Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry: An Executive Guide to What Works Best for What.
Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry, better together. What works best for what, and how the two combine for cost, control and business value.
Where to start, what to build where, and when to use both.
Every AI investment should start with the outcome the business needs, not the platform. Once that outcome is clear, the question becomes what to build, and where. Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry are two complementary ways to build enterprise AI, designed to work together. This session helps leaders decide what works best for what, and how to combine both into one governed capability that delivers measurable business value.
Join Dean Corcoran, Chief Technology Officer for Partners at Microsoft, and Sulabh Jain, Chief Technology Officer at Antares, for a focused executive briefing.
One platform, two complementary paths.
Copilot Studio is a business-led, managed platform. Its Microsoft 365 integration, established connectors and low-code authoring let business and IT teams deliver agents quickly. Microsoft Foundry brings engineering depth and architectural control for tailored, integrated or regulated AI applications. Agents built in Foundry can be surfaced through Copilot, and Copilot Studio agents can call on Foundry models and services.
The real distinction isn't low-code versus pro-code. It's whether a use case is best led by the business on a managed platform, or by engineering teams that need deeper architectural control.
Deciding what to build where depends on more than features or licence prices. Leaders need to consider total cost, time to value, security, integration, delivery ownership and the ability to scale beyond the first use case across both platforms.
What leaders need to weigh
- Total cost
- Time to value
- Security
- Integration
- Delivery ownership
- The ability to scale beyond the first use case
What you'll learn.
In this executive session, we will cover how the two platforms fit together and what each does best.
What works best for what
Which business scenarios suit Copilot Studio, which suit Microsoft Foundry, and which draw on both.
Business-led and engineering-led
Where a managed, business-led platform delivers the outcome fastest, and where engineering depth and architectural control earn their place.
Total cost
Licensing, consumption and total cost of ownership across a combined estate.
Security and governance
One set of security, governance and compliance controls spanning both platforms.
Skills and operating model
The skills and operating model that let business and engineering teams build side by side.
Better together
How Copilot Studio and Foundry combine in practice, from a Foundry agent surfaced in Copilot to a Copilot Studio agent calling Foundry services.
A practical framework
A simple framework for deciding what to build where, so every use case lands on the right foundation.
Cost: see the complete investment.
A lower licence or Azure consumption figure does not always mean a lower total cost. Each platform places its costs in a different part of the budget, and a combined estate needs both counted together.
Copilot Studio
Reduces development effort through a managed platform, Microsoft 365 integration and established connectors. Best suited to repeatable agent patterns delivered quickly by business and IT teams.
Microsoft Foundry
Offers efficient runtime costs for engineered workloads, with investment in application development, integration, hosting and monitoring. Best suited to tailored, integrated or regulated AI applications.
What organisations are facing.
Across industries, organisations are encountering the same set of problems.
The challenge is no longer simply building an agent. It is creating one governed, reusable capability across Copilot Studio and Foundry that makes every future use case faster, safer and more cost-effective.
- Disconnected agents being developed by different teams
- Duplicated data and integration work
- Unclear production ownership
- Unexpected support and consumption costs
- Inconsistent security and governance
- Pilots that cannot scale into production
- Difficulty demonstrating measurable business value
Meet the speakers.
Dean Corcoran
Technology Strategy, Chief Technology Officer for Partners, Microsoft
Sulabh Jain
Chief Technology Officer, AntaresWho should attend?
Executive leadership
CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and CTOs.
Digital and data
Heads of Digital, Data, AI and Innovation.
Technology and change
Technology and transformation leaders.
Governance and value
Executives responsible for AI investment, governance or business cases.
Build on both, with confidence.
Leave with a clear framework for deciding what to build in Copilot Studio, what to build in Microsoft Foundry, and how to run both as one governed capability, based on business value, total cost, risk, ownership and scale.