PLATFORM · MICROSOFT · COPILOT

Copilot per user per month
on top of every E5 seat.

Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Copilot for Sales — every flavour adds another per-user line, and every hire adds it again. You do not have to open by cancelling it. Start by building the same surface beside it.

  • You own the prompts and the evals
  • No per-user Copilot fee
  • Runs where you choose
The estatereplaceable
  • Microsoft 365 CopilotProductivity surface
  • Copilot StudioAgent runtime
  • Copilot for Sales · ServiceCode drafting
  • GitHub Copilot EnterpriseGrounding index
  • SharePoint · TeamsModel layer
  • Microsoft PurviewAudit-trail ledger
M365 Copilot · Copilot Studio · Copilot for Sales · GitHub Copilotyours on commit one
Why this domain exists

You are not buying an assistant.
You are renting one seat at a time.

The capability is real. Its commercial shape is: almost every Copilot line bills per user, so cost tracks headcount, not work done.

Copilot is the productivity-AI surface across the Microsoft estate — Microsoft 365 Copilot in Office, Copilot Studio on Power Platform for custom agents, Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service on Dynamics 365, GitHub Copilot for engineers. Every flavour is licensed per user per month on top of the E5 or Dynamics 365 seat already held, so the bill tracks headcount rather than value.

Priced per user, per flavour

Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service and GitHub Copilot each license separately per user. Coverage grows by adding flavours, so the bill grows with the org chart.

Stacked on a seat you already bought

Each line sits on top of the E5 or Dynamics 365 seat already in place. Small on its own; together a procurement category with its own budget owner.

Bound to the vendor's tenant

Agents built in Copilot Studio and audit records held in Microsoft Purview are portable in principle and expensive in practice. That asymmetry sits on the vendor's side of the table, not yours.

Seat stackMicrosoft's published licensing model. The stack is theirs, not ours.
Per user, per flavourEach Copilot flavour prices onto the same seat again.
  1. The seat you already bought
  2. A Copilot flavour priced per user onto it
  3. And the next flavour, onto the same user again
STAGE 01Ignite

Build a surface that bills on nothing per head.

A productivity-AI layer of your own, grounded on your own knowledge base, running next to Copilot. Nothing retired, no seat-count change — the Microsoft agreement is untouched on day one.

Productivity-AI surface

Doc drafting, summarisation and conversational search against the content your people already work in, with prompts and an eval suite your team can re-run.

Runs beside Microsoft 365 Copilot

Grounding on your own knowledge base

Retrieval over the documents, threads and records you already hold, so answers are grounded where the content lives rather than where the vendor indexes it.

Reads SharePoint, Teams and the systems around them

Model choice

Pick the foundation model that fits the workflow — Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source, on-premises — and swap it without a vendor migration.

Runs beside Microsoft 365 Copilot

Audit-trail ledger

Every prompt, every completion and every workflow change logged on infrastructure you operate. Evidence gathering becomes continuous instead of quarterly.

Runs beside Microsoft Purview

STAGE 02Reforge

What your team already built on Copilot, rebuilt as software you own.

The agents, topics and knowledge connectors your business configured, the code-drafting rules your engineers tuned, and the audit plumbing around both. Same logic, modern substrate — no billing per head.

IN — what you run today
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Copilot Studio
  • Copilot for Sales · Service
  • GitHub Copilot Enterprise
  • SharePoint · Teams
  • Microsoft Purview
SAIF

the saasinator AI Factory — glass-walled delivery

  • Brief
  • Build
  • Evals
  • Deploy
  • Transfer
OUT — what you own afterwards
  • Productivity surface
  • Agent runtime
  • Code drafting
  • Grounding index
  • Model layer
  • Audit-trail ledger

Product names are Microsoft's own. What comes out the other side is yours — source, models, prompts, evals and pipeline, transferred on commit one.

Copilot Studio agent rebuild

The agents, topics and knowledge connectors your business has already built, rebuilt as versioned software your platform team operates rather than as per-flow line items.

Copilot Studio · Power Platform

Code-drafting rebuild

Repo-aware completions and review agents tuned to your style guide and your CI gates, running on tooling your engineers own and can extend.

