Comparison · App and agent builders
Curiosity and Salesforce Agentforce
The customer record, or the engineering record
Curiosity builds agents on industrial records; Agentforce builds agents on customer 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.
Salesforce Agentforce
Salesforce’s platform for AI agents in sales, service and marketing, grounded in CRM records and Data 360. It runs on Salesforce’s cloud and suits organizations whose customer processes live in Salesforce.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
If the agent’s work is the customer relationship, Agentforce sits where that data is. Industrial questions reach past the CRM into part data, maintenance logs and supplier notices, which is the graph Studio builds on.
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
Salesforce cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Agents on CRM and Data 360
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Sales, service and marketing
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Salesforce and Data 360 sources
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Salesforce regions
Customization
What your team can change
Your own code, interface, data model and configuration. Salesforce Agentforce 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
Apex and Lightning Web Components, run in Salesforce
Your own interface
Your own front end in C#, deployed from git
Lightning App Builder and custom LWC components
Data model
Typed node and edge schemas you define
Custom objects, fields and relationships
Configuration as code
Every change committed to git, pushed to your remote
Salesforce DX source, DevOps Center with GitHub
APIs and SDKs
REST API, C# and Python library, connector SDK
REST, SOAP and Bulk APIs, Salesforce CLI
AI integration
What AI can build and reach
Whether AI can build on it, who reviews the result, and which models it runs. Salesforce Agentforce as its own documentation described it in October 2026.
AI that builds
Sudo drafts endpoints, tools, schemas and screens
Agentforce Vibes generates Apex and LWC from prompts
Review before it applies
Every change a diff a person approves, in a sandbox
Plan Mode approval and inline diff review
Model choice
Any major provider, or an OpenAI compatible endpoint
OpenAI and Anthropic models, BYOLLM via Einstein Studio
Models on your servers
Open weights on your servers, or air gapped
Your own endpoint via LLM Open Connector
Assistant permissions
Built in tools search as the user, per record
Employee agents use the user's permissions
Agent protocols
MCP server and an OpenAI compatible API
Hosted MCP servers, agents callable through MCP
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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CompareYour data. Your infrastructure.