Comparison · App and agent builders
Curiosity and OutSystems
Custom software, or tools on your context
Curiosity builds tools on a context graph; OutSystems is a platform for developing applications.
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.
OutSystems
A low code platform for building and running enterprise applications and agents, with AI assistance for developers. It suits organizations replacing or extending core systems with custom software built by development teams.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
OutSystems is built for applications a development team owns for years. Studio is built for the question a team has this week, answered by a tool grounded in records you already have.
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
Vendor cloud or self-managed
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Modeled application data
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Enterprise application development
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Integrations per application
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Vendor regions
Customization
What your team can change
Your own code, interface, data model and configuration. OutSystems 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
C# external libraries, exposed as server actions
Your own interface
Your own front end in C#, deployed from git
Visual app builder for web and mobile UI
Data model
Typed node and edge schemas you define
Entities and relationships in the app model
Configuration as code
Every change committed to git, pushed to your remote
No git, DevOps APIs feed external CI/CD tools
APIs and SDKs
REST API, C# and Python library, connector SDK
App REST APIs, DevOps APIs, External Libraries SDK
AI integration
What AI can build and reach
Whether AI can build on it, who reviews the result, and which models it runs. OutSystems as its own documentation described it in October 2026.
AI that builds
Sudo drafts endpoints, tools, schemas and screens
Mentor generates apps from a prompt, edits in IDE
Review before it applies
Every change a diff a person approves, in a sandbox
Mentor in IDE applies changes after plan approval
Model choice
Any major provider, or an OpenAI compatible endpoint
Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Bedrock, custom models
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
Not available
Agent protocols
MCP server and an OpenAI compatible API
MCP server for coding agents, A2A connector
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
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