Copilot Cowork readiness, the buyer side model.

What you will take away

• The dominant risk is not technology. It is paying ahead of value and enabling delegated agents before the governance plane is ready.
• Agent 365 is the control plane. Readiness is measured by audit, identity, and data boundary maturity, not by demo quality.
• Model choice is now a procurement variable, since Anthropic Opus is selectable inside Cowork alongside Microsoft models.
• The five recommendations in this paper convert Cowork from an upsell trigger into a governed, value gated rollout.