Microsoft Teams AI Integration by Alpha Expansion
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Microsoft Teams AI Integration

ANSWERS INTHE CHANNEL,WITH SOURCES

We build AI assistants that live inside Microsoft Teams, where your staff already work, answering questions from company documents and systems with sources shown and each person's own permissions respected.

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Answers in TeamsDesigned around how your team already works.
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01Our Approach

Staff should not have to leave a conversation to find a policy, a figure or a status that the company already holds somewhere.

02Overview

An AI assistant where your teams already talk

  • 01Answers in Teams
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  • 03Sources shown

Microsoft Teams AI integration puts an assistant into chats and channels. A member of staff asks a question in plain language, and the assistant retrieves the relevant passages from approved sources, answers with links to them and declines when the sources do not cover the question. It can also start defined tasks, such as raising a request, behind a confirmation step. It signs users in with their Microsoft Entra identity.

It suits organizations that run on Microsoft 365 and want answers without another application to open. Microsoft also sells Copilot, which should be evaluated first for general use. A custom assistant is justified when answers must come from your own systems, follow your own rules or use a model you choose. Microsoft has archived its older Bot Framework SDK, so we build on the SDKs its documentation now recommends.

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03What We Do

Capabilities, End to End

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Chat and channel assistant

The assistant answers in a personal chat or when mentioned in a channel, keeps the thread's context and formats replies as cards with links and actions.

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Answers from your sources

Questions are answered from documents and systems you approve, with the passages used shown beside the answer so that staff can check them.

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Permission-aware retrieval

Each user signs in with their work account, and the assistant retrieves only what that person may already open, checked at the moment of asking.

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Actions with confirmation

Defined tasks such as booking leave or raising a ticket are offered as actions, and nothing is submitted until the user confirms the details shown.

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Handover to people

When a question is outside its sources or a user asks for help, the assistant passes the conversation to the right team channel with a summary.

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Evaluation and logging

A test set of real questions is run before each release, and every question, source and answer is logged for review under your retention rules.

04In Production

What It Looks Like When It Ships

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05What You Receive

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Teams app package for your tenant
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Assistant service with source code
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Connections to approved sources
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Sign-in with Microsoft Entra
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Test set of real questions
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Admin guide for IT
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Usage and quality dashboard
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06How It Runs

From Kickoff to Launch

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Prepare sources
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Choose the use

We pick one group of staff and the questions they really ask, collect real examples with correct answers, and confirm that Copilot or an existing tool does not already cover the need.

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Prepare sources

Documents and systems in scope are listed with their owners, outdated versions are removed, and permissions are checked at the source before the assistant is allowed to read anything.

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Build and evaluate

The assistant is built and installed for a pilot group in your tenant, and its answers are scored against the test set until the agreed level is reached.

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Roll out

Your administrators publish the app to chosen departments, staff are shown what it can and cannot answer, and usage, feedback and costs are reviewed with us regularly.

07Technology

The Stack We Use

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08Who It Is For

Built for Teams Like Yours

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The same questions are asked in Teams every day

People ask in channels where a document is, what a policy says or what the status of a request is. A colleague stops work to answer, or nobody does. The knowledge exists in SharePoint and in systems, but finding it takes longer than asking.

Companies running Microsoft 365
IT and HR help desks
Operations and field teams
Sales teams needing product facts
Regulated firms with strict access
Groups with several offices
09Questions

What buyers ask before they start

If yours is not here, ask us directly. The first conversation is free and useful whether or not we work together.

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Evaluate it first. Copilot works across Microsoft 365 with your existing permissions and may be all you need for documents, mail and meetings. A custom assistant earns its cost when answers must draw on systems outside Microsoft 365, when you need your own rules and refusals, or when licensing every user does not suit you. We give you an honest comparison for your case.

Users sign in with their Microsoft Entra work account, and the assistant retrieves content on their behalf, so it can only reach what they may already open. Where a source cannot enforce this itself, the assistant applies the user's access before any passage reaches the model. We ask people without access to test it by requesting restricted material before launch.

Microsoft has archived the Bot Framework SDK and its documentation now directs new work to the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, with the Teams SDK for agents that live only in Teams. We follow that guidance and check it again at the start of each project, since Microsoft's developer tools in this area have been renamed and replaced more than once.

The question and the retrieved passages are sent to the language model for processing. With a model hosted in your own Azure subscription, that stays within the Microsoft services you already use. With another provider, it leaves under that provider's terms. We document the flow, exclude sources that must not be sent and review it with your security and data protection leads.

Your Microsoft 365 administrators. We provide the app package and an admin guide, and they decide which users or departments receive it through the Teams admin centre, under your own policies. The assistant's service runs in a subscription you control. Nothing is published to the public Teams store unless you ask for a product that other organizations install.

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