Last updated May 2026
Dashworks connects to your company's tools and makes them searchable from one place. Ask a question in plain English, get an answer grounded in your Slack messages, Google Docs, Notion pages, and GitHub repos. It's a lighter-weight Glean for smaller teams. Smart, focused, and specifically built to break down information silos.
Fabric does that too. It connects to Google Drive, Notion, Dropbox, Gmail, and more. But Fabric is also where you create, think, and build. Notes. Canvas. Annotations. Meeting transcription. Tasks. Publishing. The search goes deeper: inside PDFs, inside audio and video, by visual similarity, by colour. Dashworks is search as a product. Fabric is search as a feature inside a complete knowledge system.
Comparison table
Fabric | Dashworks | |
|---|---|---|
Pricing | Generous free plan. $5/mo Plus tier | ~$9.99/user/mo. Custom enterprise pricing. Being acquired by HubSpot |
Core model | AI-powered knowledge workspace. Search, create, think, publish | AI-powered workplace search and answer assistant. Search and retrieve |
AI | Built-in AI assistant across multiple models. Contextual to your entire library. Answers questions, summarises, transcribes, maps relationships, takes actions | AI assistant answers questions grounded in connected company data. Can draft content. Automates repetitive internal questions |
Search: text | Semantic search by meaning across all content | AI-powered search across connected apps. Natural language questions |
Search: PDF | In-document search to the exact page and paragraph | Indexes text from connected sources. No granular in-document navigation |
Search: audio/video | Search inside recordings via automatic transcription to the timestamp | No audio or video search |
Search: visual | Visual search: upload a reference image, find similar content | No visual search |
Search: colour | Colour search: find images by palette | No colour search |
Search: cross-platform | Google Drive, Notion, Dropbox, Gmail, GitHub, and more | Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, GitHub, MS Teams, Asana, Confluence, Jira, and more |
Content types | PDFs, images, video, audio, docs, links, ePubs, slides, spreadsheets, emails | Text across connected apps. No native audio, video, or image understanding |
Content creation | Full markdown editor, real-time co-editing, version history | Can draft emails, docs, social posts via AI. No native editor |
Canvas | Spatial canvas with live embeds, AI-aware, real-time multiplayer | None |
Annotations | Pinned annotations on any content type | None |
Meeting notes | Bot-free real-time transcription, AI summaries, smart meeting notes | None |
Tasks | Tasks with priority, due dates, reminders, linked to files | None |
Publishing | One-click with analytics (who viewed, when, time spent), password protection, stakeholder links | None |
Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, desktop, Chrome extension | Web, Slack, MS Teams, browser extension |
What is Dashworks?
Dashworks is an AI search and answer assistant for teams. It connects to your company's apps (Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, GitHub, MS Teams, Asana, Confluence, Jira, and others) and lets employees ask questions in plain English. The AI retrieves answers grounded in your company's actual data. It can draft content, automate responses to repetitive internal questions (claiming up to 87% automation), and serve as a centralised knowledge hub.
Pricing is approximately $9.99/user/month. HubSpot announced its acquisition of Dashworks, which may reshape the product's direction and integration ecosystem. Dashworks targets sales, support, engineering, and product teams at small-to-mid-size companies. It's positioned as a more accessible alternative to enterprise search platforms like Glean.
What is Fabric?
Fabric is an AI workspace that combines file storage, note-taking, search, tasks, collaboration, and publishing. The Fabric Memory Engine automatically extracts, enriches, and maps relationships between everything you save. Where Dashworks searches across your existing tools, Fabric searches across your existing tools and is also the place where you create, think, annotate, and publish. The search goes deeper across more content formats. The workspace goes wider with features Dashworks doesn't have.
Key differences
Search layer vs knowledge system
Dashworks is a search layer. It sits on top of your existing tools and makes them queryable from one place. Your content stays in Slack, Google Drive, Notion, and Confluence. Dashworks indexes it and answers questions about it. When the answer is found, you click through to the original tool.
Fabric is a knowledge system. Content can live in Fabric alongside connected sources. The AI understands all of it together. You can search, but you can also write, annotate, build on a canvas, transcribe meetings, manage tasks, and publish with analytics. The search isn't the product. It's one capability inside a workspace where knowledge is created and used.
Search depth
Dashworks searches text across connected apps. Natural language questions, AI-grounded answers, source citations. For finding information scattered across Slack, Docs, and Notion, it works.
Fabric's search covers more formats at greater depth:
Semantic search finds content by meaning, not just keywords.
Inside PDFs, jumping to the exact page and paragraph.
Inside audio and video via automatic transcription to the timestamp.
Visual search finds similar images across your library.
Colour search finds assets by palette.
Cross-platform search pulls from Google Drive, Notion, Dropbox, and your Fabric library from one place.
