Build, Deploy, & Scale AI Confidently with Planet
Planet delivers end-to-end AI services designed for the operational demands of mission-critical environments.
AI is no longer experimental. Making it operational is what matters now.
Most organizations don’t struggle to find AI tools. They struggle to implement them in ways that deliver measurable value while meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements.
Planet helps organizations operationalize AI through strategy, governance, workforce readiness, deployment, and continuous adoption. And we go further: building custom AI solutions and embedding AI directly into the applications and processes your organization already runs.
From Microsoft Copilot deployment to purpose-built AI agents and AI-enabled line-of-business applications, Planet meets you where you are—with security, compliance, and mission requirements built in from the start.
What Planet AI Delivers
- Executive AI strategy and decision frameworks
- Custom AI application development and AI-enablement of existing workflows
- AI agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform
- Microsoft Copilot deployment, adoption, and optimization
- Any AI platform workforce readiness training
- Secure AI activation in GCC High and CMMC-aligned environments
- AI governance and responsible AI alignment
- Continuous adoption, measurement, and optimization
Why Planet for AI
Planet has decades of experience securing mission-critical environments, now applied to AI.
Deep Microsoft AI expertise, built for mission-critical environments.
Most organizations do not need another AI demo. They need a partner that understands how to operationalize AI securely inside real-world compliance, governance, and mission constraints.
Planet Technologies has spent decades helping government agencies, defense contractors, educational institutions, and regulated organizations modernize with Microsoft technologies in highly sensitive environments. Our AI practice extends that same operational discipline into the next generation of work.
From AI strategy and readiness through deployment, governance, workforce enablement, and ongoing optimization, Planet helps organizations adopt AI in ways that improve productivity, accelerate operations, and reduce friction, without compromising security, compliance, or trust.
Microsoft-recognized. Mission-tested.
- Microsoft-recognized expertise across fifteen specializations, including Microsoft Copilot, AI & Machine Learning on Azure, Secure AI Productivity, Adoption and Change Management, and Low Code Application Development
- AI Business Solutions Inner Circle member and charter participant in Microsoft’s Content AI Partner Program
- Proven delivery experience across federal agencies, state and local governments, educational institutions, and the Defense Industrial Base
- Deep expertise across GCC, GCC High, Azure Government, Azure Government Secret, and CMMC-aligned environments
- Security and compliance expertise spanning cloud security, data security, identity and access management, and threat protection
- Mission-aligned engagements built around your operational realities—not generic AI playbooks
AI Decision Matrix
Planet's AI Decision Matrix aligns AI strategy to your mission priorities.
Strategic AI choices, sequenced for real impact.
Most organizations are not struggling with whether to adopt AI. They are struggling with how to make the right AI decisions in the right order.
With multiple Microsoft AI entry points—from Microsoft 365 Copilot to Copilot Studio to Azure AI Foundry—leaders need a framework that aligns AI investments to organizational readiness, governance maturity, operational goals, and risk tolerance.
Planet’s AI Decision Matrix is a structured executive engagement designed to cut through AI complexity and help leadership teams sequence decisions that compound value instead of creating stalled pilots, duplicate investments, or disconnected initiatives.
What Planet's AI Decision Matrix brings to the table:
- Clarity on which Microsoft AI capabilities best align to your organization today
- Honest assessment of organizational readiness across data, governance, workforce, and infrastructure
- Defined governance posture and risk tolerance before scaling AI broadly
- Strategic sequencing that prioritizes measurable operational value
- Executive alignment around productivity, automation, and long-term AI capability development
- See the framework in action — read Maze to Matrix: Making AI Choices Make Sense for a deeper look at how executives can bring clarity to AI strategy
AI Governance & Compliance
Planet offers a complete approach to AI governance using what you already own.
AI governance, built in the right order.
AI governance isn’t a policy binder or a committee charter—those are preconditions. Governance is what happens when controls are active in your environment, producing evidence continuously, with named humans who can intervene when AI systems act outside authorized boundaries. That kind of governance has a sequence.
- Data governance is the foundation—knowing what data you have, where it lives, who can access it, and whether it’s fit for the AI systems acting on it. An AI agent operating on ungoverned data is ungoverned, regardless of how well the agent itself is registered.
- AI governance is the structure built on that foundation—every AI system and agent has a named owner, documented boundaries, designed human oversight, and a designated suspension authority.
- Compliance is the external validation of both—the evidence package your organization produces when CMMC assessors, federal regulators, or state attorneys general ask what controls are actually in place.
Planet’s AI governance framework is built around the standards that matter: NIST AI RMF, CMMC Level 2, FedRAMP High, federal AI directives, and emerging state AI requirements.
