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Agent Platform Advisor

Answer a few questions about what you want to do with an agent, and we’ll recommend the Microsoft platform that best fits your needs.

The advisor compares the options below. Select Get started to find the platform that fits your scenario.

Use an agent

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Use secure AI chat to get answers, create content, and uncover insights in seconds

Cowork

Describe the outcome you want, and it works across email, meetings, messages, files, and data

Scout

Use an always-on agent with its own identity that acts autonomously and is grounded in enterprise data

Build an agent

Agent Builder

Quickly create declarative agents using natural language

Copilot Studio

Create custom agents with natural language or a graphical interface

Microsoft Foundry

A pro-code platform for building, grounding, and governing AI apps and agents at scale

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I want to find the right place to get work done

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Where should this work happen?

Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, and Scout are all places to get work done. Answer a few questions and we’ll guide you to the best starting point and where to begin inside it.

How hands-on do you want to be?

I’ll ask questions and work through it myself

I’ll delegate the whole task and receive the result

What kind of work is it?

General work — brainstorming, finding information, catching up on email and meetings, writing, and editing documents

Specialized work — deep research, data analysis, meeting facilitation, or interpretation/translation

Should it finish once and return results, or keep working over time?

Complete a multi-step task once — handle multiple deliverables or cross-system processes and return the result

Always on — manage and coordinate work across the day and follow up over time

I’m not sure yet

How far should it be able to reach?

Inside Microsoft 365 — email, meetings, files, and Teams

Across desktop, browser, local files, and command line

I’m not sure yet

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