Scenario selection
Identify the tasks worth delegating rather than encouraging uncontrolled experimentation.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork
Put long-running AI work under the same controls as the rest of the business.
Copilot Cowork can execute multi-step work across Microsoft 365 and uses usage-based Copilot Credits in addition to the Microsoft 365 Copilot user license. Centered Networks helps organizations choose the right scenarios, configure the available controls, establish budgets and reporting, and operate adoption without letting usage become an unexplained invoice.
Microsoft capability information last verified: August 10, 2026
Current Microsoft model
What Cowork is today.
- Cowork is generally available to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers.
- It is designed for complex, longer-running, multi-tool work.
- Cowork usage is billed through Copilot Credits.
- Microsoft provides cost-management capabilities including usage visibility, budgets, limits, alerts, and payment options for consumption.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing is still required.
Cowork capabilities, models, controls, pricing, and Copilot Credit economics change quickly. This page is re-verified at least quarterly, and we confirm the current Microsoft model before any scope.
What Centered Networks adds
Six things that keep usage-based AI explainable.
Governance
Review identity, data, permissions, human checkpoints, and the Microsoft controls applicable to the selected work.
Cost controls
Configure the available tenant, group, and user policies, budgets, limits, and alerts appropriate to the deployment.
Adoption
Teach users when Cowork is the right tool and when ordinary Copilot, a workflow, or a custom agent is better.
Reporting
Translate usage and consumption into a view leadership and finance can understand.
Continuous tuning
Adjust scenarios, limits, operating guidance, and the adoption plan as real usage emerges.
Product relationship
Cowork Adoption is a capability-specific engagement.
It does not replace the broader products. It sits alongside them.
Broader Copilot
Copilot Kickstart
For broader Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment and adoption with a governed pilot and an expansion decision.
See Copilot Kickstart →Custom agents
Agent Launchpad
For custom production agents built around a specific workflow with defined authority and telemetry.
See Agent Launchpad →Agent fleet
Managed AgentOps
For operating a production agent fleet across ownership, governance, performance, and economics.
See Managed AgentOps →Whole AI program
CompleteCare Intelligence
For the broader managed AI program: adoption, governance, portfolio, consumption, and value reviews.
See CompleteCare Intelligence →Commercial model
Scoped to the deployment, not to a catalog price.
On pricing: You get a fee in writing after we have confirmed the current Microsoft model and the scenarios in scope. We do not publish a price for this engagement because the scope varies enough that a headline number would mislead more than it helps.
Cowork work is scoped to the number of users, priority scenarios, required governance, and whether Centered Networks is operating consumption and adoption after launch. Microsoft licensing and Copilot Credit consumption are separate.
Make usage-based AI visible before usage scales.
Tell us how many Copilot users you have, what work you are considering delegating, and who owns the budget. We confirm the current Microsoft model before scope.
Still deploying Copilot itself? See Copilot Kickstart →
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A senior member of our team will reach out within one business day to confirm the current Microsoft model and scope the work.