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  1. Positive

    Madhu Narasimhan, CIO, DaVita Kidney Care

    How DaVita Is Scaling AI in Healthcare With GleanPodcast show notes, The Ravit Show

    DaVita's CIO discusses Glean's role as a context layer for scaling AI, stressing connected company knowledge and repeated correct answers as conditions for employee trust.

    Published Sep 22, 2026self-described: DaVita's CIO discusses Glean as a context layer while scaling AI in a regulated healthcare organization

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    IT & leadership
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  2. Positive

    Alex Elsayegh, AI Platforms Lead, McCarthy

    Beyond Search: How McCarthy built enterprise AI on GleanConference session notes, YouTube

    The conference session notes describe McCarthy choosing Glean as its company-wide AI entry point after evaluating alternatives. Alex Elsayegh covers the agents and technical workflows built beyond search.

    Published Aug 31, 2026McCarthy platform leadership discusses its Glean implementation at Glean GO 2026

    Not counted

    Glean ran this event. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    IT & leadership
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  3. Positive

    Jonathan Goldberg, VP, Enterprise AI, Howard Hughes

    Inside AI Transformation: Howard Hughes - From Pilot to Process TransformationConference session notes, YouTube

    The session notes describe Howard Hughes building early wins in knowledge management and workflow automation during a 100-user Glean pilot, then earning approval to deploy across the company.

    Published Aug 31, 2026Howard Hughes enterprise AI leadership discusses its Glean rollout at Glean GO 2026

    Not counted

    Glean ran this event. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

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    IT & leadership
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  4. No opinion stated

    VirajParmar06, developer filing a GitHub issue

    assert_negative_identities_absent does not inspect allowAnonymousAccess or allowAllDatasourceUsersAccessGitHub issue

    The indexing SDK's permission check passes documents opened to anonymous or all-datasource access. In the reporter's connector, 41.3% of 28,449 messages had no clear owner, the case where such broad access gets set.

    Published Aug 14, 2026self-described: Custom Glean connector built over 28,449 messages from a public email corpus

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
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    glean-indexing-sdk 1.0.0rc0 permission test harness
  5. Positive

    Jackson Aaron, employee at a regulated firm

    Glean: The Key to Enterprise AI Search and AgentsPersonal blog post, Medium

    Two months in, Glean replaced seven tabs; results follow source permissions, and the author built an outreach agent but chose not to enable write actions.

    Published Jun 29, 2026self-described: Regulated firm that put Glean between employees and AI models, two months

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    Individual user
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  6. Positive

    Jay Rosenthal, Director of Business Intelligence, and Shashi Gupta, BI Platform Manager, at Motive

    Bridging the Data Divide: How Motive Uses Glean and Snowflake Agents to Give Executives a 360° Account ViewEngineering blog post, Motive engineering blog

    Motive's BI team uses a Glean agent as the orchestrator over Slack and Google Docs plus a Snowflake Cortex agent, and relies on Glean's source permissions while building its own for Snowflake.

    Published Jun 4, 2026self-described: Motive business intelligence team, account briefs for sales and customer success executives

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    Glean Agents with Snowflake Cortex Agents
  7. No opinion stated

    sammcj, developer filing a GitHub issue

    The many agent skills under skills/ should really just be a single skillGitHub issue

    The Glean CLI ships many small agent skills whose descriptions all load into every coding-agent session, so the author merged them into one skill of his own.

    Published Apr 30, 2026self-described: Using the Glean CLI agent skill with Claude Code and OpenCode

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
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    Glean CLI agent skills, OAuth login
  8. No opinion stated

    yurykar, developer filing a GitHub issue

    upload_files()/upload_files_async() raises httpx.RequestNotReadGitHub issue

    Glean's official file-upload example for agents failed on every call, because a request hook read the multipart body before it was sent.

    Published Apr 3, 2026self-described: Glean agent run with file upload through the Python API client

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
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    Needs a recheck
    Observed on
    Glean Python API client, official file-upload example
  9. Positive

    Rico Bertucci, VP of Strategy and AI Program Lead, McCarthy Holdings

    Building the Future of AI Adoption: How McCarthy Achieved 90% AI Adoption in 30 DaysWebinar transcript, Goldcast

    McCarthy's AI program lead says the construction company selected Glean as its single AI platform and reached 90% adoption in 30 days by making the rollout easy for employees.

    Published Mar 25, 2026McCarthy Holdings selected Glean as the single platform for its company-wide AI rollout

    Not counted

    Glean ran this event. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    IT & leadership
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  10. Mixed

    Zeeshan Safdar, subscription services representative at Pure Storage

    Search for policies efficiently and build custom agents, but integration options still need improvementPeer review, PeerSpot

    Uses Glean for a year to find policies and built a self-service agent, but Salesforce is not connected, and the reviewer believes no teammate uses it regularly.

