Glean

https://www.glean.com/

Enterprise contract only — no public pricing; contact sales

Permission-Aware Enterprise Context — Connects to 200+ apps, indexes everything you have access to, serves it with permission boundaries intact
Independent Agents (Beta) — Autonomous programs with their own identity and permissions; plan, execute, and check own output
Glean Tau (Coming Soon) — Desktop workspace pairing enterprise context with local files/apps/code on open-source harness
Glean Intelligence (GA) — Centralized AI usage visibility and administrative cost controls; route work to efficient/balanced/frontier models
Glean Transform (Coming Soon) — Reads activity signals, recommends AI tasks, measures business impact
Proactive Task Management — Drafts follow-ups, prepares for meetings, triages email with company context; agents handle longer-running work
Interactive Dashboards — Blend structured data with tickets, conversations, and documents; refreshes as info changes
Team Chat (Beta) — Shared AI threads and artifacts for multi-person collaboration
AI Gateway (Beta) — Enforces restricted-topic policies, governed MCP access to skills and personal memory
Context-Aware Threat Detection — Uses Enterprise Graph to separate legitimate agent activity from data exfiltration
Memory via MCP (GA) — Persistent organizational memory accessible to agents via Model Context Protocol
200+ App Integrations — Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and many more

Context-first architecture: 7 years building permission-aware enterprise knowledge graphs
80% cheaper per query than Claude Cowork (claimed) due to pre-retrieved, cached context
Permission-aware independent agents respect access controls without manual configuration
200+ app integrations: Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, GitHub, Jira, and more
Genuinely proactive: meeting prep, email triage, follow-up drafting before you ask
Context-aware threat detection for data exfiltration and suspicious agent behavior
Open-source Tau desktop harness for security-conscious enterprise buyers
Strong enterprise customers: LaunchDarkly, LegalZoom, and others
Generally available: Glean Intelligence, AI usage controls, and MCP memory
Transform and Tau (coming soon): activity-based AI task automation and local + enterprise context

Independent agents still in beta — real-world reliability unproven as of Aug 2026
Tau desktop workspace not released — no ship date, no hands-on testing possible
No public pricing — enterprise contracts only, impossible to compare without talking to sales
Months-long enterprise IT deployment — not a self-serve tool
Full proactive AI vision (Transform, meeting coach, advanced dashboards) still on roadmap
Complex implementation for organizations with fragmented or non-standard app stacks