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title: "Versus an enterprise search assistant"
description: "A category comparison: OCTOPUS versus an enterprise search assistant."
url: "https://docs.octo.ad/compare/enterprise-search/"
id: "compare/enterprise-search"
type: "concept"
audience: "operator"
dateModified: "2026-11-06"
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# Versus an enterprise search assistant

> A category comparison: OCTOPUS versus an enterprise search assistant.

Search assistants find documents and summarize them. OCTOPUS keeps what the organization knows as a typed, linked knowledge graph that persists and compounds, so answers carry their relationships and sources. It also acts: agents do real work behind a governance plane, and consequential decisions go to a person on the record.