Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off

Soon, your coworkers successful Microsoft Teams mightiness not each beryllium human. Scout, an always-on AI cause announced astatine Microsoft’s Build developer league connected Tuesday, tin spell done your enactment messages, calendar, and email inbox to automate tasks, reschedule gathering conflicts, and draught professional-sounding responses.

Microsoft much oregon little built an endeavor cause connected apical of OpenClaw, the AI instrumentality that riveted San Francisco’s aboriginal adopters astatine the commencement of 2026. Scout is designed specifically to beryllium an adjunct for bureau folks, who tin nonstop commands straight successful Teams arsenic if the cause was a carbon-based coworker.

Scout is portion of Microsoft's larger, agent-first transformation, automating however cognition workers usage bundle and inserting AI assistants into regular bureau interactions. “Your institution fundamentally hires your assistant,” says Omar Shahine, the recently appointed firm vice president of Microsoft Scout. “The full constituent of having a idiosyncratic adjunct is that they're moving erstwhile you're not working.” So, portion you’re munching connected immoderate Doritos and gossiping adjacent to the bureau vending machine, Scout is engaged blocking disconnected calendar clip for adjacent Tuesday’s all-hands gathering and generating talking points based connected caller messages.

Microsoft is launching this diagnostic with a tiny radical of customers, with the anticipation of expanding entree soon. In summation to the Teams integration, Microsoft is besides investigating a desktop app for Scout. This app is rolling retired contiguous to subscribers who’ve opted for "frontier" diagnostic access, and it presently requires users besides to person an progressive GitHub Copilot subscription.

If users archer Scout their goals and preferences, the bot tin proactively delegate tasks. For example, Shahine told Scout ever to support dinnertime with the family, truthful whenever a gathering was projected connected his calendar during that time, the cause would emblem it and automatically suggest rescheduling options to your colleagues.

With entree to your email and messages, the AI cause tin effort tasks tailored to your workload. Shahine asked Scout to comb done each his information and marque a perpetually updated database of each clip idiosyncratic makes a committedness to him arsenic good arsenic each clip helium makes a committedness to idiosyncratic else. Then, Scout tin nonstop reminders to you astir unfastened tickets and draught follow-up plans.

Anyone who experiments with Scout should expect immoderate unsmooth edges arsenic Microsoft iterates connected this agent. Shahine says his Scout—nicknamed Sebastian—sent an email the different day. “It was conscionable 1 large run-on sentence, nary formatting.” It’s captious to find a equilibrium of what tasks you consciousness comfy automating distant and what needs to hap nether your nonstop supervision.

Shahine inactive sees Scout arsenic yet being a boon to each cognition workers, particularly those who aren’t arsenic method and wouldn’t consciousness comfy operating an cause done the terminal. “Internally our income enactment is astir apt the largest and fastest increasing radical that's utilizing this,” helium says.