Is Your Tenant Ready for Copilot, or Only Licensed for It?
Six weighted pillars, thirty capabilities. Record what is genuinely true in your estate today and receive a substantiated tier, the gate holding the next one closed, the five highest-cost gaps, and a ninety-day plan sequenced from the blocking pillar. Begin below.
A Model You Can Defend to a Risk Committee
Each pillar is scored from zero to one hundred and weighted according to how frequently it halts a rollout. The overall figure is the weighted average. The tier is not: it is gated, which is the substantive difference.
| Pillar | Weight | What it decides |
|---|---|---|
| Identity & Secure Foundation | 20% | Whether Copilot amplifies the access model or the access problems within it. Entra, Conditional Access, privileged access, Intune compliance, and Defender signal ownership. |
| Licensing & Commercial Readiness | 12% | Whether the spend survives renewal. Licence inventory against prerequisites, a named budget owner, persona-led allocation, metered agent consumption, and a measurement baseline. |
| Data Governance & Oversharing | 22% | The heaviest weighting, as it is the most common reason a pilot is paused. Measured oversharing, Purview labels, DLP across Copilot-readable workloads, retention, and SharePoint Advanced Management. |
| Workload & Content Estate | 14% | Whether the content Copilot requires is reachable. Migration completeness, sprawl under a provisioning model, Graph connectors, and current search relevance. |
| Adoption, Change & Value | 18% | Whether deployed licences translate into measured behaviour change. Quantified use cases, an actively using sponsor, champions, monthly reporting, and acceptable-use guidance. |
| Agents, Extensibility & Governance | 14% | Whether agents constitute an asset or an ungoverned surface. An AI policy with a named owner, intake gates, an agent register, auditability, and a framework mapping. |
The tier is capped by the weakest foundation, not raised by the strongest capability. A tenant with exceptional adoption and unmeasured oversharing is not tier three; it is tier one with an unresolved and expensive exposure. The gating is deliberately strict, because the operating conditions are.
From Pre-Foundation to an AI Operating Model
Each tier opens only when the pillars beneath it clear their threshold. Most organisations that describe themselves as well advanced with Copilot assess at tier one or two on first completion.
Pre-Foundation & Secure Foundation
Identity, privileged access, device compliance, and licence discipline. Nothing above this tier holds until access control does. Copilot introduces no new permissions; it makes the existing ones fast to exercise.
Data Ready & Copilot Productive
Oversharing measured and remediated, the content estate reachable in the Graph, and adoption that is managed and measured rather than announced. This is the point at which value becomes quantifiable.
Agentic Enterprise & AI Operating Model
Governed agents running production workflows under an owned AI policy with an audit trail, and ultimately an organisation in which AI is the operating method, extended by the business within guard rails it trusts.
From Snapshot to an Approved Roadmap
The free assessment establishes a substantiated position in three minutes. The engagement converts it into evidence: measured findings from your tenant, licence modelling against your agreement, and a plan with owners and budgets.
The Full Readiness Engagement
A tenant-level diagnostic delivered as a board-ready readout:
- Oversharing report across SharePoint and OneDrive, with documented findings and remediation sequenced by risk
- Licence modelling on real headcount — E3 versus E5 prerequisites, persona allocation, agent consumption
- Identity, Conditional Access, and device compliance gap analysis against your intended Copilot cohort
- Use cases scored by return and time-to-value rather than by internal enthusiasm
- A governance spine mapped to NIST AI RMF or ISO/IEC 42001, with the gaps logged as a tracked backlog
- A phased roadmap with owners, budgets, and quarterly checkpoints
Delivered, Not Handed Over
Remediation, controlled rollout, champions enablement, and the first governed agents, led by the same person who produced the assessment. Monthly value reporting to the sponsor, quarterly agent review, and a renewal case built on measured evidence rather than anecdote.
Strategy, governance, and delivery under one accountable engagement, so that the findings are acted upon rather than filed.
Find Your Tier, Then Close the Gate
Three minutes, thirty candid answers, and a plan that begins at the actual constraint.