Their Pitch
Your AI companion.
Our Take
It's ChatGPT that lives inside Microsoft Office and knows about your emails, meetings, and files. Works great if you're already paying for expensive Microsoft licenses.
Deep Dive & Reality Check
Used For
- +**Joining meetings late and asking 'what did I miss?'** → Get instant summaries with key decisions and action items instead of reading 40-minute transcripts
- +**Manually drafting job descriptions and proposals from scratch** → Type 'create a Level 2 analyst job description' and get a working draft in 30 seconds
- +**Hunting through email threads for that one important detail** → Ask Copilot to find and summarize without opening 20 emails
- +**Creating PowerPoint decks that take forever** → Generates speaker notes and translates presentations in seconds
- +Custom agents answer repeat questions like shipment status without you digging through systems
Best For
- >Your team lives in Microsoft 365 and wastes hours manually summarizing meetings
- >You're drafting the same documents over and over (job descriptions, proposals, reports)
- >People miss key decisions because they can't attend every meeting
Not For
- -Small teams under 50 people — you need expensive Microsoft 365 E3/E5 licenses before you even get to the AI part
- -Companies using Google Workspace or other productivity suites — this only works in Microsoft's ecosystem
- -Anyone wanting simple AI help — ChatGPT does basic tasks for free without requiring $66+ per user monthly
Pairs With
- *Microsoft Teams (where it shines brightest with meeting summaries and chat insights)
- *SharePoint (pulls content from your company documents and wikis)
- *Power BI (for data visualization that Excel can't handle)
- *Dynamics 365 (adds CRM insights to your Office workflows)
- *OneDrive (searches across all your cloud files when answering questions)
- *Outlook (drafts emails and finds buried information in your inbox)
- *Excel (suggests formulas and creates charts from natural language)
The Catch
- !You're looking at $66-87 per user monthly when you add the required Microsoft 365 license costs
- !Features roll out gradually so you might not get what you saw in demos right away
- !Prompt engineering required — vague requests get mediocre results, specific prompts get gold
Bottom Line
The AI assistant that actually knows your work context, but you'll pay enterprise prices even for small teams.