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Aristo's read Grounded in page evidence

The board position, material movement and recommended moves are assembled into one briefing.

Why it matters
A leader can align on the decision before opening the method.
Recommended action
Choose one priority, verify its attached evidence and name the next owner.

Executive summary

Where Contoso stands, what moved since the last counted run, and the one thing worth doing next — with the evidence attached to every figure.

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Monthly Copilot spendcounted
$126,000
4,200 paid seats at $30 each
Total recoverable spendcounted
$43,200
1,280 assigned-but-cold + 160 bought-unassigned
Active seatscounted
2,760
of 4,040 assigned
↑ 0.1% vs last run
Agents builtcounted
4
6 skills on the shelf · 9 reuses
Unsanctioned AI useestimate
416
staff in the labelled illustrative unsanctioned-AI scenario
How this briefing was counted Counted run 4 · composed 2026-08-29 · compared against the counted run on 2026-07-30
Sources: Microsoft licence records (Organization.Read.All) · Microsoft licence records + Copilot usage signals · Microsoft Graph — adoption signals · Aristo agent register and skill shelf · Illustrative-scenario sign-in aggregate. Each card carries its own basis and opens the surface that proves it.

Is the estate moving

The Frontier score at every counted run, on the scale it is defined against.

Frontier score at each counted run
5 counted runs points out of 100 Self-reported
50607080902026-05-012026-05-312026-06-302026-07-302026-08-29
Frontier score
Evidence & data — Frontier score at each counted run

Comparison

Each point is a run that was counted, not a sampled month. The axis is banded 50–90, so a five-point move on a hundred-point scale reads as one.

Source & method

Aristo Frontier Scale over counted Microsoft signals.

Basis: Self-reported

Accessible data

No data table for this chart — this briefing carries no table by design (§12) — the figures behind this chart are on the Report it frames and on the Home command centre, both linked from this page

What it is costing

Consumption month by month, each month carrying its own basis.

Metered consumption by month
6 months US$ per month Labelled estimate
$0 $150k $300kMar 26: $229,400 — labelled estimate — A labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter. Mar 26 Apr 26: $238,650 — labelled estimate — A labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter. Apr 26 May 26: $246,780 — labelled estimate — A labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter. May 26 Jun 26: $258,420 — labelled estimate — A labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter. Jun 26 Jul 26: $269,760 — labelled estimate — A labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter. Jul 26 Aug 26: $278,540 — labelled estimate — A labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter. This month so far, not a complete month. Aug 26 so far
Labelled estimate — A labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter.This month so far — not a complete month
Evidence & data — Metered consumption by month

Comparison

A bar is solid when the month was measured from a billing export and hatched when it is the labelled envelope. The final bar, where it is drawn open, is this month so far.

Source & method

Azure Cost Management export where connected; Aristo consumption envelope otherwise.

Basis: Labelled estimate

Accessible data

No data table for this chart — this briefing carries no table by design (§12) — the figures behind this chart are on the Report it frames and on the Home command centre, both linked from this page

Executive status

Where this organisation stands on the Frontier Scale, and how far it has moved since the last counted run.

self-reported

Frontier score

78of 100 · Advancing (55–84 of 100)

up 4 points from 74 at the counted run on 2026-07-30

Advancing means: counted adoption is taking hold, proven lift is under way and spend is steered — but the everyday isn’t AI-run yet.

Source: Aristo Frontier Scale over counted Microsoft signals As of: 2026-08-29 Three pillars at fixed weights; an unavailable pillar is excluded and the rest reweighted.
0305585100EmergingDevelopingAdvancingFrontier 78
The Frontier Scale — the same ruler the Report draws on its cover, at the same position. Four bands, versioned with every run, so a month-over-month comparison always states the scale it was scored on.

Strategic priorities

The moves ranked from this organisation’s own counted position, highest first. A move claims an outcome only where the fleet has measured one.

Activate 1280 cold Copilot seats

1280 assigned seats are still waiting for their first genuine win (68% activated among assigned) — the Copilot is already paid for.

What it is worth: ~$38,400/mo of seat spend turned from idle into productive.

now no outcome evidence yet See the working → History & status →

Rescue 1280 at-risk users before they lapse

1280 people activated but are cooling off — the easiest seat to keep is the one that's still warm.

What it is worth: Protects ~$38,400/mo and the momentum.

now no outcome evidence yet See the working →

Fund Cowork credits for the 1920-person ready cohort

These people are actively getting value from the included seat — they'll convert heavy, multi-step jobs into real ROI on Cowork.

What it is worth: ~$46,080/mo budget (capped), funding only the ready.

this quarter no outcome evidence yet See the working →
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What changed

Every line is a comparison against the previous counted run, with the word for how the figure is known and the surface that proves it.

