askmii vs Dust: vertical, sovereign AI vs horizontal enterprise platform
The short answer: Dust is a horizontal, multiplayer enterprise platform where teams build their own AI agents on top of 50+ connectors — a powerful toolbox. askmii is a vertical AI that already understands your industry, runs on infrastructure you own, and is onboarded and maintained for you. Dust gives you the workshop; askmii delivers the finished, specialised brain.
At a glance
| Dimension | askmii | Dust |
|---|---|---|
| Specialisation | Vertical — knows your industry day one | Horizontal — generic, you configure per team |
| Hosting | On infrastructure you own (data sovereignty) | Managed multi-tenant SaaS workspace |
| Who builds the agents | We do — onboarded and maintained for you | Your teams, no-code, themselves |
| Models | Multi-LLM orchestrated (Claude, GPT, Perplexity) | Model-flexible within the platform |
| Knowledge capture | Proactive interview extracts tacit know-how | Connect tools; you assemble context |
| Best fit | One vertical brain, run for you | A company-wide agent-building toolbox |
Where Dust is genuinely strong
Dust is a mature, well-funded horizontal platform: a polished multiplayer experience, 50+ business connectors, no-code agent building, MCP support, and broad adoption across thousands of organisations. For an enterprise that wants to empower many teams to build their own assistants, Dust is an excellent choice — and we say so plainly.
Where askmii is different
- Vertical, not horizontal — askmii ships understanding your industry (VC, family office, healthcare, banking, CRM) on day one, instead of a blank workspace you configure.
- Sovereign — deployed on infrastructure you own; your data stays in your perimeter, not a shared SaaS workspace.
- Done-for-you — onboarded, pre-loaded and maintained by our team, including a proactive interview that captures the tacit know-how that lives in people's heads, not just in connected tools.
- Multi-LLM — askmii orchestrates several models and absorbs new ones as they ship.
Both are "managed" — the real choice is horizontal toolbox (Dust) versus vertical, sovereign, done-for-you brain (askmii). See the FAQ or the category comparison.