Equity Glean’s fight to own the AI layer inside every company
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Feb 11, 2026 
Arvind Jain, founder and CEO of Glean and former Google search engineer, explains how his company moved from enterprise search to an AI work assistant and platform. He discusses owning the AI layer inside companies. Short takes cover integrations, permissions-aware governance, competition with big tech, realistic agent use cases, and how AI reshapes org design.
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Integration And Search As Moats
- Glean claims a multi-year technology lead from building integrations and search.
- That foundation makes it easier to become the enterprise AI layer vendors adopt.
Leverage Many Models, Don’t Build Them All
- Use multiple foundation models, including open source and closed models, to leverage innovation.
- Enterprises prefer platforms that can integrate varied model capabilities rather than build their own models.
Permissions-Aware Governance Is Critical
- Building enterprise AI needs model access, integrations, and permissions-aware governance.
- Protecting access and filtering data before sending it to models is crucial for security.