In today’s fast-paced business environment, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are key to staying competitive. Microsoft Power Automate, combined with AI Builder, offers a powerful solution to enhance your business processes with AI capabilities. Here’s a closer look at how AI Builder can revolutionize your workflows.

The first ressource provided by Microsoft is what the call the «Cheat Sheet» were you find a lot of different starting models and inspiration based on your need:

The full cheat sheet can be downloaded from: aka.ms/aibuildercheatsheet

What is AI Builder?

AI Builder is a feature within the Microsoft Power Platform that allows you to add AI capabilities to your business processes without needing extensive coding or data science skills. It integrates seamlessly with Power Automate, enabling you to create intelligent workflows that can predict outcomes, automate tasks, and provide valuable insights

Key Features of AI Builder

• Prebuilt AI Models: AI Builder offers a variety of prebuilt models that can be used for common business scenarios such as form processing, object detection, and text recognition. These models are ready to use and can be easily integrated into your workflows
  
• Custom AI Models: For more specific needs, you can create custom AI models tailored to your business requirements. This flexibility allows you to train models using your own data, ensuring they are optimized for your unique processes
  
• No-Code Experience: AI Builder provides a point-and-click experience, making it accessible to users without technical expertise. You can build, train, and deploy AI models directly within the Power Automate interface
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• Integration with Power Platform: AI Builder is fully integrated with Power Apps and Power Automate, allowing you to leverage AI across the entire Power Platform. This integration enables you to create comprehensive solutions that combine automation, AI, and app development
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How to Use AI Builder in Power Automate

• Build Your Flow: Use Power Automate to create a workflow
• Add AI builder: Click the new action and search for AI Builder, you should then see this:

• Deploy and Monitor: Once your flow is built, deploy it and monitor its performance. AI Builder provides insights and analytics to help you understand how your models are performing and make necessary adjustments
  

Benefits of Using AI Builder

• Increased Efficiency: Automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual effort, allowing your team to focus on more strategic activities.
• Improved Accuracy: Leverage AI to enhance the accuracy of data processing and decision-making.
• Scalability: Easily scale your AI solutions as your business grows, without the need for extensive technical resources.
• Cost Savings: Reduce operational costs by automating processes and minimizing errors.

Conclusion

AI Builder for Power Automate is a good way to find those low hanging fruits to make use of AI in you business. By integrating AI into your workflows, you can streamline operations, improve accuracy, and drive better business outcomes. Whether you’re using prebuilt models or creating custom solutions, AI Builder makes it easy to add a little AI to your processes and stay ahead in the competitive landscape. And its easy to start trying it out for yourselv, just add the AI Builder step to your flow and start testing.
I will also post some examples on how this can be used in the future.