Solution architecture
Built on Microsoft
The Growth Planner Agentic Solution runs inside the operator's own Azure tenant — Microsoft Fabric for signals, Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI for reasoning, Copilot and Power Platform for action.
Signal-to-action pipeline
Five Microsoft layers, one continuous loop.
Ingest
Fabric + Data Factory land local signals
Microsoft Fabric
Curate
OneLake gold tables per neighborhood
OneLake
Score
Azure ML forecasts revenue and risk
Azure ML
Reason
Foundry agent ranks and explains
Azure AI Foundry
Act
Copilot + Power Platform execute plans
Copilot Studio
Microsoft service map
Each layer maps to first-party Azure and Microsoft 365 services.
Signal Ingestion
Continuously land housing, permit, mover, competitor, and demand signals.
- Azure Data FactoryScheduled + event-driven ingestion of permit, mover, and demographic feeds
- Azure Event HubsStreaming intake for search demand, speed tests, and care signals
- Microsoft Fabric — OneLakeSingle lakehouse for all local market signal data
- Azure Logic AppsConnectors to municipal, MLS, and third-party data sources
Data Platform & Modeling
Curate signals into a governed market-level growth model.
- Microsoft Fabric LakehouseBronze/silver/gold medallion curation of neighborhood signals
- Azure DatabricksFeature engineering and propensity/forecast model training
- Azure Machine LearningRevenue forecast, churn risk, and mobile attach scoring models
- Azure MapsGeospatial joins, serviceability overlays, and drive-time zones
Agent & Reasoning
Turn scored signals into ranked opportunities and executive-ready reasoning.
- Azure AI FoundryAgent orchestration, evaluation, tracing, and model routing
- Azure OpenAI (GPT-4.1 / o-series)Market reasoning, business case drafting, confidence rationale
- Azure AI SearchVector + hybrid retrieval over permits, filings, and internal plans
- Semantic KernelMulti-agent planning across network, marketing, sales, finance workstreams
- Azure FunctionsTool calls: ROI model, serviceability lookup, capex estimator
Experience & Action
Deliver recommendations where executives and teams already work.
- Microsoft Copilot StudioExecutive Q&A agent embedded in Teams
- Microsoft 365 CopilotBusiness case, deck, and email generation in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Power BIGrowth command center dashboards and capex ROI views
- Power Automate + DataverseApproval workflow and workstream task creation
- Dynamics 365 SalesNew mover lead lists routed to field and digital sales
Governance & Trust
Keep an autonomous agent auditable, compliant, and safe.
- Microsoft Entra IDRole-based access for executives, planners, and agents
- Microsoft PurviewData lineage, sensitivity labeling, and agent action auditing
- Azure AI Content SafetyGuardrails on generated executive content
- Azure Monitor + App InsightsAgent telemetry, drift, and decision traceability
Why this architecture holds up in the boardroom
Runs entirely inside the operator's Azure tenant — no customer data leaves governed boundaries
Fabric OneLake avoids duplicating network, billing, and market data across teams
Azure AI Foundry provides evaluation and tracing so every recommendation is auditable
Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot deliver the agent where executives already work
Purview and Entra ID enforce least-privilege access for autonomous actions
Modular services allow phased rollout: dashboard first, autonomous workstreams later