Microsoft Cowork

AI that works with your team, not just for one person

Microsoft Cowork brings shared AI workspaces into Microsoft 365 - so your team can plan, draft and decide together in the flow of work.

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Collaboration, with AI as a teammate.

Most AI tools are built for one person at a time. Microsoft Cowork takes a different approach - it sits inside your team's shared spaces in Teams, Loop and the Office apps, where briefs are written together, decisions are made together and work is shipped together.

Instead of every person re-prompting from scratch, Cowork keeps the context, the working draft and the AI participant alive across the team. That means less duplication, better continuity between meetings and a single source of truth for the work in flight.

For IT, Cowork inherits the same identity, compliance and data boundaries as the rest of Microsoft 365 - so adoption doesn't come at the cost of governance.

What Microsoft Cowork brings to your team

Shared AI capabilities, grounded in your Microsoft 365 tenant, designed for the way modern teams actually work.

Shared AI workspaces

Bring people, prompts and content into one persistent space so your team can co-create with AI without losing context between meetings, chats and documents.

In-flow collaboration

Cowork sits inside Teams, Loop and the Office apps your team already uses, surfacing AI suggestions exactly where work happens.

Grounded in your data

Powered by Microsoft Graph, Cowork reasons over the files, chats and meetings your team has permission to see - and nothing they don't.

Enterprise-ready by default

Built on Microsoft's compliance, data residency and identity controls so IT keeps the guardrails while teams get the speed.

Spotlight: Talks like me

AI that sounds like you, not a chatbot

Talks like me is Cowork's personal voice engine. It studies the way you actually write across your own emails, chats and documents inside Microsoft 365 - your sentence length, vocabulary, formality, even how you sign off - and uses that profile when Cowork drafts on your behalf.

The result: replies, briefs and meeting summaries that genuinely sound like you, so you spend less time rewriting AI output and more time pressing send. Voice profiles are scoped to the individual, stay inside your tenant and can be paused, edited or deleted at any time.

Generic AI draft

"Dear team, I hope this message finds you well. Please find attached the requested document for your review at your earliest convenience."

With Talks like me

"Morning all - draft's attached, take a look when you get a chance and ping me anything that doesn't sit right. Cheers."

Cowork capabilities in detail

The building blocks that make Cowork different from a single-user assistant.

Talks like me

Talks like me learns each person's tone, phrasing and writing style from their own Microsoft 365 content - so drafts, replies and summaries sound like you wrote them, not a generic chatbot. Voice profiles stay private to the individual and can be paused or deleted at any time.

Team rooms with memory

Persistent Cowork rooms keep prompts, decisions, files and AI outputs together. Anyone joining the room later picks up the full thread instead of starting from zero.

Multi-participant prompting

Several teammates can prompt the same AI agent in parallel, see each other's instructions, and branch or merge ideas - turning prompting into a genuinely collaborative activity.

Meeting-to-action handoff

Cowork captures decisions and owners from Teams meetings and pushes them straight into Planner, Loop or your project tooling, so nothing falls between calls.

Agents your team can share

Build reusable Cowork agents for repeatable work - bid responses, weekly reports, onboarding packs - and share them across the team with the right permissions baked in.

Tenant-aware grounding

Every response is grounded in your SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and Outlook content, respecting existing sensitivity labels and access rights.

How we roll Cowork out with you

Readiness review

We assess your Microsoft 365 tenant, identity posture, data hygiene and licensing to confirm Cowork will land cleanly.

Guided pilot

A focused pilot with one or two teams - including Talks like me onboarding - so you see real outcomes before scaling.

Governance & guardrails

Sensitivity labels, DLP, role-based access and audit baked in, so IT keeps control as adoption grows.

Scale & adoption

Champions, training and reusable shared agents to embed Cowork as the default way your teams work together.

Get in touch

Thinking about rolling out Microsoft Cowork?

Talk to our managed intelligence team about readiness, licensing and a pilot that lands well with your people.

Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Cowork

Microsoft Cowork is a collaborative AI experience inside Microsoft 365 that helps teams plan, draft and decide together - with AI acting as a shared participant rather than a personal assistant.

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