Comparison · App and agent builders
Curiosity and Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Apps
Agents for the suite, or tools for the plant
Curiosity builds tools on your whole industrial estate; Copilot Studio and Power Apps build agents and apps inside Microsoft 365.
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.
Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Apps
Microsoft’s low code tools on the Power Platform: Copilot Studio builds agents and extends Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Power Apps builds forms, approvals and line of business apps on Dataverse. Both use the Power Platform connector library, run in the Microsoft cloud and suit organizations standardized on Microsoft.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
If the knowledge an agent needs is in Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio is the shortest path to one, and Power Apps is good at the form and the approval. Industrial knowledge usually also lives outside the suite, in ticket systems, file shares and engineering tools with permissions of their own. Studio builds on those records once they are connected.
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
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
Microsoft cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Agents and apps on Microsoft 365 and Dataverse
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Organizations standardized on Microsoft
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Microsoft 365 and Power Platform connectors
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Microsoft regions
Customization
What your team can change
Your own code, interface, data model and configuration. Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Apps 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
Power Fx, C# plugins, TypeScript components, code apps
Your own interface
Your own front end in C#, deployed from git
Canvas and model driven apps, React code apps
Data model
Typed node and edge schemas you define
Dataverse tables, columns and relationships
Configuration as code
Every change committed to git, pushed to your remote
Dataverse Git integration with Azure DevOps or GitHub
APIs and SDKs
REST API, C# and Python library, connector SDK
Dataverse Web API, .NET and Python SDKs, connectors
AI integration
What AI can build and reach
Whether AI can build on it, who reviews the result, and which models it runs. Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Apps as its own documentation described it in October 2026.
AI that builds
Sudo drafts endpoints, tools, schemas and screens
Copilot builds apps, data models and agents from prompts
Review before it applies
Every change a diff a person approves, in a sandbox
Maker accepts suggestions, agent goes live on publish
Model choice
Any major provider, or an OpenAI compatible endpoint
OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Mistral, Foundry models for prompts
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
SharePoint answers trimmed to the signed in user
Agent protocols
MCP server and an OpenAI compatible API
MCP client, A2A client, Dataverse MCP server
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
App and agent builders
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