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Dust, a two-year-old artificial intelligence platform that helps enterprises build AI agents capable of completing entire business workflows, has reached $6 million in annual revenue — a six-fold increase from $1 million just one year ago. The company’s rapid growth signals a shift in enterprise AI adoption from simple chatbots toward sophisticated systems that can take concrete actions across business applications.
The San Francisco-based startup announced Thursday that it has been selected as part of Anthropic’s “Powered by Claude” ecosystem, highlighting a new category of AI companies building specialized enterprise tools on top of frontier language models rather than developing their own AI systems from scratch.
“Users want more than just conversational interfaces,” said Gabriel Hubert, CEO and co-founder of Dust, in an interview with VentureBeat. “Instead of generating a draft, they want to create the actual document automatically. Rather than getting meeting summaries, they need CRM records updated without manual intervention.”
Dust’s platform goes far beyond the chatbot-style AI tools that dominated early enterprise adoption. Instead of simply answering questions, Dust’s AI agents can automatically create GitHub issues, schedule calendar meetings, update customer records, and even push code reviews based on internal coding standards–all while maintaining enterprise-grade security protocols.
How AI agents turn sales calls into automated GitHub tickets and CRM updates
The company’s approach becomes clear through a concrete example Hubert described: a business-to-business sales company using multiple Dust agents to process sales call transcripts. One agent analyzes which sales arguments resonated with prospects and automatically updates battle cards in Salesforce. Simultaneously, another agent identifies customer feature requests, maps them to the product roadmap, and in some cases, automatically generates G …