Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment
Licence procurement, tenant readiness review, data protection baseline, and phased rollout with adoption tracking.
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AI & Copilot
Copilot is genuinely transformative - and genuinely easy to roll out badly. We deploy it with the governance, data controls, and change management that turn it from a feature into a capability your team actually uses.
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Ready to scope AI & Copilot for your business?
What’s included
Scope that’s actually defined.
Every inclusion below is documented, delivered, and renewable under our standard agreement. No surprise scope. No silent exclusions.
AI governance policies
Acceptable use, data sensitivity boundaries, and the guardrails your board will want before you turn Copilot on broadly.
Enablement workshops
Role-based workshops - one for legal, one for finance, one for operations - showing your team what Copilot is actually good for.
Workflow consulting
Identification of 5-10 real workflows where Copilot (or another AI tool) delivers measurable time-back for your business.
What’s not included
The boundaries, stated up front.
Knowing where a service stops matters as much as knowing what it covers. Here’s what sits outside this engagement - so there are no awkward surprises later.
Custom model training or data science
We deploy and govern Microsoft 365 Copilot and practical AI workflows. Bespoke model training and data-science builds are a different discipline we'll scope separately.
Copilot over an ungoverned tenant
Copilot is only as safe as your permissions and data sprawl. We won't switch it on before the readiness work is done - that's by design, not an upsell.
Headcount reduction plans
We use AI to remove drudgery and speed up work, not to pitch cutting your team. The governance guardrails matter more than the hype.
How we deliver
A sequence you can hold us to.
Every engagement runs the same four steps. You always know which one we’re in and what comes next.
- 01
Scope
We map your current state and agree exactly what's in and out, in writing, before any work or invoice. No surprise scope, no silent exclusions.
- 02
Plan
A documented plan with milestones, owners, and success criteria you can hold us to - so you know what good looks like before we start.
- 03
Implement
We do the work with change control and your sign-off at each gate. You see progress against the plan, not a black box.
- 04
Operate
Ongoing management, published performance, and a quarterly review that keeps the work honest and the roadmap current.
Frequently asked
The questions we get most.
Is Copilot worth the licence cost?
For knowledge workers who spend meaningful time in Outlook, Teams meetings, Word, and Excel - yes, usually. For rank-and-file task workers, often not. We start by identifying the 20-30% of your team where the ROI is clearest.
What about data governance?
Copilot respects your existing Microsoft 365 permissions - which means if your SharePoint permissions are a mess, Copilot will surface that. Pre-deployment data hygiene is a real part of the scope, and we'll be honest about it.
Are you AI consultants or IT consultants?
IT consultants who've done serious AI work. Our scope is pragmatic adoption inside Microsoft 365 - not building LLM products, fine-tuning models, or standing up AI infrastructure. If that's what you need, we'll refer you.
Tools we use
What we run for ai & copilot
The platforms we standardise on for this service. Picked for fit, not for kickbacks.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft
The identity, productivity, and cloud platform we manage for every client - from M365 to Azure to Entra ID.
View partnerMicrosoft 365
Orchestry
Microsoft 365 governance and self-service provisioning - templates, naming, lifecycle policies, and workspace cleanup that teams actually adopt.
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Let’s talk. We’ll be straight.
Tell us what your IT setup looks like and what’s not working. We’ll give you a straight answer, a written quote, and a start date - no pitch deck, no discovery call required.
- A human answers, not a ticket queue
- No lock-in contracts, ever
- We’ll tell you if we’re not the right fit