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Copilot helps each person with their own emails, documents and meetings. Glimmer takes one whole job off your team, across all the systems that job touches. Many companies need the first. This page is about when you also need the second.
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30 Copilot licencesUS$7,560 a year before GST, one licence for each person, before any agent work.
Everyone @mentions the same Glimmer in Teams, and it takes one whole job off the team.
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| Microsoft Copilot | ||
|---|---|---|
| Where you use it |     Lark, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, WhatsApp and Telegram |     Inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams |
| Where it runs | In your own cloud account, or on a private server we set up for you | In Microsoft's cloud, inside your Microsoft 365 account |
| Asks before it acts | Yes. For each action you choose "Ask first" or "Just do it" | Its agents stop at checkpoints for a person to review |
| AI model |      Your choice: Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen or your own. Each team can use a different one | OpenAI and Anthropic models, inside Microsoft's service |
| Who sets it up | Glints connects your systems, builds the first job with you and trains your team | Your IT admin or a Microsoft partner switches it on. Each person learns to use it |
| What it connects to | Your systems, inside and outside Microsoft: Xero, your POS, Shopify, Lark, an old stock system | Your Microsoft 365 mail, files, meetings and chats. Other apps through connectors |
| How you pay | One build for one job, priced after a call. We agree how usage is billed before we start | A licence for each person, from US$21 a month paid yearly (on offer at US$18). Agent work is billed separately, by use |
| Government grants | Most builds qualify for grants like the EDG. We help you apply | Ask your Microsoft partner |
| Support in Singapore | The Glints team that built it | Microsoft, and Microsoft partners in Singapore |
What changes for you
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How you pay
Copilot is priced by the person. Copilot Business costs US$21 a person a month, paid yearly, on top of your Microsoft 365 plan. For 30 staff that is US$7,560 a year before GST, before any agent work, which Microsoft bills separately by use.
What you get for that is a helper for each person. Whether it saves the company any hours depends on each person using it well.
Glimmer is priced by the job. We pick the job that costs your team the most hours, build it, and count the hours with you after. A grant can pay part of the build.
Example: Finance and ops
An example week for a distribution firm with one finance exec. We count your own hours on the first call.
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Your systems
Copilot knows your Microsoft 365 mail, files and meetings well. Most Singapore SMEs also run on WhatsApp, Xero, a POS, Lark or a stock system someone set up years ago.
Copilot can reach those through connectors, and someone has to build and look after them. With Glimmer, we do that for you, including for software with no connection at all, where Glimmer uses the screen the way a person would.
The people and orders in the chat are an example.
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Who sets it up
Microsoft makes one product for every company, and the setup is up to you or a partner. Copilot keeps adding features every month, and each one is something more for your staff to learn.
We sit with the person who does the job today and write down how it is really done. Then we build it, put it to work in your chat app, and train your team leads to change it themselves. We keep running the servers underneath.
See how we startYour first build
One first build, kept small. We agree what it covers before any work starts, and a grant can pay part.
Fair to say
If Copilot already does the job you have in mind, we tell you, and we do not quote a build for it.
Already on Copilot?
Keep Copilot for each person's own documents, emails and meetings. Add Glimmer to your Teams for the one job that crosses systems and takes the most hours.
Glimmer joins your Teams channels like a new teammate. Your staff @mention it the way they would a colleague, and your Copilot licences stay as they are.
Glints runs on it
Every team at Glints works with Glimmer. See the real threads
the output at Glints since we started working with Glimmer.
of Glints departments work with Glimmer.
from a request in chat to a new feature live for every recruiter, on 19 May 2026.
Questions owners ask
Yes. Copilot helps each person with their own work in Microsoft 365. Glimmer takes one shared job off the team, in the chat app you already use. You can keep Copilot for everyone and add Glimmer for the job that crosses systems.
Ask how many of your staff opened Copilot last week, and which job it took off the team. If the answer is a job, keep going with Copilot.
If the answer is "it helps a bit with emails", bring us the job that still takes the most hours. We show you in a 20-minute call how Glimmer would do it.
Copilot can now run long tasks for you, and Microsoft is testing an always-on agent called Autopilot. They are good tools, and they get better every month.
The difference is who does the work of setting up the job. Microsoft sells the tool to every company. We build the job with you, in your systems, and stay after it goes live.
Yes. Glimmer joins your Teams channels, and your staff @mention it there. It also works in Lark, Slack, Google Chat, WhatsApp and Telegram, and moves with you if you switch.
Most Glimmer builds qualify for government grants like the EDG. The government pays part, you pay the rest, and we help you apply. Check your grant in 60 seconds.
Glimmer runs in your own cloud account, or on a private server we set up for you. No other company shares it. The only thing that leaves is what the AI model needs to answer, sent on your own account, and every connection is logged.
On the record
Glimmer reaches only the systems on your list. Anything else is blocked, and the block is logged too.
| Time | From | To | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:02 | HR chat | AI model | Allowed |
| 10:03 | Finance chat | Xero | Allowed |
| 10:05 | Support chat | unknown-site.io | Blocked |
| 10:07 | Sales chat | Outlook | Allowed |
| 10:09 | Ops chat | Shopify | Allowed |
Where these facts come from
Checked on . Prices are in US dollars before GST, as Microsoft's Singapore page shows them. Tell us if something has changed.
In a 20-minute call we show you how Glimmer would do that job in your business, and which grant can pay part.
