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TWIML · September 16, 2024 · 50m

Enterprise Search Meets AI: Glean's Evolution

Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, discusses the evolution from enterprise search to agentic AI tools for the workplace — how Glean went from finding documents to acting on them.

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Jain argues that traditional enterprise search failed because it indexed documents independently. Glean succeeded by indexing the relationships between documents, people, and workflows — understanding who created what, who uses what, and how information flows through an organization.

Highlights

The evolution from search to agentic AI in the enterprise is an environment shift — from passive information retrieval to active task completion
Jain describes Glean's evolution: the initial product searched for documents. The current product takes actions — scheduling meetings, drafting emails, creating reports. The shift from search to agency represents a fundamental change in how AI interacts with the enterprise environment.
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