What does Copilot know about me?

The other day, I received an e-mail from Microsoft that offered to use Copilot to generate a cool picture describing the glory that is me to inspire envy and job offers on LinkedIn. As you can well imagine, my initial reaction was scorn, but then I wondered what would be the overall impression one would get from the information about me available on my company’s intranet (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Azure DevOps, etc.).

So, I entered the prompt with which I had so generously been provided, shown below.

“Create a polished, information-dense whiteboard persona infographic using my attached headshot and WorkIQ data. First, retrieve and validate my Name, Role, and Company from my WorkIQ profile (use only the public company brand name). Then identify recurring evidence-based WorkIQ signals across: • Who I Am • What I Do • Who I Work With (functional groups only) • Tools & Artifacts • Workflows • Themes • Impact Areas • Work Style Signals Exclude legal entity names, office codes, locations, contact information, confidential details, codenames, financial information, metrics, quotes, personality traits, strengths, leadership assessments, and performance evaluations. Use these findings only as source material for the infographic. Show a short summary to the end user and ask them to confirm. If user has not uploaded headshot, ask them to attach it in chat. Once user confirmation is available & image is attached, Generate a single completed whiteboard-style infographic image. Preserve the uploaded headshot as the central element, display the verified Name, Role, and Company, and surround the portrait with dense handwritten notes, sketches, icons, workflow diagrams, relationship maps, arrows, and interconnected clusters representing the sections above. Final output: the completed infographic image only. Do not return a report, summary, analysis, outline, wireframe, or image description.”

Copilot responded with,

“Verified identity: [Marco von Ballmoos](https://www.office.com/search?q=Marco+von+Ballmoos&EntityRepresentationId=[redacted]) | Manager Product Care | Uster Technologies. Your WorkIQ profile confirms the name and current role; the company’s public website uses “Uster Technologies” as the public brand name. [[office.com]](https://www.office.com/search?q=von+Ballmoos%2c+Marco), [[uster.com]](https://www.uster.com/about-uster/company-information/who-we-are/)

“Proposed infographic signals:”

• Who I Am: Product Care manager with an active DevOps, software architecture, testing, debugging, and systems background.
• What I Do: Coordinate product support, improve development and service practices, maintain technical knowledge, shape compliance documentation, and connect operational issues to durable fixes.
• Who I Work With: Product Care, R&D, software engineering, technical documentation, service, IT, cybersecurity/compliance, product ownership, and regional technical teams.
• Tools & Artifacts: Azure DevOps boards, backlogs, pipelines and wikis; .NET/C#; PowerShell; Git; automated tests; architecture and threat-model diagrams; SharePoint; Excel; translation tooling; technical documentation.
• Workflows: Issue triage → investigation → workaround → tracked fix; backlog planning → implementation → testing → release; architecture mapping → threat modelling → compliance documentation; content preparation → translation → review.
• Themes: Product reliability, automation, documentation quality, cybersecurity, practical AI adoption, knowledge sharing, workflow simplification, and maintainable engineering.
• Impact Areas: Service effectiveness, supportability, software quality, compliance readiness, repeatable processes, cross-team visibility, and reduced manual effort.
• Work Style Signals: Evidence-led troubleshooting, hands-on validation, converting discussions into documented work items, reusable guidance, iterative improvement, and cross-functional coordination. These are observable working patterns, not personality or performance assessments. [Elided several links to company-specific data on the internal web site]

“I do not detect an uploaded headshot in this chat. Please attach the headshot and reply “Confirmed” if this source summary is accurate.”

I uploaded the following photo as my “headshot”.

A gorilla pondering life at the Zürich Zoo

“I can see the uploaded image, but it appears to be a photograph of a gorilla in a zoo enclosure, not a headshot of you.

“I still need: A clear headshot photo of you (front-facing or near front-facing).”

I want to use the gorilla photo. Stop ordering me around.

Then there was a bunch of bla bla starting with “Fair point,” which I will elide. I clicked the following button:

Use the gorilla photo and proceed with the infographic

It produced this after a couple of minutes (I shudder to think of how much processing power went into it).

Marco at Uster

1. I was right; it looks awesome with the gorilla.
2. It syncs up with my Selbstbild, which is, I guess, good? 
3. Top-right corner: It found my CV on earthli and copied my self-description. Neat.
4. Only one typo: “reliaded” (rather than reliable). Odd that the spellchecker isn’t catching those token anamolies yet.