By Reece Rogers
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 18:00:00
Soon, your colleagues Not everyone in Microsoft Teams may be human. Scout, an always-on AI agent announced Tuesday at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, can search your work messages, calendar and email inbox to automate tasks, reschedule meeting conflicts and compose professional-sounding responses.
Microsoft has more or less developed a corporate agent based on OpenClaw, the AI tool that excited the first users in San Francisco in early 2026. Scout is specifically designed as an assistant for office workers that can send commands directly into Teams as if the agent were a carbon-based employee.
Scout is part of Microsoft’s broader agent-first transformation, which automates how knowledge workers use software and brings AI assistants into everyday office interactions. “Your company is essentially hiring your assistant,” says Omar Shahine, the newly appointed corporate vice president of Microsoft Scout. “The point of a personal assistant is to…
