Best for Which Job · The Taste Test

People pick a favorite and then force every task through it. That is how you get a long Chat thread for a deck that should have been built in PowerPoint, or a flagship “thinking” pass on a three-line rewrite.

“Which model is best?” is the wrong question.

The useful question is: best for this job, for me, with the tools I can actually open today. At work that is Copilot. The contestants are usually the faster default versus a deeper option, or Chat versus the Microsoft 365 app that already holds the file.

One prompt is an anecdote. A small battery of the same task type is a signal. You will get there. This lesson is the reframe.

Core principles

Match option to task type — not to the logo you already like.
Work data stays in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Personal tools are for personal tasks only.
Write why something won in qualities (“pushes back,” “thin on sources”), not in product codenames that will rename.
If you cannot name the job, you are not ready to compare anything.

Check yourself

What is the useful question in a taste test?

Do this in Copilot

Name one task type you actually do (meeting prep, tough email, research brief, decision memo). That type is your battery for the rest of the course.

Paste into Copilot Chat. Save the task type you pick for Lesson 2.

Map what you can actually open

I am preparing a personal Copilot taste test at work. My workplace tool is Microsoft 365 Copilot. Ask me which Copilot surfaces I can open today (Chat, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams) and whether the Chat UI lets me pick a faster vs deeper option. Then list 4–6 task types I should test, based on this description of my week: [PASTE A FEW LINES]. Do not recommend consumer ChatGPT or Claude for MillerKnoll work. End with: none of this replaces a taste test on my real prompts.

Techniques: Clarifying questions

Open Copilot

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