Should you pay for Microsoft 365 Copilot?

📊 Value Proposition: “DATA IS ALL YOU NEED”

1. The hardest part of integrating LLM into business is data preparation.
2. Turning current business data into LLM consumable using RAG and data-cleansing often requires months of engineering work and ongoing maintenance.
3. Because Copilot is just an "LLM embedded into the Microsoft Platform", it also needs neatly arranged data.
4. If you are using M365 subscription such as Word, Excel, PPT, Teams, Outlook emails, Calendar, SharePoint, OneNote, Planner, and so on, all the data within M365 can be readily consumable by Copilot. All the hard-wiring and data-preparation is serviced/managed by Microsoft.

✅ Cost Justification on M365 Copilot add-on License

1. M365 Copilot costs $30 ($21 for SMB up to 300 employees) per month for an employee and since it is an add-on license, you need to have an M365 license to purchase the add-on.
2. If one employee consumes, let’s say, $3,000, you can give Microsoft 365 Copilot to 100 employees with a single person cost.
3. A person works 8 hours a day. Can 8 hours a day be saved by giving 100 employees Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on? 8 hours is 480 minutes and if we divide 480 min by 100 employees, that's only 5 minutes per person per day.
4. It may depend on individual Copilot usage pattern but considering a usual employee spends much time for producing a weekly report by manually checking a list of work history from Teams, Calendar, Emails, SharePoint docs, OneNote – Copilot does this in seconds and $30 could be easily justified.
5. What if someone never uses Copilot and there is no way to apply Copilot in their work pattern? we can anytime easily take out Copilot license from their accounts.

How is Copilot actually saving your time daily? I would appreciate if you could share your experiences in the comments!