Comparison · Industrial AI
Curiosity and AVEVA and Cognite
Operational data, or the whole record
Curiosity connects every industrial record; AVEVA and Cognite contextualize operational data.
Your data · your environment
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.
AVEVA and Cognite
Cognite Data Fusion is an industrial DataOps platform with a knowledge graph of assets, time series, events, documents and 3D models, and Atlas AI for building agents on it. Schneider Electric agreed in June 2026 to acquire Cognite and combine it with AVEVA, its industrial software business. Both are strong in energy, utilities and process industries, delivered mainly as cloud services.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
Cognite and AVEVA are very good at putting sensor and asset data in context. Curiosity is broader in what it connects (tickets, supplier notices, email, engineering change orders), runs on your own infrastructure and sits outside any one automation vendor.
Every record, not only plant data
Sensor and asset data tell you what happened. The tickets, part records, supplier notices and field reports around them tell you why. Curiosity joins both.
Across vendors, not inside one
A plant runs systems from many suppliers. Curiosity connects them into one graph rather than adding intelligence to one vendor’s applications.
Tools your teams describe
Studio builds the app, dashboard or agent from a sentence, on the connected data, so a new tool is not a new project.
Side by side
Feature comparison
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
Vendor cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Industrial knowledge graph of assets
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Energy, utilities, process industries
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
OT, IT and engineering data
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Vendor cloud regions
Customization
What your team can change
Your own code, interface, data model and configuration. AVEVA and Cognite as its own documentation described it in October 2026. Where it says Not available, the vendor documents no such capability.
Your own code
C# endpoints, AI tools and tasks, compiled in Studio
Python in Cognite Functions, hosted in CDF
Your own interface
Your own front end in C#, deployed from git
Flows React custom apps, Streamlit apps, Canvas
Data model
Typed node and edge schemas you define
Containers, views and data models, property graph
Configuration as code
Every change committed to git, pushed to your remote
Cognite Toolkit YAML modules, CI/CD pipelines
APIs and SDKs
REST API, C# and Python library, connector SDK
REST API, Python and JavaScript SDKs
AI integration
What AI can build and reach
Whether AI can build on it, who reviews the result, and which models it runs. AVEVA and Cognite as its own documentation described it in October 2026.
AI that builds
Sudo drafts endpoints, tools, schemas and screens
Builder skills guide coding agents through Flows apps
Review before it applies
Every change a diff a person approves, in a sandbox
Apps deploy as drafts, then signing and certification
Model choice
Any major provider, or an OpenAI compatible endpoint
Azure OpenAI, Google and AWS models by region
Models on your servers
Open weights on your servers, or air gapped
Not available
Assistant permissions
Built in tools search as the user, per record
Industrial MCP uses the signed in user's permissions
Agent protocols
MCP server and an OpenAI compatible API
Industrial MCP server for MCP clients
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
Industrial AI
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