Microsoft Developer presents an architecture-focused video on building a vendor onboarding AI agent with Copilot Studio, showing how AI Builder, Dataverse, and Power Automate can work together for document validation, risk scoring, and approval workflows.

Building an Intelligent Vendor Onboarding Agent with Copilot Studio

Overview

This video walks through building an enterprise vendor onboarding agent using Copilot Studio and the Power Platform to reduce manual effort while keeping governance and control.

What the agent does

• Automates vendor onboarding end-to-end
• Performs document validation
• Produces risk scoring
• Routes approvals through a controlled workflow

Architecture and components used

• Copilot Studio: used to design and orchestrate the agent experience
• AI Builder: used for AI capabilities that support tasks like document-related processing
• Microsoft Dataverse: used as the data layer for vendor onboarding information
• Power Automate: used to implement workflow automation for approvals and operational steps

Key implementation themes

• How the above components integrate to form a scalable, enterprise-ready agent
• Maintaining governance while automating sensitive onboarding processes n## Speaker
• Dharanidharan Balasubramaniam