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Agent Platform Advisor

Answer a few questions about what you want from agents, and we'll recommend the best Microsoft platform for your agent needs.

Here's what the advisor chooses between — select Get Started below to find your fit.

Use agents

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Get answers, draft content, and surface insights in seconds with secure AI chat

Cowork

Describe the outcome you want, grounded in the work in your emails, meetings, messages, files, and data.

Scout

Use always-on agents that work autonomously, with their own identity, grounded in your enterprise data

Build agents

Agent Builder

Quickly build declarative agents by using natural language

Copilot Studio

Create custom agents with natural language or a graphical interface

Microsoft Foundry

Pro-code platform to build, ground, and govern AI apps and agents at scale

Where would you like to begin?

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Help me find the right place to get work done

Answer a few quick questions about how you want the work to happen, and we'll point you to the best place to do it

I'd like to build a custom agent with specific requirements

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I'm exploring what's possible with agents

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Where should you get this work done?

Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, and Scout are all places to get work done. Answer a couple of quick questions and we'll point you to the best entry point — and where to start inside it.

How hands-on do you want to be?

I'll ask questions and work through it myself

Hand off the whole task and give me the result

What kind of task is it?

General help — brainstorm, find info, catch up on email or meetings, draft and edit documents

A specialized task — deep research, data analysis, meeting facilitation, or translation

Should it finish and hand back, or keep working over time?

Finish a multi-step job in one go — several artifacts, or a process across systems — and hand me the result

Stay always-on — manage and coordinate my day, following up and acting over time

Not sure yet

Where does it need to reach?

Inside Microsoft 365 — email, meetings, files, Teams

Also my desktop, browser, local files, and command line

Not sure yet

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