Why a weekly Copilot ritual works

Mondays set the tone. Spend ten focused minutes with Copilot and you’ll pick the three moves that matter for the week—no fishing around dashboards, no guessing. The trick is to ask consistent questions, save the useful ones, and act on what you learn. Below are seven prompts that give you a clean read on growth, risk, and focus, and how to turn answers into action.

1) “What moved the core KPIs last week?”

Start broad. Ask for Active Users, AI Queries, Success Rate, and Avg Run Time with deltas. If a line jumped or dipped, follow up with “show the top three contributing workflows or sources.” This points you to the levers that actually matter.

2) “Which channels drove the most signups?”

Ask for a ranked list and percentages (Slack, Notion, Drive, Other), plus a small trend line. If one source dominates, improve the path to the laggards or double-down with targeted experiments.

3) “Any anomalies or incidents I should know about?”

Look for spikes or drops in queries and failures in workflows. When something’s off, ask for the runs, steps, and integrations involved. Create a task immediately—owner, due date, rollback plan if needed.

4) “What’s stuck in workflows?”

Failures are obvious, but slow is also broken. Have Copilot list the slowest steps by median run time. Cache expensive calls, add retries with backoff, or split long flows into two smaller ones.

5) “Who’s using it more (or less) this week?”

Usage shifts tell you where to lean in. Ask for team or account cohorts with biggest changes. If adoption is rising somewhere, ask what they’re doing differently and capture a playbook. If it’s dropping, check onboarding and recent changes.

6) “What should I ship or fix first?”

Force prioritization. Ask Copilot to weigh impact (users affected, revenue risk, time-to-value) and effort (S, M, L). You want one high-impact fix and one quick win you can ship by mid-week.

7) “Draft the weekly update for Slack.”

Have Copilot turn the above into a short post: the KPI snapshot, top win, top risk, and owners for the next steps. Post it in #ops every Monday to keep the loop tight and visible.

Make it stick

Pin these prompts. Create a saved view or custom command so you can rerun them in under a minute. Over time, refine with your context: team names, key workflows, risk thresholds. The goal isn’t perfect reporting—it’s getting to confident decisions fast, then checking on Friday whether those decisions moved the numbers.