What is Copilot Cowork? | Meet the Builders
Who builds an AI agent you'd trust with complex work? In this video, Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork builders Steve Gustavson, CVP Cowork Design and Research, Bas Brekelmans, Partner Software Engineer, and Christopher Whitten, Engineering Manager, share insights on tools that let you delegate multi-step work to AI. Watch the video to hear how Cowork frees people to focus on the tasks that demand more personal attention.
Copilot Cowork is an approach to using AI inside Microsoft 365 that lets you delegate complex work to AI so you can focus on tasks that need your judgment, creativity, and personal attention. Instead of treating AI as a simple assistant for quick answers, Copilot Cowork is designed to help you rethink how you handle deeper, more involved work.
Builders like Steve Gustavson (CVP, Cowork Design and Research), Bas Brekelmans (Partner Software Engineer, Cowork), and Christopher Whitten (Engineering Manager, Cowork) are focused on creating tools that make AI feel like a true coworker—someone you can hand off multi-step, complex tasks to, not just a tool for one-off prompts.
Copilot Cowork lives within the broader Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, so it’s designed to work where you already collaborate, create documents, analyze data, and communicate with your team.
How does Copilot Cowork change my day-to-day work?
Copilot Cowork is built to help you reimagine how you handle complex, multi-step work, not just quick tasks. In day-to-day use, that means you can:
- Hand off complex tasks – Instead of manually pulling data, drafting long documents, or synthesizing multiple inputs, you can delegate that work to AI and then review and refine the output.
- Free up time for higher-value work – By offloading detailed, time-consuming steps, you can spend more time on strategy, stakeholder conversations, and decisions that require your expertise.
- Work within Microsoft 365 – Because Copilot Cowork is part of the Microsoft 365 and Copilot family, it’s designed to operate where your files, conversations, and workflows already live.
The core idea is to reshape your workflow so AI becomes a coworker you can trust with complex tasks, while you stay focused on the parts of the work that truly need you.
Who is behind Copilot Cowork and where can I learn more?
Copilot Cowork is being shaped by a dedicated group inside Microsoft, including:
- Steve Gustavson – CVP, Cowork Design and Research
- Bas Brekelmans – Partner Software Engineer, Cowork
- Christopher Whitten – Engineering Manager, Cowork
They are focused on designing and engineering tools that let you treat AI as a true coworker for complex work.
You can learn more and stay updated through Microsoft’s official channels:
- Microsoft 365 YouTube – Subscribe for product insights and demos.
- LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram – Follow Microsoft 365 for ongoing updates and examples of how Copilot and Copilot Cowork are used in practice.
- Microsoft 365 website – Visit the main Microsoft 365 site for product overviews, documentation, and additional resources on Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Cowork.
What is Copilot Cowork? | Meet the Builders
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