As a Microsoft Partner, Gritstone is familiar with the benefits Microsoft365 can bring to a business, a charity, or just individuals working from home. With Copilot, there’s a lot of potential for simplifying everyday tasks – but is it worth your money? Let’s explore.
What is Copilot?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered assistant designed to help your efficiency. Integrating with familiar Microsoft 365 applications, Copilot helps employees complete everyday tasks and cross-off things on your to-do list with ease.
What is Microsoft Copilot used for?
As its name suggests, it’s an assistant, providing guidance rather than completely replacing human judgment. And with many businesses already using Microsoft 365, Copilot offers an opportunity to get more from applications already being used everyday.
How much is Copilot?
The essential question. Copilot Chat is included with all eligible Microsoft 365 subscriptions, but for businesses wanting more functionality across the Microsoft suite, Copilot business is available as a paid add-on, currently (as of October 2026) starting from £7.69 per user per month.
For pricing changes or more information, contact-us.
How can businesses in Yorkshire benefit from Copilot?
Depending on your Microsoft 365 subscription, Copilot can assist you with a variety of everyday tasks.
- On Outlook, Copilot can summarise email conversations, draft and finetune responses and add plans to your calendar.
- With Teams, Copilot summarises meetings, identifies key discussion points and highlights points to action.
- Copilot can assist you on Powerpoint by helping turn information into slides.
- Through Excel, Copilot helps interpret data and identify patterns that you may otherwise miss.
- With Word, Copilot assists with drafting documents, improving existing copy, and summarising extensive documents.
If you use some (or all) of these on a day-to-day basis, you may find Copilot very useful.
Is it worth it for my small business?
For those in the Yorkshire area (and the surrounding areas), whether Copilot is right for you depends on what you’ll get out of it.
If you or your staff regularly spend time responding to emails or analysing spreadsheets, you could get meaningful productivity benefits out of Copilot. But not every business would benefit the same – if you’re only using Microsoft 365 for basic email and storage, you’ll find the included Copilot Chat functionality is enough.
Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot
If you’re considering introducing Copilot to your business, it’s worth reviewing your existing subscription and identifying where it has the most potential value.
As your local Yorkshire-based IT Support provider, if you’re having any issues with setup, or you’re looking for cloud backup or migration solutions, we can provide these as part of our IT services offers.
And it may be that Copilot isn’t the right choice for your business – we can help you explore alternative cloud and hosted service more appropriate for you.
Get in touch with us today.