How much time did you spend last week just gathering information — before you could do any actual thinking?
I'm talking about the 90-minute crawl through your inbox, old decks, and Google before a client call. The competitive review you half-built because you ran out of time. The briefing doc you meant to write but never did. That work isn't your job. It's the tax you pay before your job starts.
Microsoft just rolled out something inside M365 Copilot called Researcher. You give it a topic. It reads your emails, your files, your past meeting transcripts, and the web — all at once — and returns a structured, cited report. We're talking minutes, not hours. And it's live right now if you're on a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription. No setup. Just open Copilot in Teams and type your request.
The workout today is simple. Pick one client or competitor you've been meaning to prep on. Prompt Researcher to build you a full briefing. See what it finds that you forgot you already knew — buried in an email from four months ago, sitting in a file you haven't opened since Q3. That moment is the whole lesson.
Here's what I'm genuinely curious about — what's the one briefing doc you've been putting off because building it manually just wasn't worth the time? Drop it below.