AI advisory
Which AI tool should our company use?
It depends on where your data is allowed to go, what you already pay for, and what you want it to do. For most offices already in Microsoft 365, the honest first answer is the one you are already licensed for, configured properly.
Answered by Ryan Sanders, Partnership Director
The question behind the question
People asking this usually mean "which one is best", and the platforms are close enough on capability that the answer is almost never about capability. It is about custody of your data, what you are already paying for, and which one your IT company can actually administer and audit.
Start with what you own
If your business runs on Microsoft 365, you may already be licensed for a capable tool that inherits your tenant's retention, access and audit rules. That is a real advantage: it means the AI is governed by the same rules as your email rather than sitting outside them. Prove the value there before adding a second subscription and a second login.
When something else is the right answer
Plenty of times. A different platform may handle long documents better, cost less at your headcount, or be the one your industry's software already integrates with. We compare the major platforms on data handling, retention, compliance evidence and cost, and we tell you which document each answer came from so you can check the reasoning rather than trust it.
Whatever you pick, name it
The decision is not finished until it is written down as an approved tool in a one-page policy. Otherwise the answer to "which tool does this company use" is "all of them", which is the situation you were trying to fix.
Consumer AI tools send whatever you paste out of the building. Enterprise editions keep it in your tenant. The policy has to say which is which.
An AI policy in two pages TechnologyCopilot in a small office earns its keep on meeting notes and finding documents. It is not for numbers that have to be right.
What Copilot is good forPeople also ask
Which AI tools are our employees using right now?
Almost certainly more than leadership thinks. Between a staff survey, what is switched on by default in your tenant, and what your industry software has quietly added, we can establish a real starting point instead of an assumed clean one.
The full answerWhy are our technology costs going up if we are not using AI?
Because the security floor rose permanently, AI data centre demand is pushing up hardware, cloud and software pricing across the industry, and compliance now carries real documentation overhead. None of those require you to use AI.
The full answerWhat is AI advisory, and what do we actually get?
An assessment of where AI fits your business, which platforms are safe for your data, a written policy, training, and software when you need it. It runs as a program with a named advisor, not a one-off meeting, and a login to our advisory library comes with it.
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