The same question keeps arriving from Milan, from Singapore, from Chicago. We are paying for Microsoft Copilot and we are paying for Claude. Which one should we standardize on?

It sounds like a procurement question and it never is. This weekend edition takes the question apart and replaces it, because the honest answer is that it collapses two completely separate decisions into one: where your people think, and where the work lands.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• New survey work from Recon Analytics covering more than 150,000 US respondents: where an employee has Copilot and nothing else, 68 percent use it. Where Copilot sits next to two alternatives, it takes 8 percent and ChatGPT takes 70. Same product, same people, and the only variable is whether they had somewhere else to go.
• Why that is a preferen ...