Creating custom AI Copilots with Microsoft Copilot Studio

Artificial intelligence has risen to become one of the headline technologies of the 2020s. With the introduction of AI tools such as ChatGPT, it’s becoming more important than ever to look at how you can integrate AI into your organisation. Microsoft has been at the forefront of this revolution, empowering its Copilot assistant with GPT technology.

Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s newest tool to help you create your own AI assistants to deploy within your business. Instead of using stock assistants, Copilot Studio empowers you to take advantage of a more personalised AI assistant to take your AI to the next level.

In this article, Extech Cloud will cover the ins and outs of Copilot Studio, as well as how you can get started with AI copilot. We’ll also take a look at some key applications, to show you how you can use Copilot Studio in your organisation.

What is Microsoft Copilot Studio?

Microsoft Copilot Studio is a tool that lets you create and customise AI assistants, known as copilots. They are made to help you navigate Microsoft 365 ecosystems but are also commonly used to create online chatbots for customer service on websites.

While previously, setting this up would require lots of technical knowledge, Microsoft Copilot Studio is an easy-to-use graphical interface that requires no code knowledge to use. This means that no matter your technical skill, you can take advantage of the power of Microsoft Copilot Studio to benefit your business.

Here are the key features of Microsoft Copilot Studio:

• Generative AI: Copilot Studio can use LLMs to let you take advantage of highly customisable generative AI, so you can easily utilise natural language in a day-to-day setting with your assistant.
• Customisation: Copilots are fully customisable, meaning you can tailor yours to your organisation’s specific needs. By integrating your data and workflow, you can ensure Copilot meets the requirements for your organisation.
• Analytics: Copilot Studio has built-in analytics that help track performance so that you can leverage the data to better understand – and improve – your copilots.
• Low-code: As previously mentioned, Microsoft Copilot Studio is a low-code program, meaning you can develop a copilot with ease. No technical knowledge is needed at all, even for more advanced copilots.
• Integration: Microsoft Copilot Studio integrates with the rest of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, so you can use it seamlessly within your organisation’s other 365 tools.

Copilot Studio takes the power of AI and puts it into your hands, letting you customise it to your business and ensure it works in the manner that’s best for your organisation.

The Process of Creating an AI Copilot

Now you know why you should be using Microsoft Copilot, let’s take a look at how you can create your own AI Copilot within Microsoft Copilot Studio.

1. Creating your copilot: The first step is using the conversational creation page to create your assistant. Doing this is as simple as typing what your Copilot should do into the relevant box. There are also templates you can use to make the process even easier.
2. Configuring your copilot: Once you’ve gone through the process of creating your copilot, you can then configure it on the configure page. You can create more in-depth triggers and topics to customise your copilot for your needs.
3. Topics: Topics are specific decision trees that you can use to further customise your copilot. By using triggers (questions/phrases inputted by the user) and responses to those triggers, you can easily make functions for your copilot.
4. Connecting Data: The next step is to connect to whatever data sources you want to connect to. This will let you use your own organisational data to empower your copilot, making it smarter. You can use your own website, Sharepoint, or other organisational data.
5. Test and Publish: After configuring and connecting your data, you can then test your copilot within the built-in simulator to ensure it works correctly. After refinement, you can eventually publish it – and you’ll have a functioning copilot.

Industry Use Cases

Copilot Studio is a flexible tool that has a lot of different uses in a lot of different industries. Here are some of the most common or best use cases for a custom copilot:

• Customer Service: You can use Copilot Studio to make a customer service bot that can answer customer questions, such as product or account information enquiries, or suggest recommendations.
• Education: Copilot Studio can be used for educational and training purposes, both from a student’s and an educator’s perspective. Students can use copilots to take quizzes, provide feedback, and learn more, whereas educators can use copilots to track performance and create more tailored ways of learning.
• Marketing: With Copilot Studio, there are a lot of different ways you can impact the marketing industry. AI excels at lead generation and content creation, so you can use a copilot to excel at both of those aspects of marketing.
• Finance: Copilot Studio lets you create highly customised finance copilots that can answer basic loan and investment questions, or help find detailed information about accounts, products, and other important financial information from your organisation’s data.

How To Get Started

With Microsoft Copilot Studio, you can create highly personalised and detailed bots that can truly take your business to the next level. Your copilot will be tailored to your needs, with the ability to complete specific tasks that you set. All of this is so easy to do and requires no prior coding experience.

To get started with Copilot Studio, reach out to Extech Cloud today. We’ll be able to get you started and provide you with a helping hand. Our experts are here around the clock and will give you support on anything you need.

Get in touch with us now and see how we can help.