What is Workflow copilot?
An assistant inside the tools people already use. The value is in not being a fifth place to go and ask.
They already have four systems open. A capable assistant that lives in a fifth window is a capable assistant nobody opens, and adoption metrics will not tell you that for six months. The design constraint is therefore where it sits, not what it can do.
The stronger version of this is a platform rather than a single copilot. On a delivered enterprise deployment, deployment time for each new use case fell 40% and analyst throughput rose 35% - because extraction, access rules and review stopped being rebuilt per use case. Lead with the structure, not the assistant.
| On this | Workflow copilot | A standalone chat interface |
|---|---|---|
| Where the user is | In the system they were already working in | In a new tab they have to remember to open |
| What it can see | The record in front of the user, with their permissions | Whatever was pasted into it |
| Cost of the second use case | Configuration, if the foundations were done once | A second build |
- When it is the right answer
- When the work is drafting, summarising or answering inside an existing process - and when you expect a second and third use case to follow.
- The service line that delivers this
- Workflow Copilots & Agents
They already have four systems open. Nobody wants a fifth place to go and ask.
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