AI
best practice
Scale Operations Using Specialized Multi-Step AI Agents
Scale your productivity by building custom, automated task agents.
Build or use specialized AI agents within the Copilot ecosystem to automate repetitive, multi-step workflows across your business systems.
Microsoft Copilot
The Scenario
You have a recurring weekly task that involves checking data across multiple files and notifying different stakeholders based on the results.
Before & after
The old way
Manually executing repetitive tasks like gathering data from a spreadsheet and drafting multiple status reports takes 2–3 hours every week.
With AI
With specialized agents, you can automate these multi-step processes, reducing the effort to a simple trigger that takes seconds to execute.
The Prompt
Create a plan to automate my [DESCRIBE_REPETITIVE_TASK] using a specialized agent. What steps should the agent follow?
Agents extend Copilot to complete work by automating repetitive tasks and executing multi-step actions with minimal setup.
Source
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft Adoption"Agents are specialized AI assistants that extend Copilot to complete work by automating repetitive tasks and executing multi-step actions."