Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking

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 ...