SUCCEEDED · this flow ran without errors

You can build a flow.
Can you explain it six months later?

FlowNarrate takes real Power Automate flows and D365 configurations and writes down what most builders skip: the reasoning behind each step. Written by an AB-100 certified consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer.

Example, narrated below
Flowchart: case routing by priority A new case comes in. If it's marked urgent, it goes straight to whoever's on call. Otherwise it joins the normal queue. New case Is it urgent? yes Goes to on-call no Joins the queue
→ narrated "A new case comes in. If it's marked urgent, it goes straight to whoever's on call. Everything else joins the normal queue."
View as Mermaid (copyable)
flowchart LR
    A[New case] --> B{Is it urgent?}
    B -->|yes| C[Goes to on-call]
    B -->|no| D[Joins the queue]

What gets narrated here

SIX RECURRING FORMATS
EACH SOLVING A DIFFERENT DOCUMENTATION GAP

Flow Narrations signature format

Real flows, walked step by step. What each action does and why it's there, using actual, anonymized flows.

D365 Explainers

Features explained for the people who use these systems daily, not the people who built them.

Certification Corner

AB-100 study notes and exam guidance from someone who actively teaches this material as an MCT.

Case Studies

Real business problems, the flow or D365 fix, and what changed afterward.

Quick Tips

One trick or setting, explained without the padding.

Agentic AI

Copilot Studio multi-agent design and orchestration, explained the same way as any other flow: what each agent does and why it's handing off.

Free Power Platform tools

Dynamic expressions, trigger and filter conditions, date formatting, JSON schemas, an Adaptive Card builder, a flow error handler, and more, all running in your browser. Pick your inputs, copy the result into your flow.

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Written by someone who has to explain this for a living

Simone Palmer-Thompson is a Microsoft AI and Power Platform Solutions Architect: Agentic AI Architect (AB-100), Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Power Platform Functional Consultant (PL-200). Current work spans Dynamics 365 and Dataverse architecture, Copilot Studio multi-agent design, and building Power Platform governance frameworks for large public-sector environments.

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THE FIRST FIVE POSTS

Origin ·

What is FlowNarrate?

Why automation logic deserves to be told as clearly as it was built.

Flow Narration · Coming soon

Narrating a real approval flow, step by step

A moderately complex flow, documented the way it should have been from day one.

Opinion · Coming soon

5 Power Automate mistakes I see constantly as an MCT

Patterns that show up in nearly every training cohort.

Certification Corner · Coming soon

AB-100: what the exam actually tests

Grounded in what shows up in practice, not just the objectives list.

D365 Explainer · Coming soon

The D365 feature everyone configures wrong

A commonly misunderstood setting, narrated plainly.