Skipping the sequence is the most dangerous state of all. Compliance without governance creates the appearance of accountability while actual risk accumulates undetected between audits. Planet helps organizations build the sequence in the right order, using the Microsoft governance control plane already included in your existing licensing.
Planet's AI governance framework includes:
- AI Governance Assessment — six-domain maturity scoring, regulatory gap analysis, and a prioritized governance roadmap; standalone or as the entry point to a broader program
- Policy and Framework Design — acceptable use, model documentation standards, AI incident response, and Responsible AI policy aligned to NIST AI RMF and applicable mandates
- Technical Implementation — activation of the Microsoft governance control plane: Purview, Entra, Defender, Copilot governance, and AI agent oversight
- Training and Adoption — role-specific governance training for staff, technical and security teams, and AI system owners
- Governance-as-a-Service — ongoing operations including monthly health reporting, regulatory change integration, quarterly reassessments, and annual AI impact assessments
AI Agents & Agentic AI
From first deployment to enterprise-scale agent-powered operations.
Building real agents that do real work.
AI helps people work faster. AI agents do work — autonomously. They draft documents, route requests, update records, query databases, and coordinate multi-step workflows across your tenant. Planet has deployed AI agents across healthcare, federal and state government, defense, education, and nonprofit organizations — in commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DoD environments — and we’re now seeing customers move beyond single-agent pilots into agentic AI, where multiple specialized agents collaborate to complete complex, end-to-end work.
Whether you’re building your first Copilot Studio agent, designing a multi-agent workflow on Azure AI Foundry, or scaling an agent portfolio into an enterprise practice, Planet brings the strategy, technical depth, and Microsoft expertise to make it real. Planet is the only Microsoft Frontier Partner and Copilot Specialization holder dedicated to the public sector, a recognition Microsoft reserves for partners leading AI transformation at scale.
As agent deployments mature, governance becomes the next required layer. Planet treats AI agents as the autonomous digital workers they are—registered, identity-governed through Microsoft Agent 365, observable through Purview, and operating under controls designed for the risk they carry. The agents we build are governed from day one.
Planet's end-to-end AI agent services:
- Build — Strategic use case discovery, agent design and deployment across Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry, and a curated scenario library spanning healthcare, government, defense, education, and nonprofit deployments
- Scale — Multi-agent workflow design, agent portfolio management, and Evolve 365 for Copilot adoption support that drives safe, productive agent use across the organization
- Govern — Microsoft Agent 365 implementation for identity, lifecycle, access control, and observability; Purview Insider Risk Management extended to AI agents in GCC High and DoD environments
- Public sector and regulated environments — Copilot agentic capabilities (Researcher, Analyst, Agent Builder, Copilot Studio) available across commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DoD; every regulated engagement delivered under a CMMC Level 2 framework
- Platform flexibility — Planet meets you where you are on your platform of choice, with the technical depth to build agents on Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, Gemini, and beyond
Operationalizing Microsoft Copilot
A structured approach to secure AI deployment, adoption, and measurable ROI.
Achieve Microsoft Copilot deployment and adoption success with Planet.
Deploying Microsoft Copilot may be technically straightforward. Operationalizing it across an organization in ways that are secure, governed, and capable of driving measurable business value is not.
Planet’s framework for operationalizing Microsoft Copilot helps organizations move from isolated pilots to sustainable enterprise adoption through a phased methodology focused on readiness, deployment, workforce enablement, governance, and continuous optimization.
Whether you’re deploying Copilot for the first time, activating it within GCC High, or scaling AI agents across departments, Planet helps organizations avoid false starts and build lasting operational impact.
How Planet operationalizes Copilot:
- Discovery and planning aligned to mission priorities and measurable outcomes
- Secure activation and controlled rollout strategies
- Governance and compliance alignment from day one
- Copilot readiness assessments covering data hygiene, permissions, labeling, and access controls
- Workforce adoption and organizational change management integrated into deployment
- Ongoing optimization through Evolve 365, usage analytics, and adoption measurement
Any AI Workforce Readiness Training
Build a workforce ready to use AI responsibly on any platform, for any mission.
Planet helps build practical AI literacy across your organization.
The biggest risk to AI adoption is not the technology. It’s a workforce that lacks the confidence, literacy, and governance awareness to use it effectively.
Federal mandates, organizational priorities, and accelerating AI adoption timelines are forcing organizations to prepare employees now — not years from now.
Planet’s Any AI Workforce Readiness Training helps organizations build practical AI literacy across leadership teams, operational staff, and mission owners through role-based learning grounded in responsible use, governance awareness, and real-world application.
Any AI Training prepares your workforce to embrace AI.
