By Rebecca Bellan
Publication Date: 2026-02-15 17:30:00
The battle for enterprise AI is heating up. Microsoft bundles Copilot into Office. Google is pushing Gemini into Workspace. OpenAI and Anthropic sell directly to companies. Every SaaS provider now ships an AI assistant.
In the battle for the interface, Glean is betting on something less visible: becoming the underlying intelligence layer.
Seven years ago, Glean set out to become Google for business – an AI-powered search tool designed to index and search across a company’s entire SaaS tool library, from Slack to Jira, Google Drive to Salesforce. Today, the company’s strategy has shifted from building a better enterprise chatbot to connecting models and enterprise systems.
“The level we initially built – a good search product – required us to have a deep understanding of people, how they work, and their preferences,” Jain told TechCrunch in last week’s Equity episode, which we recorded at Web Summit Qatar.
