Microsoft Scout: AI coworker automates Teams tasks and calendar

Microsoft unveiled Scout, an enterprise AI agent designed to act as an always-on coworker within Teams. Announced at Build, Scout is built on OpenClaw and can access your messages, calendar, and email to automate routine tasks—such as rescheduling meeting conflicts, drafting professional responses, and generating talking points. Users can send commands as if chatting with a human colleague. For example, Omar Shahine, Microsoft Scout's VP, configured it to protect family dinnertime, automatically flagging and rescheduling conflicting meetings. Scout proactively assigns reminders and follow-ups based on user-defined goals and preferences.

Scout is rolling out to a limited set of customers first, with a desktop app available to those with 'frontier' feature access and an active GitHub Copilot subscription. Microsoft acknowledges rough edges—like run-on email drafts—and risks such as prompt injection attacks. To counter this, it provides admin tracking tools. Scout is part of a broader agentic shift across tech: Google's Gemini Spark also targets office workers. While early adoption is strong among sales teams, Microsoft sees Scout as a boon for all knowledge workers, especially non-technical ones, permanently changing how white-collar jobs handle logistics and internal communication.