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Beyond Microsoft: from Siloed to Seamless Data Discovery

While Microsoft CoPilot and Medullar both leverage the latest-and-greatest LLMs to unlock productivity gains, Medullar stands out as the more versatile AI solution for knowledge workers.

Here’s why:

Data Ecosystem

  • As an off-the-shelf solution, CoPilot limits the scope of data integration to the Microsoft knowledge graph only — covering personal OneDrive data, Outlook and Teams communications, and Sharepoint org files but excluding any personal and professional data tied to non-Microsoft silos. This limitation creates a major hurdle for many modern day teams that deploy a diverse set of tools and platforms to get the job done.
  • Medullar eliminates the blind spots of a single-ecosystem AI by connecting users to over 60 apps — simultaneously tapping into Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, Dropbox, Asana, and more. This cross-platform solution enables users to discover, create, and collaborate across all relevant data sources from a unified interface.

Data Curation

  • Copilot aggregates all accessible Microsoft 365 data as a starting point for AI interactions, offering users little discretion to select or exclude specific sources / files prior to executing a query. This lack of control and transparency takes the user out of the equation and often leads to broad results, unintentional data exposure, and a frustrating AI experience overall in the pursuit of quality and precision.
  • Medullar empowers users with full discretion to curate and contribute data into an AI-powered Space in order to fine-tune each interaction, ensuring the underlying LLM only accesses data that is contextually appropriate for the specific task at hand.

Workflow Automation

  • Automating workflows to handle everyday tasks with CoPilot is gated by the need for technical configuration, requiring some combination of custom development, Power Automate, and IT support to implement. This additional layer of complexity and sophistication slows down deployment and creates a significant upfront investment in time and resources.
  • Medullar enables users — regardless of technical background — to automate and orchestrate workflows between multiple apps in just a few clicks with the intuitive, no-code integrations of ActivePieces and Zapier.

Medullar stands out by delivering secure, real-time, and contextually intelligent search and collaboration across the entire digital ecosystem, ensuring your team finds and uses the right information at the right time — no matter where it lives.