Dashworks searches text across apps. Fabric searches meaning across everything.
Connected apps
Dashworks connects to Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, GitHub, MS Teams, Asana, Confluence, Jira, and others. Its integration list is broader than Fabric's, particularly for enterprise tools like Confluence, Jira, and ServiceNow.
Fabric connects to Google Drive, Notion, Dropbox, Gmail, GitHub, Zapier, Raycast, and more via API, MCP, and CLI. Fewer enterprise connectors, but the connected content is understood more deeply and lives inside a workspace where you can work with it.
Creation
Dashworks doesn't create. Its AI can draft emails, blog posts, and social content from your company's data. But there's no notes editor, no document authoring, no spatial canvas, no annotations, no meeting transcription, no task management, no publishing.
Fabric creates. Notes and docs with real-time co-editing. A spatial canvas with live embeds (Figma, YouTube, Google Maps). Annotations pinned to any content type. Bot-free meeting transcription. Tasks with due dates and reminders. Publishing with analytics. Dashworks helps you find things. Fabric helps you find things and do something with them.
The HubSpot acquisition
HubSpot announced its acquisition of Dashworks. This introduces uncertainty about the product's independent future: pricing may change, the integration roadmap may shift toward HubSpot's ecosystem, and the standalone product may eventually be folded into HubSpot's platform. For teams evaluating Dashworks today, the acquisition is worth factoring into a long-term decision.
Fabric is an independent company with a sustainable business model.
Pricing
Dashworks at ~$9.99/user/month. A 20-person team pays ~$200/month for search across their tools. No free plan publicly available.
Fabric: generous free plan. $5/month Plus tier. No per-user pricing. The same 20-person team pays $5/month for a workspace that includes search, AI, notes, canvas, meeting transcription, tasks, and publishing.
When to use each
Use Fabric if you want search and a workspace. Your team creates knowledge in diverse formats: documents, recordings, images, PDFs, design files. You want semantic search that goes inside PDFs, audio, video, and images. You want a canvas, meeting transcription, annotations, tasks, and publishing. You want one place, not a search layer on top of many places.
Use Dashworks if your only problem is finding information across your company's existing tools. You don't need a new workspace, notes, canvas, or content creation. You want a lightweight AI search assistant that connects to Slack, Google, Notion, Confluence, and Jira and answers questions. Your team is on those enterprise tools and you want them searchable from one bar.
Why people move from Dashworks to Fabric
They wanted more than search. Dashworks finds things. It doesn't help you write, annotate, transcribe, brainstorm on a canvas, manage tasks, or publish. Fabric does all of that alongside the search.
They wanted deeper search. Text search across connected apps is useful. Search inside PDFs by paragraph, inside video by transcript, by image similarity, by colour palette, that's a different depth. Fabric's search finds things Dashworks can't.
They wanted one place, not another layer. Adding a search tool on top of Slack, Docs, Notion, and Confluence means one more tool. Fabric is the workspace where the content lives and the search is built in. Less fragmentation, not more.
The acquisition created uncertainty. HubSpot's acquisition of Dashworks raised questions about the product's independent future. Teams that wanted long-term stability evaluated alternatives.
Per-user pricing didn't scale. $9.99/user/month for search alone. Fabric's $5/month flat pricing covers search plus a complete workspace.
FAQs
Does Fabric connect to as many tools as Dashworks?
Not as many enterprise tools. Dashworks connects to Slack, Confluence, Jira, and other enterprise apps that Fabric doesn't. Fabric connects to Google Drive, Notion, Dropbox, Gmail, GitHub, and more. Fabric's advantage is deeper search across more content formats, not more connectors.
Does Dashworks search inside PDFs and video?
Dashworks searches text indexed from connected apps. It doesn't search inside PDFs by paragraph or inside video by transcript. Fabric does both.
Is Fabric free?
Generous free plan. $5/month Plus tier. No per-user pricing. Dashworks is ~$9.99/user/month.
Is Dashworks being acquired?
HubSpot announced the acquisition of Dashworks. The long-term impact on pricing, features, and independence is still unfolding. Factor this into any evaluation.
How is this different from Fabric vs Glean?
Glean is enterprise search for large organisations ($45-50/user/month, 100-seat minimums). Dashworks is AI workplace search for smaller teams (~$9.99/user/month). Fabric is a knowledge workspace with deep search built in ($5/month flat). Different scales, different scopes, same underlying gap: search-only tools don't help you create, think, or build.
Can Fabric replace Dashworks for my team?
If your team needs search across Slack, Confluence, and Jira specifically, check whether Fabric connects to those sources. If your team also needs notes, canvas, annotations, meeting transcription, tasks, and publishing, Fabric covers more ground in one tool. If search across enterprise apps is the only need, Dashworks is more focused on that.
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