3 Strategic Uses for Copilot Researcher Agent in Medical Affairs

Author(s): Patrina Pellett & Sarah Snyder 

Nearly 100% of our AI training clients have Microsoft Copilot. And almost 100% have access to a really powerful agent they never use: Copilot Researcher Agent.

It’s the saddest thing because the Copilot Researcher Agent is like a graduate-level researcher whose only job is to run reports for you. You tell it what you want, it searches across dozens of sources, and it creates a detailed report on exactly that topic.

But most Medical Affairs professionals don’t even know they have it or how powerful it is. That makes sense because most teams were handed Copilot and told to “use AI” without much guidance.

So they use Copilot for the obvious stuff:

• Rewrite this email
• Summarize this doc
• Make this sound less angry

But Copilot Researcher Agent is built for more strategic work. Like when you need to connect dots, compare evidence, identify patterns, and turn scattered information into something useful. This is huge for Medical Affairs because much of the job is “I need figure this out.”

Most people just don’t know they have Researcher or even how to think about using it. Here are 3 strategic ways Medical Affairs can use Copilot Researcher Agent.