AI platform Dust 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 startup 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. 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. The shift toward AI agents that can take real actions across business systems introduces new security complexities that didn’t exist with simple chatbot implementations. Dust addresses this through a “native permissioning layer” that separates data access rights from agent usage rights. The company implements enterprise-grade infrastructure with Anthropic’s Zero Data Retention policies, ensuring that sensitive business information processed by AI agents isn’t stored by the model provider.