Dust (Paris, 2022), founded by alumni of OpenAI and Stripe, is one of Europe's references for enterprise AI agents: the platform plugs into your tools (Notion, Slack, Drive, Microsoft 365...) and your teams build specialised assistants per role, with the AI model of their choice. Thousands of organisations use it, including well-known French scale-ups.
Dust and the AIOS are two French answers to the same question (putting AI to work on company data), for two different audiences. Dust equips teams that want to build their agents. The AIOS hands a business owner a digital employee already built, configured on their use cases, on a server that belongs to them alone.
The comparison at a glance
| Criterion | AIOS | Dust |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | A complete digital employee, delivered configured | A platform to build your own agents per role |
| Who it is for | Owners of small businesses, no technical team | Mid-size companies and scale-ups with hands-on teams |
| Who configures | The AIOS team, with you, during the trial | Your teams (agent creation, connecting sources) |
| Model | One system with a shared business memory | Specialised agents per use case, multiplied |
| Hosting | Dedicated server per client, in France | SaaS cloud (dedicated option reserved for large accounts) |
| Proactivity | Acts alone: follow-ups, monitoring, reports, scheduled work | Agents mostly summoned on demand by the teams |
| Human support | Onboarding, 1h of training, ongoing support | Depends on the plan; product designed self-service |
| Billing | Fixed monthly subscription per company, 7-day trial | Per seat, with credit consumption based on usage |
When to choose Dust
- You are a mid-size company or scale-up with teams ready to build and administer their agents
- Your central need is a knowledge assistant plugged into a large internal corpus (Notion, Slack, Drive)
- You want to pick the AI model of each agent yourself and iterate finely
When to choose the AIOS
- You run a small business and nobody has time to build agents
- You want proactivity: a system that chases, monitors and produces without being asked
- You value a dedicated server from day one and a human configuring everything with you
Our verdict
Dust is a great platform, and for a well-staffed mid-size company that wants to build its fleet of agents, it is an excellent French choice. The AIOS answers another need: the business owner who wants to build nothing at all, and expects an operational digital employee within the first week.
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