    Published Mar 23, 2026self-described: Pure Storage, over a year

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
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  11. Positive

    reviewer2810748, Analyst at a financial services firm with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employees

    Creating low-code agents has transformed policy queries and now saves employees hours dailyPeer review, PeerSpot

    Built a branching agent that answers employee benefits and leave questions from long policy documents; enabling connectors took back-and-forth and custom actions lack request logs.

    Published Mar 20, 2026self-described: Employee policy agent at a financial services firm

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  12. Positive

    reviewer2809938, Senior Data Analyst at a tech vendor with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employees

    Sales agents have automated prospect research and now save hours with unified customer insightsPeer review, PeerSpot

    Built an agent for sales development reps that pulls from Gmail, Drive, Slack, Confluence, Salesforce and Gong; research that took hours now takes minutes, though it sometimes slows down.

    Published Mar 19, 2026self-described: Sales development team at a tech vendor, six to seven months

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  13. Positive

    Ananya Bl, Data Analyst at Capgemini

    Daily orchestration of complex ai workflows has boosted my research and automation capabilitiesPeer review, PeerSpot

    Got access through a Capgemini hackathon two months ago and now uses Glean daily, more than ChatGPT, to build and orchestrate agents.

    Published Mar 19, 2026self-described: Capgemini, hackathon access, two months

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
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    Free hackathon access
  14. Positive

    reviewer2809692, Librarian at a university with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employees

    Intuitive workflows have improved integrations and streamlined daily management tasksPeer review, PeerSpot

    After 18 months, integrations work with all of the university's other platforms; licensing options are limited.

    Published Mar 17, 2026self-described: University library, one and a half years

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
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  15. Positive

    Andy Chen (andychen32), Hacker News commenter and author of the post

    Comment on: The Enterprise Context LayerHacker News comment

    The author says the agents that built their company's context layer used Glean's search API, and that something like Glean is still needed for retrieval.

    Published Mar 16, 2026self-described: Abnormal, go-to-market question bot

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Department
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  16. Positive

    reviewer2809308, Senior Support Engineer at a software company with 501 to 1, 000 employees

    Unified data search has improved cross-team insights and speeds up resolving recurring issuesPeer review, PeerSpot

    Searching Confluence and Jira together beats each tool's own search; licenses were expensive and hard to justify, so the reviewer advises trialing adoption with several groups first.

    Published Mar 16, 2026self-described: Support team at a software company, a year and a half

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    Individual user
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  17. Positive

    Kavita Khandhadia, Senior Partner, Global Alliances, at a software company with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employees

    Centralized search has transformed my research workflow and saves hours on complex data gatheringPeer review, PeerSpot

    In a one-month trial, a day's research took two hours; it also returned the wrong image and a confusing Confluence link, and the reviewer recommends it where budget allows.

    Published Mar 16, 2026self-described: Strategic partnerships, one-month trial

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
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    Trial connected to Slack, Google Drive, Jira and Salesforce
  18. Positive

    Ambsingh Singh, Senior Technical Program Manager at LinkedIn

    AI assistants have transformed daily project decisions and documentation for complex programsPeer review, PeerSpot

    Uses Glean daily for 20 months to review PRDs and draft plans with agents, saving one to two hours a week per program. This deployment does not crawl Teams and Outlook data.

    Published Mar 15, 2026self-described: LinkedIn, technical program management, daily for one year and eight months

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    Individual user
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  19. Positive

    Gopi Gonuguntla, Principal Architect at a tech vendor with 10, 001+ employees

    AI agents have transformed how we compare offers and standardize complex project documentsPeer review, PeerSpot

    Almost two years in, the reviewer's teams save one to 1.5 hours a day; the reviewer values permission awareness and a choice of 15+ models, and evaluated Microsoft Copilot first.

    Published Mar 14, 2026self-described: Employee productivity and customer education teams, public cloud on Google, almost two years

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Department
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    Observed on
    Glean Hosted on Google Cloud, 15+ LLMs
  20. No opinion stated

    ryan-macdonald-nb, developer filing a GitHub issue

    Global token auth sends wrong header: X-Glean-Act-As instead of X-Glean-ActAsGitHub issue

    With a global token, the Glean MCP server sent a misspelled act-as header, so every tool call failed with a 400 until the header name was corrected.

    Published Mar 12, 2026self-described: Glean MCP server with a global API token, running in a GKE pod

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
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    Needs a recheck
    Observed on
    @gleanwork/mcp-server 0.7.1
  21. Positive

    Andy Chen, built a question bot for go-to-market reps at Abnormal

    The Enterprise Context LayerPersonal blog post, andychen32.substack.com

    Abnormal recently adopted Glean, which the author calls excellent at finding documents and used heavily while onboarding; it does not synthesize the judgment calls a question bot needed.

