Monitoring

Why a system nobody revisits gets worse

Microsoft shipped two changes to this in September 2026 alone, neither announced far in advance. Meanwhile your teams add slides and find new uses for Copilot. A system nobody revisits is materially worse a year later, and the drift is invisible until someone sends the deck. Oversight is what keeps the setup working as the platform changes and your teams drift.

What happens every quarter

Re-run the tests

We run the same fixed set of prompts against your template that we used at the build, so each quarter’s results compare with the last.

Review what your people generated

We look at real decks your teams produced with Copilot, not only our test prompts.

Refresh and update

We refresh the example slides and update the rules file where the output has drifted.

Report in writing

You get a written report of what we found and what we changed.

Your part in an Oversight quarter

About 1½–2 hours a quarter, mostly your brand manager’s.

  • Week 1: share 10–20 recent Copilot decks and tell us about any brand changes (about 25 minutes).
  • Weeks 2–3: approve the refreshed example slides (about 20 minutes; Standard only).
  • Week 3: upload the updated template and rules to your Brand Kit (about 15 minutes). Only you can: it is your Microsoft 365 tenant.
  • Week 4: the review call (45–60 minutes).
Your part in an Oversight quarterOne quarter of Oversight, week by week. You: in week 1, share 10 to 20 recent Copilot decks and any brand changes, about 25 minutes; in weeks 2 to 3, approve refreshed example slides, about 20 minutes, Standard only; in week 3, upload the updated files to your Brand Kit, about 15 minutes; in week 4, the review call, 45 to 60 minutes. SlideGenius: weeks 1 to 2, re-run the tests and review your decks; weeks 2 to 3, refresh the examples, update the rules and send the files; weeks 3 to 4, the written report.Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Youyour brand managerShare 10–20 recent Copilot decksand any brand changes (~25 min)Approve refreshed examples(~20 min, Standard)Upload the updated filesto your Brand Kit (~15 min)Review call(45–60 min)SlideGeniusRe-run the tests andreview your decksRefresh examples, updatethe rules, send filesWritten report
Your part in an Oversight quarterOne quarter of Oversight, week by week. Week 1, you: share 10 to 20 recent Copilot decks and any brand changes, about 25 minutes. Weeks 1 to 2, SlideGenius: re-run the tests and review your decks. Weeks 2 to 3, you: approve refreshed example slides, about 20 minutes, Standard only. Weeks 2 to 3, SlideGenius: refresh the examples, update the rules and send the files. Week 3, you: upload the updated files to your Brand Kit, about 15 minutes. Weeks 3 to 4, SlideGenius: the written report. Week 4, you: the review call, 45 to 60 minutes.You (your brand manager)SlideGeniusWeek 1Share 10–20 recent Copilot decksand any brand changes (~25 min)Weeks 1–2Re-run the tests andreview your decksWeeks 2–3Approve refreshed examples(~20 min, Standard)Weeks 2–3Refresh examples, updatethe rules, send filesWeek 3Upload the updated filesto your Brand Kit (~15 min)Weeks 3–4Written reportWeek 4Review call(45–60 min)

What the written report shows

  • A score for every test output, on a 0–4 scale of the human work it still needs: 0 usable as generated, 1 light cleanup, 2 skilled correction, 3 senior judgment needed, 4 rebuild it.
  • A cause for every failure: the template, the examples, the prompt, the brand rules, or Copilot itself. That is what tells us what to fix.
  • Structural checks: which layouts Copilot chose, whether it filled placeholders or added loose text boxes, and any colors or fonts outside your theme.
  • What we changed: the examples we refreshed and the rules we updated.
  • The comparison: this quarter’s results against earlier quarters, on the same prompts.
  • Anything we could not review: if a step is skipped, the report says so plainly, for example “Not reviewed: no decks received this quarter.”
Three example slides: a quarter-over-quarter chart, a quarterly report, and refreshed examples.
Example slides from a brand template we designed.

What we commit to

No one can guarantee what a generative tool will produce, and we do not. What we commit to is conformance with Microsoft’s published guidance, testing with real prompts against your own template, and correcting what drifts. Oversight is how we correct what drifts, every quarter.

Read how the setup is built in the first place, what we have tested so far, where oversight sits in the timeline, and how oversight is priced. Back to the overview.

Start with the audit

Oversight follows a build. The first step is a scored review of the template you have today.