The agentic workforce: agents & automation
Human–agent teams working together at scale

As organisations move beyond experimentation, the challenge shifts from trying agents to running them safely at scale.
We help teams identify the right use cases, build agents and automations, and move them into live service with clear ownership and controls.
From discovery to deployment, we create a repeatable route for building, managing and improving agents over time.
Why this matters now? Agents are becoming part of everyday work, but most organisations are still working out where they fit. Organisations are asking:
- Where could agents make the biggest difference to everyday work?
- Which use cases are worth building first?
- Who owns agents once they move into live service?
- What controls do we need before agent use grows?
- How do we avoid fragmented pilots and create repeatable patterns?
Agent playbook
What this helps you do:
Identify and prioritise the agent opportunities most likely to solve real business problems.
Define clear outcomes, scope, ownership and guardrails before development begins, then create a practical roadmap for what to build first.
The outcome:
A prioritised set of agent use cases, clear success measures and a practical roadmap for what to build first.
What this includes:
- Use case discovery and prioritisation: Identify where agents could solve meaningful business problems and assess viability.
- Success measures: Define what each agent needs to achieve and how you will judge whether it works.
- Scope and guardrails: Agree what the agent can do, what it cannot do and where people remain responsible.
- Knowledge and data readiness: Understand what information the agent depends on and who owns it.
- Delivery roadmap: Create a practical route from selected use case to design, build and testing.
Agent academy
What this helps you do:
Build the practical skills and standards people need to create agents responsibly.
Support makers, champions and business teams to identify useful opportunities, build within agreed controls and improve their capability over time.
The outcome:
A capable internal community that can build agents to agreed standards and reduce reliance on isolated experiments.
What this includes:
- Agent mastery learning pathways and certification to develop skills across Microsoft Agent Builder and Copilot Studio.
- Lifecycle thinking to enable safe, consistent and reusable agent delivery, no matter who builds them.
- Agent Accelerator Network to create a self-sustaining community that drives innovation, scales capability and unlocks AI-powered transformation enterprise-wide.
- Capability coaching and mentoring to build expertise, improve delivery quality and scale with confidence.
- Cohort-based learning pathways and certification to build expertise, recognise achievement and develop agent mastery.
Copilot studio & power platform solutions
What this helps you do:
Design and build practical agents, apps and automations that remove friction from everyday work. From knowledge retrieval and policy support to onboarding, reporting and service desk workflows, we help turn priority use cases into working solutions.
The outcome:
Targeted Microsoft-powered solutions that reduce manual effort, improve access to information and help teams complete routine work faster and more consistently.
What this includes:
- Solution design to turn high-value opportunities into practical, outcome-focused delivery roadmaps.
- Copilot Studio agent development and orchestration to create trusted agents that support real business processes and user needs.
- Power Platform solution development to build apps, workflows and automations that modernise and streamline existing processes.
- Solution assurance and quality controls to validate, test and deploy solutions with confidence.
- Continuous improvement to support the evergreen agent lifecycle, wider adoption and optimise performance to maximise long-term value.
Production readiness & route-to-live pipeline
What this helps you do:
Move agents and automations from prototype to live service safely. Put the testing, approval, ownership, and release processes in place so solutions can be deployed with less risk and more consistency.
The outcome:
A clear, repeatable route into live service with stronger controls, lower delivery risk and defined operational ownership.
What this includes:
- Platform and pipeline engineering to set up the environments, automation, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps foundations needed to deliver agents and digital solutions consistently.
- Production readiness and deployment planning to prepare agents and solutions for live service through testing, approvals, release planning and operational checks.
- Enterprise delivery enablement to embed repeatable delivery practices, release processes and quality controls that help teams move solutions into production.
- Environment, release and governance management to put the controls, monitoring, security and operational processes in place to manage deployments and maintain compliance.
Agent governance
What this helps you do:
As agent use grows, clear ownership and lifecycle controls become more important. Establish policies, monitoring and review processes so agents remain secure, compliant and useful.
The outcome:
A governed agent ecosystem with clear accountability, reduced risk and stronger trust in how agents are built, used, monitored and improved.
What this includes:
- Agent 365 deployment and governance: implement Agent 365 and establish the controls, policies and oversight needed to manage agents at scale.
- Agent inventory and lifecycle management: create a centrally managed agent portfolio with clear ownership, approval processes and lifecycle controls.
- Monitoring, security and compliance: establish dashboards, reporting and guardrails to ensure agents remain secure, compliant and operationally effective.
- Value measurement and continuous improvement: track business outcomes, identify optimisation opportunities and support the ongoing growth of your agent ecosystem.
Who this is for
Designed for:
Microsoft expertise, made practical
The Inform Team is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for AI Business Solutions, with Microsoft 365 Copilot Specialisation and Microsoft Adoption and Change Management Advanced Specialisation.
We combine Microsoft expertise with practical adoption experience and people-led change, helping organisations turn Microsoft 365, Copilot and AI into everyday value.


Ready to scale agents with confidence?
Identify the right use cases, understand the controls you need and create a practical route into live service.
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