Managing Composites adopts AI across a high-demand engineering organization
Composite materials engineering
Context
Managing Composites is a boutique engineering firm specialized in composite materials and an international reference in its sector. Its projects demand the highest technical standards: it works with world-leading hypercar and supercar manufacturers, as well as aerospace and other high-performance sectors. Its team is made up of highly specialized engineers, used to precision and to very demanding standards. In that context, the company wanted to bring in artificial intelligence as a cross-cutting capability, useful for the whole organization and not just one area.
Challenges
Introducing AI into an organization of such technical profiles poses a particular challenge: these are demanding professionals who only adopt a tool if it delivers real value and fits the way they work. Beyond that, the goal was not to confine AI to engineering, but to extend its use to very different areas —from business development to administration—, each with its own needs. The challenge was to achieve broad, sustained adoption without settling for anecdotal use.
Solution
Adoptian rolled out a Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption programme across the whole organization, supporting teams as they built the tool into their daily work. On that foundation, we set up an Agent Factory to develop specific AI solutions where they added the most value. To date, more than five solutions have been deployed in areas such as business development, marketing content generation, administration and user support, each designed around the team's specific needs.
Technical Architecture
The programme relies on Microsoft 365 Copilot as a general-purpose layer for the whole organization, complemented by Adoptian's Agent Factory for developing and deploying bespoke agents and automations. Many of these solutions use Microsoft Azure AI Foundry as their language-model engine. This model brings AI solutions into production in an orderly way, keeping control over their quality and their fit within each area.
Results
Copilot adoption reaches close to 100% of the organization, a particularly notable figure in a markedly technical and demanding team. Added to this are the more than five AI solutions already in use through the Agent Factory, which have taken the value of artificial intelligence beyond engineering, into the company's business and support functions.
