A financial firm has dozens of documents in force: general terms of service contracts, product rules, anti-money laundering procedures, a complaint handling procedure, an internal control policy. They are kept in SharePoint across several libraries, and some old versions still sit in employees' OneDrive and Outlook attachments. A new relationship manager who gets a question about an early termination fee asks a colleague in Teams, the colleague answers from memory, and the answer sometimes matches last year's version. The compliance department gets the same question about enhanced due diligence thresholds every week, and a note with the wrong term stays in the customer record in Dynamics 365.
The Copilot Studio agent runs in your Microsoft 365 tenant as a chat in Teams. An employee asks a question, the agent searches only approved SharePoint libraries that the employee can see under their Entra ID permissions, and answers with a quote from the document, the clause number and a link to the current version. If the question concerns a specific customer, the agent names the procedure and the responsible department but does not make the decision. If the topic is not covered in a document, the agent says it has no answer instead of guessing. Document owners control which libraries are included, and outdated versions do not enter search. Data stays in your tenant, is not used to train the model, and questions and answers are logged where the compliance department can see them.