- Role-based training for leaders, frontline staff, and everyone in between
- Mandate-aligned curriculum tied to federal AI policy, executive orders, and public sector directives
- Platform-agnostic approach applicable to Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, and any AI tool your organization deploys
- Governance-first framework covering security awareness, data privacy, and responsible use
- Change management support that builds trust and sustains adoption across the organization
Evolve 365 for Copilot
Protect your Copilot investment with continuous learning and adoption support.
Planet turns Copilot licensing into lasting value.
Deploying Microsoft Copilot is only the beginning. Long-term value comes from helping employees integrate AI into daily workflows in ways that improve productivity, reduce friction, and strengthen operational effectiveness.
Evolve 365 for Copilot is Planet Technologies’ continuous learning and adoption platform built specifically to drive secure, confident, and measurable Copilot usage across the enterprise.
Curated by Microsoft MVPs and Regional Directors and continuously updated alongside Microsoft’s evolving AI ecosystem, Evolve 365 helps organizations transform Copilot licensing into sustained operational value.
Evolve 365 for Copilot delivers:
- Continuous Microsoft Copilot learning and enablement
- Personalized learning paths aligned to roles and departments
- Governance and compliance reinforcement training
- On-demand access to 100,000+ learning assets
- Adoption reporting and analytics dashboards
- Continuous content updates aligned to Microsoft roadmap changes
Customer Spotlight: DC Water
Build an AI-confident workforce with Microsoft Copilot and Evolve 365.
From licensed to engaged: adoption that pays back.
DC Water understood that successful AI adoption required more than purchasing licenses. They needed a workforce prepared to use AI confidently, consistently, and responsibly across daily operations.
Partnering with Planet’s Evolve 365 team, DC Water launched a structured, role-based Copilot enablement initiative focused on practical use cases, leadership engagement, workforce storytelling, and continuous measurement.
The result became one of the strongest public-sector AI adoption stories to date, proving that AI value isn’t realized at launch, but rather in how people actually use it day after day.
Impact that speaks for itself:
- 29x return on Copilot investment
- 77% of users now use Copilot 5+ times a week
- 68% year-over-year increase in time saved
- 78% report moderate to significant improvement in work quality
- 93% say training is essential to effective Copilot use
Microsoft Copilot for GCC High
Securely activate Microsoft Copilot without compromising compliance.
Planet delivers secure AI for mission-critical environments.
Deploying Microsoft Copilot inside GCC High environments requires significantly more planning, governance, and operational discipline than commercial deployments.
Feature availability differs. Compliance expectations are stricter. And governance mistakes can create downstream operational and regulatory risk.
Planet Technologies helps defense contractors, federal agencies, and regulated organizations activate Microsoft Copilot in GCC High environments securely and responsibly—aligned to FedRAMP High, CMMC, NIST 800-171, and ITAR requirements.
How Planet supports GCC High Copilot adoption:
- GCC High Copilot readiness assessments before activation
- Secure tenant configuration and governance alignment
- Sensitivity labeling, identity protection, and Conditional Access implementation
- Compliance alignment with FedRAMP High, CMMC Level 2 and 3, NIST 800-171, and ITAR
- Phased, low-risk deployment with controlled pilots inside GCC High tenants
- Weekly tracking of GCC High Copilot roadmap and feature availability via Planet’s In The Know newsletter
Customer Spotlight: CyberQ
Building an AI-Powered Lie Detection Platform with Azure AI.
Applying AI-powered precision to human methodology.
CyberQ has spent decades refining a deception-detection methodology developed by a former CIA officer. To extend that methodology beyond human practitioners, they needed an AI system that could apply it objectively, consistently, and at scale — without compromising the rigor that made the original work credible.
Partnering with Planet Technologies, CyberQ built Q — a custom AI platform on Microsoft Azure trained on highly engineered instructions and hundreds of validated examples of truthful and deceptive statements, including high-profile cases. Rather than analyzing physical behaviors like traditional polygraph methods, Q identifies linguistic patterns in transcripts, reducing subconscious bias and producing objective, repeatable results.
The collaboration has produced an AI-powered lie detection solution with the potential to transform how deception is identified across financial services, law enforcement, human resources, and investigative work — bringing decision-grade accuracy to industries where bias must be controlled and results must hold up to scrutiny.
AI-powered results that outperform.
- 92% accuracy rate differentiating truthful and deceptive responses
- 5% average accuracy of traditional polygraph testing (American Polygraph Association)
- Linguistic pattern analysis replaces physical-behavior detection, reducing subconscious bias
- Custom Azure AI build trained on hundreds of validated truth-and-deception examples
- Multi-industry applicability spanning financial services, law enforcement, and human resources
AI Insights & Resources
Real-world guidance and hands-on AI workshops from Planet.
