Comparison
A modern alternative
to Appian
Curiosity builds tools on your connected records; Appian automates processes.
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
Appian
A process automation platform with low code development, case management and AI agents, used heavily in financial services and the public sector for regulated workflows. Its strength is orchestrating the steps of a process.
How Curiosity compares
Orchestrating a process, or grounding a decision
Appian runs the steps of a regulated process well. Studio supplies what a step needs to be decided correctly: the records behind it, connected across systems and filtered by who is asking.
Grounded, not guessed
A tool Studio builds runs on the graph, so every figure it shows traces back to a record in a source system.
Your permissions, inherited
A generated tool cannot show a user anything the source system would not already show them, down to the individual record.
From prompt to production
The tool ships to real users with an audit trail, not as a prototype someone has to rebuild before it goes live.
Runs on your infrastructure
On premises or in your private cloud, with the language model you choose.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Curiosity | Appian | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Vendor cloud or self-managed |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | Process and case data |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Financial services, public sector |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | Integrations per process |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Vendor regions |
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
Services Innovation Team
Airline Services at Airbus
Your data. Your infrastructure.