Dust is where you build the assistant. Fasrad is the assistant, already working.

Building an assistant vs. having one

You wire up the data sources, define the assistant and pick the model. That's the Dust workflow, and it's a strong platform for technical teams that want custom AI assistants connected to Notion, Slack, GitHub and internal docs. The people doing that work are usually developers or ops engineers who enjoy it, and Dust gives them real control over context and which data the model can see.

Fasrad starts from the other end, and there's nothing to build. You name the agent and give it a personality. It comes with a dedicated email inbox, a Google Calendar, Sheets and Drive and a CRM, and it can browse the web and call any REST API. When a question about your data comes up, it drafts the reply, books the slot and files the contact. It sends the follow-up next Tuesday because you told it to in plain English.

So the real question is who acts once the model has an answer. With Dust, the assistant surfaces context and you act on it. With Fasrad, the agent holds the inbox and calendar, does the acting itself and reports back.

Where the line falls:

• Who it's for. Dust is built for technical teams that want fine-grained data permissions, audit and a managed assistant to hand to a whole company. Fasrad is built for one person or a small team who wants the work done.
• Reach. Dust ships a fixed catalog of native connectors. Fasrad connects to Notion, Slack and GitHub through their APIs, plus anything else with a REST endpoint, so a prebuilt list never caps its reach.
• Day one. Fasrad ships with its own inbox, calendar and CRM and acts on them, with no integration project to stand up first.
• Channels. Fasrad runs on web, Telegram, email and a public embed, and it works on its own schedule between your messages.

Pick Fasrad if you're one person or a small team and want an agent that already handles the outbound, the booking and the follow-through, with nothing for you to build.

Related pages in this workflow

Buyers usually compare these adjacent jobs before choosing an AI agent.

• AI Personal Assistant: Your calendar, your follow-ups and your morning brief, run by an assistant with its own inbox. You stop being your own secretary.
• AI Virtual Assistant: An assistant that does the work: your inbox or one of its own, a connected calendar, your meetings booked, and the replies you’d forget chased down.
• AI Booking Bot for Websites: Turns a website visitor into a booked meeting: it qualifies the request, offers real availability, books your calendar, and hands you the notes.
• AI Website Chatbot for Your Site: It answers from your real pages, captures the lead, and books the meeting, so you get a customer instead of a transcript.
• AI Cold Outreach Agent: Personalizes cold email at volume without burning your domain, books the replies, and leaves you the meetings.
• AI Research Analyst: Hand it a question and a deadline, get a brief that shows its work: figures, links, and the page each number came from.
• Notion Alternative: Notion is brilliant storage, and someone still has to dig through it. Fasrad reads every page and answers from the right doc while your tabs stay closed.
• Calendly Alternative That Reads & Replies: A booking link can’t read the email it’s pasted into. Fasrad can. It proposes the slot that fits, books it and briefs you before you walk in.

Frequently asked questions

Isn't Dust the same thing, an AI agent over my data?

No. Dust is a platform to build assistants connected to your company data, usually set up by technical people. Fasrad is the finished agent. You don't connect sources or pick a model. It comes with its own inbox, calendar, CRM and web access, and it acts on them.

How does Fasrad compare on governance and native connectors?

Dust is built for fine-grained data permissions, audit trails, native connectors to Notion, Slack and GitHub, and a managed assistant for a whole technical org. Fasrad reaches external systems through web browse and REST calls, which covers anything with an API. It ships with its own inbox, calendar and CRM that it acts on, so there's no platform for you to administer.

Can Fasrad connect to my internal tools?

Yes. It can call any REST API with custom auth and browse the web, including JavaScript-heavy pages, so most systems with an API are reachable. That includes internal knowledge bases, through their APIs.

Do I need to be technical to set Fasrad up?

No. You describe what you want in plain language, with no flow builder, prompt engineering or deployment. Setup is about four minutes, and it's in public beta.

Where does the agent run?

On the web at fasrad.com/chat, as a private Telegram bot, over its own email inbox and as a public embed chatbot on your site. It's the same agent and memory across all of them.

How much does it cost?

Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. It's in public beta, and setup takes about four minutes, so there's no integration project to fund first.