SharePoint Change Explorer

[smarterbusinessflo]

Submission Name

SharePoint Change Explorer

Description

SharePoint Change Explorer turns SharePoint version history into review intelligence.

For 25 years, SharePoint has been excellent at storing document versions. But for many enterprise scenarios, version history alone was never enough. Reviewers still had to open versions manually, work out what changed, understand why it matters, and decide what needs attention before approval.

SharePoint Change Explorer closes that gap with a SharePoint-native, version-aware review experience directly inside the document library. The solution compares the current document against a previous SharePoint version, extracts structured content from the real file versions, computes deterministic changes, and then uses Azure OpenAI to explain those changes in the language of the document.

The result is a reviewer-friendly experience with grouped changes, risk indicators, multilingual summaries, and business-focused explanations instead of raw file diffs. Our core principle is simple: deterministic comparison proves, AI explains.

The solution is built with SPFx for the SharePoint user experience and Azure Functions for the comparison pipeline, using SharePoint version history, Azure Document Intelligence, and Azure OpenAI.

Beyond the library UI, the same capability is designed to be reusable in approvals, workflow actions, and persisted review metadata for document-centric processes across SharePoint.

Submission Categories

• SharePoint site
• Mobile experience
• Knowledge Agent
• Agents and SharePoint
• SharePoint Framework
• SharePoint Embedded

Project video

https://youtu.be/cUmQMInGGEk

Project Repository URL

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Team Members

smarterbusinessflo

LinkedIn Profiles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-grasel-18a25a175/

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[VesaJuvonen]

Nice implementation @smarterbusinessflo - clean experience and nice use of AI to get a human understandable summary on the changes. Definitely real use case and business value for your customers. Great work 🤩

Thank you for being part of the SharePoint Hackathon 🙏

[LuiseFreese]

Hi @smarterbusinessflo! 😊

Thank you so much for your SharePoint Hackathon submission. We truly appreciate the effort, creativity, and time you put into your solution.

My name is Luise, and I am part of the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community team, also responsible for scheduling demos for our community calls. I would love to invite you to showcase your solution in a 12-minute demo during one of our upcoming calls.

You can find more information about the community calls here: https://aka.ms/community/calls

If you are interested, please submit your demo using this form: https://aka.ms/community/request/demo

Please make sure to mention that your submission is from the SharePoint Hackathon and include your LinkedIn profile so I can reach out to you directly to coordinate the next steps. You can find me on LinkedIn here: https://linkedin.com/in/LuiseFreese

Thanks again for being part of the hackathon. Your work is awesome, and we would love to highlight it in the community!