Free tools
Work out your next move before you spend a dollar.
You're weighing up which Copilot to buy, what it's worth, whether your licences fit and where your cyber posture stands. These plain-English tools answer the questions Frontrow gets asked most. Free, no email walls. Bring the output to your next board paper.
Decide what to buy
Start with the question you actually have.
The Copilot, licensing and AI-readiness calls most Australian businesses are weighing up right now. A few minutes each, answer in your own words.
Which Microsoft Copilot do I need?
Several different products are called "Copilot": the free Copilot Chat, the AU$31.40 Microsoft 365 Copilot Business add-on, and the AU$44.90 enterprise seat. Five questions return the right edition for your business, with AUD pricing ex GST, checked July 2026.
Copilot ROI Calculator
Hours saved × headcount × rate. Model the business case by role, export to PDF and Excel for your next budget conversation.
Copilot Licensing Optimiser
Headcount in, optimal Microsoft 365 + Copilot SKU mix out. Models Business Premium vs E3 vs E5, applies the 1,000-seat 'Copilot for All' discount, exports to PDF and Excel.
Microsoft 365 Licence Audit Scorer
Most AU mid-market tenants have 8 to 15% of Microsoft 365 spend recoverable. Score SKU rationalisation, add-on hygiene, inactive seats and renewal posture. PDF report included.
Copilot Adoption & Waste Detector
Most Australian Copilot tenants have 15 to 30% of seats barely in use. Score pilot governance, active-user tracking, use-case spread, training and renewal hygiene. Surfaces wasted seats before the next renewal.
M365 Usage Tool
Most Australian businesses use about 20% of their Microsoft 365 licence. Find what's on the shelf — and the money on the table.
AI Readiness Assessment
Score your organisation across five dimensions. Get a 90-day plan to move AI from curiosity to capability.
Copilot vs Claude vs ChatGPT
A seven-question decision tree. Weighted recommendation across the three platforms based on your ecosystem, data residency, agents, governance and use case.
July 2026 Microsoft 365 Price Increase Calculator (AUD)
Business Basic rises around 16%, Standard around 12%, E3 about 8% and Business Premium holds flat. Enter your seat mix and see the current bill, the new bill and the dollar difference. PDF and Excel export.
Power BI Pro vs Premium Per User Break-Even (AUD)
Pro at ~$13.70, Premium Per User at ~$34.20, or a Fabric capacity with free viewers. Slide your seat count, split authors from viewers, and see the monthly cost of each shape plus the seat counts where the answer flips.
Copilot Pricing Australia 2026 (AUD)
Microsoft 365 Copilot lists at about AU$45 per seat per month on top of an eligible base licence. Current AUD rates, the Copilot for All discount thresholds, and a role-by-role business case calculator on the one page.
Managed IT Cost Calculator (AUD)
How much does IT support cost in Australia? Compare per-user managed IT — Essential, Standard, Premium — against break-fix hourly, add cyber security, backup, Microsoft 365 management and after-hours support, and get an indicative monthly and annual range. Not a quote.
Scope a project
Put numbers and use cases on the table.
When you're costing a migration, sizing Sentinel, planning agents or briefing the board, these turn a vague idea into something you can defend in a budget meeting.
Agentic Workforce Use Case Finder
Pick your industry, team size and the back-office queues clogging your team. Get a short list of agents that would augment them, built on Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry.
Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Cost Estimator (AUD)
Model Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration cost across BitTitan, Quest, ShareGate and CodeTwo plus Frontrow services delivery. Indicative AUD ranges, duration, risk flags. PDF and Excel.
Microsoft End-of-Support Exposure Checker
Windows 10, Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, SQL Server 2016, Publisher and Exchange Web Services all run out between 2025 and 2027. Enter your estate and get a dated timeline, days remaining, indicative ESU cost in USD list and a prioritised action list. PDF and Excel export.
Microsoft Sentinel Pricing Calculator (Australia)
Sentinel pricing is famously opaque. Model AUD cost across all eight commitment tiers, factor in free Defender connectors and retention. PDF and Excel export.
Azure OpenAI Pricing (Australia)
Token rates by model in 2026, standard pay-as-you-go versus provisioned throughput, Australia East availability, and the cost patterns Frontrow sees in real Australian deployments.
AI Governance Maturity Scorer
Aligned to the AU Voluntary AI Safety Standard. Score accountability, risk management, data and human oversight, transparency and assurance across your AI deployment. Voluntary today, a leading indicator of mandatory regulation.
Board Risk Briefing — Technology Position
A board-ready briefing across Microsoft 365 Copilot governance, Essential Eight maturity, Privacy Act 2026 readiness and AI vendor risk. Fifteen questions, one PDF for your next board pack.
AI Search Visibility Tracker
Are ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot citing your brand when buyers ask in your category? Run six buyer questions and get a visibility score plus the competitors eating your share of voice.
Copilot News & Risk Tracker
Curated Microsoft Copilot signal — releases, pricing, regulation and ecosystem moves — each item paired with a Frontrow take and an AU action.
Teams Phone vs PBX Cost Calculator (AUD)
Per-user licence and calling against PBX capital, handsets, maintenance and carriage, on the same amortised monthly basis, with the cumulative break-even month. Every assumption editable from your quotes.
Not sure where to start?
Skip the tool picker. Tell Frontrow what's going on in plain English and it points you at the right place — managed IT, cyber, your Microsoft 365 or applied AI.
Start here
Where are you right now?
Pick the line that sounds like your week. Frontrow takes it from there — Brisbane, Mackay, Townsville and Adelaide.
