AI has changed everything, and development is no exception. Pricing by time and materials stops adding up when a build that took weeks can be done in days. That is where our consulting comes in.
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Partners we've worked with
Why partners call us
Sound like your last board meeting?
We hear the same four things from practice after practice, in this order.
- 01
Power Platform is your niche, and that is okay
A decade of Dynamics and Power Platform, delivered without a full-stack developer on the payroll. Low-code first, custom code only when nothing else would do. That discipline is why the practice is still here.
- 02
Then the tooling stopped being a novelty
For years the AI in the maker portals was a pane your team closed on sight. In 2026 that changed: Power Platform now drives properly from Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, and what comes out is a normal solution your architects can open and inspect.
- 03
Which turned it into a pricing question
A build that was several weeks of effort can now be most of the way there in days. So the worry is no longer technical. It is quoting a number and losing to a firm that quoted a fraction of it, because they are delivering this way and you are not yet.
- 04
And nobody has time to work it out
Everyone billable is billing. The internal upskilling that would answer this has never once reached the top of the list, and it will not next quarter either. That is not a failure of will. It is what a healthy practice looks like.
Technologies we use
The two tools Microsoft builds its plugins for
Power Platform now has an official plugin marketplace, and it installs into exactly two coding agents. These are the tools we deliver client work with, and the ones your consultants would be working in.
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool, and the one the Power Platform plugins were built against first. Tables, flows and apps come out as a normal solution you can open in the maker portal afterwards.
GitHub Copilot CLI
The same Microsoft plugins, in the agent your tenant may already licence. Several models sit behind it, so a client who wants to stay inside Microsoft's own procurement can.
Microsoft publishes both as the Power Platform Skills marketplace. See it on Microsoft Learn
And it stays that way
Three reasons this never gets solved in-house
Every hour is a billable hour
There is no non-chargeable bench to send on a discovery mission. The work that would change how you deliver competes with the work that pays this month, and loses.
The docs are always behind
A hundred pages of Learn and no reliable way to tell what is new since the last release. Official courses that do not cover the authoring experience your team would actually be using.
A demo is not production
Plenty of people are enthusiastic in public about things that fall over on a real tenant. Knowing which capability is genuinely ready, and which is a year away, is a full-time job.
The engagement
An injection of capability, with someone still there afterwards.
A workshop sells the knowing. A method does not change in two days. It changes when someone is alongside your team the fourth time they hit the wall.
The Partner Capability Retainer
Channel
Unlimited, asyncAnswered the same day
Delivery team
YOU
Client wants this live Friday. Does the pattern we have survive a tenant move?
No. Here is the version that does, and what to tell them about Friday.
PCYOU
Rebuilt it. Demo went out this morning.
Days
Each month, on your work
As many as the work needs, agreed up front.
Review
Before your client sees it
Solution architecture
Licensing and tenancy
Handover to the client
Platform
Your whole team, all month
powercademy.com/courses
Build your first Copilot Studio agent
25 XPModel-Driven Masterclass
15 seats included
Other ways in
Or start smaller
Both are doors to the retainer rather than alternatives to it, and we will say so on the call.
Delivery days
We work alongside your consultants on a named outcome. The outcome goes in the proposal, not a number of days in a diary.
Talk it throughConsultant training
A custom workshop designed around your own client work and delivered hands-on, rather than a course off a shelf.
Talk it throughThe Powercademy Results Guarantee
You pay, we do the work. If you are not happy with the work, we will work to put it right. If you are still not happy, you receive a full refund.
It goes in writing into every proposal, partner engagements included.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. That is the question every partner asks first, and the answer has genuinely changed. Remembering syntax is not the skill any more. Judgement is: knowing which tool to reach for, what a good solution looks like, and when the output is wrong. Your architects already have that. If your team has spent ten years deciding when config beats code, they are better placed than a developer who has not.
Some of it is ready and some of it is not, and the difference is the whole value of the engagement. We deliver client work this way, so when we say a capability is ready you are hearing it from someone carrying the risk of being wrong. When something is not ready, we will say so and tell you what we would use instead. You should expect that answer more than once.
Then the engagement should be shorter, and we will tell you that. What we would push back on is the assumption that a couple of days finishes it. Getting set up is the easy half; the questions that matter turn up in week three, on a real client build, when the pattern you chose meets something it was not designed for. That is what the months are for.
That is the intended ending, not a failure. Plenty of partners move to something lighter: platform access for the team, and a way to reach us when something new lands. We would rather you scale down and stay than pay for days you are not using, and we will raise it before you have to.
Yes, and that is an argument for an engagement rather than a course. A fixed syllabus is out of date the month after it is written, which is why the official material is always a release behind. Staying current is our job, and the days flex to whatever landed. If something significant ships mid-engagement, we bring it to you rather than waiting to be asked.
Consultancy that leaves your team more capable. We do not run a curriculum at your people. We work on what is actually in front of them, and the learning is a side effect of having been in it. If what you want is a room, an agenda and labs, that is a custom workshop and we do those too.
Up to fifteen of them, included, for the length of the engagement: the pro courses and the community. It is there so the reference material exists between the days rather than only during them. It can also be bought on its own if the retainer is not what you need.
We work with several partners, and we are careful about it: nothing from your delivery, your clients or your commercials goes anywhere else. Most of our work arrives through partners, and it travels both ways. When something lands that belongs in your practice rather than ours, it comes to you.
A pressure-free thirty minutes.
Nothing to prepare. At the very least you will come away with a clearer view of where your practice stands on AI-assisted delivery than when you started. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.
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