The finale of the series — and the furthest leap yet. Remember the Workday report I could never remember to grab? In Session 08 I built a GPT to remind me. This time, AI just does the whole thing itself.
What I built
It turns out Copilot — with the help of Power BI — can run a virtual desktop on my machine. After downloading and configuring that virtual desktop, I was able to get an agent to actually operate it: go fetch the Workday report and drop it into the exact folder where a second agent picks it up and rebuilds my completion dashboard with the fresh data. A genuine end-to-end, hands-off pipeline.
The flow
What this session covers
This one is high-level by design — the goal is to open eyes, not to make everyone build it day one:
- Show the parts — the pieces that make the pipeline work.
- Walk the flow — what I actually did to get it running, step by step.
- The honest pitfalls — the trouble I hit along the way and what I learned from it.
- Open it up — inviting everyone to imagine what they could automate, and how to start experimenting.
- Starter resources — I'll send the group off with materials to begin on their own.
Why it matters
This is the destination the whole series has been building toward. We went from first prompts to a team that can hand entire multi-step workflows to AI — work that runs without anyone remembering to start it. That's not a productivity tweak; it's a different way of working.
Key takeaways
- Workflow agents can operate a desktop and chain together into full pipelines.
- Agents can hand off to each other — one fetches, the next builds.
- The best automation targets are the recurring chores you keep dropping.
- Share the pitfalls, not just the polish — that's what helps others actually try it.
Upcoming session — to be delivered live to my team and recorded internally.