How experienced BAs use AI without outsourcing their thinking.
There’s a version of using Copilot that makes you faster. And a version that quietly makes you worse at your job.
Most BAs reaching for Copilot right now don’t know which version they’re doing.
You paste in stakeholder notes. It gives you back user stories.
They look fine. You ship them. Six weeks later someone in delivery asks why a requirement is framed the way it is, and you realise you don’t actually know. Copilot decided. You agreed.
This guide closes that gap
Who it's for?
BAs who suspect they’re using Copilot like a junior, and want to use it like a senior.
Whether you’re new to the role and worried about looking out of your depth, mid-career and quietly offloading too much, or experienced and watching colleagues use AI in ways that make you uneasy, the fear underneath is the same. “Am I getting better, or am I getting found out?”
This guide is the answer.
What’s inside?
A 32-page working guide that walks you from a blank Microsoft 365 Copilot agent screen to one configured to think the way a senior BA actually thinks.
You’ll get:
• The five-layer architecture. Identity, Responsibilities, Actions, Formatting, Knowledge Sources. The structure most BAs miss entirely.
• The judgement layer. Four short instructions that turn a confident text-generator into something closer to a thinking partner. The single most important section of the guide.
• The setup walkthrough. Step by step. Around thirty minutes from a blank screen to a working agent.
• The system prompt template. Fully written, framework-agnostic, with placeholders you fill in. Anchor it to BCS, IIBA BABOK, an in-house methodology, or any combination.
• A worked example. A fictional UK building society. A senior BA building her agent. Same input run through default Copilot versus her configured one, with the difference traced line by line to specific instructions.
• Four moments to use it like a senior. Stakeholder notes, requirements drafting, user stories, recommendation framing. What to ask. What never to accept.
What it isn’t
It isn’t a prompt pack. It isn’t a list of shortcuts. It isn’t “ten ways to 10x your BA work.”
It’s a working guide for BAs who want Copilot to sharpen their thinking, not replace it.
Why £27?
Because it should pay for itself the first time you use Copilot on a real piece of work and don’t have to redo it. And because the BAs who’d benefit most are usually the ones who’d think twice about spending £200 on something they’re not sure about yet. £27 is a decision you can make in thirty seconds.
Delivered as a PDF, yours immediately after payment.