Creating a Custom Agent in 5 Minutes

Agents are cool, we know that, but making them can seem daunting. But actually it can be super easy, with the right tools and approach, let me show you how. Call out here, this is not going to be the most powerful, game changing agent in the world, but its going to be useful, and the ROI is fantastic. Pre-work Design Build Example 1. Pre-work First things we need to select a platform, as we want this to be minimum effort, and minimum cost, we are going to use M365 Agent Builder. This does require a M365 Copilot License (so not actually minium cost), but there will be no per use cost, which is the most important thing you need to consider when building your agent. The next most important thing is a usecase. I see this to often, a solution looking for a problem. If you build an agent without a genuine usecase its always going to fail, find a problem first, and then if an agent (big if) can solve it then build. Another callout, before AI the build investment meant yo