Use case

We bought Copilot licences and nothing changed.

You signed off Microsoft 365 Copilot or a ChatGPT Team account six to twelve months ago. The team uses it to summarise meetings and write emails. The CFO is asking what you got for the subscription. The auditor is asking how AI risk is governed. You cannot point to a single business outcome that has shifted.

The pain

Per-seat AI subscriptions at A$30 to A$60 per user per month across 80 seats is A$28k to A$58k a year of cost with no answer for the board when they ask what it is doing. Most people opened the assistant twice and closed it. Some use it to summarise meetings. The IT manager suspects the real efficiency would come from agents in finance ops or customer support, but does not know how to scope that or who to trust to build it.

The mistake most businesses make

Treating per-seat AI assistants (Copilot, ChatGPT Team, Gemini for Workspace) as the AI strategy. They are not. They are a productivity floor. The actual ROI lives in workflow-shaped AI: a finance ops agent that takes the supplier invoice from email to the accounting system with the GL code already mapped, a customer support agent that drafts the reply and routes the exception, a sales ops agent that reads the inbound and writes the discovery brief. Those are scoped builds, not seat licences. Buying more seats does not produce them.

What Core Nova does differently

Per-seat assistants help individuals. Workflow agents change unit economics. Most SMEs who think they have deployed AI have deployed the first and still owe themselves the second.

Every Copilot-stalled engagement starts with the same fixed-price First Workflow: a process map across the surface the buyer expected Copilot to fix, plus one workflow agent shipped that addresses the most expensive opportunity Copilot does not. Aligned with NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, which gives the board, auditor, and insurer something to read.

A$6,000 + GST

Four working days. First measurable improvement by week two. Payable in full on signature.

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How a Copilot-stalled engagement looks

  • Day 1. Process inventory across the function where Copilot was supposed to help. AI-suitability triage. Where the workflow agent should sit.
  • Day 2. Workflow selected. Agent specified with explicit guardrails and escalation path.
  • Day 3. Build. One workflow end-to-end.
  • Day 4. Deploy, measure, handover. Governance scaffold for the use case included.

What happens after

The engagement ends at end of week two unless we both agree there is more value to capture. You leave with the improvement and the runbook either way.

If the first improvement returns the investment, we can scope a second workflow. Engagements can grow into multi-workflow deployments or ongoing oversight, but those conversations happen after the first improvement ships, not before.

Frequently asked

An AI agent designed to move one workflow end to end with explicit scope, guardrails, an evaluation harness, and an escalation path for cases it cannot handle. Different from a per-seat assistant like Microsoft 365 Copilot or ChatGPT Team, which helps individuals draft email and summarise meetings. A workflow agent ships work that used to take hours. A per-seat assistant makes the typing faster.

Because per-seat AI assistants are a productivity floor, not a strategy. They help individuals write faster. They do not change the unit economics of a business. Mid-market SMEs paying A$30 to A$60 per user per month across 80 seats spend A$28k to A$58k a year and cannot point to a single business outcome that has shifted. The ROI lives in workflow-shaped AI: a finance ops agent, a customer support agent, a sales ops agent. Those are scoped builds, not seat licences.

Different threat model and different output. A per-seat assistant runs inside an individual's session and helps them write. A workflow agent runs as a defined process, takes a documented input, moves it through your business systems, and lands a documented output. Aligned with NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, which gives the board, auditor, and insurer something to read. The First Workflow engagement ships one in four days for A$6,000 + GST.