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Dust calls itself the operating system for AI agents: multiplayer, governed, enterprise-shaped. Colie is the other end of the same movement: describe a job in a prompt and review finished work the same day.
Updated July 16, 2026
You want agents on real jobs this week: one prompt, your tools connected, finished work the same day, and quality that climbs every week after. No rollout project.
You are an enterprise standardizing agent fleets across departments, and your requirements start with SSO, SCIM, and single tenancy.
| Dimension | Colie | Dust |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | One chat prompt; first finished run the same day. | Admin-led setup of Spaces, Pods, agents, and permissions. |
| Approvals and provenance | Approval gates where you choose, full traces, append-only audit trail. | Org-level governance and access controls. |
| How learning works | Drafts improvements with evidence; you approve what sticks. | Self-improving skills that update on an automatic schedule. |
| Finished work products | The outcome arrives in your tools, ready to review. | A multiplayer platform your team builds and operates on. |
| Execution depth | Browser with human takeover, sandboxed code, file processing, per-agent database. | Connected data, MCP tools, and multi-agent orchestration. |
| Build your own apps | Prompt apps: live two-way tools wired to your real data. | Frames: shareable generated interfaces. |
| Multiplayer work state | Shared workspaces pool agents, connections, and knowledge. | Persistent Pods where people and agents co-edit durable projects. |
| Enterprise governance depth | Roles, managed workspace access, audit trail. | SSO, SCIM, custom retention, single-tenant deployment. |
| Model choice | Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, routed per job, with an intelligence dial. | Multiple providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral. |
Based on public product information · July 16, 2026 · Products change quickly; check Dust's site for their latest
An operating system is something you deploy, configure, and govern. That fits a thousand-person company where IT owns the rollout.
Most teams have five recurring jobs eating their week and want an agent on each by Friday. Colie is built for that motion: a prompt, the tools, a schedule, a finished run to review.
Governance usually means access control. The operational questions go further: what exactly ran, who approved the output, and what changed the agent since last month.
Colie answers all three natively: full traces, gates where you set them, and improvements that land with your sign-off. Dust updates its skills on an automatic schedule; Colie asks first.
For enterprise deployment, Dust wins: single tenancy, SSO and SCIM, retention policy, and true multiplayer Pods where humans and agent fleets share durable context. If your rollout involves a security review and four departments, Dust belongs on the shortlist.
Dust is an enterprise operating system for governing fleets of agents. Colie is a self-serve command center: prompt to finished, traceable agent work the same day, with learning you sign off on.
Dust updates skills on an automatic schedule. Colie drafts each improvement with evidence and you approve what sticks, so you can audit exactly what your agent learned and who signed it off.
Colie connects 3,000 plus tools, reaches any HTTP API or MCP server including internal systems, and shares workspace knowledge with every agent. Dust goes deeper on governed, organization-wide data architecture.
When you are standardizing agents across an enterprise and your requirements start with SSO, SCIM, retention, and tenancy rather than time to first outcome.
Describe the job in a prompt, connect your tools, and review the first finished run today.