Glean’s Latest AI Assistant Moves Every Employee from Insight to Execution

Work AI leader Glean announced the latest generation of its AI Assistant, Glean Assistant, an expert agentic coworker designed to fundamentally redefine personal productivity with AI. With new features spanning real-time voice, on-brand slide generation, agent sandboxes for deeper analysis, enterprise actions, and proactive agent templates, Glean Assistant acts as a true AI partner, working alongside employees to enable better decisions, faster execution, and the ability to stretch beyond traditional roles without sacrificing quality or trust.

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As organizations try to accelerate AI adoption, many still struggle to turn deployment into daily impact. Employees are often left navigating incomplete answers, fragmented tools, and workflows that add friction instead of removing it. The result is stalled adoption and unrealized potential. Glean Assistant closes this gap as a fully connected enterprise AI assistant – one that understands company data, people, and workflows, and adapts to the full context of each employee’s work.

The latest enhancements to Glean Assistant advance Glean’s vision of work where AI expands human potential to do extraordinary work, unlocking new skills, autonomy, and impact.

Glean Assistant: An Expert Agentic Coworker Built for Everyone’s Work

Glean Assistant is designed to understand how work actually gets done, tailored to an employee’s role and goals, and be proactive in helping them move work forward.

Built on rich enterprise context, Assistant brings together search, analysis, content creation, and execution in a single experience. Employees gain the ability to work more informed, more creative, and more capable, combining human judgment with AI-driven insight and action to take on work that once felt out of reach. As a result, users engage with Assistant six times per active day on average. The latest enhancements include:

• Real-time voice collaboration. Glean is introducing real-time voice in Assistant, allowing employees to interact with Glean naturally and hands-free – whether getting briefed while commuting, summarizing long documents across systems, or asking quick questions without typing or searching.
• Company brand aligned slide generation. Expanding on existing content capabilities including document and image generation, Glean Assistant now generates slide presentations grounded in company knowledge and aligned with brand standards (fonts, colors, and visual guidelines), enabling employees to move from idea to polished output near-instantly.
• New canvas capabilities for collaborative creation. New canvas capabilities – including both Slack message and email adaptive user interfaces, and branded slides – allow employees to work hand-in-hand with Glean Assistant from first draft through final review while keeping full enterprise context intact.
• From insight to action across the enterprise. Glean Assistant supports more than 100 actions in connected applications, both native to Glean and available via MCP. Employees can move directly from insight to execution without leaving Assistant. Clear human-in-the-loop controls and admin-defined guardrails ensure work is completed safely across systems including Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Google Calendar, Asana, and Canva.
• Agent sandboxes for deeper research and analysis. Glean is introducing agent sandboxes, secure, lightweight virtual environments equipped with a CLI, code interpreter, filesystem, and tool index, allowing Assistant to analyze large datasets and run long running tasks without LLM context window limitations, continuing to fully respect enterprise permissions.
• Personal graph insights employees can see and control. Building on existing personalization capabilities, users can now view, edit, and delete inferred personal graph details that reflect their role, projects, goals, and preferences. This draws from activity across emails, documents, chats, wikis, and searches (not just chat history) ensuring relevance and transparency, and are LLM-independent, helping inform the work of any model utilized in Glean.
• Proactively organize the workday with agent templates. New agent templates enable employees to surface action items, plan the day around meetings and priorities, and summarize weekly accomplishments. Once work is organized, Glean Assistant partners with the employee to take the next step – helping execute tasks, move projects forward, and turn plans into real outcomes.

“At Swiggy, context is what makes GenAI actually useful. With Glean, our teams can quickly surface the right information, generate what they need, and move work forward without breaking focus. That capability is transforming how we operate across our tech organization, delivering nearly two hours saved per employee per day and allowing teams to spend more time building and shipping what matters most.” – Madhusudhan Rao, CTO, Swiggy

“Most assistants are still focused on generating responses, but enterprise work is about execution – coordinating people, knowledge, and systems to get things done. As companies move from AI experiments to real adoption, they need tools that understand their business and can safely take action across it. Glean Assistant is designed as an expert and agentic daily work partner, grounded in enterprise context, so it can reason about real work and help employees turn intent into outcomes.” – Emrecan Dogan, Chief Product Officer, Glean

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