Dust is a serious platform for teams that want to build their own AI agents. Zenning AI is an AI employee that works out of the box — with meeting notes, live integrations on every plan, and automations included.
Zenning AI is an all-in-one AI platform with an AI employee that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams. It connects to your business tools, searches across everything your team uses, takes notes in your meetings, and runs automations triggered by real-world events.
Dust is a Paris-based "multiplayer AI" platform where teams build custom agents connected to company data, used from its own app with Slack and Teams surfaces.
Zenning AI and Dust, side by side.
| Feature | Zenning AI | Dust |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Zenning AIYes: All-in-one AI platform: an AI employee in Slack and Teams, plus AI workspaces, enterprise search, a meeting note taker, and a no-code AI Employee builder. | DustPartly: Platform for building custom AI agents connected to company data — powerful, but you assemble the agents yourself. |
| Where it lives | Zenning AIYes: Inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, where your team already works. | DustYes: Its own web app first, with genuine Slack (channels) and Microsoft Teams bots. |
| Integrations | Zenning AIYes: Connects to your business tools through the App Directory with one-click OAuth and real read/write access. | DustPartly: Broad connector catalog plus MCP — but self-serve plans are capped at 3 connectors; unlimited is Enterprise-only. |
| Enterprise search | Zenning AIYes: Built in. Ask one question and get answers across every connected app and file. | DustYes: Core product — genuine enterprise search across connected sources. |
| AI Employee builder | Zenning AIYes: Build AI employees that trigger on external events — new leads, inbound email, schedules, webhooks — and run the work end to end. | DustPartly: Scheduled and webhook-triggered agents, though building reliable ones takes real effort and email or lead triggers are not documented. |
| Meeting note taker | Zenning AIYes: Built in. Joins your calls, captures notes and action items, and shares them with the team. | DustNo: No built-in notetaker that joins calls — it ingests transcripts from tools like Meet, Gong, or third-party notetakers. |
| Deliverables | Zenning AIYes: Reports, documents, and full web apps via the AI Site Builder. | DustPartly: Interactive reports and dashboards via Frames, but no deployed web apps or sites. |
| Memory | Zenning AIYes: Persistent company memory shared across the whole workspace. | DustPartly: Private per-user, per-agent memory; no shared company memory. |
| Automation | Zenning AIYes: Both scheduled jobs and event-triggered workflows run automatically without manual prompting. | DustYes: Scheduled agents and webhook triggers are genuinely supported. |
| Team features | Zenning AIYes: One shared AI employee for the whole workspace with shared context, memory, and automations. | DustYes: Strong shared workspaces, spaces, and role-based access. |
| Actions | Zenning AIYes: Takes real actions across connected tools, not just suggestions. | DustYes: Real write actions across connected tools and MCP servers. |
| Security | Zenning AIYes: Enterprise-grade security with credentials stored server-side, never exposed to the model. | DustYes: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, EU or US data residency. |
| Pricing & setup | Zenning AIYes: Free to start. Connect Slack and get going in minutes. | DustPartly: Free tier is capped at 3 connectors with lifetime credits, then per-seat pricing with credit metering; unlimited connectors require Enterprise. |
Dust is a genuinely capable platform — real Slack and Teams presence, real enterprise search, multi-model. Its trade-off is that you get building blocks: someone on your team designs, tests, and maintains each agent before it earns its keep.
Zenning arrives as a working employee. Connect Slack, link your tools, and delegate — reports, dashboards, automations, and answers work on day one without an internal agent-building project.
Dust caps self-serve plans at 3 connectors — unlimited data sources are an Enterprise feature. Zenning connects your whole stack on every plan, because an AI employee that can only see three tools is working with one eye shut.
Dust ingests transcripts produced by other tools; it has no notetaker that joins your calls. Zenning includes one — it joins the meeting, captures notes and action items, and shares them automatically, feeding the same shared company memory the rest of your AI employee uses.
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Dust is a platform where your team builds custom AI agents; it has real Slack and Teams surfaces and strong enterprise search, but self-serve plans cap connectors at 3 and there is no built-in meeting notetaker. Zenning is an AI employee that works out of the box in Slack and Teams with all integrations, search, meeting notes, and automations included.
Free to start. Connect Slack and get going in minutes.