microsoft/What-I-did-with-Cowork

microsoft/What-I-did-with-Cowork

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Created: 2026-06-18T09:39:01Z

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README:

What Cowork Did for Me

> A personal impact report skill for Microsoft Copilot Cowork — quantifies your leverage as a speed multiplier and professional-services equivalent value.


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Get Started in 4 Steps

1. Download [cowork-roi-report-skill-v14.zip](../../releases/latest) from the latest release. *(No need to unzip — attach it as-is.)* 2. Open a new Copilot Cowork session. 3. Click the ➕ (plus) symbol to attach the zip file, then send this prompt:

> Add this skill.

4. Once it's added, ask:

> Generate my impact summary report.

It'll ask one quick question — which period to measure (7, 15, or 30 days) — then build your report.

That's it. 🎉

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What you get out of it — your leverage, quantified

With Cowork, you operate like a multidisciplinary team. You steer; Cowork brings in best-in-class experts from across fields, produces quality output, and does it at a pace far beyond what humans alone could match. This skill makes that leverage visible and defensible across three dimensions:

• ⚡ Speed — a research-anchored speed multiplier showing how much faster you moved *with* Cowork versus doing the same work unassisted (conservative / typical / optimistic).
• 🎯 Quality — the kind of expert-grade outputs Cowork helped you ship: analyst-style research syntheses, executive decks and documents, interactive dashboards and apps, scripts, and polished communications — each traced to a real artifact you produced.
• 🧠 Expert assistance — the professional skills Cowork put to work for you — Presentation Design, Technical Writing, Data Analysis, Financial Modelling, Frontend Development, and more — rolled up into a professional-services-equivalent dollar value at your hourly rate.

Every figure traces back to your own session artifacts in OneDrive — nothing is invented, and categories with no work in the window report zero. The result is a credible, shareable answer to *"What has Cowork actually done for me?"*

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What is this?

"What Cowork Did for Me" is a skill for Copilot Cowork that generates a polished single-file HTML report from your own Cowork session history stored in OneDrive. It answers the question: *"How much time and value has Cowork given me?"*

The skill:

• Harvests your Cowork session artifacts (inputs analyzed & outputs produced) from OneDrive
• Classifies work into 8 research-anchored task categories
• Applies an artifact-scaled two-clock model to compute your speed multiplier
• Renders a self-contained, interactive HTML report you can share or print to PDF

Inspired by microsoft/What-I-Did-Copilot, adapted for Copilot Cowork.

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Report Highlights

Speed Multiplier & Value

The report leads with a speed multiplier (how much faster Cowork made you vs. an unassisted expert, shown as conservative / typical / optimistic) and a professional-services equivalent (what that expert time would cost at your hourly rate). A live hourly-rate control recalculates every dollar figure, and a Download PDF button exports the whole thing.


Value at a Glance

A business-value table maps your impact to the four value pillars — Revenue Growth, Cost Reduction, Risk Mitigation, and Transformation — each pairing a business outcome (lagging KPI) with a Cowork indicator (leading KPI) and your result. Headline KPIs follow: Cowork sessions, tasks completed, active days, expert-equivalent hours, and your estimated hands-on hours.

Work by Business Process & Task Category

Each session is mapped to the business process it advanced and banded by Job × Value Pillar, with a *job-to-be-done (JTBD)* sub-line per row. The process taxonomy is derived live for whoever runs the report (from their own Microsoft 365 footprint via the bundled map-my-work playbook) — nothing is hard-coded to any individual; if the playbook isn't run, it falls back to the generic APQC business-process framework. Rows also show the task category, deliverables, and hours/value/speed. A session-cost column shows actual Cowork spend where captured, and auto-hides when no cost data is available. Chat-only sessions (no saved file) are counted too, via telemetry.


Where the Time Went, Skills Augmented & Deliverables

• By task category — research-anchored time-savings bars across the 8 categories.
• Skills augmented — the professional skills Cowork put to work (Presentation Design, Technical Writing, Data Analysis, Financial Modelling, Frontend Development, …), each with the expert-equivalent hours it covered — turning time saved into *capability* without added headcount.
• Deliverables & the skills behind them — every artifact Cowork produced, the skills that went into it, and the expert effort attributed to each.


Methodology & Glossary

Every number is traceable: an expandable methodology section and glossary explain each band and metric, with clickable links to the published research behind them.

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The Four Value Pillars

Every session's impact is expressed in a shared business-value vocabulary, so leverage reads the same way across teams:

| Pillar | Type | What it captures | |---|---|---| | Revenue Growth | Tangible · money coming in | Demand created, converted, and monetised — new opportunities, win rates, pricing, faster deal cycles. | | Cost Reduction | Tangible · money going out | Inefficiencies eliminated, manual work automated, spend optimised — direct savings or capacity redeployed. | | Risk Mitigation | Intangible · losses avoided | Issues detected earlier, controls improved, faster correction — financial, operational, and compliance risk reduced. | | Transformation | Intangible · new ways of working | Better/faster decisions, more responsive operations, stronger collaboration, and greater AI-workflow adoption. |

The pillar for each...