    Published Mar 10, 2026self-described: Abnormal, about 1,000 people, recently started using Glean

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Department
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  22. Mixed

    Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Show HN: Omni - Open-source workplace search and chat, built on PostgresHacker News comment

    The commenter started building a prototype alternative to Glean for the team, and asks how per-user data isolation is handled.

    Published Mar 2, 2026self-described: Team building its own workplace search

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Small team
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  23. Negative

    Tagir Valeev, software engineer

    Glean in Slack answers a real fire alarmMastodon post

    When a colleague asked in Slack about a fire alarm, Glean privately told them it was a scheduled test and they could stay at their desk. It was a real alarm.

    Published Feb 12, 2026self-described: Office whose Slack has Glean integrated

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  24. Positive

    reviewer2783439, DevOps and sales operations at a marketing services firm with 51 to 200 employees

    Consolidating marketing content has streamlined sales prospect outreach and collaborationPeer review, PeerSpot

    Set Glean up for the sales team to pull together prospect material through the chatbot; rates it nine of ten, though the integrations were hard to understand.

    Published Feb 6, 2026self-described: Sales team at a marketing services firm, four months

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  25. No opinion stated

    James Reggio, CTO of Brex

    Latent Space: Brex's AI strategyPodcast episode, Latent Space

    Brex's internal AI spotlights feature operations, finance and people teams showing agents they built in ChatGPT or on Glean.

    "For the most part, it’s folks in VTMs, ops, finance, the people organization showing off how they’re building agents in ChatGPT or on Glean or how they just found some new use case that they thought was helpful."
    Transcript excerpt, James Reggio, around 59:14 in the episode

    Published Jan 17, 2026self-described: Operations, finance and people teams building agents

    Published on
    Podcasts, Talks & Videos
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    Organization-wide
    Evidence
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    Applies to
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    Observed on
    Glean agents
  26. Positive

    Sravani Kakaraparthi, builds dbt models at their company

    Automating dbt Documentation: A Workflow for Glean-Powered Column DescriptionsPersonal blog post, Medium

    Built a Glean agent, called through the Python client, that finds business definitions for dbt columns; scoping it to knowledge sets cuts hallucinations, and a manual pass remains.

    Published Dec 30, 2025self-described: Own dbt documentation workflow at their company

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
    Evidence
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    Applies to
    Still applicable
    Observed on
    Agent Builder, Client API through the Python SDK
  27. No opinion stated

    ThePlenkov, developer filing a GitHub issue

    npm install fails: Unsupported workspace:* dependency in @gleanwork/local-mcp-server@0.9.0GitHub issue

    Release 0.9.0 of Glean's local MCP server could not be installed from npm, because the published package kept an unresolved workspace dependency.

    Published Dec 7, 2025self-described: Installing Glean's local MCP server from npm on Linux

    Counts toward nothing current

    Replaced by newer evidence. Kept in the source history with its scope stated; it takes part in no current figure.

    Published on
    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
    Evidence
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    Applies to
    Out of date
    Observed on
    @gleanwork/local-mcp-server 0.9.0
  28. Mixed

    Teatsandbeer28, Reddit user in r/sysadmin

    What are you using AI /AI agents for?Reddit post

    The poster's company bought Glean and is pushing AI agents, but the poster struggles to see what the agents do beyond documentation and coding help.

    Published Dec 4, 2025self-described: Company that just bought Glean and is pushing agents

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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  29. Positive

    4mal6, Reddit commenter in r/ProductManagement

    Comment on: Agents to help tackle all the little things in Jira and Figma?Reddit comment

    During a trial the commenter built a Glean agent that proposed troubleshooting steps from documentation and past bugs, but the company chose ChatGPT instead.

    Published Nov 24, 2025self-described: Product team that ran a Glean trial

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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  30. Positive

    Beef410, Reddit commenter in r/sysadmin

    Comment on: Why aren't more companies feeding their internal docs/code into an internal RAG system?Reddit comment

    The commenter's company uses Glean over SharePoint and other data, and each user's results include only what that person has permission to see.

    Published Nov 23, 2025self-described: Company using Glean over SharePoint and other data

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
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  31. Positive

    Tarun Garg, Resident Solution Architect at Starburst

    Great product to useTrustRadius review

    Starburst connected Glean to Slack, Confluence, and email; the reviewer uses search and chat across them daily and wants file and image upload next.

