The Cowork Sessions | No Surprises: Governance and Cost Estimation for Cowork

In session 4 of the Cowork Sessions, Microsoft’s James Hammonds and Paul Bellacera show how to roll out Copilot Cowork without surprises. James lays out a plan, implement, and manage model for governance. Cowork runs as the signed-in user and respects your existing permissions, sensitivity labels, and auditing. Paul explains how credits work and sizes tasks as light, medium, or heavy. At roughly a penny per credit, a heavy task used about 700 credits, or around $7. Then he walks through the admin center to set spending policies, limits, and alerts, and uses the consumption dashboard to compare usage with the value of the work. James closes with the roadmap and a rollout checklist. Ready to plan your rollout with confidence?