New employees spend their first weeks asking colleagues to walk them through tasks. Those colleagues lose hours to training that never quite sticks. We built a product that captures how your best people work and turns it into a guide for everyone who comes after them.
Every organisation has the same onboarding problem. A new analyst joins and needs to learn how the team works — how they build models in Excel, how they format decks, how they run their weekly reports. The answer is always the same. Shadow someone, ask around, figure it out.
This is expensive in both directions. Senior team members lose time to informal training. Junior employees learn inconsistently, picking up whoever's habits they happened to observe rather than the team's actual best practices. And none of it is documented, so the cycle repeats with every new hire.
Most companies have tried to solve this with written SOPs or video recordings. Both go stale fast and nobody watches them. The knowledge lives in people's heads and walks out the door when they leave.
Copilot Instructor is a Microsoft 365 integration that watches how your team members complete tasks, synthesises the best practices across multiple people, and turns them into interactive tutorials for new employees — all without anyone having to sit down and write documentation.
I led the product definition and the pitch. In a one-day hackathon there is not much time for division of labour — everyone does everything. My focus was on making sure we had a clear problem statement, a product that actually solved it, and a story that judges could follow in five minutes.
I built the wireframes in Figma showing the Copilot sidebar experience, the tutorial library interface, and the onboarding flow for a new analyst. The wireframes made the idea concrete enough that the judges could see exactly how it would work inside tools they use every day.
We were judged by Chris Smellie and Mike Pell from Microsoft, who pushed us on scalability and privacy — how does Copilot know which actions to record, and how do you prevent it from capturing sensitive information? Those were the right questions and we had good answers ready.