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Bayer employees discover productivity and collaboration benefits using generative AI and Microsoft Copilot

A leader in life sciences for 160 years, Bayer has more than 100,000 employees working toward its mission of “Health for all, hunger for none.” Bayer employees are using emerging technologies, including generative AI and Microsoft Copilot, to contribute to feeding a growing global population and helping people lead healthier, disease-free lives. After looking into the topic of generative AI at Bayer, more than 700 areas of application were collected, and that number is growing.

Agent or tool
Microsoft Copilot
Topic
Sales & Marketing
Reported on
Case study (Microsoft)
Added
2026-11-11

Why it matters

Sales and marketing run on research, lists and follow-ups. Agents are starting to take on that groundwork, freeing people for the conversations that actually close deals. It is one of 613 sightings filed under Sales & Marketing on Agent Sightings (number 391 by interest), and one of 39 involving Microsoft Copilot.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Microsoft Copilot or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

I want an agent to do the research and drafting for this sales or marketing workflow, and stop for my approval before anything is sent. The tool in the source case was Microsoft Copilot.

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Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Case study (Microsoft): https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1703594261178267318-bayer-microsof…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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