Agent-a-thon by Cloud for Work
Turn Copilot licences into agents your people build and own.
Agent-a-thon is a facilitated agent programme for business teams, not developers. Each team starts from a task it repeats every week, builds a first working agent on the day, and leaves with a named owner and a plan to finish it.
Delivered in the UAE by a Microsoft adoption and change management specialist.
Built by business users, no code
Your real work, not a demo lab
Screened with IT, not around it
we were Chosen by Leading Teams
Copilot licences do not build agents.
Your people do, if someone shows them how.
Usage stops at chat
People ask Copilot questions. Nobody has turned the task they repeat every week into an agent.
Use cases stay in slides
Workshops produce lists of ideas. None of them has an owner, a data source or a date.
IT is worried, with reason
Employee-built agents on unapproved data are a risk. Blocking everyone is the usual answer, and nothing gets built.
What you walk away with
Not a certificate and not a list of ideas. A set of first agents, each with a problem that was tested, a person who owns it and a plan to finish it.
01
A first working agent per team
Built on the day from the team’s own task, on approved or synthetic copies of their data.
02
Problems that passed a test
Each one checked at the table for real users, data that exists and a number that can move.
03
A named owner for every agent
The person who does the task today owns the agent tomorrow, with a baseline to measure against.
04
A clear path through IT
Data sources and actions screened in the room against your rules; anything that needs review is flagged with a next step, not dropped.
05
People who can build the next one
Every table has used Agent Builder and Copilot Studio on their own problem, not on a sample company.
How Agent-a-thon runs
01
Prepare
Two weeks before: participants balanced by function and Copilot skill, a demo environment with approved or synthetic data, agreed with your IT and security team.
02
Find the task
Each table starts from a task someone at the table repeats every week, maps how it runs today and puts a baseline on it.
03
Validate
A facilitator checks every table before lunch: real users, data that exists, one action, an owner. Weak ideas are fixed here, not discovered at the demo.
04
Build
Ninety minutes in Agent Builder or Copilot Studio with a coach for every five tables and three checkpoints, from our Hack Pack.
05
Show
Every table presents in three minutes: the problem, the agent, one awkward case, who owns it next. A show-and-tell in the Workshop, judged with awards in the Build Day.
Want the agents finished, not just started? The Challenge adds four weeks to extend them on approved data, a checkpoint, and a judged final.
Compare formats →Choose your format
Workshop
Half day · 15 to 25 people
Starting at
AED 18,500
Every attendee builds an agent that answers from their own team’s documents, in Agent Builder, and shows it to the room. Show-and-tell, no judging.
Best for one department, or for leaders who want to build one themselves
Most chosen
Build Day
Full day · up to 50 people in 10 tables
Starting at
AED 29,500
Ten tables each leave with a tested problem, a first working agent, a named owner and a baseline. Teams present to a panel and winners are announced on the day.
Best for cross-functional groups and agentic AI sprints
Challenge
Build Day · four-week build · judged final
Starting at
AED 37,000
After the Build Day, teams get four weeks to extend their agent on approved data, with a mid-point checkpoint. A final judged on business impact, awards at your own event, and a Book of Agents for leadership.
Best for organisation-wide programmes and culture weeks
Prices exclude VAT.
Plan your formatWhat teams build
Project status from weekly reports
Supplier follow-up
Proposal and RFP first draft
Meeting actions tracker
Property work-order review
Contract clause finder
Inspection and compliance checks
Month-end checklist
Policy and procedure answers
Portfolio KPI questions
These are the shapes teams choose most. The ideas themselves come from your people on the day; we bring a menu of 30 starters mapped to common roles for tables that get stuck.
What we bring
Participant screening, table balancing and a demo environment with approved or synthetic data
An 80-minute session with two live builds, one in Agent Builder and one in Copilot Studio, and the build rules for your tenant
A printed Hack Pack and Agent Card for every table
A master facilitator, an agent lead and roaming coaches, one per five tables
Data screening with your IT team, naming and sharing conventions, and a confirmation rule for every action an agent takes
Judging panel and rubric for the Build Day; for the Challenge, the submission form, mid-point checkpoint, final and the Book of Agents
Agent-a-thon by Cloud for Work
Plan your Agent-a-thon
Tell us how many people, which teams and when. We will come back with a format, an agenda and what we need from your IT team.
A 30-minute planning call with the people who run the day
A recommended format and a draft agenda
A checklist for IT: licences, environment, data
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