AI public-bidding and plant-reliability agents that deploy entirely inside a locked-down Microsoft Copilot stack
When corporate IT bans every other AI provider, two agents — one for licitação response, one for work-order prioritization across the plant historian — run inside Microsoft Copilot Studio, on the client's own data, with a citizen-developer governance layer on top.
Industrial-gases operator serving Latin American markets. Naming withheld.
The operator runs liquid-bulk industrial gases across Latin America, serving Argentina and Peru among other markets. Corporate IT in the US parent has a hard policy: Microsoft and Copilot only. AWS is blocked. Claude is blocked. Every external AI provider the local team would naturally pick up is blocked. The team still needs to automate two specific operational areas. The constraint is the design parameter, not an exception to it.
Outcomes
The IT constraint stops being a reason not to do the work. The client's team takes ownership of automation inside the same stack corporate already approved.
The problem
Two workflows defined the cost of doing business. Public-bidding processes (licitação) stalled across regional offices, slowing pipeline turnover. And plant reliability ran on a control system whose alarms and case histories were triaged manually by senior operators, putting the bottleneck on the most senior people on every shift. Both workflows had to be automated inside the Microsoft Copilot stack the corporate IT mandate allowed.
What we built
HomoDeus delivers two agents and one governance layer, all inside Microsoft Copilot Studio. The Public-Bidding (licitação) agent ingests bid documents, drafts compliant responses, and routes them for human approval. The Plant-Reliability agent reads the plant historian and the work-order system, prioritizes alarms by operational risk and historical recurrence, and proposes the work-order queue for the day. On top of both, a Citizen-Developer Enablement layer (governance, ontology, and a coached harness) lets the client's own team automate their own processes after HomoDeus engineers leave.
Stack
- Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Plant historian connector
- Public-bidding (licitação) response automation
- Work-order prioritization agent
- Citizen-developer governance and ontology layer
- Microsoft-native deployment
Time to production
6 weeks to first production agent inside Copilot Studio
Questions a C-suite leader will ask
Can HomoDeus deploy entirely inside Microsoft Copilot Studio?
Yes. When the client's corporate IT mandates Microsoft-only, HomoDeus designs around that constraint. The licitação and plant-reliability agents run inside Copilot Studio with the client's own data, and the citizen-developer governance layer sits on top of the same stack.
What is the citizen-developer enablement layer?
A governance and ontology layer plus a coached harness that lets the client's own team build and operate agents after the HomoDeus engagement ends. It is the difference between a delivered project and a permanent internal capability.
Why not use AWS, Claude, or other AI providers?
Corporate IT blocks them in this engagement. HomoDeus's position is that the constraint is the design parameter. The team builds inside the approved stack rather than trying to negotiate around it.