We help US organizations roll out workplace AI assistants safely: clean up data access first, connect identity, set clear rules, then train people and measure what changes.
Accred Consulting is a US-based Microsoft 365 consulting firm that plans and deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, and Claude Team and Enterprise for small and mid-size organizations. Each engagement covers readiness, SharePoint and OneDrive permission cleanup, single sign-on and user provisioning through Microsoft Entra ID, an AI acceptable-use policy, data loss prevention, connector and agent governance, role-based training, and adoption measurement. We are vendor-neutral: we help you pick one assistant or run more than one with the same guardrails.
Platforms
Most organizations end up with more than one AI tool. We deploy each one properly and govern them together.
Copilot reads what each person can already open in Microsoft 365, so we fix oversharing, label sensitive data and pilot it with the right people first.
Bring ChatGPT under company control with Entra ID single sign-on, user provisioning, connector and GPT policy, and a plan for the personal accounts already in use.
Roll out Claude for writing, analysis, long documents and engineering work with identity controls, Microsoft 365 connector review and practical training.
One policy and control set across every AI tool, including assistants you have not approved yet, such as Gemini, Perplexity and browser extensions.
Move from chat to agents that do work: Copilot Studio agents, Power Automate flows and connector-based workflows with owners, limits and logging.
Accred Assess scores Microsoft 365, Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT and AI coding agent readiness against 67 controls. Read-only and free to start.
Comparison
A quick view of how the three assistants differ and what we set up for each one.
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | ChatGPT Business / Enterprise | Claude Team / Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Work that lives in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and SharePoint | Broad drafting, research, data analysis and custom GPTs | Long documents, careful writing, analysis and software engineering |
| Reads your company data through | Microsoft Graph, limited to what each user can already access | Connectors you enable, such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook and Teams | Connectors you enable, including the Microsoft 365 connector |
| Sign-in and provisioning | Microsoft Entra ID, native | SAML SSO with Entra ID; SCIM on Enterprise | SSO with Entra ID; provisioning depends on plan |
| Biggest risk to fix first | Oversharing in SharePoint and OneDrive | Personal accounts and uncontrolled connectors | Unreviewed connectors and pasted sensitive data |
| What Accred sets up | Permission cleanup, labels, DLP, pilot, agents | Workspace, SSO, policies, connector rules, training | Workspace, SSO, connector review, projects, training |
Plan features change often. We confirm current licensing, admin controls and data terms with each vendor during readiness, before anything is purchased.
Deployment workstreams
Useful, safe adoption depends on data access, identity, policy, training and measurement working together.
Interview leaders and teams, rank use cases by value and risk, and pick the assistant that fits how work actually gets done.
Find and fix overshared SharePoint sites, Teams and OneDrive links so AI cannot surface files people should never have seen.
Entra ID single sign-on, user provisioning, admin roles, Conditional Access and clean offboarding for every AI workspace.
AI acceptable-use policy, approved tool list, data rules, human review requirements and an approval path for new tools.
Sensitivity labels, Purview DLP, endpoint and browser controls, and audit logging so sensitive data stays where it belongs.
Role-based workshops, prompt libraries, champions, office hours and adoption reporting tied to the use cases you picked.
How we work
Short, fixed-scope phases so you see value early and expand only what works.
AI assistants are only as safe as the permissions, identity and data controls behind them. Because Accred already runs Microsoft 365 migrations, security and identity projects, we fix the foundation and deploy the AI in the same engagement.
Plan Your AI RolloutFAQ
Roll out AI with control
We can plan the rollout, clean up data access, set the rules and train your teams across Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude.