The Frontier report connects the executive position, next moves and supporting proof.
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Frontier Firm: Microsoft’s name for an organization rebuilt around AI — not just using it, but delegating real work to it.
What is a Frontier Firm?
Microsoft’s definition · the three pillars · the four bands
A Frontier Firm (Microsoft, 2025 Work Trend Index) is an organization rebuilt around AI — intelligence on tap, human-agent teams — not just using AI but delegating real work to it.
Aristo does not re-define the term — it measures it, for your tenant, from your own counted signals. Here is the arithmetic, in full.
Counted, never self-reported. Every pillar above is read from your tenant’s own signals. Where a number can only be estimated, this report says so on the number itself.
I scored you 78 — and found a $38,400/mo activation opportunity in cold assigned seats.
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decks · Teams · Copilot · full context
You’re in a solid but uneven place. Activation is 68%, with 2,760 active users, but 1,280 people are still cold — and that same 1,280 are now at risk of staying there.
Live view composed 2026-08-29 · Last counted Run #4 2026-07-30 · assessment overdue 3 days
Question 1 · Where do we stand?
| The move | Worth | Owner | Lands | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raise readiness — real engagement and counted outcomes, not sign-ins worth 11.0 in full — more than the distance left to your target |
+7.0 | Adoption lead | Oct 21, 2026 | 85 |
| Reaches your target | +7.0 | 85 |
How we counted this
what the band means · the trend · the peer range
Advancing means: counted adoption is taking hold, proven lift is under way and spend is steered — but the everyday isn’t AI-run yet.
📈 on pace to cross into Frontier next quarter — a projection from your own last runs; the fitted line reaches 85 in about 53 days. Re-drawn as each run lands, never asserted.
So what: when the board asks “what’s our AI strategy?”, this page is the answer — position, trend, and the distance that remains, counted, not felt.
See how the score is built
the three pillars · your own history
Question 2 · Are we wasting money?
How we counted this
how idle is counted · what recovery means here
So what: pay for your AI strategy with the savings from your unused licences — this page funds the work. Recovery here means reroute to people waiting — never removal, never a shame list.
See where the money is, seat by seat
idle seats · credits · the heat map
Your credits are earning their keep — $320,000/mo in planned productive Cowork.
This month's Cowork is a $320,000 envelope estimate — it becomes measured the moment the org connects its Cost Management export.
ChatGPT (268) · Claude (148) + 9 smaller apps withheld · aggregate sample, never a name
Question 3 · What is actually being used?
How we counted this
the working, the words, the sources
So what: this is your real AI estate — usage where it actually happens, and every agent (ours or not) belongs on one register. No more guessing what exists.
See the whole estate — every team, every agent
teams · skills · agents · reach
Download the Copilot agentAnswers from Aristo’s illustrative scenario until your org connects · in Microsoft preview
Every agent in your tenant, whoever built it — read from your Copilot catalog. Per-agent usage isn’t exposed by any Microsoft API yet, so no run counts are shown.
Question 4 · What should we do next?
| The move | Worth | Owner | Lands | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raise readiness — real engagement and counted outcomes, not sign-ins worth 11.0 in full — more than the distance left to your target |
+7.0 | Adoption lead | Oct 21, 2026 | 85 |
| Reaches your target | +7.0 | 85 |
Raise readiness — real engagement and counted outcomes, not sign-ins · +7.0 points · aligned to approved strategy
Self-reported readiness 78 of 100
Pre-consent organization self-report; not measured from product evidence · as of 2026-08-29
Counted AI readiness and outcome adoption · Readiness 100 of 100
Cumulative 85.0 · Frontier
Programme scope and delivery hours are not yet estimated
Not estimated — approve scope before committing spend
Approved adoption owner, outcome definitions, and completed-run measurement
2026-10-21
Projected from the organization’s own completed-run trend; recalculated when a counted run lands
Strategy approved by the organization on 2026-08-29; this move has no separate approval record
strategy-v1 · owner Adoption lead
How we counted this
why this move · how it was costed
So what: a strategy you can act on is one decision, pre-built, with the arithmetic shown. Approve it and the next issue shows the result — or says honestly that it didn’t move.
See every move, costed
what it is worth · why it is first
Question 5 · How do we know it’s working?
How we counted this
the working, the words, the sources
So what: this is the number a CFO can defend — a built-in control group, measured for 90 days. If the line ever flattens, this page will say so: the score is allowed to go down.
See the two arms, in full
the control group · the confidence interval
Every claim on this page survives a boardroom: counted signals, a control group, and a number that is allowed to go down.
This is the Day-60 proof every approved move points to — the promise you approve each move on: pay only for proven activation, measured here against the holdout. Not a refund to chase — a number that has to earn itself.
~80% next month — this is an estimate, not a measurement: simple linear trend from the last 4 weekly readings. The solid line is your real weekly readings; the dashed line is where the trend points. It re-draws as each week lands.
Question 6 · What’s coming that we should care about?
Unified Agent and App Installation Management Across Microsoft 365 and Teams Admin Center
No future item has a verified rollout state yet.
How we counted this
the working, the words, the sources
So what: Microsoft ships constantly; you shouldn’t have to track it. Aristo surfaces one thing a month from the public roadmap, only when it reaches the licences you already hold.
See this for your own organization.
One read-only consent, about thirty minutes to your first read, and every number on this page becomes yours — counted from your own tenant, then kept current every month.
§7 · Methodology
Plain words, no marketing. Nothing here is estimated unless it says so; a pillar that isn’t available is listed as missing, never silently scored zero.
A Frontier Firm (Microsoft, 2025 Work Trend Index) is an organization rebuilt around AI — intelligence on tap, human-agent teams — not just using AI but delegating real work to it. Aristo owns the measurement; Microsoft owns the concept, and both are printed here so a first-time reader never has to take either on trust.
What is a Frontier Firm?
Microsoft’s definition · the three pillars · the four bands
A Frontier Firm (Microsoft, 2025 Work Trend Index) is an organization rebuilt around AI — intelligence on tap, human-agent teams — not just using AI but delegating real work to it.
Aristo does not re-define the term — it measures it, for your tenant, from your own counted signals. Here is the arithmetic, in full.
Counted, never self-reported. Every pillar above is read from your tenant’s own signals. Where a number can only be estimated, this report says so on the number itself.