Dust and Artefact partner to bring governed AI agents into daily work
November 3, 2026
Artefact and Dust help enterprises move beyond AI experimentation and change how their people and organizations work.
Paris, November 3rd 2026 - Today, Dust announces that Artefact, a global consulting and engineering firm specializing in data and AI services, is now an official Dust partner. Artefact helps companies manage the human, organizational, and skills impact of AI at scale. Dust provides a platform where teams build and deploy agents connected to their company data and tools, bringing people and agents together in shared workflows. Together, Artefact and Dust help enterprises turn AI ambition into practical, governed adoption.
From AI experimentation to transformation
Many organizations are experimenting with AI, but few have changed how their teams actually work. Closing that gap requires more than technology: it takes a clear approach to identifying opportunities, managing risks, governing data access, and helping teams integrate reliable solutions into their daily work.
Together Artefact and Dust help organizations solve this gap. Artefact supports organizations from strategy and use-case discovery through governance design, team enablement, and hands-on delivery. Dust provides the platform with multi-model flexibility, native integrations, and enterprise security and administration controls, allowing organizations to set strict permissions for data, tools, systems, and agents.
The partnership is already delivering results at Bpifrance, France’s public investment bank.
“Our experience with Dust at Bpifrance marks the starting point of a partnership rich in opportunities. We believe in the platform’s potential and its ability to democratize agentic AI for our clients.”— Fabrice Henry, Group COO at Artefact
"Artefact goes after the hardest part of AI: transforming how people and organizations work. That ambition is in Dust's DNA. Bpifrance was the first proof of what we can do together."— Thibault Martin, Head of Partnerships at Dust
A proven model at Bpifrance
The partnership combines Artefact’s transformation and delivery expertise with Dust’s collaborative AI platform. Together they’ve given Bpifrance the tools to solve real problems while maintaining the governance, security, and oversight needed to scale responsibly.
Working seamlessly together, Artefact, Bpifrance, and Dust established a governance framework in under four weeks, covering license attribution, agent risk classification, and connector governance. The deployment now spans 500 licenses across Bpifrance’s business lines, with more than 1,500 agents created in just a few months.
“The challenge is not to do AI for AI’s sake. With Dust, we enable bottom-up innovation: business teams themselves build their own agents, connected to their data and tools. Our role, with Artefact’s support, is to identify the most promising use cases, make them robust, and industrialize them.”— Pierre Jarrijon, Head of AI Acceleration at Bpifrance
Bpifrance is now moving toward more complex use cases, deeper integrations, and MCP-based connections, with Artefact continuing to support builder enablement and agent performance monitoring.
About Artefact
Artefact is a global consulting and engineering firm specializing in data and AI services, headquartered in Paris, and a leader in Europe. We are present in 27 countries across all continents with a team of 2,500 employees. Artefact offers the most comprehensive set of AI & data solutions per industry, built on deep data science and cutting-edge AI technologies, delivering AI projects at scale in all industry sectors. From strategy to operations, we partner with 1000+ clients, including some of the world’s top 300 brands.
About Dust
Dust is the multiplayer AI platform for human-agent collaboration. It gives companies a shared workspace where teams can build, deploy, and manage AI agents connected to their company knowledge, tools, and workflows. With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done.
