Glean vs Claude, Set Up for You
Glean is enterprise search done well. It connects to your company's apps and answers from the documents each person can already open. It's built for companies with an IT team and doesn't publish prices. My setup is for teams of up to 20, with the price on the website.
Written by Gabe Pérez, who sets up Claude for small teams. Prices checked October 26, 2026.
Pick Glean if
- You have hundreds of people and dozens of apps
- You have IT staff to roll it out and a budget for an enterprise contract
- Finding the right document is the main problem
Have me set up Claude if
- You're a team of up to 20
- Finding the document is only half of it, and you want the reply drafted too
- You want to see a price before the first call
Side by Side
| Glean | Claude Team, set up by me | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Large companies with many apps | Teams of up to 20 |
| What it does | Searches your apps and answers, with agents on top | Answers with sources, then drafts the work |
| Who sets it up | A rollout with your IT team | I do, in 14 days |
| Wrong documents | Finds them faster | Same risk. The setup starts by tracing where your answers really live |
| Guarantee | Whatever your contract says | One job live by day 14 and your team using it weekly by day 30, or your money back |
| Trains on your data | Glean says no | No. It runs on Claude Team, which doesn't by default |
| After launch | Your IT team | A day-30 check on who's using it, then your team runs it, or Release care keeps it current for $997 a month |
| Price | Not published. You talk to sales | From $3,997 once, plus Claude seats. On the website |
| 10 people, three years | Not published | $7,200 of Claude Team seats, plus $3,997 once. The setup works out to about $11 a person a month |
The $3,997 setup pays for itself once your team gets back 80 hours. That's one workday each for 10 people, if an hour of their time is worth $50.
Prices and data policies from each vendor's own pages, checked October 26, 2026: Claude pricing, Glean security docs, Claude training policy.
Where Glean Wins
At the size it's built for, nothing on this list competes with it.
What it does better
- Connectors for most of the apps a big company runs.
- Answers that follow each app's own permissions, across thousands of people.
- The security reviews and paperwork a large company's procurement asks for.
Where my setup falls short
- It's Claude only. If your team won't give up ChatGPT or Copilot, you'd pay for both.
- It moves with Anthropic. When they change a feature, the setup has to change with it: your team does that, or I do on Release care.
- One person does it: me. You're betting on my calendar, which is why the guarantee comes with all your money back.
- It's priced for one team of up to 20. A bigger company, on Claude Team or Enterprise, gets scoped on a call, and needs someone in IT who owns permissions.
- It drafts and never sends. Someone still reads every proposal before it goes out.
- If someone on your team already lives in Claude and has the hours, coaching for $1,997 gets you most of the way.
Search finds a wrong document faster than a person does. When I traced where my own company's answers lived, a finance doc said there were 73 vendor rules. The file had 151. Five places ours hid.
Why Me
Anyone can call themselves an AI expert now. I've put machine learning into production, published on it, and built the hard version of this by hand, on my own company.
What I've built and published
- Built Peer Feedback, an ML system that scored 323,000+ peer reviews for 11,000+ Georgia Tech students, then sold it
- Co-authored a 2024 IEEE paper on it with Dr. David Joyner
- Two IBM patents, on distributed computing with homomorphic encryption
- Master's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech
- Fractional CTO at CITYROW after its $12M Series A, through its acquisition by WaterRower
- 15+ years and 50+ production apps
What my own company runs on
- Nexrizen has run on Claude every working day since June 2026
- 3,474 commits on our own company brain, 86% of them co-written with Claude
- 1,295 emails and 727 call transcripts filed by client, and 626 owed replies caught
- 39 field notes on what worked and what broke, including eight times our tools lied
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