Microsoft AI Agent Certificate: Copilot Studio to Foundry

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

AI Founder | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Manu Jayawardana

Exited AI Founder | Founder, TAI Labs

Ship an agent your company actually uses, in 3 weeks. Start in Copilot Studio.

Someone asked you to ship an agent. Your company runs on Microsoft 365, but it’s not always clear whether the job belongs to Copilot Studio, PowerAutomate, Foundry, or Agent 365.

This course takes a practical path. Start in Copilot Studio, publish to Teams in Week 1, then escalate only when low-code runs out. By Week 3, you’ll know which parts need code and which don’t.

Week 1: Build a Copilot Studio agent in Teams, grounded on your own documents.
Week 2: Add real write actions through PowerAutomate, including DLP and service accounts.
Week 3: Rebuild the part that needs code in Foundry and produce an evaluation report.
Demo Day: Present the agent your colleagues have been using in practice.

The Microsoft surface changes quickly, so we teach the engineering principle first and implementation second, using GA features verified against Microsoft Learn.

10,000+ students trained. Alumni from OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, and BCG.

What you’ll learn

Take one agent from Copilot Studio to Teams, PowerAutomate and Foundry, evaluated and governed, in 3 weeks.

Build instructions, topics and knowledge over your own SharePoint, not a sample dataset
Set a refusal policy and check every citation back to source and section
Publish to Teams, put it in front of 3 colleagues, and log every failure

Create, update, notify and escalate through PowerAutomate flows the agent can call
Classify every action reversible or irreversible, and gate the ones that aren't
Get past the things that actually block you: connection references, service accounts, DLP

Diagnose the exact limit you hit in Copilot Studio instead of guessing
Rebuild just that piece with Agent Framework, then wire it behind your Studio front door
Ground on Foundry IQ when SharePoint search fails on messy or conflicting sources

Turn your failure log into a golden set of 50+ cases, including unanswerable and prompt-injection
Measure routing and citation accuracy separately, plus cost per request and p95 latency
Wire Application Insights and an automated regression run

Write a handover doc with named owners for the Studio and Foundry layers
Cover what your admin will ask for: Entra Agent ID, Agent 365 posture, data residency
Present it in an 8-minute readiness review on Demo Day

Learn directly from Aki & Manu

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

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AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Manu Jayawardana

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AI Advisor | Founder, TAI Labs

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Who this course is for

The Power Platform maker
Built Copilot Studio agents that can't do anything real. Needs to know what comes next, and when to stop.
The enterprise engineer
Asked to ship an agent inside a Microsoft shop, unsure which surface owns which job or where code is required.
The solutions architect
Needs a defensible reference architecture, real numbers, and a governance story for an internal review board.

Prerequisites

Access to a Microsoft 365 tenant with Power Platform
You’ll publish to Teams in Week 1. Setup instructions are included in the pre-work, including what to request from your admin.
Basic familiarity with REST APIs and how LLMs call tools
You’ll design tool boundaries and contracts in Week 2, so you should already understand what an API is.
Some Python or C# helps in week 3, but isn't required to start
Week 3 uses a Foundry scaffold we provide. You’ll read and edit code rather than build an agent from scratch.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Dr. Aki Wijesundara & Manu Jayawardana in a real-time, interactive format.

Demo Day

Present the agent your colleagues have been using in an 8-minute readiness review covering what it does, what it refuses, what it costs, and who owns it.

3 graded weekly builds

Each one ships a working piece of the system plus the reasoning behind it. Graded on engineering judgment, not product familiarity.

Foundry starter scaffold

A working Agent Framework project deployed with azd, so week 3 is spent on the hard part rather than on setup.

Lifetime access

All recordings, repos and templates, plus a complimentary seat in a future cohort.

Certificate of completion

Shareable proof you shipped a deployed agent, an evaluation report and a handover pack.

Maven Guarantee

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Free resources

Testimonials

The AI training approach is outstanding. Our team learned to build practical AI solutions that we could implement immediately in our educational platform. The hands-on methodology made complex AI concepts accessible to our entire development team.
Kavi T.
CEO of Tilli Kids / Stanford PhD
Not only are the instructors experts in their field, they're incredibly skilled at breaking down complicated AI concepts so students can grasp them quickly. Anyone interested in building foundational AI knowledge should take this training - it's worth the investment.
Dr. Elizabeth Creighton
Founder & Principal at Brazen
The instructors help break down AI model development and clearly have plenty of experience to help others learn about complex concepts like infrastructure setup. The practical approach to NLP and LLM applications was exactly what our team needed.
Alissa Valentine
NLP & LLM Real World Data Scientist
I sent my team through this training for upskilling, and the results have been remarkable. Within weeks, they became much more efficient at building automations and deploying AI agents at work. This program bridges the gap between theory and practice and it’s had a real impact on our productivity.
Aamir Faaiz
CEO of Bayseian