    Published Nov 7, 2025self-described: Starburst, computer software, 201 to 500 employees

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Current
  32. Mixed

    Savannah Hair, Account Executive at Carta

    Glean Vs. GuruTrustRadius review

    A Carta account executive says Glean chat gives wrong answers about the sales process and some documents from Guru went missing after the move; the reviewer would not buy it again.

    Published Nov 5, 2025self-described: Carta, 1,001 to 5,000 employees; moved from Guru to Glean

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
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  33. Positive

    Account Manager in Customer Service at a security and investigations company

    Easy as 12 GleanTrustRadius review

    An account manager finds product docs and last year's approved payment terms in Glean during customer calls, though results sometimes rank older material above current.

    Published Nov 4, 2025self-described: Security and investigations company, 201 to 500 employees

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
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    Applies to
    Current
  34. Positive

    Kelly Guslani, Recruiter at Databricks

    You must get Glean if you care about your employeesTrustRadius review

    A Databricks recruiter uses Glean chat during interviews to answer candidates' questions about teams and offices, with the sources shown; the reviewer finds the thinking step slow.

    Published Nov 3, 2025self-described: Databricks, computer software, 10,001+ employees

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Individual user
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Current
  35. Positive

    Phu Nguyen, Director of Digital Workplace and Identity, Pure Storage

    Making Work Flow with AI Agents: A Product Journey at Pure StorageWebinar session notes, BrightTALK

    The session notes describe Pure Storage moving from finding information to taking action with Glean agents. Phu Nguyen covers grassroots adoption and a product approach grounded in real business problems.

    Published Oct 14, 2025Pure Storage workplace leadership describes Glean agent adoption in a customer webinar

    Not counted

    Glean ran this event. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
    Who
    IT & leadership
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Current
  36. No opinion stated

    gamisn, developer filing a GitHub issue

    GleanSearchRetriever fails silently on authentication errorsGitHub issue

    Glean's LangChain retriever returned an empty list on a bad token or instance without raising an error. Misconfiguration looked the same as no results.

    Published Oct 8, 2025self-described: LangChain retriever over Glean search

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Needs a recheck
    Observed on
    langchain-glean GleanSearchRetriever
  37. Positive

    Patrick Tran, Staff Software Engineer - Gen AI, Etsy

    AI in Action: How Etsy super users boost productivity with GleanWebinar session notes, BrightTALK

    The webinar notes describe Patrick Tran and Rachel Refo Hopkins using Glean enterprise search daily at Etsy to reduce time spent finding information and make decisions faster.

    Published Oct 6, 2025Etsy engineering and merchandising users discuss their daily Glean workflows in a customer webinar

    Not counted

    Glean ran this event. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

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    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Department
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Current
  38. Positive

    Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: How the AI Bubble Will PopHacker News comment

    Skeptical of the wider AI buildout, the commenter still values internal search and chat and says Glean at work is great.

    Published Oct 2, 2025self-described: Employer uses Glean

    Published on
    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Still applicable
  39. Mixed

    Steve Januario, CIO, Bill.com

    From Risk to Resilience: What Bill.com's CIO Learned Deploying Copilot, Gemini, and GleanWebcast recap, Opsin blog

    Bill.com's CIO reports that deploying AI search tools such as Glean surfaced misconfigured permissions, open Jira boards, and onboarding files with sensitive data. He rolled them out through phased pilots with legal and security.

    Published Aug 28, 2025Bill.com rolled out Glean beside Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini; recap of his interview on Opsin's Oversharing webcast

    Published on
    Business Blogs & Reviews
    Who
    IT & leadership
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Current
  40. Positive

    York Karsten, Principal Solutions Engineer, HubSpot

    How HubSpot Works Smarter with GleanWebinar page, BrightTALK

    HubSpot's Solutions Engineering team describes a bottom-up Glean pilot that helps teams search across internal tools, share knowledge, and move faster across sales and support.

    Published Aug 26, 2025HubSpot's Solutions Engineering team piloted Glean's unified search and Work AI across internal tools

    Not counted

    Glean ran this event. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

    Published on
    Business Blogs & Reviews
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    Department
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Current
  41. Negative

    Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: My AI skeptic friends are all nutsHacker News comment

    Docs colleagues produce by asking Glean are misleading to badly wrong four times in five on topics the commenter knows; internal terminology derails it.

    Published Jun 3, 2025self-described: Colleagues use Glean to explore topics

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
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    Individual user
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Still applicable
  42. Mixed

    Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Indexing Code at Scale with GleanHacker News comment

    After an intro meeting, the commenter judged Glean's pricing to make sense only at 100 to 150+ employees, recalling a US$50k yearly starting point with a caveat.

