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Glean
Glean is an enterprise Work AI platform that unifies search chat and agents over your company knowledge with connectors governance hybrid retrieval and analytics to answer questions and automate tasks across tools.
Pricing Sales quoted per user per month, trials by request, enterprise contracts vary by connectors data volume and agent features
Category productivity
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Airtable
Connected apps and databases for teams, combining spreadsheet simplicity with relational data, automations, interfaces and integrations for operations at any scale.
Pricing Free / Starts $10 per seat per month
Category productivity
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Glean
enterprise-searchagentsassistantconnectorsknowledge-graphgovernance
Shared
None
Only in Airtable
databasespreadsheetsautomationinterfacesviewsintegrations
Key Features
Glean
- • Hybrid retrieval that blends keyword sparse and dense vectors so answers include relevant sources with citations people can verify easily
- • Connectors to common SaaS and on prem sources so the graph stays fresh and permissions remain intact without custom ETL pipelines
- • Permission aware results that mirror source ACLs and show only what a user can access which builds trust and protects sensitive data
- • Chat answers with citations and follow ups that synthesize across apps and link back to the original items for one click verification
- • Agent builder and orchestration that designs multi step flows with approvals so assistants can perform safe actions not just retrieve info
- • Analytics for content health and demand that reveal stale pages missing docs and common questions to fix in source systems quickly
Airtable
- • Relational tables and linked records with rich field types and lookups
- • Multiple views including Grid Kanban Calendar Timeline and Gantt
- • Interfaces to build end user friendly apps without code
- • Automations for emails updates webhooks and script actions
- • Forms with permissions for clean intake across teams
- • Permissions SSO and admin controls for larger organizations
Use Cases
Glean
- → Onboarding and employee support where assistants answer how do I questions across HR IT and policy with citations and safe action flows
- → Sales and success preparation where search gathers account history product notes and tickets so teams enter meetings with full context
- → Engineering knowledge reuse where results span docs issues incidents and code with permission awareness to avoid oversharing risk
- → Marketing and comms planning where chat drafts briefs from scattered research and links sources for reviewers to validate claims quickly
- → Finance and ops reporting where agents pull metrics from systems and draft updates while routing approvals through established owners
- → Security and compliance programs where governance ensures least privilege and DLP while analytics surface risky stale or missing content
Airtable
- → Centralize product roadmaps and link features to releases and docs
- → Run content calendars with approvals and asset tracking
- → Build a basic CRM with deals contacts and activity logs
- → Manage research repositories and link insights to projects
- → Coordinate events with vendors schedules and run of show
- → Automate status updates and reminders to reduce busywork
Perfect For
Glean
IT leaders knowledge managers department heads and cross functional teams that need permission aware search chat and agents over company data with strong governance connectors analytics and customization options
Airtable
ops and product teams marketers creators and PMs who need approachable databases interfaces and automations in one platform
Capabilities
Glean
Hybrid Search Professional
Cited Chat Professional
Agents and Flows Intermediate
Security and Analytics Professional
Airtable
Relational Records Intermediate
Interfaces and Views Intermediate
Triggers and Scripts Intermediate
Permissions and Admin Professional
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