Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30/user/mo is bundled into every civil firm's M365 tenant. Here's what it does, where it breaks on a legacy archive, and what to deploy alongside it.

At a 200-person civil engineering firm, senior staff have quietly stopped searching the firm's archive. Finding the right prior project takes longer than redoing the work from scratch. This guide covers what specialty engineering firms are deploying instead of Glean and Microsoft Copilot, what it actually costs, and the two real deployment patterns SalemWise runs with civil and mining firms today.