• Microsoft Solutions Partner
  • Managed Intelligence Provider
  • Nonprofits · Foundations · Rural Healthcare

More capacity for the mission, without losing control.

Centered Networks helps mission-driven organizations turn the Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, data, and security they already pay for into practical capacity. Governed from the first day, operated after launch.

See how Managed Intelligence works

Opportunity Finder: about three minutes, no email. 90-Day AI Roadmap: a paid, written plan.

Start with the pressure, not the product

What is getting in the way of the mission right now?

You do not need to know whether the answer is Copilot, an agent, better data, stronger security, or none of those. Start with the pressure your organization already feels. We will connect it to the outcome that matters, the questions worth validating, and the Microsoft path that fits.

The answer is not another disconnected AI project.

Once the business need is clear, the technology still has to be secured, connected, governed, measured, and improved. That operating layer needs an owner. That is Managed Intelligence.

01 Prepare

Make Microsoft ready for AI.

Secure identity and devices. Clean up permissions. Establish data protection and governance. Activate the Microsoft 365 capabilities you already own.

Sounds like: “We are not sure our Microsoft environment is ready for AI.”

Secure & Govern Microsoft

02 Adopt

Put Copilot into real work.

Identify the right users and workflows, deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot with the right controls, enable staff, and measure whether adoption is producing value.

Sounds like: “We have Copilot or AI pilots, but value is inconsistent.”

Microsoft 365 Copilot

03 Agentify

Turn repeatable work into digital capacity.

Build production agents and automations around high-value workflows using Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure.

Sounds like: “We know a workflow that should not need this much human effort.”

AI Agents & Automation

04 Operate

Manage intelligence like an operating environment.

Give agents owners and identities. Govern data access and actions. Monitor performance and cost. Improve what works. Retire what does not.

Sounds like: “We already have agents and automations spreading across the organization.”

Agent Governance & Operations

The mission outcome comes first. Managed Intelligence is how the Microsoft, AI, data, and security pieces keep working together after the decision is made.

What Managed Intelligence means

Run it with us

The work continues after launch. These are the services that carry it.

Project work ends. Microsoft operations, security operations, and agent operations do not. Each of these runs as a managed service with defined ownership, defined response, and executive reporting.

  • Microsoft operations

    CompleteCare

    Continuous Microsoft operations across security, compliance, AI, automation, data, and applications, in seven modules you can start from one at a time.

    See CompleteCare
  • Security operations

    Managed SOC on Microsoft Sentinel

    24×7 security operations on Sentinel and Defender, with detection, triage, escalation, and response authority defined before an incident. Delivered as CompleteCare Shield.

    See Managed SOC
  • Agent operations

    Managed AgentOps

    Operate a production agent fleet across ownership, governance, performance, cost, and continuous improvement, so what you launch keeps working.

    See Managed AgentOps

Trusted by mission-driven organizations

  • Trust for the National Mall
  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  • The Asia Foundation
  • Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Bonner General Health

Proof across strategy, engineering, AI, and operations

Strategy is useful. Production is the standard.

The Trust for the National Mall needed a digital experience capable of supporting public learning around America’s 250th anniversary. Centered Networks built the National Mall Gateway on Microsoft Azure, combining cloud architecture, digital experience engineering, and responsible AI on a platform designed for national-scale visibility.

  • 360° virtual tours of 17 monuments Lincoln, Jefferson, WWII, MLK and more, walked from anywhere.
  • K–12 educator portal Lesson plans filterable by grade, subject, and learning methodology with a personalized “My Guide” trip builder.
  • Generative AI on Microsoft Foundry Drafts educational content from the authoritative National Park Service catalog; every output reviewed by Trust staff before publication.
  • Engineered for national visibility Azure Front Door, DDoS Protection, WAF, Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor, and Terraform-managed infrastructure for near-instant disaster recovery.
  • PlatformMicrosoft Azure
  • AIMicrosoft Foundry
  • RecognitionFeatured Microsoft Customer Story
Screenshot of gateway.nationalmall.org showing a 360-degree virtual tour of a National Mall memorial. gateway.nationalmall.org Live on Microsoft Azure
“This platform is crucial, giving me a clear foundation and place to start so the experience is more successful. My students all came back from the Mall just begging for more.”
Dr. Melaney Sanchez, Teacher Librarian, Mt. Harmony Elementary

Built for the real constraints

Organizations where trust matters and capacity is scarce.

Nonprofits

More time for mission work.

Return time to mission work, strengthen supporter relationships, create trusted evidence of impact, improve access to organizational knowledge, and scale AI without giving up governance.

The Asia Foundation Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles Trust for the National Mall Robert Half International
AI & Microsoft for nonprofits

Foundations & grantmakers

Board-ready governance.

Increase operating and grantmaking capacity while protecting institutional knowledge, board accountability, stewardship, and responsible AI governance.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation California Community Foundation East Bay Community Foundation Santa Barbara Foundation
AI & Microsoft for foundations

Rural healthcare

Modernize securely.

Strengthen Microsoft security and operations, relieve administrative burden, modernize data and infrastructure, and adopt AI carefully around clinical and operational realities.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles Bonner General Health Coquille Valley Hospital Valley View Hospital
AI & Microsoft for rural healthcare

We discover before we prescribe.

A technology decision in a mission-driven organization touches leadership, finance, programs, IT, security, and the board. We define the outcome and validate the work with the people closest to it before choosing the Microsoft capabilities that fit.

  1. Recognize the pressure.

    What changed? Where is capacity, revenue, impact, access, or trust under strain?

  2. Clarify the outcome.

    What should be better, and for whom: staff, leadership, funders, communities, or patients?

  3. Validate across the work.

    Which process, data, handoffs, governance requirements, and stakeholder views have to be understood first?

  4. Design the Microsoft path.

    Only then map the need to Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, Power Platform, Fabric, Azure, security, or a managed operating model.

We will map the right engagement to your current state. You do not need to choose a product before the conversation.

One platform, fewer seams

One Microsoft partner across the layers that now have to work together.

Centered Networks works across Microsoft 365, Entra, Intune, Defender, Purview, Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Fabric, Azure, and Microsoft Foundry. That breadth matters because a mission outcome rarely fits inside one product.

  • Microsoft Solutions Partner
  • Solutions Partner for Modern Work
  • Solutions Partner for Security
  • Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Microsoft Azure)
  • Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Microsoft Azure)
  • Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Microsoft Azure)

Microsoft Solutions Partner with five solution-area designations: Modern Work, Security, Infrastructure, Data & AI, and Digital & App Innovation.

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Operating AI is becoming an executive discipline.

Position paper

What is a Managed Intelligence Provider?

Why the operating model around AI has to evolve beyond traditional managed services.

Read the MIP position paper

Field note

Before you enable Copilot

Why identity, permissions, data governance, and security determine what happens after launch.

Read

Field note

Agent governance: from sprawl to command

The operating disciplines every organization needs as agents multiply.

Read

Frameworks, decision rules, readiness questions, and governance patterns you can act on.

Explore Insights

Start with the decision your organization needs to make next.

Use the Opportunity Finder for a fast, ungated read on where to start. Move into a 90-Day AI Roadmap when you are ready to align leadership priorities, Microsoft readiness, governance, and the next sequence of work.

Two ways to start

Opportunity Finder, then the roadmap.

Opportunity Finder: useful guidance in about three minutes, no email required. 90-Day AI Roadmap: a focused, paid engagement that turns priorities, readiness, use cases, architecture, and governance into a written plan for the next 90 days.