We need direction
Clarify opportunity, priorities, readiness and a responsible first initiative.
Explore strategy →Intelligence Atlas
Find the right starting point.
Start with the responsibility, constraint or outcome in front of you—not with a technology category.
Choose the closest situation
What is true for your organization today?
AFA can begin from strategy, sensitive information, an existing Microsoft environment, a specific workflow, a learning need, a physical system or a creative objective.
We need control
Protect sensitive information, models, knowledge and institutional authority.
Explore Sovereign AI →We need to protect research or IP
Address Shadow AI, unpublished work, sponsorship obligations and emerging intellectual property.
Protect research →We use Microsoft 365
Prepare Copilot around permissions, information architecture, adoption and governance.
Prepare Copilot →We want agents or automation
Move from isolated prompts toward governed workflows and agentic systems.
Explore agents →Our knowledge is fragmented
Explore Marbles and Living Intelligence as a longer-term institutional continuity direction.
Explore Marbles →AI needs to act in the physical world
Explore perception, simulation, edge inference, robotics and Operational Sovereignty.
Explore Physical AI →Our people need capability
Build executive, workforce or technical understanding through the Academy.
Explore Academy →We need to communicate or create
Use Studio capabilities for film, adoption media, spatial experience or original IP.
Explore Studio →We want to see what AFA is building
Review the proposed Reference Lab, developing Discovery Lab and R&D directions.
Explore Labs →Not sure?
The Solution Workshop remains the general front door
When the problem crosses several layers—or you do not yet know whether the answer is training, governance, infrastructure, agents or something else—start with the decision and let the architecture follow.
Continue the journey
Related pathways
Bring us what you are trying to build, govern, teach or bring to life.
A useful first conversation does not require you to know which AFA practice owns the answer.
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