Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot & agents

AI assistant built into Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and the rest of Microsoft 365, grounded in your organisation’s emails, files and meetings.

  • Copilot Chat with work and web grounding
  • Meeting recaps and action items in Teams
  • Drafting and rewriting in Word and Outlook
  • Analysis and formulas in Excel
  • Respects existing Microsoft 365 permissions and sensitivity labels
  • Admin controls in the Microsoft 365 admin center

Best for: Everyday productivity for staff who already live in Microsoft 365.

Agent Builder

Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot & agents

The lightweight way to create an agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot by describing what you want in plain language.

  • Create an agent from a natural-language description
  • Add instructions, knowledge from SharePoint and files, and starter prompts
  • Share with people or teams
  • Copy to Copilot Studio when you need more power

Best for: Quick personal or small-team agents, such as an IT policy Q&A bot.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot & agents

Low-code platform for building, testing, publishing and governing organisation-wide agents with knowledge, actions and workflows.

  • Topics, generative orchestration and multi-step actions
  • Knowledge from SharePoint, websites, Dataverse and files
  • Connectors, Power Automate flows and APIs as tools
  • Publish to Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, websites and more
  • Analytics, environments and admin governance

Best for: Service desk agents, onboarding assistants and process automation across the business.

Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot & agents

Azure’s platform for building AI apps and agents with a catalogue of models, including Azure OpenAI, plus evaluation and safety tooling.

  • Model catalogue with Azure OpenAI and other providers
  • Agent service for code-first agents
  • Prompt flow, evaluations and tracing
  • Content safety filters and private networking
  • Enterprise identity, keys and network controls

Best for: Developers building custom AI applications that need Azure security and compliance.

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