    Published Jan 2, 2025self-described: Company evaluated Glean in an intro meeting

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    Online Communities & Issue Trackers
    Who
    Small team
    Evidence
    Reported
    Applies to
    Needs a recheck

Product documentation 17

Pages from Glean, used to check facts for every group.

  1. About connectors

    Describes native, web history, push API, and partner connectors that index content and fetch each source's permissions map, so search results follow the permissions set in the source app.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  2. Connectors

    Lists 275+ native and MCP-based connectors, permissions inherited from each source, and actions with human-in-the-loop approval before execution.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  3. Crawling FAQ

    States that initial crawl time depends on connector size and the source's API rate limits, and shows crawl status, items synced, and crawl rate in the Admin console.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  4. Glean deployment models

    Documents Glean Hosted on Google Cloud and Customer Hosted in the customer's GCP or AWS account, both single-tenant, with no logging of individual user queries or responses.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  5. About Glean Protect and Protect+

    Lists zero LLM data retention, permissions enforcement, SSO, RBAC, encryption, audit logs, and ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001; Protect+ adds weekly and continuous sensitive content scanning.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  6. Glean Protect

    Lists ISO 42001, HIPAA, TX-RAMP Level 2, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR, and source-permission enforcement on every read and write.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  7. Security and Architecture

    Points to the Glean Trust Portal for SOC 2 reports, certifications, and documentation under NDA, and to a Bugcrowd bug bounty program.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  8. Agents introduction

    Describes Glean Agents that run a series of tools when triggered, built by function ops, IT, and power users and consumed by other employees.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  9. Manage agent access

    Documents viewer, editor, and owner access per agent, Agent Moderator roles, and unshared agents visible only to admins, moderators, and their creator.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  10. About Glean MCP server

    Describes Glean's MCP server exposing search, chat, document reading, people, and agents as tools to hosts such as Claude Desktop and Cursor, with user permissions enforced.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  11. Supported LLMs

    Lists models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Amazon, and open-model hosts through Glean's Universal Model Key or the customer's own keys.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  12. Glean Core Suite pricing

    Describes Core Suite seats licensed per user per month, with Model Hub usage charged at model or hosting provider API rates against an upfront commit.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  13. Glean Enterprise Flex pricing

    Describes per-user Enterprise Flex seats with a pooled FlexCredit allowance; Premium models, agent runs, slides, and meeting notes consume FlexCredits.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  14. AI usage controls

    Describes a company-wide monthly usage limit that admins can narrow for a department, a single user or a single agent, with alerts and a chosen action when a limit is reached.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  15. Rollout strategy

    Recommends a staggered rollout starting with about 100 to 300 users from a range of departments, with surveys, kickoff sessions, and office hours.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  16. Populate content

    Recommends publishing Announcements, Answers, Go Links, verified documents, and pinned results before launch so the first searches return authoritative content.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

  17. About sensitive findings

    Describes Protect+ policies that detect broadly shared or externally exposed sensitive content during indexing and can hide flagged content automatically.

