Microsoft 365 Copilot: What It Is and What It Can Do for Your Business

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant built into the Office apps you already use. It can save significant time on writing, summarizing, and analyzing. Here's what it can do. What is Copilot? Copilot is an AI tool powered by large language models (similar to ChatGPT) that's built directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 apps. It understands your business context — your emails, documents, meetings — and can help you work faster. Important: Copilot is an add-on license ($30/user/month as of 2025) that requires Microsoft 365 Business Standard or higher. Not all Microsoft 365 subscriptions include it. Contact us if you'd like to add it. What Copilot can do in each app: Word — Draft and edit documents - "Write a first draft of a proposal for [project]" - "Summarize this 20-page document in 3 bullet points" - "Rewrite this paragraph to be more professional" - "Find and explain the key points in this contract" Excel — Analyze data - "What are the top 5 customers by revenue this quarter?" - "Create a chart showing sales by month" - "Identify any anomalies in this data" - "Explain what this formula does" PowerPoint — Create presentations - "Create a 10-slide presentation about our Q3 results based on this report" - "Add speaker notes to each slide" - "Change the theme and make it look more professional" Outlook — Handle email faster - "Summarize this email thread" - "Draft a reply to this email" - "What emails need my attention today?" - "Schedule a meeting with everyone in this thread" Teams — Meeting productivity - "Recap what was discussed in my last meeting" - "What action items came out of today's call?" - "Summarize the last 7 days of messages in this channel" Copilot Chat (general assistant): Access at copilot.microsoft.com or within Teams. Works like a smart search across all your Microsoft 365 data. - "Find all emails from [vendor] in the last month" - "What documents have I worked on related to [project]?" Data privacy: Your data is never used to train the AI model. Copilot only sees content your account already has access to. Want to try it? Contact us and we can help evaluate whether Copilot is a good fit for your team.