Glean Named as one of the Emerging Leaders in the Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant of the 2025 Innovation Guide for Generative AI Knowledge Management Apps
Palo Alto, CA - November 17, 2025 - Work AI leader Glean today announced it has been named as an Emerging Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant (eMQ) for Generative AI Knowledge Management Apps and General Productivity. Glean was recognized for its strong product capabilities and future-ready strategy, positioning it among the most advanced vendors in a fast-growing market defined by innovation, agility, and real-world impact.
According to the report, “Gartner defines the generative AI (GenAI) knowledge management apps/general productivity submarket as technologies that enable companies to better retrieve and contextualize information and insight from their knowledge bases, including enterprise AI search, conversational AI platforms, and productivity tools for communications and content development.”
“This recognition reinforces what we’ve believed from the start: context is the key to making AI truly useful at work,” said Arvind Jain, co-founder and CEO of Glean. “Enterprises don’t need more disconnected tools - they need a platform that understands their people, their knowledge, and their workflows. That’s what Glean delivers, and we’re proud to see that impact reflected across so many leading organizations.
According to us, Glean’s inclusion in the Emerging Leaders quadrant reflects not only product strength and market visibility, but also a forward-looking roadmap and the scale to deliver enterprise-grade AI deployments. Gartner notes that “Emerging Leaders typically respond to a wide market audience by supporting broad market requirements.”
The recognition comes amid a year of major product breakthroughs and accelerating enterprise adoption. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has rapidly evolved into a unified Work AI platform that helps teams not just find knowledge, but take intelligent action. Today, Glean delivers end-to-end capability across generative AI-powered search, a third-generation AI Assistant, and deeply integrated agentic automation - all powered by its Enterprise Graph and Agentic Engine 2.
Glean connects to 100+ of the most popular enterprise SaaS applications, offers access to the latest and most advanced LLMs, and integrates seamlessly with enterprise identity and permission systems for real-time governance at scale. Customers are using Glean to automate workflows, drive faster decisions, and unlock measurable productivity across all functions - from sales and support to engineering, HR, and beyond.
Gartner Subscribers can read the 2025 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant for Generative AI Knowledge Management Apps and General Productivity here.
Gartner, Innovation Guide for Generative AI Knowledge Management Apps, Marko Sillanpaa, Justin Tung, Stephen Emmott, Darin Stewart, 13 November 2025
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About Glean
Glean is the Work AI platform that connects and understands all your enterprise data, to generate trusted answers and automate work grounded in company knowledge. Using Glean’s powerful search and RAG technology to retrieve the most relevant, up-to-date information, Glean's AI assistant generates highly personalized answers based on your company’s unique enterprise knowledge graph. All answers are secure, private, permissions-aware, and fully referenceable back to source documentation in your enterprise. Glean also empowers users to quickly and securely build multi-step prompts and custom generative AI apps, agents, and assistants that automate everyday workflows. With over 100 connectors, LLM options, and no need for costly professional services, data training, or manual fine-tuning, Glean delivers turnkey implementation of a complex AI ecosystem on one centralized platform. Founded by Arvind Jain (Google Distinguished Engineer, Rubrik Co-founder), T.R. Vishwanath (Microsoft, Meta), Piyush Prahladka (Google, Uber), and Tony Gentilcore (Google), Glean has received funding from Altimeter, Coatue, Craft Ventures, DST Global, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and other leading investors.
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