Researcher Agent DEEP DIVE

The Researcher Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot can help you research topics, analyze work content, explore the web, and generate structured reports using deep reasoning. Instead of manually searching through files, emails, meetings, SharePoint, Teams, and web sources, Researcher can gather information, reason through it, and produce a polished output with sources. In this deep dive, Greg Trzeciak shows how to find and use the Researcher Agent in Copilot, how it connects to Work IQ and Microsoft 365 data, and how to control which sources it can access. You’ll see examples of using Researcher to build a detailed report, review its reasoning process, and generate research-backed outputs that can be turned into documents or presentations. Greg also tests Researcher with investment research, showing how it asks clarifying questions, builds an analysis, and supports its response with details like valuation, benchmarks, company information, and source-backed claims. You’ll also learn about model options like Critique and Counsel, plus the monthly usage limit shared between Researcher and Analyst. 00:00 What the Researcher Agent does 01:28 Find Researcher in the Copilot agent store 03:04 Choose Researcher sources 03:47 Review Researcher history and outputs 05:14 Watch Researcher reason through its process 07:18 Example: investment research with Costco stock 09:55 Researcher model options and Critique 10:38 Researcher and Analyst usage limits