weekly · copilot · agents
$ ./for-ai-sakes –weekly –build > jacqui_bond@braintree
The age of agentic AI is here. Microsoft Copilot. Claude. ChatGPT. Perplexity. Every week the field moves. This is the show where we stop reading the headlines and actually build the thing. Live. Thirty minutes. One working agent at a time.
why this exists
Three things separate For AI Sakes! from every other Copilot session you have ever sat through.
Most Copilot content stops at “ask it to draft your email.” This show doesn’t. Every Friday at 10 we ship a real Copilot Studio agent or workflow on camera, in thirty minutes. With a working builder. Live. You can build along.
M365 admins. IT pros. Citizen developers. Power Platform users. Anyone whose CIO said “do something with Copilot” and didn’t say where to start. This show starts there, every Friday, with a real build.
Every episode ships a Build This Week PDF. Every prompt, every config, every connector. Open Copilot Studio, follow along, ship the thing this week. No homework. No theory. The build.
the landscape
Copilot. Claude. ChatGPT. Perplexity. Every week, the field moves. Every week, the show keeps up.
Where most South African business AI lives. Where this show lives. Custom agents, grounded on your own documents, shipped into Teams.
The model many of our builders reach for when the work is long-form reasoning, careful writing, or anything Constitutional-AI-shaped.
The benchmark everyone tests against. We watch the API, the Assistants, the structured outputs. We bring back what works for the enterprise.
What live retrieval actually feels like in production. Cited answers, fresh data, the pattern your future Copilot Studio agent is going to need.
Our weekly answer to one question: in an industry that ships a new model every Tuesday, what do you actually build at work on Friday? We build it on camera. Then we tell you what broke.
this friday
A practical tour of the AI now built into Microsoft business apps. What each piece is for, what it does well, and where to start. New to Copilot or already deep in it, you will leave with a map.
the queue
One Friday, one build. The queue grows weekly through Q1.
The four kinds of AI already inside your Microsoft stack. What each is for, what to use, what to skip.
Take what we built in Episode 01 and connect three Microsoft 365 actions. Auto-summarise. File. Notify.
SharePoint, OneDrive, a single PDF. Where the data lives, why the agent cites it, and the permissions trap.
your host
Before Copilot was a product, Jacqui was the person inside Braintree’s customer rollouts that everyone routed the “wait, can we actually do this?” question to.
She runs Braintree’s Copilot Studio practice. Has shipped agents into production at South African mid-market manufacturers, financial services firms, an insurer with a regulator that does not joke about AI, and a half-dozen Modern Workplace deployments where Copilot was the change-management story, not the licence line item.
“I want to sit next to you while you build your first Copilot Studio agent. The show is the same job. On camera. With everyone watching.”
What she is known for is honesty about edges. Where Copilot helps, where it does not, where it pretends to help and quietly costs you money. The Deeper Cut on every episode is the same thing she does on every customer call. Show the thing. Then show the thing that breaks the second time you deploy it.
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The Teams Webinar form. Microsoft handles the calendar drop, the reminder, the join link.
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Every replay lands on the Braintree channel the same Friday afternoon. The take-home PDF goes up beside it.
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One short email each Monday. Replay link, take-home PDF, one-line preview of next Friday’s build.
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Free. Live on Microsoft Teams. Replay on YouTube the same afternoon.
Let’s grow.