Nadella built a personal chief-of-staff autopilot agent using Foundry and Teams
Satya Nadella · We Need An Ecosystem in AI, And Every Company Can Win A Place In It · Jun 4, 2026 · at 27:19
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses how modern AI tooling enables executives to build end-to-end automated software agents without traditional coding overhead.
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“What I'm building a lot of Is these long running foundry agents right? So there's autopilots. So the easiest thing is to me, I think I just built one even last week where the idea was, hey, can I have an agent that is continuously monitoring essentially my own chief of staff autopilot, right? They're going to have that obviously in Scout. That's what we showed, but it was so easy and trivial to build. I took it WorkIQ. I said, take WorkIQ, go, ah, and build a Foundry long-running agent, ah, store all the memory in, ah, ah, using Rayfin, right, basically at my backend as a service, and lo and behold, it built it, and not only built it, I could say, publish to Teams, and it published the damn thing to Teams.”
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