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You found the AI door

Hi, I’m Digi.

Is AI on your mind? Something you want to discuss? You’re in the right place — let me show you around.

I’m the mouse from the main site, and this is AI World — the corner of Henschel Technologies where we take AI out of the headlines and put it to work for businesses like yours, explained in plain words.

No hype, just work

What AI can actually do for a business like yours

Forget the movie version. The AI tools we set up earn their keep on ordinary work — the writing, reading, and hunting through files that eats up your week.

First drafts in minutes

Emails, letters, proposals, job postings, quotes. You describe what you need, the AI writes a solid first draft, and you fix it instead of starting from a blank page.

Long threads, short answers

A forty-message email chain or a thirty-page document, summed up in a paragraph — with the key dates, numbers, and promises pulled out where you can see them.

Answers to routine questions

An assistant set up on your own documents can answer the questions customers and staff ask every day — hours, policies, procedures — so your people stop hunting through folders.

Make sense of documents

Contracts, manuals, reports. Ask what a document says, find the clause you half-remember, or compare two versions — in plain questions, in your own words.

Meetings that take their own notes

Teams meetings can be recorded and summed up automatically — what was decided, who owes what, and by when — so nobody has to type it up afterward.

Scheduling without the back-and-forth

Help lining up times, drafting the reminder, and following up when someone goes quiet. The small chores around a calendar take less of somebody’s afternoon.

Digi the Mouse

A word from Digi: set it up, don’t sneak it in

People are already using AI at work — often on personal accounts nobody approved, with company information pasted in. That has a name: shadow AI, and it is where the trouble starts. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach study found that heavy shadow-AI use added an average of $670,000 to the cost of a breach, and that 63% of the organizations studied had no AI policy in place or were still writing one. The fix is simple: approved tools, set up on company accounts, with rules your people actually know. That is the work below.

You don’t have to figure this out alone

How Henschel leads you through it

AI is new territory for most businesses. Our job is to walk it with you in the open — every step explained, every cost on the table before you commit to anything.

1

Start with a free evaluation

We sit down and look at how your business actually runs — where the hours go, what your people wrestle with, and where AI could honestly help.

2

A plain plan

You get the recommendation in plain words: which tools, what each one costs, what it will do, and what it won’t. No pressure, and no plan you can’t read.

3

We set up the tools

Accounts, permissions, and guardrails done right — business accounts under your control, so each person sees only the information their job already allows.

4

We train your people

Short, hands-on training on your team’s real work — what to ask, what to check, and what never goes into a chat window.

5

We stay on call

AI keeps changing. When a question comes up, or something acts odd, you call Henschel and talk to a person — and we sort it out with you.

Your information stays yours

Set up on proper business plans, these tools are built for company data. Microsoft states plainly that with Copilot, your prompts, responses, and files are not used to train its AI models — and Copilot only ever shows each person the files they already have permission to see. Claude and ChatGPT’s business plans likewise do not train on your content by default. We will show you these terms in writing before you choose a tool, not after.

The names you’ve heard

The tools we work with

Four names come up in every AI conversation. Here is what each one is, how it is charged, what each level really gives you — and what actually counts as protected.

Microsoft Copilot

The one that lives inside the programs your team already uses — Word, Outlook, Teams, Excel. It works with your own business files, and a chat version is already included with Microsoft 365 business plans at no extra cost.

How it’s charged: per user, per month, on an annual plan. It is an add-on — each person also needs their own Microsoft 365 plan underneath it — or it comes bundled with Microsoft 365 Business Premium. One license, one person; there is no sharing.

  • Included free: Copilot Chat already comes with Microsoft 365 business plans. It carries Microsoft’s Enterprise Data Protection, but it works from the web and from a file or email you have open — it does not reach across your mailbox, SharePoint, and Teams the way the paid Copilot does.
  • The paid level is the one inside Word, Outlook, Teams, and Excel, grounded in your own company files. It only ever shows each person the files they already have permission to see, and Microsoft states that your prompts, responses, and files are not used to train its models.
  • Protected means: Copilot runs inside your company’s own Microsoft 365, under your admin console and your sign-in rules — turn a person’s account off, and their Copilot is off. A personal Microsoft account is a different thing entirely: consumer terms, and no control for the company at all.

