I spent 15 years at Google building search. Then I realized every company needs Google — but for their own internal data. That's Glean.
The average employee spends 3.6 hours per day looking for information. That's not a productivity problem. That's a search problem. And search is what I know.
We connect to every tool — Slack, Confluence, Google Drive, Salesforce, Jira — and make it all searchable from one place. It sounds obvious. Nobody had done it well.
ChatGPT is great at answering questions about the internet. Glean is great at answering questions about your company. Those are very different problems.
We hit a $4.6 billion valuation. For an enterprise search company. Five years ago, investors would have laughed. Then AI happened and suddenly everyone understood why search matters.
Permission-aware search is the hard part. Anyone can build a search box. Building one that knows what you're allowed to see and what you're not — across 100 different tools — that's the moat.