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AI-powered enterprise search that finds information across all your company's apps

Glean is an enterprise search platform that uses AI to help employees find information across company applications.

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About Glean

Glean connects to various enterprise applications and uses artificial intelligence to provide unified search capabilities. The platform indexes content from tools like Slack, Google Drive, Jira, and other business software to help employees quickly locate relevant information.

Glean is an enterprise search platform designed to help organizations make their internal information more discoverable and accessible. The platform connects to dozens of popular business applications including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and many others to create a unified search experience. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand context and deliver relevant results when employees search for information. Glean's AI capabilities include natural language processing, semantic search, and personalization features that learn from user behavior to improve search accuracy over time. The system can surface documents, conversations, people, and other content types across connected applications. Glean is primarily targeted at mid-market and enterprise organizations that struggle with information silos and want to improve employee productivity. The platform includes features like customizable search interfaces, analytics dashboards for administrators, and security controls that respect existing permissions from connected applications. The company competes in the enterprise search market alongside solutions like Microsoft Viva Topics, Elasticsearch, and various knowledge management platforms. Glean differentiates itself through its AI-first approach and focus on ease of deployment across existing enterprise software stacks.

Features

AI

  • Content Creation & Summarization

    Generates content updates and deliverables, and summarizes documents, threads, and meetings on demand.

  • Glean Assistant

    A personalized AI assistant that adapts to the user and can create content, summarize documents, threads, and meetings, and analyze for insights and answers.

Automation

  • Automatic Response Communication

    Automatically generates responses to communications, reducing internal support requests such as IT and HR inquiries by up to 20%.

  • Glean Agents

    Creates and deploys AI agents to automate repetitive tasks, departmental workflows, and orchestrate processes at scale.

Core

  • Employee Onboarding Support

    Provides AI-assisted onboarding to new jobs and projects, saving an average of 36 hours per employee during onboarding.

  • Glean Search

    Searches across 100+ connected enterprise applications to find documents, messages, files, and people wherever they live.

Customization

  • Platform APIs & SDKs

    Provides APIs, SDKs, and custom plugins to extend Glean functionality into any application.

Integration

  • 100+ App Connectors

    Native, push API, and web history based connectors index content from apps including Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, and more.

Security

  • Glean Protect

    Enforces real-time permissions and access controls to ensure AI responses respect enterprise data security boundaries.

  • Permissions-Enforced Enterprise Search

    Indexes and searches content while enforcing each user's existing app-level permissions so results are personalized and access-controlled.

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Setup

How long does it typically take to get Glean up and running after purchase?

According to a customer quote on the Glean homepage, one CIO stated: 'We're up and running in three weeks. I don't think I've ever been able to integrate something quicker and faster than that.' This suggests a typical deployment timeline of around three weeks.

Integration

Does Glean search across private Slack channels and direct messages, or only public channels?

Glean searches across messages and files from public channels, and also private channels and DMs, but only 'as permissioned.' This means access to private channels and direct messages depends on the permissions granted during setup.

Integration

What specific Salesforce objects does Glean index — does it cover custom objects beyond Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, and Leads?

The content lists only four Salesforce objects that Glean indexes: Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, and Leads. There is no mention of custom Salesforce objects being supported.

Pricing

What kind of ROI timeline can we expect, and is the claim of recovering the investment in under 6 months backed by third-party research?

The content states that companies recover their Glean investment in under 6 months and references a Forrester Report as supporting evidence. However, the specific details of the Forrester Report's methodology or findings are not provided in the available content.

Product Information

  • Company

    Glean Technologies, Inc.
  • Founded

    2019
  • Pricing

    Contact for pricing
  • Free Trial

    Available

Platforms

web

About Glean Technologies, Inc.

Glean is a Palo Alto-based enterprise search and AI assistant company that connects to a company's internal apps to surface knowledge.

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