Glossary AI technique

Microsoft Copilot

What is Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is the AI assistant Microsoft has built into Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and other 365 apps, for writing, summarising and searching.

Also known as CopilotMicrosoft 365 CopilotCopilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot makes individual employees faster in the tools they already use: drafting an email, summarising a meeting, finding a document. It works with what you have in Microsoft 365.

What Copilot does not do by itself is take over processes or connect data from systems outside Microsoft, such as your accounting or industry software. That takes integrations and often an AI agent.

When Copilot is enough and when your own layer pays off is covered in Copilot or an AIOS layer.

Last updated: 4 October 2026

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AI techniqueAI assistantAn AI assistant helps a person with a task, such as writing, searching or summarising, but takes no actions by itself unless the user asks.AI techniqueAI agentAn AI agent is software that pursues a goal on its own: it plans the steps, uses tools or systems, checks the result and adjusts course, without a human directing every step.Strategy & implementationAIOS (AI Operating System)An AIOS is an AI layer that sits on top of your existing systems, reads data from all of them at once, and runs processes that affect the whole organisation, not just the individual employee.AI techniqueAgentic workflowAn agentic workflow is a process in which an AI agent, not a human, plans the steps, calls tools, checks intermediate results and continues until the goal is reached.

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