Microsoft partner enablement

Build your AI-first delivery practice.

Frontier Consultancy is a Microsoft-led program for partners. It helps your practice use supervised AI in real delivery work and build methods your team can repeat across engagements.

For practice leads, consultants and architects across Cloud and AI Platforms and AI Business Solutions. The customer project can be an AI solution or a conventional Dynamics or cloud implementation.

Talk to your track lead Read the one-page overview

Use AI where it earns its place.

Apply the methods to work such as requirements analysis, configuration or testing. Compare the result with your current approach, including review effort and delivery quality.

Leave the practice more capable.

Keep reusable methods and assets, subject to the relevant licenses and agreements. The goal is a team that can repeat the work with less help from Microsoft.

Make AI-first delivery work commercially.

AI Transformation for Partners (AITP) focuses on the commercial side of the shift: the value you offer customers and how your practice makes that offer viable.

Offers and customer value

Explore which outcomes matter to your customers and how to package your services into an offer you can repeat.

Pricing and investment

Test pricing and profitability assumptions against the way you deliver. Identify the capabilities your practice needs to invest in.

Discuss your business model with Giel Read Microsoft's partner transformation guidance

This commercial work can run alongside your delivery engagement. It is not a prerequisite for exploring the tracks.

Turn the first application into a working practice.

Practice adoption and project delivery develop together. Start at the point that fits your readiness; an experienced team does not need to repeat introductory work.

  1. Explore and scope

    Use the introduction and a hands-on exercise to identify a useful workflow. Agree an owner and a result worth measuring.

  2. Apply to real work

    Use a Customer Zero or customer project. Select the relevant track and agree any coaching or co-delivery support.

  3. Review and capture

    Check quality and delivery effort against the baseline. Record the decisions and methods another practitioner can reuse.

  4. Repeat and expand

    Apply the approach again with less Microsoft support. Your practice owns its standards and wider adoption.

Customer Zero means applying the approach in your own organization. It is a useful proving step, not a substitute for checking customer permissions and production requirements.

Choose the expertise your delivery needs.

Use one track or combine expertise around the work. The material is available to explore before discussing an engagement.

Live workshop material

Cloud and AI Platforms

For Azure, data and pro-code delivery teams. Apply AI-assisted research and engineering methods to a realistic client scenario.

Includes the CAIP deck, setup guidance and hands-on exercises for Copilot CLI and connected tools.

Open CAIP track Explore CAIP exercises
Live material and partner pilots

AI Business Solutions

For Dynamics 365 and Power Platform practices, including Copilot Studio scenarios. Bring your functional consultants and engineers together to improve delivery.

Explore the current exercises, then agree which route fits your practice and the support available.

Open AIBS track Explore AIBS exercises

Shared across CAIP and AIBS

Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE)

The same HVE approach can support delivery in either track. Use it to coordinate AI-assisted work and review results, alongside the methods that fit your project. For Dynamics 365, that can include Success by Design. Squad is one way to apply HVE.

Explore HVE patterns

Governance, approved access and human accountability apply to both tracks from the start.

Make adoption part of the practice.

A useful workshop needs follow-through. Give the work a named owner, agree how teams will use the methods and check whether the changes persist.

Establish the AI CoE

Use the Center of Excellence guidance to define responsibilities and working standards. Give the group the authority and time to help teams adopt and improve the approach.

Read the AI CoE guide

Apply Customer Zero with M365 Copilot

Explore adoption in your own business, including supporting functions such as sales or finance. Choose a workflow that creates useful evidence for your wider practice.

Read the M365 Copilot adoption guide

Agree the work and the support.

Microsoft contribution

Track material, workshops and specialist guidance. Coaching or co-delivery on a real project is agreed with the team according to readiness, scope and capacity.

What your practice brings

A practice owner and delivery team with protected time. Bring an appropriate workflow and approved tools and access, then agree how you will review the result.

Measure the change before scaling it.

Agree a baseline for the chosen workflow. Review quality and effort, then check whether another practitioner can reuse the method. Link commercial outcomes where evidence supports the connection. Tool usage or an opportunity link alone does not prove transformation.

Explore the workshop material.

One-page partner overview The value, engagement approach and contacts in a short summary. Read overview Printable overview The same summary as a single A4 page for reviewing the program and preparing for a session. Open PDF Public workshop repository Preview the exercises and setup guides for a facilitated or authorized session. Open GitHub AI Operator A self-paced introduction for colleagues who sell, manage or support partner work. No coding required. Open course

The supplied workshop material is provided for program review and authorized participation. It is not licensed for independent workshop delivery or redistribution. Read the participation terms.

Formal recognition can develop alongside delivery.

The Frontier Transformation Engineer badge recognizes individual skills. The Frontier Partner specialization assesses organizational capability. They have separate requirements; participating in FC does not award either credential.

Understand the recognition paths and official requirements

Talk to your track lead.

Tell us about your practice and the delivery work you want to improve. A short, non-sensitive description is enough to start. You do not need to have the whole project planned.