$43,200 a month in licenses, each waiting for a user — rerouted, never removed.

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%

Active this period 2,760Assigned, not used yet 1,280 · $38,400 a monthNever given to anyone 160

The move · rerouted, never removed

Wake the 1,280 seats ready to activate with one nudge each, and give the 160 unassigned seats to the people on the waitlist.

See who is waiting

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Terms on this page

Frontier Firm — Microsoft's name for an organization rebuilt around AI; Aristo scores it 0–100 from adoption (50), activation (25) and security (25).

Assigned, not used yet — a seat assigned to someone, with no qualifying Copilot activity this period.

Never given to anyone — a paid seat with no user on it.

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Every counted run, newest first
Run	Counted on	Frontier score	Assigned seats in use	Assigned seats ready to activate, a month
Run 4	24 September	78	2,760	$38,400
Run 3	25 August	74	2,757	$38,490
Run 2	26 July	70	2,754	$38,580
Run 1	26 June	66	2,751	$38,670

Every run is stored and never re-scored; nothing has moved since the newest one, so it is the reading on this page. The score is allowed to go down.