#automation
14skills tagged “automation”.
Action Items to To Do
Watches your Teams chats, meeting transcripts, and Outlook mail for things people actually asked you to do, and files each one as a Microsoft To Do task with a due date, priority, and source link.
Awaiting Reply
AutomationA weekday-morning Scout automation that finds emails you sent that asked for something and never got an answer, reports how many are waiting, and prepares follow-up drafts in each thread's own language that it never sends.
Browser UAT Analyst
Run evidence-driven UAT on any browser-based app — Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, admin centres, or a custom web app — with Playwright execution, a screenshot evidence ledger, and failure classification that separates product defects from tenant config.
Call for Speakers Digest
Weekly HTML email digest of open conference Call for Speakers (CFP) opportunities matching your topics of interest. Pulls from confs.tech, Papercall, AdatoSystems' CFP tracker, CFP Radar, Sessionize's public user-groups directory, community-specific hubs (like communitydays.org for the Microsoft ecosystem), targeted search of standalone Sessionize conferences and run.events, and general web search. Filters to genuinely open CFPs only, and includes close dates, event dates, format (virtual/in-person), and speaker benefits when stated. Won't repeat a listing week to week unless its deadline is closing soon.
Campaign Deck Builder
Turn a short interview into a charming, vibrant 3-slide marketing-campaign deck by filling a bundled PowerPoint template.
Conditional Chat Reminder
Schedule a Teams reminder that sends only when the expected person has not already posted a relevant update.
Copilot & Agents News Scout
AutomationA Monday-morning Scout automation that scans authoritative Microsoft sources for the past week's Copilot, Copilot Studio, and agent news and posts a concise, linked digest to Teams.
Pattern Radar
Scans your recent Microsoft 365 signals to surface recurring patterns worth productizing — things you keep explaining (blog candidates) or multi-step tasks you keep doing by hand (automation candidates).
Pattern Radar (Scheduled)
AutomationTwice a week, scans your recent Microsoft 365 signals and posts a Teams summary of recurring patterns worth productizing — things you keep explaining (blog candidates) and multi-step tasks you keep doing by hand (automation candidates). Read-only and privacy-aware.
Power Automate Desktop Assessment
Assess Power Automate Desktop and hybrid automation projects with evidence-based findings and prioritized remediation guidance.
Spend More Time With Friends & Family
AutomationWhile you're out of office, watches a group chat and answers questions from your local knowledge docs (clearly marked AI-generated), logs anything it can't answer for later, and pings you on Teams if its setup is incomplete.
Vacation Urgent Forwarder
AutomationA Scout automation installer that, only during a configured vacation window, scans work email and Teams and forwards genuinely urgent items to your personal email.
What to Use When
Routes single-output requests to the best-fit included Microsoft 365 Copilot 1p agents and reserves Cowork for long-running or multi-output work.
Work Brief
A morning brief that reads your mail, calendar, and Teams, then tells you what you owe people before the week starts.