ChatGPT

The assistant most people have heard of, from OpenAI. A strong all-rounder for writing, questions, and brainstorming, in its own app and window.

How it’s charged: per user, per month, billed annually on the Business plan (monthly billing is also offered). The Enterprise plan is priced by quote.

  • Personal accounts run under consumer terms. OpenAI may use those conversations to improve and train its models unless the person opts out — and the company has no console, no record of what was pasted in, and no way to cut it off when someone leaves. The account, and its history, walk out with them.
  • The Business plan is a company-owned workspace: an admin console, single sign-on (SAML), and member management — and business data is not used for training, written into the plan terms.
  • Only on Enterprise: SCIM provisioning (accounts created and removed automatically from your directory), audit logs and the Compliance API, custom data retention and data residency, and IP allowlisting. If a vendor shows you those controls, you are looking at the top tier — they do not come with Business.
  • Protected means: the company plan above. Signing a personal ChatGPT account into Outlook does not turn it into company ChatGPT — it stays personal, whoever installed it.

Claude

Anthropic’s assistant, known for careful reading and writing — steady with long documents and detailed work, and it connects to Microsoft 365.

How it’s charged: per seat, per month, billed annually. Team seats come in two sizes — Standard, and Premium with much higher usage — and the two can be mixed. Enterprise charges per seat plus usage on top, and is priced by quote.

  • Personal accounts: on free and personal plans, training on your conversations is on by default under Anthropic’s consumer terms, unless the person opts out. And a personal account signed in on a work machine is still a personal account — the company controls nothing about it.
  • The Team plan brings single sign-on, central billing, and admin controls — and under Anthropic’s commercial terms, your content is not used for training by default.
  • Only on Enterprise: audit logs, SCIM provisioning, custom data retention, and the HIPAA-ready offering. They do not come with Team, whatever the sales page layout suggests.
  • The Microsoft 365 connection, honestly stated: Claude reads your Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams through a connector that runs as the signed-in user — it can only reach what that person can already open, it fetches on demand, and it does not cache your files. It is a separate window alongside your Office programs, not buttons inside Outlook.

Grok

xAI’s assistant — fast and plainspoken, tied into the X platform. A newer name in business plans, and one we watch closely.

How it’s charged: per seat, per month on the business and Teams plans. Enterprise is priced by quote. One caution: xAI renamed its packages in October 2026, so we confirm the exact package and terms the day we set you up.

  • Personal accounts on X are consumer accounts. The company has no console over them, no record, and no off-switch.
  • The business plans give a team workspace with seat management, consolidated billing, and usage analytics. xAI’s enterprise terms state that business content is not used to train its models, and that content is deleted within 30 days of the session, unless a different period is agreed in writing.
  • Only on Enterprise: custom single sign-on, SCIM directory sync, advanced audit controls, and custom retention — with the isolated Vault data plane and customer-held encryption keys described as an Enterprise add-on.
  • Stated plainly: Grok has no built-in connection to Outlook or Microsoft 365 today — our research found none comparable to Copilot’s, or to Claude’s connector. It is also the newest of the four in business use, with the shortest track record, and its packaging has changed twice in ten months.

We don’t publish prices. The vendors change them, and the right setup depends on what your business already runs. For pricing, please contact us — tell us what you have, and we will quote the real numbers in writing before anything is ordered.

The Reading Room

Digi’s Library

Essays that explain AI in plain words — what it is, what it isn’t, and what it means for a business like yours. Pull up a chair.

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Ready to talk about AI?

Start with a free IT / AI evaluation. We look at your setup, you ask anything that’s on your mind, and you get a plain plan to think over.