    Checked Oct 12, 2026

Source index

Provenance at a glance

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Provenance for every analyzed Signals source
SourceOriginal URLAuthor and contextWhoPublishedReview dateAppliesFindings
How DaVita Is Scaling AI in Healthcare With GleanID l2-04 | Business Blogs & Reviewsopen.spotify.com/episode/3qO0wS24bmsbr1wxNKU9OOMadhu Narasimhan, CIO, DaVita Kidney Careself-described: DaVita's CIO discusses Glean as a context layer while scaling AI in a regulated healthcare organizationIT & leadershipPublished Sep 22, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?ID dc-19 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559346Hacker News commenterself-described: Principal platform engineer using Glean, Jira and Port through MCPIndividual userPublished Sep 4, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Beyond Search: How McCarthy built enterprise AI on GleanID gg-03 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.youtube.com/watch?v=pXxsZtCz1VUAlex Elsayegh, AI Platforms Lead, McCarthyMcCarthy platform leadership discusses its Glean implementation at Glean GO 2026IT & leadershipPublished Aug 31, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentNot counted. Glean ran this event.
Inside AI Transformation: Howard Hughes - From Pilot to Process TransformationID gg-04 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdVh2wZOk8Jonathan Goldberg, VP, Enterprise AI, Howard HughesHoward Hughes enterprise AI leadership discusses its Glean rollout at Glean GO 2026IT & leadershipPublished Aug 31, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentNot counted. Glean ran this event.
Comment on: Software engineering is about managing complexityID dc-18 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467979Hacker News commenterself-described: Employer pays for Glean among other AI toolsIndividual userPublished Aug 27, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
assert_negative_identities_absent does not inspect allowAnonymousAccess or allowAllDatasourceUsersAccessID s2-05 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersgithub.com/gleanwork/glean-indexing-sdk/issues/140VirajParmar06, developer filing a GitHub issueself-described: Custom Glean connector built over 28,449 messages from a public email corpusIndividual userPublished Aug 14, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Glean: The Key to Enterprise AI Search and AgentsID ir-18 | Business Blogs & Reviewsmedium.com/@JacksonAAaron/glean-the-key-to-enterprise-ai-search-and-agents-27c46fc32ad7Jackson Aaron, employee at a regulated firmself-described: Regulated firm that put Glean between employees and AI models, two monthsIndividual userPublished Jun 29, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Bridging the Data Divide: How Motive Uses Glean and Snowflake Agents to Give Executives a 360° Account ViewID ir-17 | Business Blogs & Reviewsmedium.com/motive-eng/bridging-the-data-divide-how-motive-uses-glean-and-snowflake-agents-to-give-executives-a-360-49aa46cdf0ffJay Rosenthal, Director of Business Intelligence, and Shashi Gupta, BI Platform Manager, at Motiveself-described: Motive business intelligence team, account briefs for sales and customer success executivesDepartmentPublished Jun 4, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubbleID dc-17 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278471Hacker News commenterself-described: Company rolling Glean out to HR, correspondence and marketingDepartmentPublished May 26, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
The many agent skills under skills/ should really just be a single skillID s2-06 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersgithub.com/gleanwork/glean-cli/issues/101sammcj, developer filing a GitHub issueself-described: Using the Glean CLI agent skill with Claude Code and OpenCodeIndividual userPublished Apr 30, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
upload_files()/upload_files_async() raises httpx.RequestNotReadID s2-04 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersgithub.com/gleanwork/api-client-python/issues/136yurykar, developer filing a GitHub issueself-described: Glean agent run with file upload through the Python API clientIndividual userPublished Apr 3, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Needs a recheck
Building the Future of AI Adoption: How McCarthy Achieved 90% AI Adoption in 30 DaysID l2-02 | Business Blogs & Reviewsgoldcast.registration.public-pr50.goldcast.io/on-demand/118cb78c-d414-4be3-a0b2-1dbb1eb9c6a0Rico Bertucci, VP of Strategy and AI Program Lead, McCarthy HoldingsMcCarthy Holdings selected Glean as the single platform for its company-wide AI rolloutIT & leadershipPublished Mar 25, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentNot counted. Glean ran this event.
Search for policies efficiently and build custom agents, but integration options still need improvementID ir-15 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-11016643-by-zeeshan-safdarZeeshan Safdar, subscription services representative at Pure Storageself-described: Pure Storage, over a yearIndividual userPublished Mar 23, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Creating low-code agents has transformed policy queries and now saves employees hours dailyID ir-14 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-11000192-by-reviewer2810748reviewer2810748, Analyst at a financial services firm with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employeesself-described: Employee policy agent at a financial services firmDepartmentPublished Mar 20, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Sales agents have automated prospect research and now save hours with unified customer insightsID ir-12 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10991838-by-reviewer2809938reviewer2809938, Senior Data Analyst at a tech vendor with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employeesself-described: Sales development team at a tech vendor, six to seven monthsDepartmentPublished Mar 19, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Daily orchestration of complex ai workflows has boosted my research and automation capabilitiesID ir-13 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10991840-by-ananya-blAnanya Bl, Data Analyst at Capgeminiself-described: Capgemini, hackathon access, two monthsIndividual userPublished Mar 19, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Intuitive workflows have improved integrations and streamlined daily management tasksID ir-11 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10975197-by-reviewer2809692reviewer2809692, Librarian at a university with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employeesself-described: University library, one and a half yearsIndividual userPublished Mar 17, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: The Enterprise Context LayerID dc-20 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393910Andy Chen (andychen32), Hacker News commenter and author of the postself-described: Abnormal, go-to-market question botDepartmentPublished Mar 16, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Unified data search has improved cross-team insights and speeds up resolving recurring issuesID ir-09 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10966797-by-reviewer2809308reviewer2809308, Senior Support Engineer at a software company with 501 to 1, 000 employeesself-described: Support team at a software company, a year and a halfIndividual userPublished Mar 16, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Centralized search has transformed my research workflow and saves hours on complex data gatheringID ir-10 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10966820-by-kavita-khandhadiaKavita Khandhadia, Senior Partner, Global Alliances, at a software company with 1, 001 to 5, 000 employeesself-described: Strategic partnerships, one-month trialIndividual userPublished Mar 16, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
