Nikita S. — AI Product Manager & Builder
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02 · Microsoft · M365 Copilot

Scaling AI product development across Copilot

Led the Data Intelligence Platform supporting M365 Copilot — turning repeated, bespoke AI work into a self-serve capability that many product teams could build on.

70%

reduction in time to deploy AI agents

80%

increase in experimentation agility

15+

Copilot teams adopting the capability

600M+

MAU served across Copilot experiences

Context

Across Copilot, teams were solving the same problems independently: getting enterprise data into a usable shape, grounding responses in the right context, standing up an agent, then proving it worked.

Every team paid that cost again, and the cost was mostly invisible — it showed up as slow experimentation rather than as a line item.

Visual model

Platform capability

Data Intelligence Platform

Self-serve agent creation, grounding and evaluation

  • Copilot agent experiences
  • Contextual grounding
  • Personalization
  • Enterprise data workflows

15+ Copilot teams building on one capability · 600M+ MAU served

One platform capability enabling many downstream AI products and teams.

What I focused on

  • 01

    Treated internal product teams as the customer, with adoption as the success metric rather than shipped surface area.

  • 02

    Made agent creation and contextual grounding self-serve, so teams could move without a dependency on mine.

  • 03

    Prioritized the parts of the workflow that blocked experimentation first — speed of iteration compounds faster than features.

  • 04

    Held a single quality and measurement bar across the platform, so downstream teams inherited it rather than reinventing it.

Why platform thinking mattered here

A capability used by one product is a feature. The same capability adopted by fifteen teams changes how an organisation builds — it lowers the cost of trying something, which changes what teams are willing to try.

The measurable outcome was not the platform itself. It was that AI product development across Copilot got faster, more consistent and easier to evaluate.

Themes

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