From low-code delivery to governed AI business solutions
I write about the Power Platform, the messy middle of becoming an architect, and keeping AI accountable at work.
not perfection
Every policy, every risk score, every audit query, every data protection rule that you'll ever apply to an agent needs one thing first: a way to ident…
Curated series
Governance is the enabler, not the brake
Govern AI agents without becoming the department that says no. It starts with the principle: match the control to the risk, and contain experiments rather than hunting them down afterwards. Then the gap — the Power Platform governance you already have stops where your agents start. Then a three-zone model that gives every agent somewhere to live and a clear path to grow. And finally the decision process: score agents at intake, pre-approve the obvious cases, and save human judgement for the ones that need it.
AI-assisted app development
AI can scaffold a Power App in an afternoon. What it can't do is own the result — that's still you. The build surface you pick is a governance decision, the design contract is your control surface, and the boring parts AI skips are the ones that bite. AI accelerates the job. It doesn't shrink your responsibility.
Copilot Studio Agents have skills now
Copilot Studio's new authoring experience gives agents Skills. Reusable, on-demand expertise built on the open Agent Skills format. This is my hands-on tour in three parts: what a skill actually is and the quiet risk of installing ones you never read, how to govern skills so they speed your team up instead of slowing it down, and how to build your own from scratch. Concrete, beginner-friendly, and built the governable way.
Exploring AI
I split the build into ten phases. The first interface to write to Dataverse was implemented in phase two. It took me until phase ten to realise that …
I froze at a blank spec file. Here's how AI got me building.You do not need to know how to start. You need something to react to. That was the lesson that finally got me moving. I had just come home from the Eu…
My 7 EPPC2026 takeawaysI have attended this year’s European Power Platform conference in Copenhagen and I loved every moment of it. The sessions, the networking, the insight…
Agent Governance
Every policy, every risk score, every audit query, every data protection rule that you'll ever apply to an agent needs one thing first: a way to ident…
The new user type in your tenant is not a userEvery new Copilot Studio agent in your tenant now gets its own identity, the same way every employee gets an account. Now the agent receives a Microso…
Automate the boring decisions. Keep the hard ones human.Manual review feels safe until every useful idea is waiting for the same meeting. It isn't that the organisation doesn't care — the process just treat…
Architecture
In Copilot Studio the identity part isn't a choice anymore. Since July 2026, every new Copilot Studio agent gets a Microsoft Entra Agent ID at creatio…
The design contract is AI's control surfaceYou don't get reliable AI-built apps by writing a better prompt. You get them by giving the agent less room to invent. If that sounds backwards, think…
Six ways to build a Power App in 2026The way you build a Power App is more than just a taste decision. It’s a decision for which responsibility you want to own. Sounds dramatic until you …