AI assistants have transformed daily project decisions and documentation for complex programsID ir-08 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10958520-by-ambsingh-singhAmbsingh Singh, Senior Technical Program Manager at LinkedInself-described: LinkedIn, technical program management, daily for one year and eight monthsIndividual userPublished Mar 15, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?ID dc-16 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373420Hacker News commenterIndividual userPublished Mar 14, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
AI agents have transformed how we compare offers and standardize complex project documentsID ir-07 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10950358-by-gonuguntlagopiGopi Gonuguntla, Principal Architect at a tech vendor with 10, 001+ employeesself-described: Employee productivity and customer education teams, public cloud on Google, almost two yearsDepartmentPublished Mar 14, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Global token auth sends wrong header: X-Glean-Act-As instead of X-Glean-ActAsID s2-01 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersgithub.com/gleanwork/mcp-server/issues/347ryan-macdonald-nb, developer filing a GitHub issueself-described: Glean MCP server with a global API token, running in a GKE podIndividual userPublished Mar 12, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Needs a recheck
Comment on: The Enterprise Context LayerID dc-15 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327124Hacker News commenterIndividual userPublished Mar 10, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
The Enterprise Context LayerID ir-06 | Business Blogs & Reviewsandychen32.substack.com/p/the-enterprise-context-layerAndy Chen, built a question bot for go-to-market reps at Abnormalself-described: Abnormal, about 1,000 people, recently started using GleanDepartmentPublished Mar 10, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: Show HN: Omni - Open-source workplace search and chat, built on PostgresID dc-14 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215678Hacker News commenterself-described: Team building its own workplace searchSmall teamPublished Mar 2, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentListed, no finding position
Glean in Slack answers a real fire alarmID dc-24 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersmastodon.online/@tagir_valeev/116057271527521893Tagir Valeev, software engineerself-described: Office whose Slack has Glean integratedDepartmentPublished Feb 12, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Consolidating marketing content has streamlined sales prospect outreach and collaborationID ir-05 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/glean-platform-review-10656272-by-reviewer2783439reviewer2783439, DevOps and sales operations at a marketing services firm with 51 to 200 employeesself-described: Sales team at a marketing services firm, four monthsDepartmentPublished Feb 6, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Latent Space: Brex's AI strategyID sf-1 | Podcasts, Talks & Videoswww.latent.space/p/brexJames Reggio, CTO of Brexself-described: Operations, finance and people teams building agentsOrganization-widePublished Jan 17, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentListed, no finding position
Automating dbt Documentation: A Workflow for Glean-Powered Column DescriptionsID ir-03 | Business Blogs & Reviewsmedium.com/@sravy.kv/automating-dbt-documentation-a-workflow-for-glean-powered-column-descriptions-315e65844b6bSravani Kakaraparthi, builds dbt models at their companyself-described: Own dbt documentation workflow at their companyIndividual userPublished Dec 30, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Still applicable
npm install fails: Unsupported workspace:* dependency in @gleanwork/local-mcp-server@0.9.0ID s2-02 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersgithub.com/gleanwork/mcp-server/issues/319ThePlenkov, developer filing a GitHub issueself-described: Installing Glean's local MCP server from npm on LinuxIndividual userPublished Dec 7, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Out of dateOut of date, counts toward nothing current
What are you using AI /AI agents for?ID dc-21 | Online Communities & Issue Trackerswww.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1pe1n7t/what_are_you_using_ai_ai_agents_for/Teatsandbeer28, Reddit user in r/sysadminself-described: Company that just bought Glean and is pushing agentsDepartmentPublished Dec 4, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: Agents to help tackle all the little things in Jira and Figma?ID dc-23 | Online Communities & Issue Trackerswww.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/comments/1p55r8i/comment/nqinbgb/4mal6, Reddit commenter in r/ProductManagementself-described: Product team that ran a Glean trialDepartmentPublished Nov 24, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: Why aren't more companies feeding their internal docs/code into an internal RAG system?ID dc-22 | Online Communities & Issue Trackerswww.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1p42jsz/comment/nqanm6t/Beef410, Reddit commenter in r/sysadminself-described: Company using Glean over SharePoint and other dataIndividual userPublished Nov 23, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Comment on: What if you don't need MCP at all?ID dc-13 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951510Hacker News commenterIndividual userPublished Nov 17, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Still applicable
Great product to useID ir-22 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.trustradius.com/reviews/glean-2025-11-04-22-21-29Tarun Garg, Resident Solution Architect at Starburstself-described: Starburst, computer software, 201 to 500 employeesIndividual userPublished Nov 7, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Glean Vs. GuruID ir-21 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.trustradius.com/reviews/glean-2025-10-30-15-32-28Savannah Hair, Account Executive at Cartaself-described: Carta, 1,001 to 5,000 employees; moved from Guru to GleanIndividual userPublished Nov 5, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Easy as 12 GleanID ir-20 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.trustradius.com/reviews/glean-2025-10-29-11-29-40Account Manager in Customer Service at a security and investigations companyself-described: Security and investigations company, 201 to 500 employeesIndividual userPublished Nov 4, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
