What’s new at Glean?

The 2023 onboarding survey report

Employees are shifting jobs more often than ever, and the volume of information and tools we use has ballooned – but onboarding hasn't kept up to accommodate. Discover in this new report how onboarding processes need to change to enable workers to thrive in the modern workplace.

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Harnessing LLMs and GPT to power modern business success

Discover how improvements to generative AI brought them to the forefront of modern workplace transformation – and how best to integrate them into several key areas of enterprise business.

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Enterprise language models: Choosing the right approach for your business needs

With a world of enterprise language models to choose from, making the right choice can be tricky. Discover in our blog the top considerations you need to keep in mind while prospecting different models.

Mrinal Mohit

Engineering

Arvind Jain

CEO

Discover what it takes to deliver exceptional enterprise search

Learn how Glean search provides deeply personalized and relevant results through innovative machine learning, indexing, and an enterprise knowledge graph

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Glean and Google Cloud partner to unlock generative AI for enterprises through trusted knowledge models

Our latest partnership with Google Cloud enables us to deliver dependable generative experiences and trusted knowledge to ever more enterprise customers.

Arvind Jain

CEO

Unlocking the Power of Vector Search in Enterprise

One of the biggest hurdles to enterprise LLM adoption is ensuring accuracy and trustworthiness in output. Discover how Glean solves for this by implementing a multi-dimensional approach including vector search, traditional keyword search, and advanced personalization to deliver exceptional search capabilities.

Chau Tran

Engineering

Arvind Jain

CEO

Enterprises need more from LLMs: On coherence vs knowledge

LLMs have made incredible progress over the past few years, and everyone’s wondering what’s next. However, LLMs need to refine the balance between coherence and knowledge before they’re capable of transforming the enterprise workplace like people are expecting them to.

Eddie Zhou

Engineering

Arvind Jain

CEO

How Glean uses Apache Beam Streaming to efficiently read a large corpus from MySQL

Glean crawls through hundreds of millions of documents every day to ensure search quality and relevance. Check out how we utilize streaming to ensure horizontal scalability and streamlined processes.

Varshaa Naganathan

Engineering

Why we joined Glean – Growing a global opportunity

Glean is an incredible opportunity to revolutionize the way everyone works. Check out why we chose to join Glean and tackle the exciting mission of growing its presence in the European market.

Marcel Griffioen

Jerry Rijnbeek

Glean partners with Google Cloud to deliver and scale leading enterprise search

Glean is officially partnering with Google Cloud to deliver and scale the leading enterprise search solution for the new era of digital work.

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Why I joined Glean – Enterprise search, solved

Glean is solving the most critical problem of today’s digital workplaces. Discover why I chose to join Glean, and how it’s uniquely poised to revolutionize enterprise knowledge management and discovery.

Rajiv Pratap

Head of Strategic Verticals

A year of Glean: 2022 Glean roundup

2022 was an incredible year. Check out a recap of the biggest features we built last year to transform digital work, what users had to say about Glean, along with a word from our founder.

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Transforming the state of search – Why it’s Glean’s time to shine

Opportunities like Glean pop up once in a lifetime. Here’s why I joined the company, and why it’s Glean’s time to shine.

John Koo

Chief Marketing Officer

Top 3 IT trends impacting business success in 2023

Companies are set to further lean on digital transformation and hybrid work in 2023. Discover three crucial IT trends businesses need to mind to stay ahead of the curve.

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Consumer technology can save the digital workplace

More human, consumer-friendly technology is key to a better digital workplace. Check out why, and how Glean’s leading the way.

Dan Fergusson

Sales

Building the Foundations of Employee Success

Discover through Glean’s latest study why long-term employee success hinges on great onboarding, and how information inaccessibility can cost you.

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From surviving to thriving: what do office workers need to succeed at work?

It takes one year and seven months for most workers to thrive at a new job. Discover why, and how to better set employees up for success.

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From school to silicon valley: building great careers

Putting your best foot forward into the software industry can seem daunting. Here’s a few critical tips that helped propel my career across companies like Google, Rubrik, and now Glean.

Sharva Pathak

Engineering

How Glean scales monitoring capability in the Cloud

Glean’s single-tenant model of service deployment guarantees best-in-class security – but it also results in complex monitoring challenges as we scale our customer base. Discover how our unique in-house tool comprehensively tackles the problem while improving our productivity and error visibility.

Gary Luo

Engineering

Connor Lafferty

Engineering

Making it even easier to bring the right information together using Collections

As more teams started using Collections, we realized how important it was to help people figure out which documents inside a given Collection were most relevant. You can now create Subcollections, which allow you to organize a group of documents and links into hierarchies and nest them within a Collection. You can also use Headers to create sections within Collections.

Wonji Choi

Marketing

Optimizing our CSS at Glean

Inline styles didn’t scale with Glean's growth, so we chose a new solution that optimized performance and developer experience. But it didn’t come without a learning curve.

Raymond Carino

Engineering

Vardhman Singh

Engineering

The unsolved problem of enterprise autocomplete

Glean uses autocomplete to surface search suggestions with near-zero delay. Here’s how Glean’s Search Features team addresses the technical challenges of making fast and useful suggestions.

Shivaal Roy

Engineering

Ayushi Mrigen

Engineering

How Glean's profiles make work more personal

Who we work with matters at least as much as what we do. Glean's user profiles are here to help.

