One of the technologies that we were eager to learn more about during this year’s hackathon was Copilot Studio. An effective way of doing so was to train and embed our Copilot chatbot into our canvas app.

In order to get started we wanted to test the technology by creating a simple crawler. We used the https://www.arcticclouddeveloperchallenge.net/ web site for demo purposes, and allowed or chatbot to use generative AI for answers.

The setup as a whole was quick and easy, and it motivated us to investgate this further. For example, further develop the chatbot to also handle in-game questions in our Canvas App while also connecting it with topics related to our Dataverse database.

Below is a brief demo of the first crawler version that we created: