u/DamoBird365

I’ve been playing with Cowork which I appreciate is frontier/preview but in doing so, I’ve realised that because it’s task driven, it can be scheduled and it can create content, you can use it to trawl your favourite channels, chats, etc (the Work IQ content) that’s specific to your role and produce a weekly newsletter as an html file / email or potentially even a podcast style transcript. At this moment in time Cowork can’t create audio output (often known as TTS or text to speech) but there are TTS services. Microsoft have their own TTS on Azure and based on traditional Cloud Flows, you can trigger when a file is created by Cowork and if it’s a transcript, send it to TTS and get a daily or weekly podcast. There are many other TTS platforms, like Elevenlabs but the fact is Microsoft can host it all, data is secure and doesn’t leave your workplace.

I’ll be honest, I produce video demos on my YouTube but I love to explore and demo builds that enable folk to do more with their work. Not everyone has access to these things, is it just cool? Futuristic? Just show me it working? Show me how it’s built? Or nah, I’m not interested in an 8am podcast about my upcoming day or interests in a team channel? I’m just looking forward to Friday evening 🤭

The "Flow" era is evolving. Welcome to the "Agent-First" era. 🤖

I’ve just spent some time with the brand-new Copilot Studio Workflow Interface, and it’s clear: Microsoft is moving us toward a massive shift in development experience.

It’s no longer just about linear steps; it’s about a tightly integrated UI where Prompts, Agents, and Microsoft 365 Copilot live together. This makes building sophisticated, grounded workflows significantly faster.