Fiber is excited to announce a new solution for our clients: the Copilot Readiness Assessment, offered through our partnership with Microsoft, the company behind Copilot and Microsoft 365.
Everyone is talking about AI. Leadership teams are feeling pressure to act. But there’s a big difference between turning on Microsoft Copilot and actually getting value from it. According to MIT research, 95% of integrated AI pilots produce no measurable business impact, while just 5% of organizations are extracting millions in value. The gap isn’t about the technology. It’s about readiness. That’s exactly the problem this new solution is designed to solve.
What Is the Copilot Readiness Assessment?
The Copilot Readiness Assessment is a short, structured engagement that gives your organization a clear, honest picture of where you stand on AI readiness — before you invest in licenses, training, or deployment. It looks across people, process, and technology through a business lens, and produces a practical set of recommendations, not just a report that sits on a shelf.
Your organization comes away with a readiness score across five critical dimensions:
- Business Analysis: Are your use cases identified and prioritized? Is there stakeholder alignment and a roadmap in place?
- Data Security: Is your data environment safe for Copilot? Are overshared files and sites identified before AI can surface them?
- User Empowerment: Does your team have the training capability and workforce readiness to actually adopt AI in daily work?
- Agents & Integrations: Is your organization ready to build and govern AI agents or are you at risk of ungoverned automation?
- ROI & Governance: Do you have the structure to measure AI’s impact, sustain executive sponsorship, and govern usage over time?
Why This Matters Right Now
The MIT research is sobering: the biggest companies are running the most AI pilots, yet they’re the slowest to scale up. Organizations are spending money on visible, exciting use cases while missing the high-ROI back-office opportunities sitting right in front of them. And teams trying to go it alone are succeeding at half the rate of those working with an external partner.
For organizations already running Microsoft 365 or those feeling pressure from leadership to “do something” with AI, this assessment is the smartest possible first step. It costs nothing to start and gives you clarity that money can’t otherwise buy quickly.
What Happens After the Assessment?
The assessment isn’t an end point, it’s a starting line. Based on your scores, Microsoft will outline a recommended approach tailored to your gaps. From there, clients typically move into one of three engagement models: Mentoring (coach + co-build to develop internal capability), Managed Services (your AI and security operations are run for you day-to-day), or Professional Services (focused delivery to get key initiatives like Copilot deployment built fast).
Who Should Consider This?
This solution is a strong fit for organizations that are already using Microsoft 365, have 500 to 5,000 knowledge workers, and have a leadership team that wants to unlock the real potential of AI — not just experiment with it. If your organization is in a regulated industry like healthcare, finance, or the public sector, the data security dimension of this assessment is especially valuable.
If any of the following sounds familiar, it’s time to talk:
- You’ve purchased Copilot licenses but adoption is flat
- Leadership is asking about AI ROI and you don’t have a clear answer
- You’re not sure if your SharePoint and OneDrive data is safe for AI to access
- Teams are using AI tools informally (shadow AI) without governance
- You want to build agents but aren’t sure where to start safely
This assessment has been delivered across a wide range of organizations, from 200-person manufacturers to 2,100-person retailers to national law firms, and the output has consistently created a clear path forward where there wasn’t one before.
Ready to Lead the 5%?
Most organizations will keep running AI pilots that go nowhere. The ones that get real value from Microsoft Copilot aren’t the biggest or the most technical, they’re the ones who took the time to get ready before they leaped.
As a Fiber client, you get direct access to this assessment and the full Microsoft partnership behind it. We’ll help you understand exactly where your organization stands, close the gaps that matter most, and build an AI strategy that actually delivers results, without putting your data or budget at risk. If your leadership team is asking what you’re doing with AI, now you have an answer. Let’s build it together. Contact us today for your Copilot Success.
