Custom Conversational Agents

Build Custom AI Agents Grounded in Approved Company Knowledge

Build custom Copilot Studio AI agents grounded in approved SharePoint documents, product catalogs, and ERP data.

Deploy intelligent assistants in Teams, websites, or portals to answer employee questions, look up part specs, and trigger business approvals 24/7 with zero hallucinations.

SharePoint & Dataverse Grounding
Teams & Web Deployment
Entra ID Single Sign-On (SSO)
Copilot Studio AI Agents
Active Studio Orchestrator
24/7
Instant autonomous resolution across channels
85%
Deflection of routine internal L1 support queries
  • Generative Answers: Direct citations linking to source documents.
  • Power Automate Actions: Triggers live backend updates & tickets.
  • Escalation Path: Seamless handoff to human support with chat history.
  • Enterprise Identity: Role-based access filters what users see.
Interactive Agent Builder

Select an Enterprise Agent Archetype to Preview Real-World Architecture

SmartSoft builds purpose-engineered Copilot Studio bots connected to approved documentation and live enterprise data. Choose an agent profile below:

Internal HR & Employee Benefits Assistant

Eliminate 70% of repetitive internal Slack/Teams pings to HR. Grounded in approved company handbooks, leave policies, and medical insurance benefit schedules.

Primary Channel Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Intranet
Measured Resolution 74% First-Contact Resolution
Backend Connectors HRMS API, SharePoint PDF Vaults
Guardrails Zero Hallucination / Strictly Cited Answers

Autonomous Execution Flow

Production Verified
  • Answers specific maternity, paternity, and annual leave entitlement queries
  • Directly quotes page & paragraph citations from current policy PDFs
  • Triggers leave balance lookups via Power Automate without human ticket
  • Escalates complex personnel queries privately to assigned HR manager
Productivity Friction

Why Knowledge Silos Drain Your Senior Team's Time

Experienced managers waste dozens of hours every month answering repetitive questions that already exist in approved documents.

Repetitive HR & IT Helpdesk Interruption

HR and IT teams spend 40% of their day answering identical questions about leave policies, claim forms, VPN credentials, and expense limits.

Buried Knowledge in 50-Page PDF Handbooks

Employees cannot find specific compliance answers in massive policy manuals, leading to guesswork, non-compliant decisions, or delayed client answers.

Inconsistent Product & Pricing Answers to Leads

Sales reps quote outdated warranty terms or wrong pricing tiers because product specifications are scattered across multiple email chains and shared drives.

Core Engineering

What SmartSoft Builds Inside Microsoft Copilot Studio

We architect secure, intelligent agents connected directly to your existing Microsoft 365 environment.

Knowledge

1. Generative Answers with Verified Citations

SharePoint SharePoint & PDF Knowledge Vaults

We connect the agent directly to approved SharePoint folders, PDFs, internal handbooks, and public product catalogs. Every response includes clickable source citations.

  • Grounded strictly in approved company assets
  • Zero hallucinations: answers 'I don't know' if unverified
Logic

2. Multi-Turn Decision Trees & Trigger Topics

Copilot Studio Guided Conversational Flows

We design guided conversational flows for structured tasks (e.g., submitting equipment requests, travel expense approvals, customer onboarding questionnaires).

  • Natural language intent & entity recognition
  • Variable tracking across multi-step conversations
Actions

3. Power Automate & API Integration

Power Automate Power Automate Action Triggers

Your agent can perform real business actions: generate quotation drafts, log support tickets in your CRM, check warehouse inventory, or send email alerts.

  • Cloud flow triggers inside conversational topics
  • Connects to SQL, ERP, SharePoint & 1,000+ APIs
Omnichannel

4. Multi-Channel Publishing

Teams Teams, Web Portals & WhatsApp

Publish your agent to Microsoft Teams for internal employees, embed it as an interactive widget on your company intranet, or deploy it to public web portals.

