Dust Freemium

Dust is a platform for building internal AI assistants that answer from your company’s own data. You connect sources like Slack, Notion, Google Drive and databases, then compose assistants that retrieve, reason and act through tools.

What is Dust?

Dust, made by the Paris-based company of the same name, sits somewhere between a chatbot builder and an agent framework. Non-engineers can assemble an assistant from blocks; engineers can add custom tools and call the API. It hosts models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral.

The target is internal knowledge — the stuff that lives in a mess of drives and chat threads.

Product Features

• Connectors: Slack, Notion, Google Drive, Confluence, GitHub, Intercom and more.
• Agent blocks: chain retrieval, reasoning and tool calls visually.
• Multi-model: pick OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Mistral per assistant.
• Shared workspace: assistants are discoverable by the whole team.
• API and SDK: embed assistants into other apps.
• Permissions: respects source-system access so people only see what they should.

Product Highlights

• Bridges the gap between no-code builders and developer frameworks.
• Permission-aware retrieval cuts down on data leaks.
• Free tier for small teams; paid plans add seats and connectors.
• EU data hosting options matter for European companies.

Who should use Dust, and who should not?

Mid-size companies drowning in scattered docs get the clearest win. Tiny teams may find a plain ChatGPT with a few uploaded files is enough and cheaper. If you need deep, custom retrieval logic, a developer framework like LangChain or LlamaIndex gives more rope — Dust trades some flexibility for speed of setup.

Use Cases

• An internal assistant that answers HR policy questions.
• Onboarding buddy that knows your codebase and wikis.
• Support triage that reads past Intercom threads.
• A sales assistant that pulls from CRM notes.
• Research helper that summarizes internal reports.

Quick Summary

• Dust builds internal AI assistants on top of your company data.
• It connects Slack, Notion, Drive, Confluence, GitHub and more.
• Non-engineers can build; developers can extend via API.
• Permission-aware retrieval is a core feature.
• Free tier for small teams; paid plans scale seats and sources.