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Glean

Work AI for all. The Work AI platform connected to all your data. Find, create, and automate anything.

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Founded

2019

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Employees

1,276

Funding

$150M Series F

Glean Company Dossier

Overview

**Glean** is an enterprise-grade Work AI platform that connects to all your company data to deliver permission-aware search, contextual Q&A, and agent-driven automation. The platform unifies **enterprise search**, an **AI assistant**, and a no-code **Agent Builder** to help teams find, create, and automate work with accuracy and scale. Learn more at the [Glean website](https://glean.com).

  • Founded in 2019; HQ in Palo Alto, CA
  • Focus: accuracy, governance, and scale for mid-market and enterprise
  • Integrates with 100+ business apps; permission-aware across data sources
  • Latest funding: Series F $150M at a ~$7.2B valuation
  • What Glean Does

  • **Enterprise Search:** Unified, permission-aware retrieval across tools with source-linked answers .
  • **AI Assistant:** Contextual Q&A grounded in your company data; provides citations for trust.
  • **AI Agents:** Plan tasks, retrieve knowledge, and execute actions via connectors .
  • **No-Code Agent Builder:** Start from natural language or templates; refine on a drag-and-drop canvas; govern and share agents at scale .
  • Core approach: combines high-relevance retrieval with grounded generation so responses are backed by verifiable sources.

    AI Agents and Agent Builder

  • Build methods: start with a natural-language spec or quickstart templates, then refine visually—no code required .
  • Orchestration and actions: agents plan tasks, search across connected data, and take actions in tools via connectors .
  • Evaluation at scale: practical guidance for testing, rollout, and sharing .
  • Programmatic access: agents created in the UI are accessible via APIs/SDKs .
  • Templates and starter kits: dozens of prebuilt agents and patterns for common workflows .
  • Help Center: concepts and how‑tos for building, permissions, and governance .
  • Integrations

  • 100+ native and API-based connectors, plus browser-history options .
  • Common systems: Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, Zendesk, Trello .
  • Admin quickstart for connecting data sources and mapping permissions .
  • Security and Governance

  • Permission-aware by design: results and actions always reflect source app ACLs .
  • Governance for agents: evaluation guidance, sharing controls, and best practices for enterprise rollout .
  • Who It’s For

  • CIOs, IT, and knowledge managers needing secure, permission-aware AI across complex SaaS stacks
  • Operations, Support, Sales Enablement, and Engineering leaders seeking faster answers and agent-driven automation
  • Mid-market and enterprise organizations with compliance requirements and diverse knowledge systems
  • High-Value Use Cases

  • Companywide knowledge search with source-linked, trustworthy answers
  • Onboarding and enablement assistants for policies, specs, and SOPs
  • Support deflection: triage and resolve requests via agent workflows
  • Engineering search across GitHub/GitLab, Jira, and Confluence
  • Sales and customer success prep across Slack, CRM, documents, and meeting notes
  • Finance and operations knowledge retrieval across Drive, email, and ticketing tools
  • Explore examples in the [AI Agents product page](https://www.glean.com/product/ai-agents), the [evaluation guide](https://www.glean.com/blog/enterprise-agent-evaluation-guide), and [customer stories](https://www.glean.com/resources/customer-stories).

    Pricing and Free Trial

  • Pricing: sales-led; no public price list .
  • Third-party estimates suggest ~$25–$50+ per user/month as directional only .
  • Trial motion: demo- and pilot-driven; no self-serve enterprise trial listed .
  • Customer Sentiment Snapshot

    Pros

  • Ease of use and fast time-to-value; connects with existing apps .
  • High relevance and permission-aware results with helpful summaries .
  • Strong UX vs. legacy search; high “Ease of Use” scores .
  • Broad connector coverage; “just works” with common SaaS .
  • Cons

  • Pricing opacity and total-cost clarity requests .
  • Agent action depth still maturing per community anecdotes .
  • Enterprise rollout requires careful permissions mapping and change management .
  • Mixed anecdotes on sales process in community threads .
  • See the primary listing on [G2 for Glean Technologies](https://www.g2.com/products/glean-technologies-glean/reviews) (not to be confused with Glean.ai).

    Competitors and Comparisons

  • Alternatives considered: Moveworks, Coveo, Guru, Microsoft Copilot, Google Cloud Search.
  • Market comparisons: [G2 comparisons](https://www.g2.com/compare/glean-technologies-glean-vs-google-cloud-search), [SelectHub overview (Moveworks vs. Glean)](https://www.selecthub.com/ai-agent-builder-software/moveworks-vs-glean-com/).
  • Company Facts

  • Founders: Arvind Jain, T.R. Ramarao, Tony Gentilcore, Piyush Prahladka
  • Employees: 1,000+ (LinkedIn range); 157K+ followers
  • LinkedIn: [Glean company profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gleanwork)
  • Recent News and Launches

  • Series F: $150M at ~$7.2B valuation .
  • Agents launch: horizontal agent platform and no-code builder .
  • Ongoing guidance and research: [agent evaluation guide](https://www.glean.com/blog/enterprise-agent-evaluation-guide), [agent resources hub](https://www.glean.com/resources/guides/agents).
  • Resources

  • Product: [AI Agents](https://www.glean.com/product/ai-agents), [Agent Builder](https://www.glean.com/product/agent-builder)
  • Docs: [Agents overview (developers)](https://developers.glean.com/guides/agents/overview), [Agent Builder concepts](https://docs.glean.com/agents/concepts/agent-builder)
  • Connectors: [catalog](https://www.glean.com/connectors), [docs home](https://docs.glean.com/connectors/home)
  • Customer stories: [case studies hub](https://www.glean.com/resources/customer-stories)
  • Demo and pilots: [request a demo](https://www.glean.com/get-a-demo)
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