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.
Secure & Govern Microsoft- 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
Microsoft 365 · Copilot · Agents · Azure · Security · Data & AI
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.
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Our team is stretched thin.
Recurring administration, duplicate effort, approvals, and fragile handoffs are consuming time that belongs to the mission.
Outcome: more capacity for the work only people can do.
Return capacity to the mission 02Revenue and relationships need more attention than we can give them.
Fundraising, donor and supporter engagement, stewardship, and follow-up are reactive and hard to scale.
Outcome: stronger, more sustainable relationships.
Strengthen revenue and relationships 03Proving impact takes too much effort.
Program, finance, and funder information lives in too many places, reporting is manual, and leaders do not fully trust the numbers.
Outcome: trusted evidence, faster.
Prove and communicate impact 04People cannot find what they need fast enough.
Staff, partners, and the communities you serve struggle to reach accurate information, policies, and services.
Outcome: trusted information within reach.
Improve access to information 05AI is moving faster than our controls.
Security, privacy, permissions, governance, and continuity questions are limiting how confidently leadership can move.
Outcome: scale AI without losing control.
Build resilience and trust Not sure which one fits?Take the three-minute Opportunity Finder.
Pick the pressure you feel. Get the outcome that matters, the questions worth validating, and the Microsoft path that fits. No email required.
Start the FinderThe 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. Copilots reason across organizational knowledge. Agents take actions. Automations move work between systems. Identity, data, and permissions decide what all of them can do. That operating layer needs an owner. That is Managed Intelligence.
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.
Microsoft 365 Copilot03 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.
AI Agents & Automation04 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.
Agent Governance & OperationsThe 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 meansProof 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.
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.
Foundations & grantmakers
Board-ready governance.
Increase operating and grantmaking capacity while protecting institutional knowledge, board accountability, stewardship, and responsible AI governance.
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.
We discover before we prescribe.
A technology decision in a mission-driven organization can touch leadership, finance, programs, development, operations, IT, data, security, and the board. We do not start by forcing a product into that complexity. We help define the outcome, validate the work with the people closest to it, and then choose the Microsoft capabilities that fit.
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Recognize the pressure.
What changed? Where is capacity, revenue, impact, access, or trust under strain?
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Clarify the outcome.
What should be better, and for whom: staff, leadership, funders, communities, or patients?
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Validate across the work.
Which process, data, handoffs, governance requirements, and stakeholder views have to be understood first?
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Design the Microsoft path.
Only then map the need to Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, Power Platform, Fabric, Azure, security, or a managed operating model.
You do not have to know which service you need.
If you know the pressure but not the technology, use the Opportunity Finder. If you know your current technical state, pick the path below.
- “We are not sure our Microsoft environment is ready for AI.” Start with readiness, security, data access, permissions, and governance. Prepare
- “We have Copilot or AI pilots, but value is inconsistent.” Focus on adoption, workflow design, measurement, and the right use cases. Adopt
- “We know a workflow that should not need this much human effort.” Build a governed agent or automation around a defined process, an owner, a data boundary, and a measurable outcome. Agentify
- “We already have agents and automations spreading across the organization.” Bring inventory, ownership, identity, policy, cost, telemetry, and lifecycle under one operating model. Operate
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.
Five Microsoft Solutions Partner designations spanning Modern Work, Security, Infrastructure, Data & AI, and Digital & App Innovation.
Explore our Microsoft partnershipOperating 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 paperField note
Before you enable Copilot
Why identity, permissions, data governance, and security determine what happens after launch.
ReadField note
Agent governance: from sprawl to command
The operating disciplines every organization needs as agents multiply.
ReadFrameworks, decision rules, readiness questions, and governance patterns you can act on.
Explore InsightsStart 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.