each row in this sheet, create a Productlane upvote for the issue ID in column A from the contact whose email is in column B — write "done" or the error into column C
What You Get
- Column C populated with "done" for every row that succeeded
- Any row where the contact email does not match a Productlane record gets an error message in column C describing the failure
- Any row where the issue ID is invalid or not found gets a separate error so you know which ones need follow-up
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some contacts in column B are not yet in Productlane
Before logging upvotes, check whether each email in column B exists as a Productlane contact — write "exists" or "missing" into column D — then create upvotes only for rows where column D is "exists" and write the result into column C
The sheet has duplicate rows (same issue ID and contact email pair appearing twice)
Before processing, identify any rows where the combination of column A and column B is duplicated — mark duplicates in column D — then log upvotes only for the first occurrence of each pair and skip the rest
You want to add upvotes for a specific set of issue IDs only
Log Productlane upvotes only for rows where column A is one of the following issue IDs: [list] — write "done" or error into column C and skip all other rows
Full dedup, contact check, and bulk upvote in one pass
Deduplicate rows by the combination of column A and column B — check each email in column B against existing Productlane contacts and write "exists" or "missing" into column D — create upvotes for all rows where column D is "exists" using the issue ID in column A — write "done" or the error into column C
Everything in one prompt, so the PM has a complete confirmation sheet when you finish.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the survey results spreadsheet, then ask it to log your Productlane upvotes from the rows. You can follow this with an export of all insights sorted by pain level to see how the new upvotes affect your prioritization view.