You must get Glean if you care about your employeesID ir-19 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.trustradius.com/reviews/glean-2025-10-28-13-57-54Kelly Guslani, Recruiter at Databricksself-described: Databricks, computer software, 10,001+ employeesIndividual userPublished Nov 3, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Making Work Flow with AI Agents: A Product Journey at Pure StorageID gg-02 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.brighttalk.com/webcast/21000/654652Phu Nguyen, Director of Digital Workplace and Identity, Pure StoragePure Storage workplace leadership describes Glean agent adoption in a customer webinarIT & leadershipPublished Oct 14, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentNot counted. Glean ran this event.
GleanSearchRetriever fails silently on authentication errorsID s2-03 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersgithub.com/gleanwork/langchain-glean/issues/22gamisn, developer filing a GitHub issueself-described: LangChain retriever over Glean searchIndividual userPublished Oct 8, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Needs a recheck
AI in Action: How Etsy super users boost productivity with GleanID gg-01 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.brighttalk.com/webcast/21000/654515Patrick Tran, Staff Software Engineer - Gen AI, EtsyEtsy engineering and merchandising users discuss their daily Glean workflows in a customer webinarDepartmentPublished Oct 6, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentNot counted. Glean ran this event.
Comment on: How the AI Bubble Will PopID dc-12 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448374Hacker News commenterself-described: Employer uses GleanIndividual userPublished Oct 2, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Still applicable
From Risk to Resilience: What Bill.com's CIO Learned Deploying Copilot, Gemini, and GleanID l2-01 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.opsinsecurity.com/blog/bill-com-cio-genai-rollout-lessons-copilot-gemini-gleanSteve Januario, CIO, Bill.comBill.com rolled out Glean beside Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini; recap of his interview on Opsin's Oversharing webcastIT & leadershipPublished Aug 28, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
How HubSpot Works Smarter with GleanID l2-03 | Business Blogs & Reviewswww.brighttalk.com/webcast/21000/654518York Karsten, Principal Solutions Engineer, HubSpotHubSpot's Solutions Engineering team piloted Glean's unified search and Work AI across internal toolsDepartmentPublished Aug 26, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentNot counted. Glean ran this event.
Comment on: Why is AI so slow to spread?ID dc-11 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607532Hacker News commenterself-described: Employer has Glean AI searchIndividual userPublished Jul 18, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Still applicable
Comment on: Ask HN: Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?ID dc-10 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513932Hacker News commenterIndividual userPublished Jul 9, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Still applicable
Comment on: My AI skeptic friends are all nutsID dc-09 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166360Hacker News commenterself-described: Colleagues use Glean to explore topicsIndividual userPublished Jun 3, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Still applicable
Comment on: Indexing Code at Scale with GleanID dc-08 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=42573967Hacker News commenterself-described: Company evaluated Glean in an intro meetingSmall teamPublished Jan 2, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Needs a recheck
Comment on: Indexing Code at Scale with GleanID dc-07 | Online Communities & Issue Trackersnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569871Hacker News commenterIndividual userPublished Jan 1, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Still applicable
About connectorsID pd-01 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/connectors/aboutGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
ConnectorsID pd-02 | Product Documentationwww.glean.com/platform/connectorsGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Crawling FAQID pd-03 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/connectors/crawling-faqGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Glean deployment modelsID pd-04 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/get-started/prepare/about-deploymentGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
About Glean Protect and Protect+ID pd-05 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/administration/protect/overviewGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Glean ProtectID pd-06 | Product Documentationwww.glean.com/platform/securityGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Security and ArchitectureID pd-07 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/security/GleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Agents introductionID pd-08 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/agents/introductionGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Manage agent accessID pd-09 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/administration/managing-agents/agent-accessGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
About Glean MCP serverID pd-10 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/administration/platform/mcp/aboutGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Supported LLMsID pd-11 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/administration/llmsGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Glean Core Suite pricingID pd-12 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/glean-core-suite-pricingGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Glean Enterprise Flex pricingID pd-13 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/glean-enterprise-flex-pricingGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
AI usage controlsID pd-14 | Product Documentationwww.glean.com/platform/cost-controlsGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Rollout strategyID pd-15 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/get-started/golive/launch-preparationGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
Populate contentID pd-16 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/get-started/golive/populate-contentGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only
About sensitive findingsID pd-17 | Product Documentationdocs.glean.com/administration/protect/sensitive-findings/aboutGleanOfficial Glean documentationNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Oct 12, 2026CurrentVerification only