Comparison

Stackmint vs Dust

Dust is built for internal AI assistants and knowledge work: helping teams search and work with their own documents. Stackmint builds AI operating systems that run a firm’s client work end to end, with your people approving every deliverable. They solve different problems.

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When each fits

Internal AI assistant or AI operating system.

Dust and Stackmint answer different questions. Pick the one that matches the work you need done.

  • Internal AI assistant

    Use Dust when

    • Your team needs an internal assistant for finding and using company knowledge
    • The goal is employee productivity on internal documents and conversations
    • The work stays inside the company rather than going to external clients

  • AI operating system

    Use Stackmint when

    • You sell expertise to clients and want AI specialists to do the groundwork from your playbooks
    • Nothing should reach a client until a named person approves the exact version
    • Clients should request, approve and pay in one branded portal
    • You need audit logs, kill switches and budgets on every run

Side by side

What each one is built to do.

DustStackmint
Primary jobDustInternal AI assistants and knowledge workflowsStackmintRun the firm’s client work end to end, from request to invoice
Built forDustInternal teamsStackmintFirms that sell expertise, their experts and their clients
How the work is definedDustAssistants configured by each teamStackmintAI specialists built from your playbooks, inside workflows with approval gates
Client-facing deliveryDustOutside its focusStackmintBranded client portal for requests, quotes, approvals and invoices
Record of the workDustConversation-level historyStackmintImmutable, granular audit logs of every request, decision, change and result

Governance

What an operating system adds: one governance layer.

Every Stackmint operating system runs on the same controls, so you can show clients and regulators exactly how the work was done.

Human approval before anything reaches a client

Nothing reaches a client until a named person approves the exact version.

Immutable, granular audit logs

Every request, decision, change and result is recorded. Answer any client or regulator with evidence.

Kill switches

Stop any agent or workflow at once.

Execution gateway

Agent actions run through a controlled gateway, with credentials kept server-side.

Versioned agents

Each agent, playbook and model version is pinned. No silent changes to how work gets done.

Client data isolation

Every client and matter has its own context. Documents are treated as content, never as instructions.

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