Sempleo vs Glean

Glean is the best enterprise AI search product on the market. It connects to 100+ tools, indexes your organizational data, and provides semantic search with AI-generated answers. If your primary problem is "our team cannot find information across our tools" — Glean solves that well.

Sempleo solves a different problem. It does not just help your team find information — it deploys AI agents that do work using that information. Agents follow your methodology, enforce governance policies, and produce consistent output scoped to teams, clients, and projects.

Search is the starting point. Agents are the destination. Glean helps you find the playbook. Sempleo agents follow it.

Glean indexes data from 100+ connected tools — Google Drive, Slack, SharePoint, ServiceNow, GitHub, Zendesk, Confluence, and more. It builds a comprehensive search index with semantic understanding and respects existing permissions. The breadth is impressive.

Sempleo takes a different approach to knowledge. Instead of indexing everything broadly, it structures knowledge across five organizational levels: Company, Team, Client, Project, and User. Documents have authority scores — an approved policy outranks a draft note. Relationships between documents are tracked. Retrieval uses hybrid search with HyDE query transformation and optional reranking.

Glean gives you breadth — find anything across your tools. Sempleo gives you depth — structured, authority-aware knowledge that agents can reason with.

Glean has added agent capabilities — Canvas for collaborative work, code generation, slide generation, and agent orchestration. These are valuable additions that move Glean beyond pure search. But they are layered on top of a search-first architecture.

Sempleo was built as an agent platform from day one. Agents have defined tools, context configurations, and run modes. They execute multi-step workflows with tool iteration limits. They can be scheduled for recurring runs. Output routes to chat, notifications, or email. Sub-tasks can be delegated between agents. Every run is metered and governed.

The architectural difference matters. A search platform that adds agents will always optimize for retrieval. An agent platform with knowledge will always optimize for execution. Which matters more depends on your use case.

Glean Protect offers strong security: private-by-design architecture, isolated cloud deployments, sensitive content policies, agent guardrails with acceptable use policies, and zero-retention agreements with model providers. Data sovereignty options span AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions. This is serious enterprise security.

Sempleo governance operates at the individual agent run level. Every execution passes through a policy engine enforcing token budgets, schedule restrictions, approval gates, and tool allow/deny lists. Agents can be blocked, gated, or restricted on a per-run basis. Audit logs capture every action with up to 365 days of retention.

Glean governs at the platform level — what agents can access and what content is sensitive. Sempleo governs at the execution level — what each agent can do, when, and with what tools. Both approaches have merit. For regulated workflows with strict compliance requirements, execution-level governance provides more granular control.

Glean uses Enterprise Flex pricing — a hybrid model combining per-user seats with pay-as-you-go credits. Pricing is not published; customers receive custom quotes through sales. Industry reports suggest total costs can extend beyond initial quotes due to add-ons and scaling factors. Glean has reported 25% year-one churn.

Sempleo publishes transparent per-seat pricing: $49/user/month on Starter, $99/user/month on Professional, and custom Enterprise pricing. Every seat includes 500 AI credits per month. Overage rates are published. A 14-day free trial requires no credit card. Annual billing saves 17%.

Pricing transparency is not just a convenience — it is a trust signal for buyers evaluating multiple platforms.

Choose Glean when your primary challenge is finding information scattered across dozens of enterprise tools. If your team spends hours searching Slack, Drive, Confluence, and ServiceNow for answers, Glean solves that with unmatched connector breadth and semantic search.

Choose Sempleo when your challenge goes beyond finding information to using it consistently. When you need governed AI agents that follow team methodology, produce consistent deliverables scoped to clients and projects, enforce compliance policies, and operate with audit trails. When AI needs to do the work, not just point you to the answer.