Quick start

Open the portal and choose Sign in with Microsoft (or Sign in with Okta). Sign in on your company’s page as usual, and you’re back in the portal — it never sees your password.

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1. 1 Sign in with Microsoft — takes you to your company’s sign-in page.
2. 2 Email and password — only for accounts the portal holds itself.

The sign-in screen with a Sign in with Microsoft button

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The message box shows who will answer. ECV Assistant is a good place to start. Each agent brings its own model and thinking effort, so you can leave those as they are.

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1. 1 Agent — its instructions, knowledge and tools.
2. 2 Model — the AI model that writes the answer.
3. 3 Thinking effort — how much the model thinks first.

The message box with the agent, model and thinking pickers

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Write the way you’d ask a colleague, then press Enter. Add context the agent can’t guess — who it’s for, how long, which format.

While it works, the agent shows short progress notes. When it’s done, everything it did folds into one line above the answer.

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1. 1 Worked for… — open it to see each step the agent took.
2. 2 Where it looked — here, the public internet.
3. 3 Sources — numbered citations you can open.
4. 4 Cost — what this answer cost your department.

A finished answer with its activity line, citations, sources and cost

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Select a number like 1 to read the exact passage the agent used. Not quite right? Just reply — the agent keeps the whole conversation in mind.