Microsoft Copilot + Frontier AI training · Portland

Microsoft Copilot Training in Portland

Portland's apparel HQs and Intel's Hillsboro fabs run Copilot deep — frontier-model integration is the next leap for design and engineering teams. A live, hands-on workshop for Portland teams covering Microsoft Copilot in M365 plus frontier-grade reasoning on Claude Opus 4.7 — delivered by Rye Smith, Claude Ambassador for Australia.

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Microsoft Copilot for M365

Claude Opus 4.7 frontier model

Live online or in-person

No coding required

Token context window

Opus 4.7

Frontier model · 2026

M365

Microsoft Copilot stack

50+

US states & metros served

Rye Smith — Claude Ambassador for Australia

Claude Ambassador AU

Your trainer

Rye Smith

Claude Ambassador for Australia & Lead Workshop Trainer

Rye is Australia's Claude Ambassador and an AI strategist who has helped thousands of professionals understand and ship with Claude. He runs hands-on, classroom-style workshops in every capital city — demystifying Claude Code, Claude Coworker, and the agentic workflows that are reshaping how Australian teams work.

Claude Ambassador for Australia
Anthropic-recognised community lead
Certified Claude Code trainer
Hands-on agentic workflows since 2024
n8n Ambassador (APAC)
Cross-tool automation expert
1,000+ professionals trained
Workshops in 11 Australian cities

Workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Gold Coast, Newcastle & Auckland.

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Two stacks, one workflow

Microsoft Copilot is the office. Opus 4.7 is the frontier.

We don't make you choose. The most productive teams in 2026 use both — Microsoft Copilot for the everyday, Claude Opus 4.7 for the hard, long-context work that decides quarters.

Claude Opus 4.7 — the frontier

Anthropic's flagship frontier model with 1M-token context, advanced agentic reasoning and the highest published scores on real-world coding, research and analysis tasks in 2026.

Microsoft 365 — your office

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. Copilot sits inside the apps your team already lives in — we add the frontier model on top.

Two stacks, one workflow

Microsoft Copilot for inline assistance inside M365. Claude Opus 4.7 for the deep reasoning, long-context synthesis and document-heavy work Copilot alone can't handle.

Frontier briefing · 2026

What's happening on the frontier right now

The frontier moved this year. Claude Opus 4.7, released by Anthropic, is the model that finally makes enterprise-scale agentic work reliable. Here's what changes for teams already running Microsoft Copilot.

Opus 4.7 is the new frontier

Released by Anthropic in early 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 is the most capable model on the market for sustained reasoning, agentic work and long-context document analysis. Its 1M-token context window means it can read your entire annual report, a year of board papers, or every contract in a deal room — in one pass.

1M-token context changes everything

Microsoft Copilot is excellent at inline assistance, but its underlying models have shorter context windows and are tuned for fast, generic responses. For the work where you'd previously break a document into chunks and lose the thread, the frontier model now holds it all in one head.

Agentic workflows are production-ready

Opus 4.7's tool use, planning and self-correction capabilities mean it can drive multi-step workflows reliably — research, analysis, drafting, review — with a clarity Copilot's built-in agents are still catching up to.

Enterprise-grade and data-safe

Anthropic's enterprise tier ships with the same data-privacy guarantees enterprise IT teams need — no training on your inputs, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA support, EU data residency. The frontier model is no longer a research toy.

Choose your tier

Three tiers, every skill level

From a team-wide Copilot rollout to a fully bespoke frontier cowork programme. Minimum 5, maximum 15 participants per session.

Tier 01 · Beginner

Copilot Foundations

2 hours

Get every team member productive on Microsoft Copilot in M365 — Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams. Plus when (and when not) to escalate to the Claude Opus 4.7 frontier model.

Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Teams meeting recap & Copilot chat patterns

Prompt frameworks that survive contact with real work

When to escalate to the frontier (Opus 4.7)

$499 online / $875 in-person

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Tier 02 · Intermediate

Reporting, Analysis & Synthesis

2 hours

The hard work Copilot alone struggles with — multi-source synthesis, long-context document analysis, executive reporting. We hand the heavy lifting to Opus 4.7 and ship results back into M365.

1M-token long-context document analysis

Multi-source synthesis & exec summaries

Templated recurring reports & data narratives

Quality control & hallucination spotting

$499 online / $875 in-person

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Tier 03 · Advanced

Frontier Cowork — Custom Deep Dive

3 hours

Tailored to your team's workflows. We pair Microsoft Copilot with Claude Opus 4.7 to build 2–3 production-grade cowork workflows you'll use from day one.

