Chapters and their answers
Found money in the Microsoft bill — rerouted, never removed
$43,200 a month in licenses, each waiting for a user.
2,760 of 4,200 paid seats are active (65.7%).
counted from Contoso's illustrative records·priced at Microsoft’s published price of $30 per Copilot seat, assumed as your Copilot seat price until you set your own · Set it
4,200 paid Copilot seats100%
In use this period 2,760Assigned, not used yet 1,280Never given to anyone 160
Add it up
| What | The working | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Assigned, not used yet | 1,280 seats × $30 | $38,400 |
| Never given to anyone | 160 seats × $30 | $4,800 |
| Every month at this seat price | $43,200 | |
| A year at this rate | $518,400 | |
472 more seats waiting for a user sit on 5 other paid subscriptions — counted, not priced.
12 months at this rate; a priced count, not a measured result.
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Microsoft licenses today · other software licenses next
Link to this workingThe move
The reassignment plan is running — 3 of 1,443 seats have moved to people who asked.
Waiting for a user — a paid seat nobody has been assigned to yet, or assigned and not yet opened.
1 · What do we already own?8,742 seats bought
2 · What is waiting for a user — and where?1,440 seats waiting
3 · Who should have those seats instead?3 of 1,443 moved
4 · What happens at renewal?98 days away
5 · What does the found money fund?Covers it
On the illustrative organization this part of the detail is not drawn: it sets the figures against the strategy’s cost, and a ratio to that cost would let a reader work out Aristo’s price. In your own tenant, this tab carries the full working.