The short answer
Use Microsoft Copilot when your company runs on Microsoft 365 and you want help inside the app you are already in: drafting in Word, analysing in Excel, summarising a Teams meeting, catching up on Outlook.
Use Smalt when the job spans tools that are not all Microsoft (HubSpot and Slack and Gmail and a Notion checklist), or when you would rather hand over the whole job than get help inside one app.
Where Copilot is the right tool
Copilot lives where Microsoft 365 work already happens, grounded in your organisation’s own documents and mail, inside your Microsoft compliance boundary. For help in the document or inbox you have open, that is a real advantage, and nothing new has to be approved or connected.
Where Smalt is the right tool
A sales team asks Smalt to build the QBR deck for an account from HubSpot and the usage export. Marketing asks for last month’s campaign review from a spreadsheet and three competitors’ sites. People ops hands it Monday’s starters, with the checklist in Notion and the dates in a sheet. Each job crosses several tools, and each comes back finished: a native Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, or emails waiting for your approval.
Plans are credit-based: a Free tier with 500 credits and no card, and paid plans from USD 18 a month.
Honest caveats
- If your governance requires everything to stay inside Microsoft 365, Copilot’s tenant boundary is the simpler answer. Smalt’s answer is Enterprise self-hosting.
- Smalt produces Office files but works on them from outside the apps. For help inside the document you are editing, Copilot is closer to hand.
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