Glean is an AI platform for companies that searches across all of a team's work apps and uses what it finds to answer questions and run agents.
In plain words
Work knowledge is scattered across chat, email, file storage, ticket systems and more. Glean connects to those apps, copies their content into a search index, and also records who is allowed to see each item. Its search, chat assistant and agents then draw on that index, and results respect the original access rules. Developers can reach the same search through APIs and plug it into their own AI tools.
A quick example
Imagine a new employee asking how expenses get approved. Instead of searching Slack, Google Drive and the wiki one by one, they ask Glean once. It searches the connected apps, skips anything they are not allowed to see, and replies with an answer drawn from the documents it found.
Where you'll meet it
- Company-wide search across many work apps.
- Chat assistants that answer from internal documents.
- Giving AI agents and coding tools company knowledge.
Related
Sources
- DocsPlatform overview, Glean · read 29 Sept 2026
- DocsAbout connectors, Glean Documentation · read 29 Sept 2026
- DocsGlean developer documentation, Glean Developers · read 29 Sept 2026
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