Thursday, 5 June 2025

AI Vendor Management - Formiti

AI is going crazy, and you can build your own but generally you need to look at a supplier, so it's worth understand management of Vendors, you as the controller using their service are at risk of them not making their AI operations transparent.  It's a big business risk to my clients.  

GDPR is closely linked to AI, and if you use a service/vendor, the reputation and fine risk may fall on you as the provider.  Need visibility into each vendor, how they are using AI, in turn they are using vendors so it's a nice complex dependency problem.  You need to be aware of what you are relying on.

Ensure contracts with vendors consider AI, how the process your data and how their sub process vendors do the same.

Track website customer behaviour, we use a vendor to clean up the data.  In turn, I have no idea that they are using AI outside of the UK or EU.  Follow the dependency chains as all this needs to be transparent to the end customer if needed.

Monday, 2 June 2025

Copilot Studio 2025 Notes

WIP 


Copilot Studio
is amazing, the licensing is complex, the AI integration is excellent. Architects really need to understand Licensing and billing or AI will get out of control.  The Purview and governance looks very good.

MS Build 2025: 

MCP Server in Preview - possible to collect data from other AI services or write back.

Connector Kit - So can add custom connectors to from Power Platform Connectors including Copilot Studio - sounds great.

Agent Flow - Added functionality added to Power Automate flows (Copilot Studio aware), deployed via solutions.

Licensing

You need to be aware:

  • M365 agents - need all end users to have M365 copilot licences, retail $20/user.
  • Copilot Studio - Makes need copilot studio AI Studio/maker licence $30/retail, users don't need any licence to use but ..
  • Each prompt generates multiple messages, these are all billable (complex to calculate)
  • (If you use Copilot Studio and it calls Azure AI Foundry, also bills Tokens (also complex to estimate)
  • Copilot Studio is using AI Foundry connector, it is a Premium connector)