Evidence ready
Your copy of the handbook is downloading — look top right, in your browser’s Downloads. Open it in Word.
HQ has intelligence that Admiral Analogue is up to something. Nobody knows what. Captain Copilot is in the field; you, analyst, are on the paperwork.
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Nothing is happening. Officially.01
Something is up. Nobody knows what.
A planning application refused fourteen times. A bin lorry reporting that the ground hums. Four hundred boxes of carbon paper left on a neighbour’s doorstep by a driver who couldn’t find the door to “the flat in the basement”. There is no flat in the basement. HQ knows the Admiral is up to something.
02
Progress requires prior approval.
HQ has known of the Admiral for years. He distrusts AI and adores paperwork, process and a properly countersigned form. His Department of Adjustments runs thirteen sub-levels beneath Fathom House; the stationers upstairs, Triplicate & Co., think he is Facilities.
03
One box. Six files. No explanation.
Agent Quill recovered a box of paperwork from the bins round the back of Fathom House before being put on hold. HQ faces a mountain of documents; only Copilot can get through them before whatever is happening happens.
04
Find the plan. Stop the plan.
Analyst, you are Captain Copilot's partner at HQ. He works the field; you work the files. Use Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Office applications to solve the puzzles, uncover the plan and stop the Admiral.
Word / Ask the document a question
Fished from the Admiral’s bins by Agent Quill: a staff handbook for something called the Department of Adjustments. Thirty-two pages of rules about cackling, forms and a rented shark — and, somewhere, where the Admiral sits.
Open case file
Excel / Find the unusual pattern
Five years of purchases. Four dull ones.
Open case file
Outlook / Summarise the thread
47 messages. The Council, Derek, a fax engineer, and a man in Basildon selling rams.
Open case file
PowerPoint / Read the speaker notes
Operation EUREKA: five entries, one judge, one goldfish. The notes say more than the slides.
Open case file
Teams / What was decided?
The last standup before the push. Colin has a question.
Open case file
The fax / Stop the rams
There is a fax in the supplies cupboard. Third shelf. Behind the… things.
Open case file
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
(the true story has been countersigned, in triplicate)
Cast
Captain CopilotRyan
Admiral AnalogueRémy
Derek Pallett, Head of Moving ThingsSteffan
Tom, a minion (holding up the ceiling)Ollie
Colin Threlfall, Tea & Coffee (03:02)Oliver
Kev Bostock, Hydraulics-R-Us (from a van)Tyler
Sandra Fairweather, Havering Fax & Copier (uninvited)Alice
Clippy (retired)Ryan
Continuity (“Mark.”)Libby
The Sharkpresent; did not speak
The Goldfish, “Admiral”himself
The White Catherself (has a lawyer)
The Fax Machineitself (not load-bearing)
The Stickerload-bearing
Script writers
Sol
Anthony Sheldrake
Fable
Additional dialogueColin
Pronunciation coachDerek
Animation team
Opus
Astra
Sonnet
Fable
Captain Copilot drawn inone SVG, twenty-three poses
The Admiral cut out byhand (and a shark)
Rams (60,000)rendered once, copied
Microsoft Paint
Crew
GafferDerek (Head of Moving Things)
Best boyTom Sheldrake
CateringColin (03:02)
Ram wranglerKev (from a van)
PronunciationBasildon
Filmed on location in
North Ockendon · Blackpool beach · a secret evil underground lair (undisclosed)
Testers
First roundGeorge Hall & Katie Hall
Second roundBryan Kwok · Richard Ghanbari · Max Ingham
Special thanks
Carrie Sheldrake
Directed by
AI Business Solutions | CSU UK
Made with
Microsoft 365 Copilot · Azure AI Speech · Kokoro · SharePoint · Azure Static Web Apps
and
A WHOLE LOT OF TOKENS
All content is fictional and created for training. The Bureau of Slightly Improbable Threats, the Department of Adjustments, Triplicate & Co. and Admiral Analogue do not exist. No real customer, financial or personal data was used. London did not move. Reading is fine. Operation EUREKA shares its name with the Admiral’s hack’a’thon; the Naming Committee (Thursdays) insists this is a coincidence.
Captain Copilot · somewhere warmIt looks like you’ve found your way to a Microsoft 365 Copilot training game. I’d say welcome, but I’m on a beach on holiday, so let’s keep this brief.
In this game you’ll use Copilot inside five Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. One case file each, then the finale. About ten minutes a file, give or take.
I am the world-famous Captain Copilot — SUPER SPY — but you may call me Captain. You are my analyst. While I travel the world drinking cocktails and being fabulous, you are back at HQ in London, sifting paperwork for clues. It’s a thankless job, but someone has to do it. Note: I will not be thanking you.
Captain Copilot · still somewhere warmGood news, though: HQ has just invested in Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is going to make you tremendously productive.
My nemesis is Admiral Analogue. The Admiral is always up to some dastardly deed, but lately he’s been suspiciously quiet. Too quiet. I don’t like it.
Luckily for us, a fellow agent has recovered a box of evidence from the bins round the back of his house. Something smells fishy… possibly the bins, possibly the Admiral’s next evil plot. Open the case files and find out.
Oh, and if you see a paperclip, ignore him — he’s retired.
Word
Excel
Outlook
PowerPoint
Teams