Lessons From Building AI Skills in the Real World with Copilot in SharePoint

Matt Wolodarsky, a principal program manager at Microsoft, has led an early access program, testing out how skills in SharePoint can drive value for customers. You can roll AI out and still have nothing to show for it. We've all seen the headlines about companies spending big on …

Matt Wolodarsky, a principal program manager at Microsoft, has led an early access program, testing out how skills in SharePoint can drive value for customers. You can roll AI out and still have nothing to show for it. We've all seen the headlines about companies spending big on AI and getting little back. But it doesn't have to go that way. Over the past few months, I've worked alongside teams doing the opposite - one got a usable proposal draft in a fraction of the time it used to take; another got a clear read on where a project actually stood, when the information they needed was scattered across documents and hard to surface. What ultimately set these teams apart was how intentionally they applied Copilot to real work. This is where skills matter. In SharePoint, skills transform Copil