Contoso scores 78 of 100 on the Frontier Firm scale — Advancing, with 68% of assigned Copilot seats in use. $43,200 a month in licenses, each waiting for a user — rerouted, never removed. The move waiting for your approval is "Fund the 1,120 people who are ready, up to $33,600 a month". One approval and it runs itself; the next counted run is your before-and-after.
Basis: Contoso's illustrative records · 24 September 2026.
Aristo makes this score, not Microsoft. How it's made
Aristo makes this score, not Microsoft. How it's made
Frontier Firm: Microsoft’s name for an organization rebuilt around AI — not just using it, but delegating real work to it.
Who makes it. Aristo makes this score. Microsoft defines what a Frontier Firm is; Aristo measures how close this organization is, out of 100. It is not a Microsoft benchmark.
From what. Three parts, read from your organization's own Microsoft 365 once it is connected: Adoption, how far AI use has spread among your people (50 of the 100 points); Activation, how many of your assigned Copilot seats are in use (25); Security, your Microsoft Secure Score (25). This run: Adoption 78 of 100, Activation 68, Security 88. All three are illustrative.
What you control. Your organization sets the target and approves each move. No one can type the score in. Your target: 85 of 100, Frontier, by 1 February 2027.
When it is counted again. About every four weeks: Aristo starts a new count once the last one is 27 days old and the new figures are in. Last count: run 4 on 24 September 2026.
This reading is 78 of 100 — Advancing; up 4 points from 74 at the counted run on 25 August 2026. Source: Frontier Firm Report, run 4, 24 September 2026.
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 where a signal is connected. At least one pillar above is answered by your team rather than read from a signal, so the whole score is labeled self-reported until that signal is connected. Where a number can only be estimated, this report says so on the number itself.
I scored you 78 — $43,200 a month in licenses, each waiting for a user — rerouted, never removed.
Frontier score · Run #4, counted on 24 September 2026 · ▲ 4 points since Run #3, counted on 25 August 2026
Seats active · 2,760 of 4,200 paid seats are active (65.7%) · Illustrative · read-only · 24 September 2026
Seats waiting for a user · 1,440 paid seats · your Copilot money / month · assumption: seat cost · Illustrative · read-only · 24 September 2026
They stand in an Advancing position: 2,760 users are active on the included Copilot seat, reflected in 2,760 seats out of 4,040 seats assigned. Just as important, 1,280 users have seats ready to activate, and 186 wins recorded this week show useful momentum already present in the flow of work.
Illustrative records composed 24 September 2026 · Last counted Run #4 24 September 2026 · next assessment due 21 October 2026