# Should your agent use Airweave or Crustdata for context?

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Author: Ali Abouelatta (https://thelazyweb.com/authors/ali-abouelatta/)
Published: 2026-09-19
Updated: 2026-09-19
Research type: comparison
Method: Primary Airweave, Crustdata, documentation, pricing, and Y Combinator pages translated into a data-boundary matrix, labeled capacity model, and join decision tree.

Airweave and Crustdata are both trying to make agents better with data, but they solve opposite sides of the context problem. Airweave makes a company’s private tools searchable. Crustdata makes public company, people, and event data usable through APIs or MCP. The buying decision is about the data boundary, not which product has the more fashionable “agent” label.

## Start with the question your agent must answer

[Airweave’s public documentation](https://docs.airweave.ai/welcome) describes an open-source context retrieval layer that connects apps, documents, databases, and workspaces, then exposes a unified search interface to agents. Its examples include internal knowledge assistants searching tools such as Notion, Google Drive, Slack, and other connected sources. The product’s central promise is that an agent can retrieve current, source-grounded context without every application team maintaining a separate connector path.

[Should your agent use Airweave or Crustdata for context?](<https://www.thelazyweb.com/gtm/airweave-crustdata-agent-context-boundary/>)

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