Topic: Productivity and Automation
40 assets about “Productivity and Automation”.
Action Items to To Do
Watches your Teams chats, meeting transcripts, and Outlook mail for things people actually asked you to do, and files each one as a Microsoft To Do task with a due date, priority, and source link.
Agent Performance Triage
Turn a live agent's analytics and transcripts into a diagnosis and a prioritized improvement backlog.
AI-First Process Redesign
Redesign your existing processes with AI-first thinking
Awaiting Reply
A weekday-morning Scout automation that finds emails you sent that asked for something and never got an answer, reports how many are waiting, and prepares follow-up drafts in each thread's own language that it never sends.
Blog Content Auditor
Audit blog posts or a blog library for clarity, structure, evidence, audience fit, and improvement priority.
Blog Post Structure Pass
Restructure draft or existing blog posts into a stronger narrative without inventing new claims.
Brand Voice Pass
Rewrite drafts into a configurable house style, preserving meaning while removing generic AI phrasing.
Browser UAT Analyst
Run evidence-driven UAT on any browser-based app — Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, admin centres, or a custom web app — with Playwright execution, a screenshot evidence ledger, and failure classification that separates product defects from tenant config.
Call for Speakers Digest
Weekly HTML email digest of open conference Call for Speakers (CFP) opportunities matching your topics of interest. Pulls from confs.tech, Papercall, AdatoSystems' CFP tracker, CFP Radar, Sessionize's public user-groups directory, community-specific hubs (like communitydays.org for the Microsoft ecosystem), targeted search of standalone Sessionize conferences and run.events, and general web search. Filters to genuinely open CFPs only, and includes close dates, event dates, format (virtual/in-person), and speaker benefits when stated. Won't repeat a listing week to week unless its deadline is closing soon.
Campaign Deck Builder
Turn a short interview into a charming, vibrant 3-slide marketing-campaign deck by filling a bundled PowerPoint template.
Commenting Content
Comments Word or PowerPoint files with Comments.
Communication Style Analyzer
Analyzes your Teams chats and emails to build a reusable profile of your writing voice — greetings, tone, length, punctuation, sign-offs, common phrases, and quirks — and saves it to memory for other assistants to use.
Competitive Battlecard Builder
Build an interactive comparison app, either a sales battlecard advocating for your product against named competitors, or a neutral, unbiased comparison across two or more peer items with no side taken. Filterable by item and category, with live search, a compact scorecard, and copy-to-clipboard talking points. Every claim is tagged verified or unverified so nothing invented ends up in front of a customer. Exports to PowerPoint on request, with support for a real branding template.
Conditional Chat Reminder
Schedule a Teams reminder that sends only when the expected person has not already posted a relevant update.
Conference Session Abstract Pack
Create CFP-ready talk titles, abstracts, takeaways, speaker notes, and submission copy from a topic.
Content Quality Auditor
Score documents, pages, posts, or artefact libraries against a configurable quality rubric and recommend fixes.
Copilot & Agents News Scout
A Monday-morning Scout automation that scans authoritative Microsoft sources for the past week's Copilot, Copilot Studio, and agent news and posts a concise, linked digest to Teams.
Exam Prep Learning Plan Builder
Build a personalized study plan app for an exam or certification: overview timeline, day-by-day schedule with a calendar picker, domain breakdown, one-click .ics download, and a notes tab to track confidence over time.
Grab My Files
One-tap way to bundle every file your Copilot Studio agent produced in a session into a single timestamped .zip and hand it back as a download.
Holiday Recap
Catch up after annual leave in one pass — a single prioritised briefing of the mail, meetings, and Teams conversations you missed, with deep links and one-click follow-up actions.
Idea Refiner
Refines an existing plan, decision, or draft through relentless, branch-by-branch questioning. Grouped in batches of 2-5 with recommended answers, pulling facts from Work IQ where possible, until every part has been fully thought through.
Institutional Knowledge Archivist
Preserve a departing senior leader's institutional knowledge — decisions, rationale, relationships, and tribal knowledge — by mining their M365 signals into a structured, multi-phase archive a successor can ground on.
Iterative File Editing
In Copilot Studio, re-sending an edited file under the same name fails to deliver it — the change is made but never reaches the user. This skill gives each iteration a new version-numbered filename (report_v1.docx, report_v2.docx…) so every update actually lands in the chat as its own attachment.
Meeting Analyzer
Analyzes meeting content pasted as text or provided as audio/video transcripts. Delivers a structured intelligence report: explicit decisions and action items, participant persona profiles, and — most importantly — hidden insights: unspoken tensions, implicit risks, unresolved topics, and signals that were not made explicit during the meeting but are critical to the context.
Own Voice Builder
Mines your sent emails to extract your real writing voice — languages, tone modes, structure, vocabulary, taboo phrases — and generates a personal voice skill that makes every email and Teams draft sound like you.
Pattern Radar
Scans your recent Microsoft 365 signals to surface recurring patterns worth productizing — things you keep explaining (blog candidates) or multi-step tasks you keep doing by hand (automation candidates).
Pattern Radar (Scheduled)
Twice a week, scans your recent Microsoft 365 signals and posts a Teams summary of recurring patterns worth productizing — things you keep explaining (blog candidates) and multi-step tasks you keep doing by hand (automation candidates). Read-only and privacy-aware.
Power Automate Desktop Assessment
Assess Power Automate Desktop and hybrid automation projects with evidence-based findings and prioritized remediation guidance.
Presentation Talk Track Builder
Writes natural, first-person spoken presenter scripts for the slides in a deck. Treats existing speaker notes as authoritative when they contradict slide text. Calibrates length to a target duration and speaking pace and returns a timing table. Never modifies visible slide content.
Process & SOP Architect
Turn process notes and transcripts into an editable SOP, process map, RACI, control register, improvement backlog, and polished PowerPoint briefing.
Redlining Content
Redlines a document based on changes from a template with Track Changes.
Rich HTML Presentation
Create polished, self-contained HTML slide decks with keynote-style visuals, keyboard navigation, themes, animations, and reusable presentation components.
SharePoint List Formatter
Turns any SharePoint list data into a clean, consistent markdown table. Dynamic columns based on list type and query, plus a one-click Open link for every row.
Skill Authoring Coach
Help makers design concise, reusable Agent Skills with clear triggers, instructions, resources, and packaging.
Spend More Time With Friends & Family
While you're out of office, watches a group chat and answers questions from your local knowledge docs (clearly marked AI-generated), logs anything it can't answer for later, and pings you on Teams if its setup is incomplete.
Tool Tracer
On-demand tool/action trace for Copilot Studio runs (`/special-debug tool-trace` → `tool_trace.json`).
Travel Cost Estimator
Price a business trip from live fares in your corporate booking tool, benchmark the non-bookable lines against your own approved expense reports, and produce an estimate a manager can approve — with a hard guardrail that never enters the booking funnel.
Vacation Urgent Forwarder
A Scout automation installer that, only during a configured vacation window, scans work email and Teams and forwards genuinely urgent items to your personal email.
What to Use When
Routes single-output requests to the best-fit included Microsoft 365 Copilot 1p agents and reserves Cowork for long-running or multi-output work.
Work Brief
A morning brief that reads your mail, calendar, and Teams, then tells you what you owe people before the week starts.