Microsoft's Power Platform should be a big advantage. If you already have your data in Outlook/SharePoint, the PowerPlatform makes it easy to access. Unfortunately I've encountered several roadblocks deploying CoPilot Studio & Power Platform for my enterprise. Note: I'm using GCC, so everything is worse than normal.

1) Incomplete integration. Often I just want to write a prompt to create structured data from unstructured data. e.g. read an email and create a structured contact record. There's a block for this in Power Platform, but I can't access it. Studio can do this pretty well, but...

2) CoPilot Studio sucks at determinism. You really need to create higher level tools in Power Automate and call them from Studio. Because of (1) this makes it hard to compose complex systems.

3) Permissions. We haven't been able to figure out a secure way for people to share Copilot Studio agents. This means you need to log into studio and use the debug chat instead of turning the agent on in the main Copilot interface.

4) IDE. Copilot Studio bogs down real fast. The UI gets super laggy, creating a terrible DX. There should be a way to write agents in VScode, push the definitions to source control, and deploy to Copilot, but it isn't obvious.

5) Dumb By Default. The Power Platform has hooks into Outlook and Active Directory. Copilot has access to the latest OpenAI models. CoPIlot Studio has an MCP server for Calendar. Out of the box I should be able to tell CoPilot "schedule a 30min meeting with Joe and Larry next week." Nope. Maybe if I struggle through CoPilot Studio to create an agent? Still no. WTF Microsoft.

I guess I'll stop there. I really wanted to like Copilot studio, but it just didn't deliver. Maybe I'll circle back in a couple months, but for now I'm exploring other platforms.

PS don't even get me started on how we were so excited to retire our home-grown chat front end for the Azure OpenAI Service in favor of Copilot, only to have our users complain that Copilot was a downgrade.

PPS also don't talk to me about how CoPilot is now integrated into Windows and SIGNS YOU INTO THE FREE COMMERCIAL SERVICE BY DEFAULT. Do you know how hard it is to get people to use the official corporate AI tools instead of shadow AI? Do you know how important it is to keep our proprietary data out of AI training sets? Apparently not.