What Microsoft Copilot Studio is
Microsoft Copilot Studio is a low-code platform for building custom AI assistants that extend Microsoft 365. You connect it to your data sources (SharePoint, Dynamics, external APIs), design conversational flows, and deploy the assistant in Teams, web chat or your own apps. It’s built for IT teams and business users who want AI assistants without writing much code: answering HR questions, looking up customer records, triggering workflows.
Copilot Studio is deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem. If your organization runs on Microsoft 365 and Azure, it’s the natural path for internal assistants.
What Sentrely is
Sentrely is a managed AI team, backed by real engineers, that builds, ships and monitors production-grade software in accounts you own. We deploy AI employees that work through an agent in your team’s Slack. Your team asks it to build, ship and monitor production-grade software, and our engineers supervise the work. Every change runs through automated safety checks, important changes get a human sign-off, and your data and files can be rewound up to 35 days.
Different jobs
Copilot Studio is for: teams that want to build and maintain their own AI assistants inside Microsoft 365. An internal knowledge bot, a help desk assistant, a Teams workflow.
Sentrely is for: business owners who need real software built and run, such as a customer portal, an internal system, or an integration between the tools you already pay for, and who don’t want to become developers or hire an engineering team to get it.
| Dimension | Copilot Studio | Sentrely |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | AI assistants and workflows | Custom production software |
| Who builds it | Your team, with low-code tools | Our AI employees, supervised by our engineers |
| Where you ask for work | Copilot Studio’s builder | An agent in your team’s Slack |
| Ecosystem | Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform | Your own hosting and code accounts |
| Safety net | Your team’s own testing | Automated safety checks, engineer sign-off, 35-day rewind |
| Support | Microsoft support plans | Named account manager and on-call support |
| Pricing | Microsoft licensing | Custom, scoped on a free 30-minute call |
Where Copilot Studio wins
- You live in Microsoft 365. Teams, SharePoint and Power Platform integration is native.
- You want a chat assistant, not an app. For Q&A and simple workflow bots, it’s purpose-built.
- You have people to build and maintain it. Low-code still needs an owner.
Where Sentrely fits better
- You need software, not a bot. Customer-facing apps, portals, data pipelines and integrations.
- Nobody on your team wants to build it. Our AI employees do the work and our engineers supervise it.
- You want to own the result. Everything ships into your accounts.
A word on GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot, the code completion and chat tool inside editors like VS Code and JetBrains, is a different product from Copilot Studio. It helps developers write code faster. If you have developers, it’s a great tool. If you don’t, Sentrely is the team that writes, ships and runs the software for you.
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