GitHub Copilot Enterprise · Copilot Workspace

Sales and service agent rebuild

Call summarisation, deal coaching and case triage rebuilt against your CRM data, without a premium seat tier standing between your team and the workflow.

Copilot for Sales · Copilot for Service

Audit plumbing rebuild

The records that show how a model decided and who approved it, rebuilt on infrastructure your governance team controls rather than inside the tenant.

Microsoft Purview

Coverage

Four surfaces. The same pattern in each.

Wherever the seat count is highest is where the per-user line bites hardest. These are the surfaces we rebuild, and what sits inside each.

Productivity surface
  • Doc drafting and summarisation on your own content
  • Conversational search over SharePoint and Teams data
  • Prompts and eval suite your team edits directly
Agent builder
  • Agents, topics and knowledge connectors as versioned software
  • Tool use and action grants your platform team owns
  • No per-flow charge for an agent your business wrote
Engineering
  • Repo-aware completions tuned to your style guide
  • Review agents gated by your CI, not a vendor runtime
  • The code your team reviews is the code that ships
Governance
  • Every prompt, completion and workflow change logged
  • Audit records held in your stack, not only the tenant
  • Model choice recorded per workflow
Functional areas this domain touches
STAGE 03Liberate

The add-on comes out. The workflows stay — as software you own.

Liberation is earned, not sold. By the time the Copilot line comes off the seat, you have watched us build the surface. Then hiring stops being an AI licensing event.

The licence ledger

Illustrative

The commercial shape of an AI add-on, as a buyer reads it

Basis of charge
Per user, per month, per flavour, on top of the base seat. Headcount is the meter, not usage.
Discount condition
Conditional on the term of the underlying agreement and on committing across licence, cloud and support together.
Add-on structure
Each assistant and each premium tier prices separately on top of the seat already bought.
On exit
Agents, topics, connectors and audit records sit inside the vendor's tenant — not in an asset you hold.
Cost of staying————

Shape only — the direction of travel, not a quantity. Your own curve comes from your own renewal schedule and your own headcount plan.

Illustrative. This is our reading of a commercial pattern, not a quotation from any Microsoft agreement — no contract text, no clause references, no figures.

Microsoft 365 Copilot replacement

The productivity surface across drafting, summarisation and search, running on software you own and retired into only once it is carrying the work.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot Studio replacement

The agent-building surface itself, owned outright, so writing an agent stops being a per-flow purchase order.

Copilot Studio · Power Platform

Dynamics 365 Copilot replacement

Sales and service assistance rebuilt on your CRM data, so reaching your own customers is not priced per premium seat.

Dynamics 365 Copilot · Copilot for Sales · Copilot for Service

GitHub Copilot replacement

Completions, review agents and workspace tooling running on infrastructure your engineers operate, with the per-seat line off the engineering budget.

GitHub Copilot Enterprise · Copilot Workspace

How it is built

Glass-walled from brief to transfer. Nothing behind a black box.

SAIF is our delivery method and it runs in the open. You watch the build as it happens, read the evals that gate every release, and keep every artefact — including the ones that record what did not work.

  1. 01

    Brief

    One workflow, scoped against your own data and your own renewal position.

  2. 02

    Build

    Agentic delivery against your systems, visible while it runs.

  3. 03

    Evals

    Every release gated on tests you can read and re-run yourself.

  4. 04

    Deploy

    Into infrastructure you control, alongside the system it stands beside.

  5. 05

    Transfer

    Your team runs it. We do not leave until they can.

You own it from commit one

Source, models, prompts, evals and pipeline. Not a licence to use what we built — the asset itself.

Two weeks to a working build

A working build against your own systems in two weeks. Fixed scope, fixed bill.

It runs beside the Copilot seat first

Nothing is retired on faith. The Copilot seat goes when the replacement is carrying the work.

Proof

What we will put in writing.

100%
IP transferred on commit one
0
per-user Copilot fees
2 weeks
to a working build · fixed scope, fixed bill
Our commitment

Every engagement starts with a scoped working build against your own systems. If it doesn't convince you, you pay nothing — and you keep the code either way.

The ask

Bring one Copilot use case and your seat count.

Ten working days. Which capability to build first, what the per-user line adds as you hire, and what owning the same outcome costs to build. You keep the analysis.

Fixed feeTen working daysNo commitment beyond the diagnostic