A 25-person marketing agency (unnamed in the source)
Marketing agency
- Size
- 25
- Where
- Not stated (supplier is UK-based)
- Tool
- Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft 365 Business Premium (rolled out by Stevens I.T. Solutions)
What the AI did
Copilot writes meeting summaries and follow-up emails in Teams, turns raw campaign data into charts and slides and summarises the morning inbox with draft replies for staff to check.
The result
The recovery of 5 hours per week, per employee. [Meetings] Time Saved: 45 minutes per meeting. [Campaign reporting] Time Saved: 2 hours per week. [Email] Time Saved: 45 minutes per day. Our client was able to take on 20% more client volume without hiring a single new staff member.
Check before trusting
The client is unnamed and the IT supplier wrote the story to sell its managed service.
Prompt to try it
Test the job on your own material before buying anything. Replace the highlighted brackets.
Here are my notes or the transcript from today's [MEETING TYPE] with [CLIENT OR TEAM]: [PASTE NOTES]. Write a summary of no more than 150 words, a table of actions with owner and due date and a short follow-up email I can send to [RECIPIENTS]. Mark anything you weren't sure about.
Source
Stevens I.T. Solutions ↗, 12 May 2026 · vendor story
This source was written or published by the supplier of the tool, so treat the claim as a sales story.
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