“Something's broken and we need it fixed now.”
A senior engineer picks up, not a ticket queue. Frontrow runs the day-to-day so your team stops firefighting.
Issues get caught before your team feels them, at a fixed monthly price.
Managed IT→“We're worried we'd fail a cyber audit.”
Frontrow maps where you sit against the Essential Eight today, then closes the gaps on the Microsoft 365 you already pay for.
Evidence you can show the board or a regulator, without a new platform to buy.
Cyber Security→“We pay for Microsoft 365 but barely use it.”
SharePoint, Teams and the licences you own, set up so people actually use them. No shelfware, no half-finished migration.
Your team works in the tools you already pay for, with nothing left half-built.
Modern Workplace→“We want AI to actually do something useful.”
Copilot and custom agents grounded on your own data, with the governance sorted first. Capability in 90 days, not a 12-month pilot.
Working AI your people trust, with the data controls signed off before they type.
Applied AI→“We're in aged care and the regulator keeps moving the line.”
Frontrow maps your IT to the obligations a regulated provider carries — Strengthened Standard 8, breach reporting, My Health Record and Essential Eight ML2 as the evidence behind them.
A posture an assessor accepts and clinical systems that stay up when it counts.
Aged care & regulated→
For your IT team
The detailed posture scorers.
Identity, compliance, backup and Essential Eight self-checks for whoever runs your tenant. More technical by design — hand them to your IT manager or run them with Frontrow alongside.
Essential Eight Readiness
Score your posture across all eight ACSC strategies. Pick a target Maturity Level. Get the Microsoft 365 tooling that closes the gap.
SharePoint Oversharing Risk Check
Twelve questions across identity, permissions, classification and external access — scored against Microsoft's Copilot-readiness guidance. PDF report included.
Conditional Access Policy Gap Checker
Most M365 tenants have two or three Conditional Access policies. The recommended baseline is closer to ten. Score the gap against Microsoft and ASD guidance.
Conditional Access Misconfiguration Self-Check
The five Conditional Access failure patterns Frontrow finds in nearly every Australian tenant — report-only purgatory, weak break-glass, untrusted compliance, location bypass, legacy auth.
Entra ID P1 vs P2 — which do you need?
P1 secures most businesses; P2 adds PIM, risk-based Conditional Access and governance. Five questions tell you which you actually need — and whether you already have P2 via E5. Indicative AUD pricing.
Entra ID Global Admin Audit
Microsoft recommends 2 to 5 Global Admins. Most tenants run 8 to 30. Score privileged-access posture across PIM, PAW, break-glass and audit governance.
Identity Secure Score Gap Analyser
Identity is the cheapest, fastest security investment. Score authentication strength, privileged access, lifecycle, external access and risk-based controls against the Microsoft Entra baseline.
Defender Secure Score Gap Analyser
Most AU mid-market Secure Scores sit at 35 to 55%, and the score only helps if recommendations get actioned. Score how the headline Microsoft posture metric is reviewed, actioned and reported.
Workload Identity Risk Check
Service principals are the blind spot in most M365 tenants. Storm-0558 and Midnight Blizzard both pivoted through workload identities. Score how exposed your app registrations and consent governance are.
Phishing-Resistant MFA Gap Check
ASD recommends phishing-resistant MFA for privileged accounts. Score where you sit on the journey from SMS to FIDO2 and Windows Hello for Business.
Global Secure Access Readiness Assessment
Microsoft Global Secure Access (Entra Internet Access + Private Access) is the Microsoft SSE consolidation play. Score whether your tenant has the identity, endpoint and operating foundations to make the consolidation pay back.
Azure Landing Zone Maturity Checker
Most Australian Azure estates grew organically. Management groups missing, no central firewall, ad-hoc RBAC, no tagging. Score against the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework reference.
Sensitivity Label Maturity Scorer
Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels are the foundation of information protection — and the prerequisite for safe Copilot rollouts. Score taxonomy, scope, automation, container labels and Copilot enablement.
Information Protection Stack Maturity Check
Sensitivity labels alone don't protect data. Score the full Microsoft Purview stack — file labels, container labels, DLP, auto-labelling and the Copilot data boundary. Privacy Act 2026 alignment included.
Purview DLP Policy Gap Analyser
Most AU mid-market tenants already own Microsoft Purview DLP and use a fraction of it. Score policy coverage across SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Exchange and Endpoint, plus the operating discipline. AU sensitive info types covered.
Insider Risk Management Policy Generator
Generate a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management starter pack — recommended templates, risk indicators, severity thresholds, alert routing — tailored to your industry, headcount and regulatory drivers.
Teams Guest Access Risk Check
Score your Microsoft Teams external sharing posture: guest invitation, anonymous links, lifecycle, sensitivity and DLP. Aligned to the CIS M365 Benchmark.
Microsoft 365 Backup Gap Analyser
Microsoft owns the platform. The customer owns the data. Score your M365 backup posture across Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams against ASD Essential Eight Strategy 8.
Notifiable Data Breach Readiness Check
Under the NDB scheme you have 30 days. Score whether your Microsoft 365 tenant can detect, scope, notify, remediate and improve fast enough to meet the clock.
APRA CPS 234 Readiness Scorer
Self-assess your capability against APRA Prudential Standard CPS 234. Five domains — roles, controls, testing, incident, third-party. Built for AU banks, insurers, super funds and their material providers.
APRA CPS 230 Readiness Scorer
CPS 230 took effect 1 July 2025 and APRA expects documented evidence, not aspiration. Score operational risk management, critical operations, business continuity and material service provider risk.