Agent hype

Agents are everywhere.
Clarity isn't.

There's no shortage of agent demos, pilots, and proof of concepts going nowhere. The difference between real impact and wasted effort is knowing which processes to target and what type of agent to build. We start with the business case, not the technology.

Explore the three types of agent

Contextual assistants

An agent that meets you where you're already working – Teams, Outlook, Copilot, a browser – and handles a specific task when you ask it to. One human, one conversation, one job done.

The difference between this and Copilot? Copilot knows Office. A contextual assistant knows your organisation – your policies, your data, your processes. It answers from your knowledge base, logs requests in your systems, and follows your rules.

Answer questions

Product specs, HR policies, inventory levels – answered instantly from your own knowledge base, right inside Teams.

Review a document

Check a draft against your style guide, flag compliance gaps, suggest improvements – before it leaves your desk.

Log a request

Raise a ticket, flag a maintenance issue, submit a procurement request – through a conversation, not a form.

Manage a task

Set your out of office, book a meeting room, update a record – handled in seconds through a quick conversation.

Supervised agents

Agents that manage hundreds of processes at volume – the kind of work that currently takes a whole team. The agent does the heavy lifting: reading, classifying, routing, processing. Humans step in to handle exceptions or validate before anything final goes out.

This is where the serious return lives. Trust builds over time, you start with tight human oversight and widen the boundaries as confidence grows.

Not an agent

Not every problem needs an agent. Clients often come to us with agent requirements, and we regularly find that an app, a workflow, or a portal, with targeted AI behind it, delivers a better result at a fraction of the cost.

Power Platform gives you the full toolkit. We'll recommend an agent when it's the right answer, and tell you when it isn't.

Power Apps

Power Apps

Build custom apps for mobile or desktop that drive data-driven business processes. Canvas or model-driven, no heavy code required.

Power Pages

Power Pages

A powerful business-to-business portal product that integrates directly with Dataverse. Secure, authenticated, and data-connected.

Power Automate

Power Automate

Agents can operate desktop applications, but it's expensive today. Power Automate Desktop achieves the same outcome using RPA, at a fraction of the cost.

AI Builder

AI Builder

Just because you're building an app, page, or workflow doesn't mean it can't use generative AI. It's just not an agent, and that's fine.

See autonomous agents in action
80%
of Fortune 500 companies deploy active AI agents built with low-code tools
Microsoft, Feb 2026
3M+
agents built on Microsoft Power Platform in FY25
Microsoft, 2025
7 yrs
consecutive as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Low-Code Platforms
Gartner, Jul 2025
Leader
in the IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms
IDC, Jan 2026

What could agents do for your company?

The Accelerator gives you a structured way to find out. Or just talk to us.