AI Insights Backed by Real-World Experience
AI changes fast, and real guidance comes from operational experience, not theory. Planet shares frontline insights from engagements across government, defense, education, and regulated industries through our Perspectives Blog, covering AI strategy, governance, workforce readiness, Copilot deployment, and GCC High activation.
And our dedicated YouAlreadyOwnIt® Team helps organizations explore the AI capabilities already included in their Microsoft licensing through focused workshops, briefings, and envisioning sessions built around your environment, your use cases, and your governance requirements.
Featured AI Reading Resources
Copilot for GCC High: Preparing Your Data for a Secure, Confident Launch — What regulated organizations need to know before activating Copilot
AI-Curious to AI-Capable: Build Your AI-Ready Workforce — How organizations close the readiness gap through structured workforce enablement
Unlocking the Full Value of Microsoft 365 Copilot: The Power of Day 2 Success — Why sustained enablement matters more than initial rollout
AI Workshops from YouAlreadyOwnIt®
- Microsoft Agent 365 Briefing
- Azure OpenAI Briefing
- Azure OpenAI Envisioning
- M365 Copilot Briefing
- Copilot Agent Briefing
- AI Decision Matrix for Tech Execs
Artificial Intelligence FAQ
Answering the most common AI strategy, readiness, and governance questions we hear.
Where should we start with AI adoption?
Most organizations don't struggle with whether to adopt AI — they struggle with where to begin. The right starting point depends on your goals (productivity, automation, or new operational capability), your organizational readiness, and your risk tolerance. Planet's AI Decision Matrix engagement helps leadership teams cut through the noise, sequence decisions, and align AI investments with mission priorities.
What is an AI governance framework, and why do we need one?
An AI governance framework defines the policies, controls, and oversight that ensure AI is used responsibly and safely within an organization. It typically covers data access, model use, risk management, compliance alignment (such as NIST AI RMF, federal AI directives, or industry mandates), and clear accountability. Governance isn't a barrier to AI adoption — it's the foundation that lets organizations scale AI without exposing themselves to compliance failures, data risk, or reputational harm.
What's the difference between Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is AI built into the apps your workforce uses every day — Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and more. Copilot Studio is the low-code platform for building custom agents that extend Copilot or automate department-specific workflows. Azure AI Foundry is the broader platform for building, evaluating, and deploying custom AI models and applications. Each serves a different purpose — the right choice depends on your goals, organizational maturity, and the kind of impact you're trying to create.
What's a Copilot readiness checklist?
A Copilot readiness checklist evaluates whether your Microsoft 365 environment is prepared for AI deployment. Key areas include sensitivity labeling and data classification, identity and access management, least-privilege permissions, data lifecycle and retention policies, and SharePoint and Teams data hygiene. Without this foundation, Copilot can surface data users shouldn't see, create governance risk, and undercut the value of the investment. Planet's Operationalizing Microsoft Copilot program starts with this readiness work before activation.
How do we train our workforce to use AI responsibly?
Responsible AI use isn't a one-time training — it's a structured program that builds confidence, sets expectations, and reinforces governance. Planet's Any AI Workforce Readiness Training prepares public sector teams to use any AI platform safely and effectively, aligned with federal mandates and policy directives. For organizations focused specifically on Microsoft Copilot, Evolve 365 for Copilot delivers ongoing, role-based training tied to real workflows and continuous Copilot updates.
Can we use Microsoft Copilot in GCC High?
Yes — Microsoft 365 Copilot is available in GCC High, with availability expanding through Microsoft's phased government cloud rollout. Activating Copilot in GCC High requires careful governance alignment with FedRAMP High, CMMC, NIST 800-171, and ITAR requirements, and feature availability differs from commercial Microsoft 365. See Microsoft Copilot for GCC High for the latest on what's available and how to activate it securely.
What are AI agents, and how are they different from Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot provides general productivity assistance across the apps your teams already use. AI agents are purpose-built — they're designed to handle specific tasks, workflows, or processes for a department or use case. Built on Microsoft Copilot Studio and the Power Platform, agents can automate research, customer service, data analysis, internal support, and more. Planet's AI Agent Mastery Program helps organizations identify agent opportunities and stand up enterprise-ready agents in weeks.
What does Day 2 Copilot success look like?
Day 2 success is the moment Copilot stops being a license and starts being part of how your organization actually works. It's measured in adoption (how often employees use Copilot), quality (how the work changes when they do), and return on the licensing investment. Day 2 success doesn't happen by accident — it requires structured training, change management, and ongoing measurement. DC Water's 29x ROI and 77% weekly user rate are what Day 2 looks like at scale.
The Planet Way
We don't just meet standards, we set them.
Planet Technologies is built on hard-earned, long-term relationships with our partners. Being an expert on the technology we support is the first step, but more importantly is understanding your business mission and integrating technology into a long-term strategic plan.