Enabling Employees · Copilot Foundations

Stop Doing Work That AI Can Do for You.

Copilot Foundations is NovoCircle’s flagship AI Training for Business Users course — a private, cohort-based program that teaches your team to use Microsoft 365 Copilot to eliminate busywork on your real documents, data, and workflows. No coding background required.

The problem & the shift

You’re paying for AI you’re not using.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is already in your stack. Without structured training it stays a novelty — used once in a demo, then forgotten. The capability is there; the gap is knowing how to deploy it on real work.

The problem

Your best people are doing work below their pay grade

Proposal drafting. Status updates. Data formatting. Meeting notes. These tasks consume hours every week — hours that should go to decisions, relationships, and strategic work. Copilot can handle most of it, but only if your team knows how to use it.

The shift

Copilot becomes part of how your team works

The course moves Copilot from a novelty demo to a deployed capability by training your team on real work — so the tool you already pay for is actually used, and your best people get their time back for the work only they can do.

A private training program built for business users — not developers

Copilot Foundations runs across 8 hands-on sessions, delivered as a private cohort for your team and grounded in your actual documents, data, and workflows. It’s built for knowledge workers and team leads with no coding background — if you can use Microsoft 365 today, you’re ready. Cohorts are designed for teams of 8 or more — smaller team? we can work with you 1:1.

Every session is practical. Participants don’t just learn what Copilot can do — they put it to work on the real tasks eating their week, so what they learn sticks.

Built for business users

No coding, no IT background. Every session assumes business professionals and builds from there.

Private to your team

Your people only — no shared cohorts. Content is grounded in your industry, workflows, and the problems your team faces every day.

Hands-on, on real work

Not slideware. Participants work on their own documents and workflows, so Copilot becomes a habit instead of a one-time demo.

The curriculum

Eight sessions — from first prompts to working automations

The arc moves your team from a shared understanding of what Copilot can do, through identifying the right work to automate, to building reliable workflows on your real business problems. Every cohort is calibrated to your team’s roles and tools.

  • Get a shared language for AI & automation — what Copilot can and can’t do, and how it fits your Microsoft 365 environment.
  • Find your automation opportunities — map your recurring tasks and prioritize the workflows worth building first.
  • Make Copilot reliable — ground it in a knowledge base and data your team can actually trust.
  • Build with Copilot Studio — configure your first custom agents, no developer required.
  • Automate workflows — remove the manual hand-offs draining time from your team.
  • Orchestrate the work — connect automations into agents that handle multi-step processes end to end.
  • Keep humans in control — design human-in-the-loop checkpoints for the decisions that need judgment.
  • Capstone build — each participant finishes a live, working automation based on a real problem from your organization.

The exact sessions are tuned to your team. Want the full session-by-session breakdown for your roles and workflows? Book a discovery call and we’ll walk you through it.

Where and how it runs

Every cohort is private to your team and grounded in your real work. We come to you in select metros and run virtually everywhere else.

  • In person in Denver / Fort Collins and Seattle / Bellevue / Everett
  • Virtual everywhere else, with the same hands-on format
  • Private cohort — your team only, no shared classes
  • Grounded in your work — your documents, data, and workflows
Where this fits

Part of NovoCircle’s AI training for business users

Copilot Foundations is the flagship foundation course. There’s a sibling course for teams working in Claude, plus one-on-one mentoring for people who’d rather learn at their own pace.

Sibling course

Claude Foundations

A hands-on cohort for business teams ready to put Claude to work — covering Chat, Cowork, and Code, configured to your team’s actual roles and workflows.

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1:1 Mentoring

Prefer to learn at your own pace? Mentoring pairs you with a guide as you build the same skills directly on your own work.

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Questions

About Copilot Foundations

What is Copilot Foundations?
Copilot Foundations is NovoCircle’s flagship AI Training for Business Users course — a private, cohort-based program that teaches business teams to use Microsoft 365 Copilot to eliminate busywork, automate repetitive workflows, and free up capacity for higher-value work. It runs across 8 hands-on sessions and is designed for knowledge workers and team leads with no coding background.
Who is the course for?
Knowledge workers and team leads — business professionals who already work in Microsoft 365 and want to put Copilot to work on their actual documents, data, and workflows. No coding or IT background is required.
Is it in person or virtual?
Both. We deliver in person in Denver / Fort Collins and Seattle / Bellevue / Everett, and virtually everywhere else. Either way the cohort is private to your team and grounded in your real work.
Does my team need Microsoft 365 or specific licensing?
Copilot Foundations is built on Microsoft 365 Copilot, which requires Microsoft 365 licensing with Copilot capabilities. If you’re unsure whether your current subscription includes Copilot, we can help you assess that on a discovery call.
How is this different from generic AI training?
Most AI training is conceptual — it explains what AI is without teaching people to do anything with it. Copilot Foundations is hands-on and private to your team: every session works on your real documents and workflows, so Copilot moves from a demo to a deployed capability your team actually reaches for.
What does it cost?
It’s scoped to your team, your locations, and your format. We agree on scope and price up front in a short discovery conversation — no surprises.

Stop doing work that AI can do for you.

Tell us your team, your tools, and the workflows eating your week. We’ll walk you through how a private Copilot Foundations cohort would run for you.

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