Choosing Your AI Assistant
Team leads, IT and operations people, and anyone asked "which one should we use?"
Prerequisites: Module 101, or equivalent familiarity with at least one assistant.
Last verified 2026-09-17
Learning objectives
By the end, participants can:
- Identify which assistant their organisation's productivity suite already includes, and what it does and does not cover
- Distinguish consumer plans from business and enterprise plans on data terms, and say why that matters more than price
- Match each assistant's strengths to the task types that dominate their own team's week
- Fill in a comparison matrix for their own organisation from vendor pages, not from memory
- Design a 30-day trial with a defined cohort, tasks, and a decision rule
What's in this module
6 lessons · 5 exercises · ~8 min reading
Starts withStart from what you already pay for~1 minExecutive summary
You will learn how to choose between Claude by Anthropic, Gemini by Google, ChatGPT by OpenAI, and Microsoft 365 Copilot by Microsoft for an organisation, starting from what you already pay for rather than from benchmark tables. End state is a comparison matrix filled in for your own organisation and a 30-day trial protocol you can run next month. After this module you can explain the difference between consumer and business data terms, say which assistant your suite already gives you, name the task types where each tends to win, and decide when running two side by side is the honest answer.
Sources
- Anthropic, Claude pricing, the plan lineup and the model-training default per tier: https://claude.com/pricing
- Google Workspace, Generative AI in Google Workspace Privacy Hub, the business data-handling position for Gemini: https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/gemini/generative-ai-in-google-workspace-privacy-hub
- OpenAI, Business data privacy, security and compliance, the no-training-by-default commitment for business plans: https://openai.com/business-data/
- Microsoft Learn, License options for Microsoft Copilot, which Microsoft 365 plans the Copilot seat is an add-on to and what Copilot Chat includes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/microsoft-365-copilot-licensing
- Google Workspace, plans and pricing, which Workspace tiers include which Gemini features: https://workspace.google.com/pricing
- OpenAI, ChatGPT pricing, the consumer and business plan lineup and the consumer training opt-out: https://chatgpt.com/pricing
Prefer the live room?
This module also runs inside our in-person bootcamps and workshops in Copenhagen.
Rolling this out across an organisation?
We run this material as executive briefings and team programmes, tailored to your stack, your data policies, and your pace.
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How to Prompt
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AI at Work 101
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