01 / Who this is for
Brainis vs Microsoft Teams
You use Microsoft Teams today and want to know if Brainis replaces it, works next to it, or isn’t for you. The honest answer is below, including where Microsoft Teams wins.
Teams is where your company talks. Brainis is where it decides and gets things done. Communication AI isn't shipped yet, so this page says less than the others.
02The difference
Teams is where your company talks. Brainis is where it decides and gets things done.
In Brainis, Teams' job belongs to Communication AI, which isn't shipped today. What Brainis does ship: a live picture of the company, decisions made after mapping the options, missions, my agents doing the work inside your limits, and separate checks. This page stays out of search because it's a thin comparison, and we won't dress it up.
Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaboration hub. In Brainis, that job belongs to Communication AI Coming, not shipped yet, working with the rest of Brainis.
03When Microsoft Teams is enough
Stay on Microsoft Teams if this is you.
This isn't a setup. If one of these sounds like your company, Microsoft Teams is the better buy, and we'd rather you hear it here.
You're already on Microsoft 365
Teams comes with the licence, uses the same sign-in directory and sits next to Office. That's very hard to argue with.
You need meetings and calls
Business phone systems, meetings and calls are infrastructure. Brainis has none of it.
IT has already standardised
Data-retention and compliance rules set up across your whole Microsoft account aren't something to disturb for a chat feature.
04When you need Brainis
What Brainis adds, and the part that does it.
Each one names the part of Brainis doing the work (Company State, missions, Verify, what I do on my own) and links the page that proves it.
When a decision made in chat needs to become work
A plan you approve becomes missions with owners, budgets and what done looks like, instead of a decision that scrolls away.
See Missions →When where your company stands shouldn't live in message history
Company State is a live picture where each fact shows its source, how fresh it is and how sure I am.
See Company State →When your agents' work needs checking
Verify checks each piece of work against what you asked for and can send it back.
See Verify →
05Side by side
Grouped by what Brainis actually does.
Only things you can check. The Microsoft Teams column says what Microsoft Teams does, and never claims a weakness we haven't checked. Where Microsoft Teams is better, the row says so.
Understand
What I know about your company.
One live picture of the company: goals, customers, money, promises
Microsoft Teams
Conversations, channels, meetings and files, plus the rest of your Microsoft 365 account.
Brainis
One live picture, where each fact shows where it came from, how fresh it is and how sure I am.
See Company State →
Chat, meetings and calls
Microsoft Teams
Chat, channels, meetings, phone calls and sign-in from your Microsoft 365 account.
Microsoft Teams is better here
Decide
How the next move gets chosen.
Options mapped before a path is recommended
Microsoft Teams
Not what a communication hub is for.
Brainis
I map the options first. Change a limit, and my recommendation changes with it.
See Strategy Engine →
Deliver
How the work actually gets done.
How an approved plan becomes work
Microsoft Teams
Decisions are made in conversation and tracked wherever your team tracks them.
Brainis
Each plan you approve becomes missions, with the steps in order, an owner, a budget, and what done looks like.
See Missions →
Where the AI does its work
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has helper features across its own 365 apps.
Brainis
Inside real products (the CRM, the hiring system, work management, campaigns), with each step checked.
See Brainis MCP →
What an automation may touch
Microsoft Teams
Apps and bots act with the account and channel access you set.
Brainis
You can set my limits by action, area, amount, risk, whether it can be undone, time and owner.
See what I do on my own →
Verify
What has to be true before it counts as done.
A separate check before work counts as done
Microsoft Teams
Not what a communication hub is for.
Brainis
A separate checker holds each piece of work to what you asked for, and can send it back.
See Verify →
Who checks the work
Microsoft Teams
Not what a communication hub is for.
Brainis
Never the AI that did it. Risky work is checked by a different family of AI models.
See Verify →
Your own standards as checks
Microsoft Teams
Not what a communication hub is for.
Brainis
Your own rules for done become Verify checks: written once, grouped into libraries, applied area by area.
See Verify →
Learn
What the result changes.
What happens to a decision after it is made
Microsoft Teams
Message and meeting history is kept. Business predictions aren't recorded or graded.
Brainis
I record what I expected and what really happened in the Decision Ledger, and both shape my next recommendation.
See Memory →
Whether the forecast was any good
Microsoft Teams
Message and meeting history is kept. Business predictions aren't recorded or graded.
Brainis
Each prediction comes with a range and the model version that made it, and stays unchanged when the real result comes in.
See Memory →
06Using both, and moving over
Running both is normal, not a failure.
- How deep the connection goes today
- Microsoft Teams is on the connector list as coming, not shipped. Slack is the messaging connector you can use today, and Microsoft 365 calendar and email connect now. The list shows each one's status instead of implying it's ready.See Integrations →
- What you can bring over
- Nothing imports from Teams. Running both is the only option here.
- What stays in Microsoft Teams
- Teams stays where it is. Brainis isn't a chat product and isn't trying to become one.
- Leaving anytime
- Your data stays yours. Export it anytime from admin, and running out of AI credits never locks your data or your non-AI work.See Pricing →
07Pricing
What each of us charges for.
Teams comes bundled with Microsoft 365, so it costs most companies nothing extra. Brainis prices differently: seats and how much I may do on my own per plan, plus AI credits, and you see each cost before I run it. Brainis will never be the cheaper chat tool, because Brainis isn't a chat tool.
Brainis is free to start. Paid plans start at $29 a month. See Pricing →
Start with an idea or the business you run.
Keep Microsoft Teams running while you find out if Brainis is worth it.
Want a different comparison? See the others →