Optimize your workflow with Copilot Chat's work grounded data
Get answers using Copilot Chat grounded in work mode
Note
To use Copilot Chat grounded in work mode, you must have an active Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
When you select work mode, Copilot Chat can help you catch up with tasks, emails, and meetings you missed. It helps you find supporting documents and information and draft content, all from the Teams interface.
How does it work?
When you're working with work-grounded data in Copilot Chat, your prompts are grounded in the LLM and contextualized with your business data and apps. Copilot Chat surfaces the information and insights that you need into the chat experience directly from your organization's data using Microsoft Graph.
Important
Microsoft Copilot Chat is designed to keep your data safe and secure. It follows strict privacy rules, ensures only authorized users can access information, and uses advanced security measures to block harmful content and protect against unauthorized access. With these protections in place, you can trust Copilot Chat to handle your data securely and reliably. This means that you only have access to files and sites in your organization to which you've been granted access. All files you create are protected, and only people who you grant access can view them.
What is Microsoft Graph?
Microsoft Graph is essentially the connective tissue that binds all your Microsoft 365 services and data together. Microsoft 365 Copilot applies Microsoft Graph to synthesize and search content from multiple sources within your tenant. The Microsoft Graph API brings more context from user signals into the prompt, such as information from emails, chats, documents, and meetings.
Microsoft Graph brings this information together so that users don't need to navigate away or switch apps. It enables Microsoft 365 Copilot to bring the relevant information to you. When doing so, Microsoft 365 Copilot takes into account Microsoft 365 user permissions, data security, and compliance policies. It only generates responses based on the information the user has permission to access.
How can Copilot Chat work for me?
Copilot Chat grounded in work data can help you stay ahead with all of your communications, streamline various aspects of your work, and provide suggestions based on the context of your work. Here are some common use cases:
| Scenario | Prompt |
|---|---|
| You need to prepare for your day, and want to summarize emails and chats from yesterday. | Summarize all the emails and teams chats in the past day highlighting the primary asks and open items. |
| You have several new emails from third parties in relation to your new product launch. Instead of reading through each email, you can ask Copilot Chat to summarize recent emails about the product launch. | Summarize the recent email threads about the new product launch and list action items. |
| You need to prepare for an upcoming meeting about the product launch. Use Copilot Chat to search for information on the launch across emails, meetings, files, and internal articles. | Find information on [product launch for x]. |
| You want to prepare for a 1:1 meeting with your manager. | Help me prepare for my meeting by summarizing emails and chats with /[your manager's name]. |
| Use Copilot to generate an update for the team that summarizes the day's progress and project status | Draft a message to my team with the current status [items opened/items outstanding/items closed] of [the project name] based upon the emails and Teams messages received in the last 24 hours. |
| You want to get caught up on a timeline for your project, and look at any possible risks for completion | What is the next milestone on [a project]? Are there any risks? Help me brainstorm a list of some potential mitigations. |
| You want to draft a planning overview based on an email you received, but want to ensure it's formatted and maintains the same tone as a previous document you authored. | Write a planning overview in the style of [a file] that contains the timeline from [a different file] and incorporates the project list in the email from [a person]. |
Once Copilot generates a response, select the sources to understand how the response was cited. AI-generated content may be incorrect, so sources are provided for you to review when possible.