  • Native Microsoft Teams app with 1-click install
  • Responsive web widget for Power Pages portals
Security

5. Role-Based Identity & Access

Entra ID Microsoft Entra ID Security

Grounded via Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). When a sales manager queries the bot, they see confidential pricing; a contractor sees only public documentation.

  • Seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication
  • Inherits SharePoint document permissions
Handoff

6. Human Escalation Paths

Support Live Human Agent Routing

If a customer query requires senior intervention or sentiment turns negative, the agent routes the conversation to a designated human specialist with full context.

  • Handoff to Teams channel, email, or ticketing system
  • Transfers complete conversation transcript
Practical Use Cases

High-Impact AI Agents Built for Real Teams

Specific examples of autonomous assistants transforming everyday operational workflows.

Teams Self-Service Bot
Internal HR & Operations
Teams Agent

Company Policy & Employee Self-Service Bot

Challenge: Growing 80-person firm with HR spending hours answering the same questions about maternity leave, medical reimbursements, and expense submission deadlines.
SmartSoft Copilot Studio Agent: Built an HR Agent inside Teams connected to verified company policies and employee handbooks. Employees ask questions in natural language and receive immediate policy citations with downloadable form links.
80% reduction in routine HR queries · Instant 24/7 staff answers
Engineering Specs Assistant
Sales & Technical Support
Product Catalog Agent

Engineering Specs & Warranty Lookup Assistant

Challenge: Technical sales team took 24–48 hours to confirm complex product compatibility and warranty terms across 500+ manufacturer data sheets.
SmartSoft Copilot Studio Agent: Ingested 500+ technical PDF manuals into a dedicated SharePoint knowledge base. Sales reps query the bot in Teams: "Does Model 4B support 24V DC input and what is the temperature range?" Getting instant validated answers.
Reduced spec lookup from 2 days to 10 seconds · Zero errors
Implementation Methodology

Our Phased Agent Engineering Lifecycle

A proven delivery path that guarantees accuracy, compliance, and user adoption.

Step 01 Use Case Scoping & Audit
Step 02 Knowledge Wiring & Chunking
Step 03 Flows & Adversarial Testing
Step 04 Pilot Rollout & Admin Handoff
1

Use Case Scoping

We identify your highest-volume question categories, define success metrics, and audit the source documentation for completeness and accuracy.

2

Knowledge Wiring

We connect SharePoint repositories, format PDF files for semantic chunking, and configure generative answer boundaries and moderation rules.

3

Flows & Testing

We build multi-turn topics, integrate Power Automate actions for backend tasks, and run comprehensive adversarial testing to eliminate errors.

4

Publish & Learn

We roll out to Microsoft Teams or your portal, conduct user training, and monitor conversational telemetry to continuously improve coverage.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything You Need to Know About Copilot Studio Agents

Clarifications on capabilities, licensing, and security boundaries.

What is the difference between Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio?

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an out-of-the-box assistant embedded in Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook designed for general personal productivity. Copilot Studio is the developer and low-code studio used to build custom, specialized AI agents tailored to specific business processes, custom knowledge bases, and backend automated workflows.

Can our agent trigger automated actions, like sending an email or creating a CRM ticket?

Yes. By integrating Copilot Studio with Power Automate cloud flows, your agent can take actions based on conversational inputs—such as submitting an approval request, logging a support ticket, resetting a password, or querying an inventory database.

Where does the agent store conversation history and business data?

Copilot Studio agents run on your organization's Microsoft Cloud environment (Microsoft Dataverse and Azure). All prompts and conversation logs remain inside your tenant boundary and comply with your corporate retention and security policies.

How is Microsoft Copilot Studio licensed?

Microsoft Copilot Studio is licensed via tenant-level subscription capacity packs (billed per message consumption) or included for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license for building agents in Microsoft Teams. We evaluate your usage volume and recommend the most cost-effective tier.

Ready to Automate Routine Work with Custom AI Agents?

Schedule an architecture workshop with SmartSoft. We will help you scope your first high-impact AI agent, prepare the knowledge sources, and calculate ROI.