  • 2,760 of 4,040 assigned seats are genuinely active — ↑ 0.1%, against 2,757 at the previous counted run.

    counted
    Source: Microsoft Graph — adoption signals As of: 2026-08-29
    Open the surface that proves this →

  • 1,280 assigned seats did no work this period, against 1,283 at the previous counted run.

    counted
    Source: Microsoft licence records + Copilot usage signals As of: 2026-08-29
    Open the surface that proves this →

  • $38,400 a month is the activation opportunity in 1,280 assigned-but-cold seats, against $38,490 at the previous counted run.

    counted
    Source: Microsoft licence records + Copilot usage signals As of: 2026-08-29
    Open the surface that proves this →
How each of these 3 movements was arrived at
  • activation. Active means a seat with recent, qualifying Copilot activity counted from Microsoft Graph — not a licence that has been assigned. Activation is a quarter of the Frontier score, so this line moves the score above it.
  • cold-seats. A cold seat is spend already committed and not yet converted into work. Aristo activates before it reclaims — the first move on these is to switch them on, not to take them away.
  • recoverable. Counted seats priced at the seat cost this organisation set, so the figure is the money as your own contract states it.

Top recommended actions

3

Each of these is an object — a value, its basis, a confidence, the evidence, an owner, a status and an append-only history — not a line of dashboard text that disappears on the next refresh. Open History & status on any of them to see everything that has been done about it.

Savings opportunity New high confidence

1,280 assigned Copilot seats are cold

$38,400 per month activation opportunity counted

These seats are assigned but show no qualifying activity this period. Aristo's first move is to activate them — turning spend already committed into work — before anything is reclaimed.

Source: Microsoft licence records + Copilot usage signals As of: 2026-08-29

Open the surface that proves this →

Owner: Unassigned Movement: 1,283 cold at the previous run History & statusOpen chargebackSee the evidence
Adoption New medium confidence

The estate moved 4 points up the Frontier Scale

+4 points, now 78/100 (Advancing) estimate

Activation and usage both moved in the same direction as the score, so the change is carried by real behaviour rather than by a pillar becoming newly available.

Source: Aristo Frontier Scale, compared against the previous persisted run As of: 2026-08-29

Open the surface that proves this →

Owner: Unassigned Movement: 74/100 at the previous run History & statusOpen adoptionSee the working

Evidence and methodology

How every figure above is arrived at, and what this product will not do to produce one.

The Frontier Score is 0–100 from three counted pillars at fixed weights — Adoption 50, Activation 25, Security 25 — and lands in one of four bands: Emerging 0–29, Developing 30–54, Advancing 55–84, Frontier 85–100. Counted from your tenant’s own signals, never self-reported.

What fed this page

  • Aristo Frontier Scale — The score, its band and its movement — three counted pillars at fixed weights. As of 2026-08-29.
  • Microsoft Graph — adoption signals — Seats with recent, genuine Copilot activity. Aggregate only. As of 2026-08-29.
  • Microsoft licence records — Paid, assigned and unassigned seats, and what they cost. As of 2026-08-29.
  • Labelled illustrative Shadow-AI scenario — Synthetic aggregate exposure, labelled as an estimate and never a name. As of 2026-08-29.

No figure on this page is a person, and no number here is unlabelled — every one is counted, measured or an estimate, and the word is on the figure.

How the privacy floor holds, and what each of those three words means

Team-level readings are blended at five people or more before any leader surface sees them, the unsanctioned-AI signal is a count and never a name, and there is no per-person view, screen or export of anyone in this system for any leader to pull. Counted means read from your Microsoft records; measured means taken from your own billing export for the period shown; an estimate is a labelled envelope over real inputs, built to under-count rather than to flatter.

The Report carries the full methodology, question by question → · Where your data goes · Every permission, explained

Take the briefing with you

Only paths that already exist in this build. What each one renders is stated beside it, and what this build cannot honestly produce is named rather than hidden.

View the full ReportExport board deck (.pptx)License Report deck (.pptx)Reports library

Not offered: A month selector on this page

What each of these renders, and why one is not offered

View the full Report: The Frontier Firm Report is Aristo’s formal artifact — the questions answered in order, with the methodology and every source attached. This page frames it for the platform; it does not replace it, and both are drawn from the same composition, so they cannot state a different score.

Export board deck (.pptx): The sample organisation’s executive deck, built from the same synthetic composition this page reads. It carries the evaluation watermark in the footer of every slide, because every figure in it belongs to no real organisation. In your own tenant the identical route exports your own position.

License Report deck (.pptx): The sample organisation’s other public export. It is the License Report in slide form — the licence position rather than this whole briefing — and it carries the same evaluation watermark on every slide.

Print / save as PDF: Your browser prints this page. The navigation, the action rail and the drawer are dropped and the briefing itself is kept, so what lands on the paper is the briefing rather than a screenshot of an application.

Reports library: Aristo’s report register freezes documents, and it holds one kind today — the monthly department chargeback. This opens the library rather than minting one under a name the register cannot hold. The executive summary is a live workspace rather than a filed document: it reads the current counted run and moves with it. Freezing a QUARTERLY one needs a composition over three months, which Aristo holds for no tenant yet — so it would be this chargeback report with a wider date on it and a different heading.

A month selector on this page is not offered. Aristo composes the CURRENT counted position; there is no parameter that re-composes a past month, so a month dropdown here would either re-render today’s figures under last month’s heading or offer values it cannot fetch. What genuinely exists for an earlier month is a report frozen for it — the reports library keeps every one, and each states the period it covers.