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Field Notes from the Frontier
Personal Intelligence Hub · v5
Field notes
from the AI frontier.
A tactical hub for the Microsoft Copilot, Cowork, and Scout era. Curated by one operator, refreshed weekly, sourced only from official Microsoft properties. No marketing fluff. No vendor noise. Just the signals worth knowing.
Live tools
10 tools online · click to openLive
Intelligence briefing on the latest Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, and Scout news. Twenty items in the current edition, refreshed on the 1st and 15th, sourced exclusively from Microsoft's own properties.
Latest in this briefing
30 JUL
Domain exclusion for web grounding — admins can block up to 1,000 sites from Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat answers
30 JUL
Scout 0.23.578 — retrieves Teams meeting transcripts, finds and books meeting rooms, and drafts meetings for review
29 JUL
Copilot Chat gains screenshot capture — plus SharePoint Lists grounding through Context IQ and email attachment lookup
24 JUL
Claude Opus 5 in Copilot — rolling out in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, Cowork, and Copilot Studio
22 JUL
Anthropic models reach GCC — an opt-in, default-off admin setting for non-federal Government Community Cloud tenants
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M365 Roadmap
Rolling out + Launched across Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint.
28 items tracked →
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Demo Presenter
Three end-to-end demo scripts for end users. One QBR scenario — Chat, Copilot, Cowork.
~30 min each →
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Chat Summary
Quick briefings of Teams channels and chats. Drop a name or ID, get the summary.
Open →
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Build 2026 Briefing
Everything that shipped at Microsoft Build 2026, across five tracks — Copilot, Foundry, Dev Tools, Windows, Data.
24 items tracked →
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Demo Forge
Build ready-to-deliver Copilot demo scripts — 10 scenarios, three audience cuts, live presenter mode.
10 scenarios →
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Model Map
Which AI provider powers each Copilot surface, who governs the data, and what changes in EU or government tenants.
Answer "where does my data go" →
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Frontier Map
What's in Copilot early access, how long it's actually sat there, and which prerequisite your customer's tenant fails.
30 features · no invented dates →
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Agent 365 Planner
Score readiness across six governance pillars, generate the action plan, build the naming convention, and walk the first 90 days.
24-point assessment · rollout kit →
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Objection Atlas
Every Copilot objection mapped — what they said, what they mean, what to ask, what to say. Ride-Along mode for live calls, Drill mode for reps.
41 objections · 8 territories →
01 — Posture
Field-tested.
Every tool here exists because it solves a real problem in a real Microsoft partner field-sales motion. If it stops being useful, it gets cut.
02 — Method
Curated, not crawled.
News is hand-picked from Microsoft's blogs, Tech Community, Learn, Partner Center, and Build content. Nothing scraped from the wider internet.
03 — Cadence
Frontier-current.
Briefings refresh weekly. New tools graduate from the workshop when they're ready, not when a calendar says so. Built for the AI frontier, not for last quarter.
Workshop roadmap
5 tools in developmentQ3 2026 · Up next
Estimated launch within 60 days
🛰️Scout Radar
⚙️Cowork Radar
Q4 2026 · On deck
Estimated launch later this year
🤖Agent Radar
2027 · Planned
Concept phase
☀️Daily Briefing
📋M365 Release Notes
Recent activity
Last 7 changes across the hub
Site log
7 entries
30 JUL 2026
Agent 365 Planner
Launched as Live tool — six-pillar readiness assessment with generated action plan, governance checklist, naming convention builder, 30-60-90 rollout kit, and build-path decider.
18 JUL 2026
Demo Forge
Launched as Live tool — script builder with 10 field-sales scenarios, smart re-timing for 5/15/30-minute slots, and a full-screen presenter mode with pace tracking.
11 JUL 2026
Copilot Radar
Briefing refreshed to 20 items — GPT-5.6 across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cowork, the Copilot partner specialization rename, and Claude Sonnet 5 in Copilot; hub live strip synced.
06 JUL 2026
Hub
v5 rebrand shipped — circuit-glyph logo across all pages, dark mode default, social share cards, branded 404, and new favicons.
30 JUN 2026
Copilot Radar
Briefing expanded to 28 items — M365 Copilot partner specialization rename (July) and Finance Agent public preview added.
30 JUN 2026
M365 Roadmap
Expanded to 28 items — Teams Meeting Recap app, Meeting-chats sections, no-transcript recap, "Edit with Copilot" for GCC High, and Copilot in SharePoint.
29 JUN 2026
Copilot Radar
Briefing refreshed — five new June items: FLUX.2 in PowerPoint, Copilot editing in PowerPoint, Outlook inline rewrite, new connectors, and DLP for local files.