Blair Hanley Frank

Marketing

Finding your people with Glean

Every day, Glean users make thousands of people-seeking queries within their companies. Here’s how Glean quickly and intelligently surfaces the right results.

Lauren Zhu

Engineering

Answers to save time on simple repeat questions

For those looking for answers to work- or company-related questions, it can be difficult to find the right information quickly. Our recent update to Answers quickly resolves queries, whether people ask via Slack or search on Glean.

Wonji Choi

Marketing

Using our identity schema to deliver personalized, permissions-aware results

Identity is at the core of ensuring that Glean users see the best, most personalized results. Here’s how we do it, while respecting the permissions model of each connector.

Shreya Shekhar

Engineering

How we migrated 150 Cloud SQL instances using GCP DMS

We migrated our Cloud SQL instances— a central part of the Glean index building architecture— to MySQL8. Here’s how we did it.

Satyam Shanker

Engineering

Why Glean’s announcements are the best way to do internal communications

It can be hard for everyone to stay abreast of important announcements. Here's how Glean can help your company.

Blair Hanley Frank

Marketing

Testing and deploying our search engine cluster

Testing and deploying our search engine cluster is critical for delivering a best-in-class search product. Here’s how we do it.

Stephen Chu

Engineering

Incrementally deploying ranking code at Glean

While frequent iterative releases are helpful when making ranking improvements, they can be tricky to pull off, especially in a stateful service. Here’s how we do it.

Jeremy Lilley

Engineering

Return to the workplace realities

A survey of 1,162 knowledge workers conducted by The Harris Poll found that adjusting back to an in-office or hybrid workplace has real consequences on employees’ abilities to collaborate, and is raising concerns for employees who’ve adjusted to a remote-working way of life.

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Building a strong, customer-obsessed go-to-market team

Leading a category— enterprise search and knowledge management— requires a strong, customer-obsessed go-to-market team partnering deeply with product and engineering.

AJ Tennant

Sales & Success

Growing our skills at a growing company: Why working for Glean worked for us

During our three-month internship, we received incredible mentorship, worked on high-impact projects, and saw the company hit major milestones.

Alix Cui

Engineering

David Liu

Engineering

Hybrid workplace habits & hangups

The workplace has changed. Employees are working from more places, using more SaaS tools, and expecting more from their workplace experience. A survey of 1,043 knowledge workers conducted by The Harris Poll found that SaaS sprawl—and its drag on employee productivity and experience—is real.

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Glean raises $100M series C at $1B valuation to power search and discovery across workplace SaaS apps

Sequoia leads investment in Glean’s powerful, unified search solution to help employees combat knowledge fragmentation and SaaS sprawl at work.

Arvind Jain

CEO

Why you should join Glean | Part 2: The problem

Choosing which startup you want to join is a decision made with imperfect information. One of the most ambiguous parts of the decision is understanding the problem they’re trying to solve.

Deedy Das

Engineering

Organizing your team’s knowledge with Collections

Nearly seven months after launch, search remains at the core of Glean. But there’s still an opportunity for curated collections of information.

Arvind Jain

CEO

Why you should join Glean | Part 1: The team

A little over two years ago, I wrote about why I left Google. Now I’m sharing why I chose Glean, as I reflect on the first chapter of our journey here.

Deedy Das

Engineering

How we analyzed and fixed a Golang memory leak

Optimizing performance and resource costs for a modern cloud-only architecture often results in interesting technical challenges. Here’s how we discovered and debugged a Golang memory leak.

Sharva Pathak

Engineering

How Glean loads instantly - Glean

At a company where we’re unencumbered by any motivation to hold people’s eyeballs as long as possible just to show them ads, Speed is our favorite feature.

Tony Gentilcore

Engineering

5 ways Glean helps you have a healthier relationship with work

Rather than resolve to do more work in the new year, why not have a better work experience with Glean’s enterprise search software?

Blair Hanley Frank

Marketing

Help tips for growth inside a hypergrowth startup

If you are a new hire at a hypergrowth start, it can be overwhelming. Take a look at the following tips to help you succeed.

Aditya Kumar

Engineering

Don’t be afraid to pivot early in your career—it’s a feature, not a bug

If you want to broaden your skills and learn from some of the best, making the pivot to join a growth-stage startup is the perfect move.

Joe Zhang

Engineering

How Go Links can save you headaches at work

Finding company resources can be tough. But there’s a better way to share content within your company.

Blair Hanley Frank

Marketing

Making it personal: How AI work assistants might outperform human ones

The best human personal assistants know us and anticipate our every need. Expectations for AI work assistants shouldn't be any lower. In fact, they should be higher.

Sumeet Sobti

Engineering

Why you should run a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to choose your first job out of college

Glean’s own Lauren Zhu explains why you should run a principal component analysis (PCA) to find your first job out of college and gives 5 tips to consider.

Lauren Zhu

Engineering

Enterprise search is hard: why it’s so behind—and what it’ll take to catch up

It takes a complex software to keep up with modern demands of enterprise search software. Glean offers reliable search for documents, applications, and more.

Eddie Zhou

Engineering

Mrinal Mohit

Engineering

Meet Glean. The work assistant with intuition.

Glean brings you exactly the information you need, right when you need it. Making it easier for you and your team to get big things done.

Arvind Jain

CEO

Finding what you need at work shouldn’t be so hard - Glean

Glean is a work assistant that delivers powerful enterprise search across all applications used at your company - empowering employees to find what they need.

Arvind Jain

CEO