Layer researchProductivity and collaboration
Vendor landscape
As of 2026-08-19. Vendor capability claims are vendor-published unless third-party sourced. Re-verify quarterly.
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent surfaces
- Category
- Horizontal assistant + agent builder
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Mature; agent identities mandatory from Jul 2026
- Notes
- Identity architecture encodes the access/presence split [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Google Workspace Gemini and Workspace Studio
- Category
- Horizontal assistant + automation
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Bundled; automatic meeting notes at very large scale
- Notes
- 110 million meeting attendees using automatic notes in a month, 8.5x YoY [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Teams Facilitator, Channel Agent
- Category
- In-surface meeting and channel agents
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Facilitator GA for scheduled meetings; Rooms preview
- Notes
- Not directory principals; per-user licensed features [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Slack agents
- Category
- Collaboration agents
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Active
- Notes
- Invoked by mention rather than resident [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Independent notetakers (Otter, Granola and similar)
- Category
- Meeting capture
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Widely deployed
- Notes
- Where the consent litigation is concentrated
Agent-washing watch: assistants marketed on time-saved figures with no counterfactual; "AI teammate" branding for what is a per-user feature; notetakers whose default behaviour is to join without announcing themselves.
Source: research/R08-productivity-and-collaboration/vendors.md in the evidence repository behind this site.