Access Evo Copilot
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What is Copilot?
Access Evo's Copilot is an AI-powered digital assistant that will securely analyze your Access-hosted data to provide you with contextual and helpful insights. Copilot answers queries (prompts), and suggesting actions based on the context you've provided, making it easier for you and your teams to gather information and perform tasks efficiently!
By design, Copilot offers short form conversation threads focused on a specific context named ‘topics’. Each thread will be comprised of prompts, and Copilot's responses, which are dependent on the data available to Copilot and any conditions, parameters or qualifiers set.
Copilot components
Access Evo's Copilot has various components that are used to provide contextually accurate insights on your business. The following section details some of the key components Access Evo's Copilot will use.
Copilot component | Description |
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New Topics |
Use the New Topic button in Access Copilot to organize your interactions into distinct threads of conversation for a more organised and intuitive discussion. By separating inquiries into topics you can switch between projects, revisit previous conversations and handle multiple inquiries at once, without losing context. |
Topic History |
The Topic History feature in Copilot allows you to revisit previous interactions and eliminates the need to repeat inquiries, allowing you to pick up right where they left off. Click on the Topic History button at the top of your Copilot view to navigate through past conversations, and easily track ongoing projects or explore different aspects of a topic over time. |
Skills |
Skills are collections of plugins with your Access-hosted products that allow Copilot to perform specific tasks or provide targeted information; designed to enhance Copilot's responses and and tailor your experience. When starting a topic in Copilot you must select the Skill you want it to operate in, meaning which context within the Access Evo Products you want Copilot collate data from. To query Unleashed and its data, select the "Unleashed" skill for each new topic. |
Prompts |
Prompts are predefined or dynamically generated messages that guide you on how to interact with Copilot. They can suggest actions, ask for information, or provide clarification on what the you might need to do next. Prompts are often context-sensitive, meaning they adapt based on your previous interactions or the current topic. This ensures that you receive relevant suggestions that align with ongoing tasks. |
Points to note
- There is a a maximum of 20 prompts per topic.
- Every user will be able to use a total of 400 prompts per month. Those who exceed the 400 prompts maybe liable for an additional charge as stated in our terms and conditions.
- Copilot cannot be relied upon for math or totalising figures. It is predominantly designed to process the analysis of pre-calculated results.
- Copilot can process up to a 100 records in a topic's response, whether: Sales, Purchases, stock positions, Products, Customer or Supplier records.
WARNING: Artificial Intelligence (AI) can make mistakes, always double check before making business impacting decisions.
How to use Copilot
To use Access Evo's Copilot:
- From Unleashed or Access Evo, click on the white "access" button displayed in the top left corner of the page.
- From the menu, select Copilot.
- Select New Topic. If you haven't used Copilot before, skip to the next step.
- Select an Evo Skill e.g. Unleashed Evo.
- Select one of the auto-generated prompts or type in a question in the free-text field available.
Tips for using Copilot
We recommend making your prompts in Copilot as specific as possible, especially when asking Copilot to analyze specific sets of data or provide advice on next steps. Use written modifiers to refine Copilot's search for the appropriate data, such as:
- In date range X until Y.
- In last day/week/month/year.
- Order status(es) X (Y, Z etc.).
- For Customer(s) X (Y, Z etc.).
- For Supplier Code(s) X (Y, Z etc.).
- For Product(s) X (Y, Z etc.).
- For Sales Group(s) X (Y, Z etc.).
- For Product Group(s) X (Y, Z etc.).
By default, Copilot's responses will be shown in a written format, but when possible you can select "Show chart" in the response and Copilot will display it's response in a chart or graph format.
Copilot and Unleashed
Benefits of using Copilot with Unleashed
Unleashed context available to Copilot | Expected outcomes with Copilot |
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Sales |
Order Lifecycle Tracking and Categorisation:
Time Trend Analytics:
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Inventory |
Stock Performance & Risk Visibility:
Inventory Clearing Tactical:
Inventory Strategy Improvements:
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Purchases |
Supplier Management:
Supply Planning:
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Copilot limitations with Unleashed
- Custom Purchase and Sales statuses are not supported by Copilot, and will default to Placed or Parked respectively, in Copilot's responses.
- Suppliers have to be prompted by Supplier Code, not their Supplier Name.
- Sales cost and margin data is not available to Copilot.
- Copilot does not have access to production or manufacturing data, including Bills of Materials, Assemblies and Can Assemble quantities.
- Copilot will retrieve data for Sales Orders, but no Shipments, Invoices or Sales Quotes.
- Not all fields available in Purchase Orders, Inventory, Customers, Suppliers and Product data is available to Copilot, to ensure Copilot responses are generated in a timely and efficient manner.
- Copilot does not accept commands to make changes, generate transactions, records or write back any updates into your Unleashed account.
- Copilot cannot query the open internet or link sources.
- Copilot does not have the same sophistication as Unleashed's Business Intelligence (BI) or Advanced Inventory Manager (AIM) tools for stock planning or forecast calculations, and therefore may advise randomised methods from disparate sources we might not fully endorse.
Example Copilot prompts
Unleashed context available to Copilot | Example prompts |
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Sales |
Request basic data:
AI assistant exercises:
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Inventory |
Request basic data:
AI assistant exercises:
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Purchases |
Request basic data:
AI assistant exercises:
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