Kesslernity / Deployment Kit

Deploy Microsoft Copilot without a consultant.

Everything you need to roll Copilot out, govern it, and prove the cost. Real artifacts you ship, not theory you watch. Built on one rule: AI prepares, humans decide.

Rolling out to a team? 10 seats for $297, with an invoice your finance team will accept.

6 components, instant download 26 guides + 10 paste-ready agents Built by a practitioner
Why rollouts fail

Licences bought. Adoption stalls. And now the bill is metered.

You are accountable for Copilot landing, not blowing the budget, and not creating a governance mess. Microsoft's docs are generic and a consultant is five figures. Most rollouts fall into one of two traps, and both leave the same things undone.

Trap 1 · DIY, no structure

Hand out licences and hope

Seats go out with no plan. Three weeks later you have a 30% active-user rate and no idea why.

Trap 2 · The big consultant

Pay $50K for a slide deck

A consultant runs a workshop, hands over a deck, and disappears. The deployment work still has not happened.

The gap is always the same:
  • No SharePoint permissions audit before launch
  • DLP policies left in simulation mode
  • The first onboarding session had no prompts
  • The metered bill nobody could forecast

This kit is the structured alternative.

What changed in 2026

Copilot went metered. Deploying it is now a cost and governance problem, not just a licence.

In 2026 Microsoft moved Copilot to usage-based billing, with Copilot Credits and agentic execution through Cowork billed on top of the seat licence. Most teams still budget Copilot as a flat per-seat cost, and get a surprise on the invoice.

Deploying it well now means governing what agents do and forecasting what they cost, before the bill arrives. This kit is built on that reality, not the old flat-licence model.

$0.01

per Copilot Credit, metered per job by model, context, tool calls, and runtime. The kit's ROI work assumes the metered model, and pairs with The Real Cost of Copilot for a number your CFO can defend.

The thesis

Copilot deployments fail on one of four fronts.

Technical setup, governance, adoption, or the business case. Miss any one and the rollout stalls. The kit covers all four.

Technical setup

Permissions, DLP, the admin controls most orgs miss.

Field Guide · Governance Checklist

Governance

DPO, EU AI Act, DLP enforcement, a quarterly cadence.

Governance Checklist (8 sections)

Adoption

A 90-day plan, pre-onboarding worksheets, a prompt library.

Roadmap · Prompt Audit Worksheet

Business case

Break-even by salary, a 15,000-user benchmark, the metered cost.

ROI Conversation Template
What's inside

Six components. Each one closes a gap.

Not a course to watch. Working artifacts you deploy: guides, plans, worksheets, templates, checklists, and paste-ready agents.

01

M365 Copilot Field Guide26 guides

One strategic operating model plus 25 feature guides: Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Analyst, Researcher, Notebooks, Pages, Cowork, Workflows, and every built-in agent. Guide 00 covers the architecture stack, a tool-selection decision framework, the agent and automation strategy, the governance model, and a 4-level maturity framework. Role-based reading paths, and the practitioner annotations the Microsoft docs skip.

02

90-Day Adoption Roadmap

A week-by-week deployment plan with task owners, dependencies, and decision gates. Phase 1: technical prerequisites and pilot-group selection. Phase 2: pilot feedback loops and the first governance review. Phase 3: full rollout, an internal prompt library, and the ROI conversation with leadership.

03

Prompt Audit Worksheet

A 5-step worksheet your pilot users complete before the first onboarding session, in two versions: individual contributor and manager. Starter templates for 8 task types, so each person arrives knowing the 2 to 3 tasks to start with.

04

ROI Conversation Template

The business case for a skeptical manager or finance team: current pricing including the metered, usage-based model, a break-even table by salary level, benchmarks from a 15,000-user commercial deployment, and responses to the five most common objections, including "we already have ChatGPT" and "we'll wait for prices to drop."

05

Governance Checklist8 sections

The pre-deployment checklist for IT and compliance: SharePoint permissions audit, DLP enforcement mode, the 2026 admin controls most orgs missed, what to tell your DPO, the EU AI Act August 2026 deadline, the licensing split, Frontier enrolment, and the quarterly governance cadence. Written by someone who ran the DPO conversation for a selective Claude / Anthropic enterprise pilot.