Pre-session discovery call

Tailored to your team's pain points

Build 2–3 production-grade cowork workflows

30-day rollout plan & governance kit

$1,250 online / $1,500 in-person

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How it works

Three pillars of delivery

Designed for maximum impact and lasting skill transfer.

Frontier-model fluency

We don't just train you on Copilot. We teach you how to recognise the moment a task needs the Opus 4.7 frontier model — and how to hand it off cleanly.

Governance from day one

Data privacy, approval workflows, hallucination spotting and the team rituals that make Microsoft Copilot + frontier AI safe to deploy across marketing, ops, HR and finance.

Live, hands-on, role-based

Live online or in-person, capped at 15. We rebuild your team's actual deliverables in the room — briefs, board papers, Excel models, exec recaps.

At a glance

Course details

Duration

2–3 hrs

Format

Live online or in-person

Level

All levels

Class size

5–15

Certificate

Included

Coverage

US, AU & NZ

“Microsoft Copilot is the front door. The frontier model is the engine. Most teams have the front door — we teach you to use the engine.”
Rye Smith
Claude Ambassador for Australia

Portland

Who we typically train in Portland

Portland's apparel HQs and Intel's Hillsboro fabs run Copilot deep — frontier-model integration is the next leap for design and engineering teams.

Apparel

Semiconductors

Tech

Live online to Portland, OR. In-person available for teams of 8+.

Already running Claude or thinking about Claude Code?

We also run dedicated Claude Coworker and Claude Code training for teams who want to go deeper on the frontier-model side.

For knowledge teams

Claude Coworker Training →

Pure Claude cowork workflows for analysts, managers and ops teams.

For developers

Claude Code Training →

Agentic coding workflows for engineering teams.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is Microsoft Copilot + Frontier AI Cowork training?+

It's a hands-on workshop that trains your team on Microsoft Copilot inside M365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams) AND how to escalate the hard work to the current frontier model — Claude Opus 4.7. Microsoft Copilot is brilliant for inline assistance. The frontier model is what you reach for when the work is long-context, deeply analytical, or needs real reasoning.

Why pair Microsoft Copilot with Claude Opus 4.7?+

Because they solve different problems. Copilot sits inside the apps your team uses every day and is unmatched at inline help — rewrite a paragraph, summarise an email thread, draft a meeting recap. Claude Opus 4.7 has a 1M-token context window and frontier-grade reasoning — it's what you use when you need to read every contract in a deal room, draft a 30-page board paper, or run a real multi-source analysis. A good cowork workflow uses both, in the right order.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 really the frontier model?+

Yes. Released by Anthropic in early 2026, Opus 4.7 leads or ties on the benchmarks the enterprise actually cares about — long-context reasoning, real-world coding (SWE-bench Verified), tool use, agentic task completion. More importantly, in production deployments across our clients, it has clearly outperformed every other model on the kind of long-document, multi-step analytical work that knowledge teams ship every day.

Do we already need Microsoft Copilot licenses?+

Ideally yes, but not required. If your org has Copilot rolled out (or is rolling it out) we'll use your tenant in the workshop. If not, we'll show you what's possible on both sides — Copilot for M365 and the Claude Opus 4.7 frontier stack — so you can build the business case with real workflows.

What's the difference between the three tiers?+

Copilot Foundations (2hr) gets every team member productive on Microsoft Copilot itself. Reporting & Analysis (2hr) layers the Opus 4.7 frontier model on top for the heavy lifting Copilot can't do alone. Frontier Cowork — Custom Deep Dive (3hr) is fully tailored to your team's pain points and builds 2–3 production-grade cowork workflows with a pre-session discovery call.

How is this different from a standard Microsoft Copilot training?+

Most Microsoft Copilot training stops at Copilot. We start there — and then teach the workflow handoff to the current frontier model. That's the difference between a team that uses AI for inline assistance and a team that uses AI to genuinely reshape how work gets done.

Do you really deliver in every US state?+

Yes. We deliver live online to every US state and every metro from Anchorage to Miami, and run in-person workshops on request. Our classroom workshop calendar runs across 11 Australian and New Zealand cities; US delivery is live-online by default with in-person available for teams of 8+.

Group discounts and refunds?+

10% off for 10+ participants booked within a 5-day window. Full refund within 5 business days of purchase. Enterprise packages with custom curriculum and on-site delivery are available — contact us with your team size and we'll send a tailored proposal.

Bring frontier AI to your Portland team

Microsoft Copilot is table stakes in 2026. Claude Opus 4.7 is the edge. Book a session and give your team both — tailored to your stack, your industry and the real work that lands on their desks tomorrow.

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