Discovery Trust educators reclaim their weekends using Microsoft 365 Copilot

Discovery Trust — The trust strategically deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot, first to school leaders, then teachers. Discovery Trust educators reclaim their weekends with Microsoft 365 Copilot, estimating 4,500 hours reclaimed annually across 20 schools Discovery Trust's educators were drowning in paperwork, taking work home on weekends and evenings while trying to support students facing profound learning disabilities, language barriers, and difficult home situations.

Agent or tool: Microsoft 365 Copilot
Topic: Business & Startups
Reported on: Case study (Microsoft)
Added: 2026-11-11

Why it matters

Small teams wear many hats. Agents that pick up research, admin and operations let a founder spend more time on the work only they can do. It is one of 90 sightings filed under Business & Startups on Agent Sightings (number 70 by interest), and one of 122 involving Microsoft 365 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 365 Copilot or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

I want an agent to take on this workflow, show its working, and wait for approval on anything that changes a system or contacts someone. The tool in the source case was Microsoft 365 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/25921-discovery-trust-microsoft-36…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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