From Hackathon Project to a Microsoft Asia Case Study: NovaTech's Sales Deal Mate Featured in "Asia Copilot Agents in Action"

2026-10-19

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When an AI Agent moves from a Demo to real business, what value can it actually create for an enterprise?

Recently, we received some exciting news:

Sales Deal Mate, the sales agent built by the NovaTech team, has been selected for Microsoft's Asia Copilot Agents in Action.

Even more exciting, this Agent practice will be further showcased in Microsoft Ignite-related communications in November 2026.

For us, this is more than just being included in a case study.

More importantly, it validates something we have always insisted on:

The value of enterprise AI is not just "giving employees one more AI assistant," but letting AI truly understand the business and gradually enter an enterprise's real workflows.

What is Sales Deal Mate?

Sales Deal Mate originally came from an innovation at a hackathon.

The question we thought about was straightforward:

For sales teams, can an AI Agent do more than just answer questions, and truly become an "intelligent partner" throughout the sales process?

In enterprise sales, a great deal of time is not spent on the final customer interactions.

Salespeople constantly need to organize customer information, understand opportunity backgrounds, prepare communication materials, track sales progress, and decide what to do next from scattered information.

Sales Deal Mate was built around exactly this kind of real sales scenario.

It seeks to take Copilot + Agent from simple Q&A further into the sales business process, enabling AI to provide assistance around specific Deals and help salespeople advance opportunities more efficiently.

From Microsoft 365 Copilot to an Enterprise's Own AI Agent

We believe enterprises can gradually form three levels of AI adoption.

Level 1: Personal Productivity

First, help employees learn to use Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Actually put AI to work in everyday environments such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

Level 2: Complex Tasks

Move from a single Prompt toward more complete task delegation.

Let AI do more than complete just one step for you — gradually helping it understand the goal, context, and task process.

Level 3: Business Agents

Finally, enter the enterprise's own business scenarios.

Sales, marketing, HR, finance, procurement, customer service, IT…

Different departments each have their own processes and knowledge.

A truly valuable enterprise Agent should not be just a general-purpose chatbot; it should be designed around enterprise data, business scenarios, and real processes.

Sales Deal Mate is our exploration in the direction of sales-scenario Agents.

Being Seen — and Being Validated Matters More Than "Making a Demo"

From an idea at a hackathon, to the realization of Sales Deal Mate, and now to being featured in Asia Copilot Agents in Action — for NovaTech, this has been a meaningful journey.

But we prefer to see it as a beginning.

Because the question enterprises face today is no longer just:

"Should I use AI?"

It is becoming:

"Which of my business scenarios should AI actually enter?"

What we want to do is not merely help enterprises deploy a Microsoft Copilot suite.

It is to find the answers to these questions together with our customers:

Which work is best suited for Copilot?
Which processes are worth further Agent-ization?
How can an enterprise's existing knowledge and data be combined with AI?
How can you start validating AI's business value from one scenario?
Ultimately, how do you take AI from "employees know how to use it" to "the organization truly uses it"?

More Than an Agent — The Beginning of Enterprise AI Adoption

For NovaTech, Sales Deal Mate being featured is not an end point.

It is more like validation of what we have been doing: the value of AI must ultimately return to an enterprise's real business scenarios.

Today, more and more enterprises are beginning to pay attention to Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI Agents — but there is still a long way from "knowing about AI" to "truly using it":

Where do you find the scenarios?

How does Copilot get implemented?

Which businesses are suitable for Agents?

How do an enterprise's own data and processes combine with AI?

And ultimately, how do you measure the value AI brings?

This is exactly the problem NovaTech AI Services is helping enterprises solve.

We hope to provide a full range of services along the complete path of enterprise AI adoption — from AI scenario consulting and planning and Microsoft 365 Copilot training, to Copilot Agent scenario design, development, and business implementation.

Not to "add one more AI tool" for the enterprise, but to work alongside enterprises to find:

The ways of working truly worth changing with AI,the business processes truly worth having Agents enter.

From Microsoft 365 Copilot, to Sales Deal Mate, and to more AI Agents from real business functions such as sales, marketing, HR, finance, procurement, and IT, we hope to keep turning AI from a concept into new productivity that enterprises can see, put to use, and that generates real business value.

NovaTech — taking AI from a tool into the business.

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