Start by Role

Not sure where to jump in? Pick your role below — each section shows the highest-value walkthroughs for how you actually spend your day.

Know your skill level already?

If you'd rather start from where you are on the ramp, use Start by Stage and its 2-minute self-check.

• 👤 End User / Individual Contributor

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  You want quick wins that fit your existing day — no building, no setup. Start at Stage 1 and build a daily habit.

  Start with:

  • Turn a meeting into tracked follow-ups — the fastest "aha"
  • Draft a status update from your week
  • Get up to speed on a long document fast
  • Catch up on a Teams thread in seconds
  • Catch up on a long email thread in seconds

  → See your full path

• 🧑‍💼 Manager

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  You want to run meetings better, delegate effectively, and keep projects on track with less manual effort.

  Start with:

  • Prep for a 1:1 in two minutes
  • Plan your week from your calendar and inbox
  • Draft an exec briefing from background materials
  • Draft a 30/60/90-day onboarding plan
  • Build a meeting-prep agent for recurring 1:1s

  → See your full path

• 📣 Champion / Adoption Lead

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  You're driving Copilot adoption for your team or org. Your job is to build the habit, surface wins, and scale what works.

  Start with:

  • Run a "Prompt of the Day" for your team
  • Find where Copilot is landing with Workforce insights
  • Build a team-knowledge agent over SharePoint
  • Build an FAQ agent for a recurring process
  • Build a Cowork recipe library for your org

  → See your full path

• 💻 Maker / Low-code builder

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  You're ready to build agents that do real work in production — knowledge sources, actions, MCP tools, and governance — without writing code.

  Start with:

  • Build your first Studio agent
  • Trigger a Power Automate flow from inside a Studio agent
  • Design a multi-turn conversation with fallback
  • Configure an autonomous event-triggered agent
  • Test and evaluate before publishing

  → See your full path

• ⚙️ Developer / Pro-code engineer

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  You've outgrown low-code. You build agents as software — custom or fine-tuned models, autonomous orchestration, evaluation, and MCP tools at scale — on Azure.

  Start with:

  • Cross into the pro-code frontier — what Foundry is, and when it's the right call
  • Know when low-code isn't enough — the graduation decision
  • Understand the agent security model — identity, data boundary, and governance
  • Graduate from Agent Builder to Studio first — most agents stop there

  → See your full path

• 🔒 IT Admin

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  You're responsible for governance, security, and making sure agents behave correctly in production at scale.

  Start with:

  • Secure a Studio agent with authentication
  • Govern and monitor agents at scale
  • Publish and govern your agent
  • Find where Copilot is landing with Workforce insights
  • Know when to graduate from Agent Builder to Studio

  → See your full path

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Not sure which role fits? Start with Stage 1 · Chat — it applies to everyone regardless of role, and you'll quickly find your footing from there.

Or take the 2-minute self-check to find your rung, then see the full journey.

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