06

10 Declarative Agent Templates+ deployment guide

Ten paste-ready Copilot Studio agents that work out of the box, with no domain-specific knowledge and no custom data sources. Each includes the full instruction block, knowledge-source guidance, 4 to 5 tested prompts, first-week guidance, and the mistakes most teams make in week one.

The 10 agents

Paste-ready on day one.

Drop them into Copilot Studio as they are. No custom data sources required to get value in week one.

Meeting Brief Preparer
Action Item Tracker
Status Report Generator
Email Triage Assistant
Document Summariser
Decision Log Keeper
Risk Identifier
Project Status Monitor
Onboarding Guide
Policy Q&A Assistant
Why this, not the alternatives

There are three ways to deploy Copilot. This is the fourth.

Every alternative leaves you with the work, the bill, or the risk. This leaves you with the deliverables.

Microsoft's docs

Free and generic. They tell you what the buttons do, not how to deploy, govern, or cost Copilot inside a real organisation.

A consultant

Five figures and eight weeks. They hand you these same deliverables, then leave. Keep them for the parts only they can do.

A generic course

You watch it and forget it. A rollout is not knowledge you absorb, it is artifacts you ship. This is the artifacts.

The deliverables a consultant bills five figures for, in your hands today, for under one hundred dollars.

Built by a practitioner

Written from real deployments, not a template store.

130+

Copilot Studio agents shipped. The agent templates and instruction blocks come from production, not theory.

15,000

User commercial deployment behind the ROI benchmarks in the business-case template.

DPO

The governance checklist was written by someone who ran the DPO conversation for a selective Claude / Anthropic enterprise pilot.

Who's bought it

Bought by deployment leads at a financial institution, a global semiconductor company, and a US federal agency.

Complete your toolkit

The rest of the shelf.

The kit is the core. Pair it with the cost model, the agent guides, and the demo that gets the rollout funded. Each is a standalone artifact.

Who it's for

Whoever owns the rollout.

IT & M365 adminsChange managersCopilot championsFinOps & cost ownersDepartment headsGovernance & compliance
Get the kit

The deployment work, already done.

One price. Instant download. Pay once, keep it, and get the updates as Copilot changes. No discount, no fake anchor.

Single seat
$97
For one deployment lead.
  • All 6 components, instant download
  • 26 guides, roadmap, governance checklist
  • ROI template + 10 paste-ready agents
  • Free updates as Copilot changes
Get the kit · $97
Team licence Best for orgs
$297
10 seats, one invoice for finance.
  • Everything in single seat, for 10 people
  • One invoice your finance team will accept
  • Share with IT, change, and adoption owners
  • Every seat gets the updates
Get 10 seats · $297

Choose your licence at checkout. Pair it with The Real Cost of Copilot to bring a defensible number to your CFO.

Questions

Before you buy

What exactly do I get?
Six components in one download: the 26-guide Field Guide, the 90-Day Adoption Roadmap, the Prompt Audit Worksheet, the ROI Conversation Template, the 8-section Governance Checklist, and 10 declarative Copilot Studio agent templates with a deployment guide.
Isn't this just Microsoft's documentation?
Microsoft's docs tell you what the buttons do. This tells you how to deploy it, govern it, and cost it inside a real organisation, with the artifacts to actually do it: the audit checklist, the rollout plan, the worksheets, the agents.
Is the pricing and compliance content current?
Yes. It is built on the 2026 metered model, including usage-based billing and Cowork. The cost work assumes the new reality, not the old flat seat licence, and the governance checklist covers the 2026 admin controls, the licensing split, and the EU AI Act August 2026 deadline.
How is this different from hiring a consultant?
A consultant hands you these same deliverables in eight weeks for five figures, then leaves. This is the deliverables, today, for under one hundred dollars. They stay with your team. Keep the consultant for the parts only they can do.
We're not a technical team. Can we use it?
Yes. No code required. The agent templates are paste-ready instruction blocks, and the roadmap, worksheets, and decision frameworks are written for business teams, not developers.
$97 seems low for all of this.
It is priced to get into your hands, not to gatekeep. If you are rolling out to a team, the team tier gives you 10 seats and an invoice your finance team will accept, for $297.
Who is it for?
IT and M365 admins configuring a deployment, change managers and Copilot champions running adoption, FinOps and cost owners forecasting the metered bill, department heads building the business case, and anyone owning governance, compliance, or DPO conversations around Copilot.