I'm working on something I haven't seen discussed much here and genuinely want to know if others are in the same territory. We are trying to solve 2 problems. The first is that every team in our organisation is building AI context in isolation. Same knowledge being captured five different ways, no shared foundation, nothing governed or reusable. We've got enterprise knowledge that technically lives in SharePoint but is effectively invisible to any AI system. We want to fix that by building structured context at two levels: enterprise-wide knowledge that any team can draw on, and domain-specific knowledge owned by each business area — both stored as markdown, governed properly, with SharePoint as the interface for people who don't want to think about files. The second problem is how Technology handles demand from the business. The process for defining requirements, producing the right documentation has always been difficult as business areas often leave it to Technology. The outcome we are trying to achieve would be when a business area raises a need, an AI system — already loaded with the right enterprise and domain context — takes it through a defined process and produces a brief that engineers and their AI coding tools can act on directly. No discovery from scratch every time. The knowledge is in the system, not locked in someone's head or their OneDrive folders. The hard parts are not the AI. They're: - Getting operational detail out of each business domain at the granularity AI can actually reason about - Stopping teams building their own siloed context again the moment you turn your back - Building governance so the system earns autonomy progressively - Getting stakeholders to engage through the system rather than around it We have a later phase in mind where the system proactively surfaces opportunities by monitoring operational data — but we're keeping that parked until the core is stable. We are a small team in the early stages of planning the work.

EDIT: the use of copilot-instructions.md is very unreliable. Despite clear instructions to load the ICM workspace and read the setup.md at launch, 9 times out of 10 it fails with no meaningful error. Copilot itself tells me that these instructions are more like suggestions.🤣🤣 Instead I have built a skill in Copilot co-work and I have built an agent for the standard Copilot chat. Both of these will reliably launch into my ICM workspace. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We've gone back and forth, here, on whether ICM can work inside Microsoft Copilot. I can now say it definitely does, and that Copilot Cowork is where it works best. I spent today rebuilding my own ICM workspace, currently in Claude, for Copilot — routing file, room context files, a voice file, branding, shared references — and it maps over almost one-to-one. The folders-and-markdown approach we use is almost exactly how Cowork is built to work. Your files live in OneDrive, Cowork reads them on demand, and you get the same context-on-demand behaviour we're used to. Two things make Cowork good for ICM, particularly in a business environment: - It reads your ICM folder tree straight from OneDrive, so you stop re-explaining yourself each session. - It has native access to Outlook, Teams, calendar and SharePoint, so rooms that interface with those apps or their data get easier - The adjustments were small: Copilot itself rewrote my Claude.md to a Setup.md, native M365 instead of connectors, and tightening the original markdown, which had grown, to keep token use down. NB: Copilot, to me, seems a smidgen slower than Claude (Yes, I have Opus 4.8 enabled in Copilot) Guide and blank template at RockfieldIT/icm-copilot-cowork: Implementing ICM in Microsoft Copilot Cowork

Everyone's stacking AI experts into "councils" right now. Here's what nobody mentions: most of them produce blander advice than a single good prompt. I've been building multi-agent systems for a while, and the council pattern is seductive. Load six marketing legends, let them debate, synthesize the genius. Three things I learned the hard way: 1. Councils regress to the mean. Put Cialdini, Godin, and Vaynerchuk in a room and "synthesize" their answers and you get generic marketing advice wearing three nametags. The fix isn't a better synthesizer. Stop resolving the disagreement. Let the tension stand and make one agent own the call. 2. The debate is where your budget dies. Distilling a book into a tight skill file is cheap. Having agents argue in real time is not. If "minimal tokens" is your pitch, the preprocessing is doing the work and the roundtable is the luxury. 3. It doesn't make the model smarter. Cold Claude already does a soft version of all of this. What the structure buys you is named, sharp, predictable behavior. Say that honestly — the moment you claim it makes the AI "smarter," you've oversold it. None of this means don't build councils. It means build them with your eyes open. The real test for any council: do your experts actually disagree, or do they just agree in different vocabulary? If it's the second, you built one expert and gave it six hats. (Riffing off the systems thread from @Curtis Hays that @David Vogel highlighted for us and the 'systems' build — good work worth pressure-testing.)

Live calls, Teams meetings, I'm fine. Looking straight down the lens answering a question, no problem. Trying to record something for my landing page (new biz) and I genuinely cannot do it. Six hours in. Nothing is working. I've tried winging it from bullet points. I've tried a full script with a few teleprompter overlays. Both feel stiff and unnatural the second I hit record. Has anyone actually figured this out? Because it's low key denting my confidence and I know it's something I need to crack 🙏1

I started 2026 thinking I was going to go to law school. but after looking at the mass amount of debt I would be in I am starting to change my trajectory. I got offered a job implementing tech (specifically AI) into different companies. I would start off with a vending machine business and once I complete that I would move on to law firms with the help of my employer. I am DESPERATE for guidance! where would you guys start? I could see this being a career for myself. if you were in my position as a 23 year old starting from scratch with amazing opportunities, where would you start? I desperately want a mentor! thank you guys!