Comparison
CentralAgent vs Glean
Glean is enterprise search with an assistant and agents on top: it connects to the tools your company already uses and answers questions from what is already written down. CentralAgent targets the knowledge that was never written down: it captures meetings and agent sessions, structures them into agentic memory, and hands the record to your agents as memory. If your knowledge lives in well-maintained documents across many apps, Glean fits. If it lives in your veterans’ heads and your agents keep starting from zero, CentralAgent was built for you.
Side by side
| Dimension | Glean | CentralAgent |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Glean search and assistant over content that already exists in your apps | Capture knowledge that was never written down and encode it as agentic memory |
| Knowledge source | Documents, tickets, chat, and other content reached through connectors | Meetings and agent sessions captured live, plus the tools your team already uses |
| Undocumented knowledge | Out of reach until someone writes it down | The core target: roughly 80% of a company’s domain knowledge sits in two places, meetings and agent sessions (120+ interviews with tech leads) |
| Team size and price | Sales-led; buyer reports put minimum commitments around 100 to 250 seats, with a median contract near $99k/year (Vendr) | Any team size; it starts from one setup call |
| Your coding agents | Its MCP server and plug-in load Glean search and agents into Cursor, Claude Code and others | Memory, not search results: the agent starts with the distilled record already in context, in Claude Code, Cursor and any MCP host |
| Deployment | Glean Hosted (SaaS) or Customer Hosted, single tenant in your own GCP or AWS account, operated by Glean | Inside your private cloud, torn down when you leave; records are plain text you can edit; we never train on your data |
| Evidence | Demo via their sales team | Reproducible benchmark: medians of 4 tool calls, 31 s, $0.12 with memory vs 22 calls, 122 s, $0.64 without. Run it yourself. |
| Getting started | Enterprise sales motion | One setup call, then our engineer deploys in your own cloud on Day 1 |
Which one, when
- CHOOSE GLEAN
- Your knowledge is mostly written down across dozens of tools and the pain is finding it. Permissions-aware answers across everything are a real relief there. Glean publishes no pricing; buyer data puts seat minimums around 100 to 250, so under that line the comparison may be moot.
- CHOOSE CENTRALAGENT
- The answers live in people’s heads and in the agent sessions where those people work, and your agents keep starting from zero. First veteran-grade answers in week two, judged against criteria agreed in writing.
- RUN BOTH
- Glean makes what is written findable. CentralAgent captures what was never written. An agent-heavy team should capture first: what you don’t capture, you can’t backfill.
Capture: What CentralAgent captures
The two streams no connector can index.
After you book
Day 1 to Day 30
Success criteria are agreed in writing before anything is installed.
- Day 1One setup call, then our engineer deploys the brain inside your VPC.
- Week 1Your meetings and agent sessions start flowing in.
- Week 2First answers that used to need a veteran: why a decision was made, which fix actually worked, who owns what. Each one cites the meeting or session it came from.
- Day 30Questions that used to wait on a Slack thread come back in seconds, with sources. Your coding agents pull the same answers over MCP.
Your data
- Deployed in your private cloud.
- Your data never leaves it.
- We never train on it.
- If you leave, the brain is torn down.